Trivia: What blocked the bullet during an assassination attempt on Roosevelt?
Badge
Knife
Vase
Paper
The correct answer is Paper
So why is this answer correct? : There are plenty of stories that make Theodore Roosevelt sound like the toughest man in history, and his survival of an attempted assassination in Milwaukee is one of the most famous. On the way to give a speech, he was rushed by an attacker and shot, and the bullet was slowed down by a 50-page manuscript that contained the speech he gave later that night — that’s right, after being shot. Roosevelt famously said to the crowd, “I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot,” then, “It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”