"Mohawk Guy," a Mars rover flight director, isn't just a social media sensation -- he made an impression on President Barack Obama, too.

"I, in the past, thought about getting a mohawk myself, but my team keeps on discouraging me," Obama told scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in a phone call Monday broadcast on NASA TV.

"And now that he's received marriage proposals and thousands of new Twitter followers, I think that I'm going to go back to my team and see if it makes sense," he said to the sound of laughter from dozens of NASA employees.

Obama called NASA mission specialists to congratulate them on the successful landing of the rover Curiosity, which reached Mars one week ago. He praised them for their achievements in the phone call, which was both laudatory and lighthearted.

"Mohawk Guy," whose real name is Bobak Ferdowsi, has become famous for his look during the rover landing last week. As the world waited for Curiosity to touch down, Ferdowsi sported a red-and-black mohawk; the sides of his head featured yellow dyed stars.

Decoding the workplace dress code

"It does sound like NASA has come a long way from the white-shirt, black dark-rimmed glasses and the pocket protectors," Obama told Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director Charles Elachi and colleagues. "You guys are a little cooler than you used to be."

More seriously, Obama thanked the scientists for devoting their lives to the cause of exploration outside our planet.

"What you've accomplished embodies the American spirit," he said. "Our expectation is that Curiosity is going to be telling us things that we did not know before," he said, and that the rover will lay the groundwork for an even more "audacious undertaking," which would be "a human mission to the red planet." What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. What is his nickname?
2. Who has he impressed?
3. What impressed him?
4. What was it?
5. Where does he work?
6. What is his name?
7. What were they watching?
8. What was it called?
9. Where did it go?
10. What is it's name
11. What did they used to wear?
12. Who did the president tell this to?
13. Who is he?
Answer: 1. Mohawk Guy,
2. President Barack Obama
3. his look during the rover landing
4. a red-and-black mohawk; the sides of his head featured yellow dyed stars.
5. NASA
6. Bobak Ferdowsi
7. the rover landing
8. Curiosity
9. the red planet."
10. Mars
11. white-shirt, black dark-rimmed glasses and the pocket protectors
12. Charles Elachi
13. Jet Propulsion Laboratory Director

In a career spanning more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing humanistic issues such as the Holocaust (in Schindler's List), the transatlantic slave trade (in Amistad), war (in Empire of the Sun, Saving Private Ryan, War Horse and Bridge of Spies) and terrorism (in Munich). His other films include Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones film series, and A.I. Artificial Intelligence.

Spielberg was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to an Orthodox Jewish family. His mother, Leah (Adler) Posner (born 1920), was a restaurateur and concert pianist, and his father, Arnold Spielberg (born 1917), was an electrical engineer involved in the development of computers. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine who settled in Cincinnati in the first decade of the 1900s. In 1950, his family moved to Haddon Township, New Jersey when his father took a job with RCA. Three years later, the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona.:548 Spielberg attended Hebrew school from 1953 to 1957, in classes taught by Rabbi Albert L. Lewis. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. who is the article about?
2. where was he born?
3. his religion?
4. what was his mother's occupation?
5. her name?
6. year of birth?
7. did dad's name?
8. profession?
9. year of birth?
10. where were his dad's parents from?
11. did the stay there?
12. where did the go?
13. when?
14. how long has the subject of the article been making movies?
15. is any of his work named?
16. what is the first one listed?
17. it's subject?
18. how many are listed in total?
19. when did he attend a special school for Jewish people?
20. in what years?
21. who taught him?
Answer: 1. Spielberg
2. Cincinnati, Ohio
3. Orthodox Jew
4. a restaurateur and concert pianist
5. Leah (Adler) Posner
6. born 1920
7. Arnold Spielberg
8. electrical engineer
9. 1917
10. Ukraine
11. No
12. Cincinnati
13. first decade of the 1900s
14. four decades
15. Yes
16. in Schindler's List
17. the Holocaust
18. 11
19. Yes
20. 1953 to 1957
21. Rabbi Albert L. Lewis

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) -- Paul Ryan's four years at Miami University, a bucolic campus nestled in the small town of Oxford, Ohio, helped to shape the Wisconsin congressman's political and ideological views.

An economics professor named Richard Hart guided Ryan through the classics of conservative economic theory, and Ryan soon came to revere thinkers such as Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman.

But Ryan, who graduated in 1992, didn't spend all his time in the classroom.

Ryan was also a Delt -- a member of Delta Tau Delta, one of many fraternities on a campus where Greek life reigns.

He also had a fondness for turtlenecks apparently.

That's according to several group photos of the fraternity that appeared in the 1989, 1990 and 1992 editions of Recensio, Miami's yearbook.

The pictures were passed along by a Democratic researcher sent to Miami's campus after Mitt Romney tapped Ryan as his running mate.

Ryan is one of many Delta Tau Delta alumni who have entered politics, and the second vice presidential candidate to emerge from the fraternity nationally: Alben Barkley, a longtime senator from Kentucky, was vice president during Harry Truman's second term.

Other notable Delts from around the country include actor Will Ferrell, journalist Roger Mudd, former NFL star John Elway, former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck and Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear.

Delta Tau Delta brothers on campus at Miami reacted with excitement at the news of Ryan's selection as Romney's No. 2.

"Pretty damn cool to say that a VP candidate was raging in the same fraternity house as me 20 years ago," tweeted one Miami undergrad Saturday when Romney announced his pick. What are the answers to this following set of questions: 1. Who attended a University?
2. what was the name of the University?
3. how long did he attend?
4. what type of campus was it?
5. Is the Miami University in Florida?
6. where is it?
7. is that a large town?
8. what type of town is it?
9. did he have a professor?
10. what did he teach?
11. what is the professors name?
12. Did Ryan belong to a fraternity?
13. what is the name?
14. is that the only fraternity on campus?
15. are there a lot?
16. what career did Ryan enter into?
17. what course did he get his views from?
18. did Ryan graduate?
19. in what year?
20. did any other famous person attend there?
Answer:
1. Paul Ryan
2. Miami University
3. Four years
4. bucolic
5. No
6. Oxford, Ohio
7. No
8. A small town
9. Yes
10. Economics
11. Richard Hart
12. Yes
13. Delta Tau Delta
14. No
15. Yes
16. Politics
17. Conservative economic theory
18. Yes
19. 1992
20. No