(CNN) -- When White House press secretary Josh Earnest said this week that President Barack Obama had "substantially improved the tranquillity of the global community," many observers reacted with disbelief.

When the President refused to go to the U.S.-Mexico border last week to see the crisis of young people flooding into the United States because "he's not interested in photo ops," lesser mortals noted he had played pool with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, dropped by a brewery to have a beer and shook hands with a man wearing a horse-head mask.

When he went to Delaware on Thursday and opened with a few sentences about the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner in Ukraine before joking about Joe Biden and going back to his prepared text on infrastructure, many thought he had failed to take seriously an international disaster. They were even less impressed when he had lunch at the Charcoal Pit and ordered burgers and fries (not a photo op, of course). It was not until 24 hours later that he took to the podium to promise an aggressive investigation.

With the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria causing the collapse of Iraq and continued violence in Syria, the Syrian dictatorship consolidating its power, the Iranians failing to take steps to end their nuclear weapons program and Hamas firing more than 1,000 rockets at Israel, the President and his team have moved decisively to brief The New York Times on his passion for late-night intellectual dinners exploring physics, architecture and questions far more profound than the fate of the Middle East.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Who was playing pool?
2. With who?
3. Who's that?
4. Of what?
5. Did the president go to a bar?
6. Where else did he go?
7. What did he do there?
8. Did he meet anyone unusual?
9. How so?
10. What kind?
11. Where did he go Thursday?
12. What did he talk about there?
13. Who did he joke about?
14. What is happening in Iraq?
15. Why?
16. Is there a battle happening somewhere?
17. Where?
18. Who is the first person mentioned?
19. What does he do?
20. What did he say?

Numbered answers:
1. Barack Obama
2. John Hickenlooper
3. A governor
4. Colorado
5. No
6. a brewery
7. had a beer
8. Yes
9. a man with a rather unique mask
10. of a horse's head
11. to Delaware
12. the shooting down of an airliner
13. Joe Biden
14. the collapse of it
15. because of the Islamic State of Iraq
16. Yes
17. Syria
18. Josh Earnest
19. he's a press secretary
20. that President Obama had "substantially improved the tranquillity of the global community,"