While I was doing the quest "G.I Blues" I took the option of passing a test with the missionary guy, and he asked me for the first president of NCR, the original town where the NCR was founded and the flag of the NCR. The last question is pretty obvious cause that flag is everywhere, however the first questions aren't.
I had no problem with this test cause I've played Fallout 1 and 2 and I know about the story and lore of the game. But if you have never played any of those games, not even Fallout 3, where can you find information in New Vegas about previous games? I'm asking this cause I have some friends who never played previous games before and they might not understand some things.
Maybe I haven't payed enough attention to notes or books in game, but the closest clue I got was while playing the mission where you have to beat an officer form Caesar's legion and the NCR officer says something like "We can't kill you due to former president Thandi's policies about war prisoners" Now that was a good hint, but there must be more information elsewhere. Thanks in advance.
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Let's break it down. The questions are:
The answers are:
Where would you find this information?
The information about the president is hinted in a few places.
Again, this is only hinted at. Caesar mentions this town when talking about the president (see quote above). There are also some other mentions. From the wikipedia page for the town itself and related towns:
I can't find any references to any terminals that give this information. It doesn't seem like any characters give you this information any more explicitly than what I have typed out above. I suppose the developers expected you to take these hints and run with them. Since it's also not that hard to get around this test, it's possible this is just an easter egg for the people who played/know the original Fallout games.