Can you name the presidents of the US?

**CountArach** · 07-21-2010, 11:07

I got 21, which I am deeply ashamed of. Somehow I knew of Garfield and Taft, and yet couldn't get Truman, Eisenhower and Carter.

**Husar** · 07-21-2010, 12:27

13.

Just by entering their family names, full name would have been even harder.
Most of them from 1900, WW2 and onwards, only Washington and Lincoln from before that.

Would probably be even harder for me if you asked about german chancellors...

What I did find astounding though was that I did recognize almost all of their names once they were revealed though, I expected to find quite a few I'd never heard of before.

**pevergreen** · 07-21-2010, 15:32

After reading the thread, jogged my memory on a few. I doubt I'd go above 8, but I've heard of many more. Just can't name them.

**Alexander the Pretty Good** · 07-22-2010, 07:01

Originally Posted by CountArach

I got 21, which I am deeply ashamed of. Somehow I knew of Garfield and Taft, and yet couldn't get Truman, Eisenhower and Carter.

Taft was awesome.

**CountArach** · 07-22-2010, 09:47

Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good

Taft was awesome.

I just remember the campaign slogan "Get on a raft with Taft".

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 07-22-2010, 17:26

taft was from cincinnati and I've been to his museum/old house, I really should have gotten that one...the only thing I know about chester A arthur is that he's part of one of the clues in Die Hard with a Vengeance.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 07-22-2010, 17:59

'Don't be daft, vote Taft'.

**TevashSzat** · 07-22-2010, 20:43

Ah Sporcle......the bane of my Fall Semester productivity.....I distinctly remember being at the library attempting to study with a friend of mine until we stumbled upon Sporcle......we spent four hours that night, a great portion of it spent upon trying to perfect the 150 Pokemon list.....we never figured out how to spell Gyarados correctly (it was the y placement)

**Louis VI the Fat** · 07-26-2010, 03:44

Originally Posted by CountArach

I got 21, which I am deeply ashamed of. Somehow I knew of Garfield and Taft, and yet couldn't get Truman, Eisenhower and Carter.

I pretty ,uch got the modern ones and the first few as fast as I could type. Then I went completely blank. I knew I couldn't live with myself if I could not name more than some fifteen presidents, so I tried as hard as I could to remember the names. It took me the full ten minutes and a lot of sweat to get 27 of them.

Several of the ones I got were on sheer name recognition alone. Pretty useless when I don't know the first thing about them.

There is a roll call of all the presidents in the, erm, 'Hall of Presidents' attraction at Disneyworld, which I have visited several times. (I am sadly a Disney fan) I had thus expected to do better with the quiz. But I never remember things that I don't understand, or which have no meaning to me. If I can't connect a name to some meaningful information, I won't remember it.

**Centurion1** · 07-26-2010, 03:56

and you say you love texas..........

**Louis VI the Fat** · 07-26-2010, 04:32

My love of all things Texan returns me the manliness points I lose for my collection of Disney Princess dresses.

Which I sow by hand. I look awfully good in them too. Especially in my yellow Belle dress. Cinderella is my favourite though, but blue doesn't flatter me.

**a completely inoffensive name** · 08-03-2010, 09:03

My AP class had my brain shouting what the important issues and decisions were for literally, every, single, presidency but I could not remember some of the names. Kind of annoys me since I could tell you all about the Free Silver vs Gold situation yet blank out about the presidents that presided over it.