Can you name the presidents of the US?

**Hosakawa Tito** · 07-23-2010, 20:22

Originally Posted by Lemur

Weird, I got 34 as well. I nailed everything up through 1850, and everything after 1923. Clearly I have a spotty patch in the middle.

Being able to just guess the last names helped me on one *Ben Harrison*,so I scored 38. The first 7 were easy, then I missed Van Buren. Got Tyler only because of "Tippicanoe and Tyler too" slogan. Missed Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Arthur, Harding. The pre Civil War nobodies plus Harding and Mister Insignificant himself, Arthur.

**Centurion1** · 07-23-2010, 20:44

Taft was the fattest president. he got stuck in his tub

**A Nerd** · 07-24-2010, 01:33

41/44

I forgot Filmore, Pierce and Harding! Shame on me!

**Craterus** · 07-25-2010, 16:30

How about someone makes an official Sporcle thread, rather than individual threads for every quiz someone takes a liking to?

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**Beefy187** · 07-26-2010, 01:07

I got 11

I completely forgot about Nixon..

**Centurion1** · 07-26-2010, 02:41

ill be honest i got all of them but i never would have gotten pierce only learned about him in ap us my junior year.

**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.