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U.S. Presidential Terms with Whammies

We show you 10 random U.S. Presidents. Guess ANY year within their presidential term. But five mistakes and you are out.
Remember that inauguration happens the year after the election
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
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President
Term
James Madison
1809–1817
John F. Kennedy
1961–1963
Andrew Jackson
1829–1837
Rutherford B. Hayes
1877–1881
Jimmy Carter
1977–1981
Millard Fillmore
1850–1853
Abraham Lincoln
1861–1865
George W. Bush
2001–2009
Grover Cleveland
1885–1889, 1893–1897
John Tyler
1841–1845
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20 Comments
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Level 62
Nov 13, 2025
I mistook it for name their presidential term number, oops
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Level 83
Nov 13, 2025
I'm liking the presidential features, I've gotten pretty interested in the history of US elections and presidents.
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Level 90
Nov 13, 2025
William Henry Harrison is just mean…
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Level 62
Nov 13, 2025
He only served in 1841, not that hard considering that he was the first of the Curse of Tippicanoe which will kill every US President elected in the year ending with 0. 1820 was taken and 1860 was Lincoln so 1840 was left and then you add a year because they don't serve in the same year they are elected in.
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Level 66
Nov 13, 2025
If you're trying to make it sound easy I don't think you're doing a very good job
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Level 62
Nov 14, 2025
Okay so Harrison fought in the Battle of Tippiecanoe in Indiana. Tecumseh put a curse on all American Presidents who were elected in a year ending with zero (All US Presidents who died in office, except for one, was elected in a year ending with zero) .

First - William Henry Harrison died in office so he was elected in a year ending with zero and was an early president.

Second - Figure out who was elected in 1820, which is James

Monroe so not 1821

Third - Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860 so not 1861

Fourth - That leaves 1840 for his election which is when he won the election

Fifth - Add one year because US Presidents do not serve in the same year they are elected in. They are sworn in in January (March back then). And because Harrison only served 1 month, 1841 is the only year available.

Hope this helps

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Level 90
Nov 14, 2025
I think that’s a lot harder to remember than just the year 1841…
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Level 44
Dec 12, 2025
Ok, sure, to do this quiz, you have to know the terms anyway.

But still, that is a good point. Harrison is known for Tippecanoe ("Tippecanoe and Tyler too" was his campaign slogan; this is how I remember who served the rest of his term...); for that, and for dying. His term was so short, that there isn't much else to know about him other than the fact that he died, and how he campaigned (and how despicable he was, even if he hadn't the opportunity to demonstrate it as president).

And it is indeed a good memory trick to remember that, for whatever reason, all presidents from 1840 to 1960 included died in office: Harrison, Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Harding, Roosevelt and Kennedy; it helps me for Harding; for some reason I have always some difficulties to remember if he replaced Coolidge or the other way. But I remember he died—and his "love" letters— and from then that he was the one elected in 1920, after Wilson, and therefore that Coolidge replaced him, not the other way.

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Level 89
Nov 15, 2025
I think Reagan (1980), Bush (2000), and Biden (2020) have somewhat disproven that urban legend.
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Level 62
Dec 9, 2025
The urban legend is quite stupid honestly although only one US president (Zachary Taylor)who died in office didn't get elected in a year ending with 0
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Level 44
Dec 12, 2025
Even if they tried quite hard to confirm it (Reagan by being shot, Bush with a pretzel, and Biden by being very old)
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Level 77
May 26, 2026
Honestly if it came out afterwards that the last year or so of Biden's term there were some Weekend at Bernie's -style shenanigans going on I would not have been that surprised.
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Level 87
Nov 13, 2025
I was genuinely terrible at this. Still, great quiz.
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Level 54
Nov 17, 2025
I could not be worse at this. I know the general order of the presidents, but everyone from about Taylor to Wilson I couldn’t tell you when they served. I barely could tell you when Nixon served, and he was decently recent.
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Level 95
Nov 15, 2025
This is a great quiz. I’ve been able to name all the presidents (thanks JetPunk) for a few years now, but repeating this quiz about thirty times has nailed the actual dates for me as well.

Thanks again!

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Level 78
Nov 17, 2025
stupid election years...Clinton and Reagan messed me up...i guessed 1992 and 1980 respectively because that was the election year and missed them by 1 year each time.
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Level 84
Dec 9, 2025
This took me 20 attempts, good lord.
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Level 94
Dec 9, 2025
Missed two guesses with JQA. Figured I mistyped 1797. Oops.
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Level 57
Apr 12, 2026
Knowing the Animaniacs Presidents song helped me out big time
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Level 61
May 4, 2026
fantastic quiz! is there any chance you are also planning on making a randomized version?