| Prior Offices | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Judge in Jackson County, Missouri; U.S. Senator from Missouri; Vice President | Harry S. Truman | 86%
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| Member of the U.S. House from TX-10; U.S. Senator from Texas and Senate Majority Leader; Vice President | Lyndon B. Johnson | 86%
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| Attorney General of Arkansas; Governor of Arkansas | Bill Clinton | 82%
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| Member of the New York Senate; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Governor of New York | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 77%
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| Governor of Texas | George W. Bush | 77%
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| Delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts; Envoy to France; Minister to the Netherlands; Minister to the United Kingdom; Vice President | John Adams | 77%
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| Member of the U.S. House from CA-12; U.S. Senator from California; Vice President | Richard Nixon | 77%
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| Member of the Illinois House from Sangamon County; Member of the U.S. House from IL-7 | Abraham Lincoln | 73%
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| Governor of California | Ronald Reagan | 73%
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| Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia; Governor of Virginia; Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation; Minister Plenipotentiary; Minister to France; Secretary of State; Vice President | Thomas Jefferson | 73%
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| President of Princeton University; Governor of New Jersey | Woodrow Wilson | 73%
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| Member of the U.S. House from TN-at-large; Justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court; Territorial Governor of Florida; U.S. Senator from Tennessee | Andrew Jackson | 68%
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| Member of the Illinois Senate; U.S. Senator from Illinois | Barack Obama | 68%
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| None | Donald Trump | 68%
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| Military Governor of the U.S. Occupation Zone in Germany; Army Chief of Staff; Supreme Allied Commander Europe; President of Columbia University | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 68%
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| Member of the U.S. House from TX-7; Ambassador to the United Nations; Chair of the RNC; Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to China; Director of the CIA; Vice President | George H. W. Bush | 68%
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| Director of the U.S. Food Administration; Secretary of Commerce | Herbert Hoover | 68%
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| Member of the U.S. House from TN-9, TN-6 and Chair of the Ways and Means Committee and Speaker of the House; Governor of Tennessee | James K. Polk | 68%
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| Member of the U.S. House from MA-11; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts | John F. Kennedy | 68%
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| Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses from Fairfax County, Frederick County; Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia; Commander in Chief of the Continental Army | George Washington | 64%
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| Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from Virginia; Member of the U.S. House from VA-5, VA-15; Secretary of State | James Madison | 64%
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| Surrogate of Columbia County; Member of the New York Senate; Attorney General of New York; U.S. Senator from New York; Governor of New York; Secretary of State; Minister to the United Kingdom; Vice President | Martin Van Buren | 64%
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| Commanding General of the U.S. Army and Acting Secretary of War | Ulysses S. Grant | 64%
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| Member of the Ohio Senate; Lieutenant Governor of Ohio; U.S. Senator from Ohio | Warren G. Harding | 64%
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| Major General in the United States Army | Zachary Taylor | 64%
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| U.S. Senator from Indiana | Benjamin Harrison | 59%
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| Member of the Massachusetts House; Mayor of Northampton; Member of the Massachusetts Senate and President of the Massachusetts Senate; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts; Vice President | Calvin Coolidge | 59%
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| Member of the Pennsylvania House from Lancaster County; Member of the U.S. House from PA-3, PA-4 and Chair of the Judiciary Committee; Minister to Russia; Senator from Pennsylvania; Secretary of State; Minister to the United Kingdom | James Buchanan | 59%
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| Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from Virginia; United States Senator from Virginia; Minister to France; Minister to the United Kingdom; Governor of Virginia; Secretary of State; Secretary of War | James Monroe | 59%
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| Member of the Georgia State Senate; Governor of Georgia | Jimmy Carter | 59%
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| Member of the Massachusetts Senate; U.S. Senator from Massachusetts; Secretary of State | John Quincy Adams | 59%
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| U.S. Solicitor General; Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; Governor-General of the Philippines; Provisional Governor of Cuba; Secretary of War; | William Howard Taft | 59%
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| Member of the U.S. House from OH-17, OH-16, OH-18, OH-20 and Chair of the Ways and Means Committee; Governor of Ohio | William McKinley | 59%
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| Collector of the Port of New York; Vice President | Chester A. Arthur | 55%
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| Sheriff of Erie County; Mayor of Buffalo; Governor of New York | Grover Cleveland | 55%
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| Member of the U.S. House from VA-23; Governor of Virginia; U.S. Senator from Virginia and President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate; Vice President | John Tyler | 55%
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| Comptroller of New York; Member of the U.S. House from NY-32 and Chair of the Ways and Means Committee; Vice President | Millard Fillmore | 55%
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| Mayor of Greeneville; Member of the U.S. House from TN-1; Governor of Tennessee; U.S. Senator from Tennessee; Military Governor of Tennessee; Vice President | Andrew Johnson | 50%
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| Member of the U.S. House from MI-5 and House Minority Leader; Vice President | Gerald Ford | 50%
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| Member of the U.S. House from OH-2; Governor of Ohio | Rutherford B. Hayes | 50%
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| Member of the New York State Assembly; President of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners; Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Governor of New York; Vice President | Theodore Roosevelt | 50%
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| Town Meeting Moderator for Hillsborough; Member of the New Hampshire House from Hillsborough and speaker of the New Hampshire House; Member of the U.S. House from NH-at-large; Senator from New Hampshire | Franklin Pierce | 45%
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| Secretary of the Northwest Territory; Delegate to the U.S. House from the Northwest Territory; Governor of the Indiana Territory; Member of the U.S. House from OH-1; Member of the Ohio Senate; U.S. Senator from Ohio; Minister to Gran Colombia | William Henry Harrison | 45%
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| Member of the U.S. House from OH-19 | James Garfield | 41%
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