U.S. Presidents - Sudden Death

Click on all the real U.S. presidents. If you click a fake one, the quiz will end!

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Bryan

Clay

Cleveland

Clinton

Columbus

Cook

Davis

Eisenhower

Ford

Franklin

Garfield

Garner

Grant

Harding

Harrison

Hoover

Jackson

Johnson

Lincoln

Madison

Marshall

McKinley

Monroe

Pierce

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52 Comments

Level 83

Nov 7, 2024

Nice one!

Level 81

Nov 7, 2024

Thanks!

Level 69

Nov 7, 2024

nice quiz

Level 81

Nov 7, 2024

Thanks!

Level 66

Nov 8, 2024

Very cool. I gave this quiz a spotlight because I would like to see more of this format.

Level 81

Nov 9, 2024

Thanks for the spotlight!

Level 76

Nov 9, 2024

Great use of this format. I hope it gets featured.

Level 81

Nov 9, 2024

Thanks. Seems like eight others agree with you...

Level 63

Nov 15, 2024

congrats on second feature!

Level 63

Nov 15, 2024

whh my goat

Level 69

Nov 15, 2024

Finally one of these Sudden Death quizzes that hasn't eaten me alive!

This one was awesome, thank you!

Level 88

Nov 16, 2024

This one was easy for me too.

Maybe a few more "distractors" could make it a little tougher, though I can't think of any off the cuff.

Level 81

Nov 16, 2024

That's what I was going for with Franklin. Most of the rest are just failed presidential candidates and popular last names.

(Also, nice to see a fellow free stater!)

Level 80

Dec 13, 2024

Franklin was a good one not only because of Ben Franklin, but also because of the Franklins Pierce and Roosevelt. If you're looking for other good "distractors," Hamilton would probably be a good one.

Level 76

Dec 29, 2024

Perhaps some vicepresidents or UK prime ministers. Perhaps even (somewhat) famous names from sport or literature might work. Names that you ve heard before, but can't quite remember in connection to what. The ones that "work" (trick you) ofcourse depends on how bad you are in those particular fields.

Level 63

Jan 13, 2025

Franklin is the (first) name of multiple US Presidents. Can you clarify that only last names are included in a caveat instead of just names?

Level 50

Apr 17, 2026

personally, (as a president buff), i got all of these 1st try in 17 seconds, but can you make another one?

Level 68

Dec 15, 2024

Agnew	Burr	Carnegie
Custer	Dawes	Douglas
Hamilton	Hancock	Hughes
Humphrey	Rockefeller	Stevenson
Vanderbilt	Webster	Woolworth

Level 83

Dec 15, 2024

Hamilton is top of that list. Maybe Revere, Woodrow, Mondale, Dewey

Level 79

Nov 15, 2024

37 seconds

Level 65

Nov 15, 2024

Curse you Henry Ford!

Level 78

Feb 23, 2026

Henry?

Level 69

Nov 15, 2024

damn, congrats on the feature

Level 79

Nov 15, 2024

Congrats on feature FreeStater (can you please add last names only to the description someone is bound to complain about Franklin)

Level 63

Nov 15, 2024

and I am that someone :) I got stumped by this option

Level 56

Nov 16, 2024

:26 without trying.

Level 81

Nov 17, 2024

There is great misdirection in the non-presidents. Here's who I think of:

William Jennings Bryan, Henry Clay, Christopher Columbus, Jefferson Davis, Ben Franklin, Thurgood Marshall, Brigham Young... others are common American last names that one could think of as possible presidents too. (I'm sure others can ascribe American figures here as well, such as Joseph Smith, Scott Walker, etc.)

Level 63

Oct 13, 2025

Al Smith was the person I thought of. He lost the 1928 election to Herbert Hoover.

Level 43

Dec 15, 2024

for some reason i thought this quiz was about all the presidents who had died suddenly, once i figured that out it was a great quiz!

Level 81

Dec 15, 2024

Let's see. Kennedy, J.Q. Adams… maybe Lincoln? There's probably more who just had a stroke or something.

Level 63

Oct 13, 2025

President John Adams died when his son John Quincy Adams was president. John Quincy Adams lived through his Presidency, then he died a couple decades later.

The Presidents that did die in office were:

William Henry Harrison by pneumonia in 1841,

Zachary Taylor by a stomach bug in 1850,

Abraham Lincoln by assassination in 1865,

James Garfield by medical tampering after an assassination attempt that would have failed otherwise in 1881,

William McKinley by assassination in 1901,

Warren Harding by a heart attack in 1923,

Franklin Roosevelt by a cerebral hemorrhage in 1945, and

John Kennedy by assassination in 1963.

Level 69

Dec 15, 2024

Franklin is a tricky one cause you have Franklin Pierce and also Ben Franklin. I was going for speed and it almost tricked me.

Level 46

Nov 26, 2025

Weird that you think of Pierce before second Roosevelt.

Level 69

Dec 15, 2024

do features go back on the front page every month?

Level 81

Dec 15, 2024

Not sure what you mean. This is the quiz's first appearance on the front page.

Level 69

Dec 15, 2024

really? wow so it was just super popular before

that's even more impressive

Level 82

Dec 18, 2024

Technically we had a president Walker: George Herbert Walker Bush.

Level 69

Jan 14, 2025

congratulations on 100K takes!

Level 81

Jan 15, 2025

Thanks!

Level 62

Jan 30, 2025

EZ!

Level 41

Feb 6, 2025

No Kennedy for US Presidents - Sudden Death?

Level 30

Feb 12, 2025

18 seconds!

Level 45

Feb 19, 2025

Ah yes, sudden death... Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy, Harding, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, William Harrison...

Level 48

Mar 1, 2025

Congrats 120k takes :DD

Level 81

Mar 1, 2025

Thanks!

Level 53

Apr 14, 2025

Clicked Franklin thinking of Franklin pierce, not realizing it’s just last names

Level 67

Apr 30, 2025

How dare you not recognize Franklin's presidency. He was the greatest US president, who invented electrictiy and freedom. Your quiz deserves to be removed for this atrocity!

Level 61

Jul 5, 2025

Clay. And then Davis underneath. The Quizmaster is obviously a fan of The Wire.

Level 25

Oct 9, 2025

Franklin D Roosevelt is there buddy!!

Level 34

Nov 13, 2025

He just includes the last name of the presidents

Level 43

Mar 9, 2026

Memorizing president names ❌

Memorizing pattern of the names✅

Level 16

Mar 11, 2026

This quiz was awesome!