| The only president . . . | President | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| To be African-American | Barack Obama | 100%
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| To resign | Richard Nixon | 94%
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| To serve more than 2 full terms | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 92%
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| To sign the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson | 85%
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| To never be affiliated with a political party | George Washington | 83%
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| To win a general election against a female major-party presidential candidate | Donald Trump | 81%
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| To serve non-consecutive terms | Grover Cleveland | 78%
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| To be president during a World War | Harry Truman | 75%
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| To live for at least 35 years after leaving the presidency | Jimmy Carter | 75%
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| To appear on Mount Rushmore | Abraham Lincoln | 73%
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| To be a Federalist | John Adams | 70%
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| To issue a presidential pardon to a former president | Gerald Ford | 67%
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| To be Catholic | Joe Biden | 66%
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| To be assassinated | William McKinley | 63%
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| To be the grandfather of another president | William Henry Harrison | 61%
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| To be impeached | Andrew Johnson | 59%
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| To be a Supreme Court justice | William Taft | 58%
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| To receive a PhD | Woodrow Wilson | 58%
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| To win a Pulitzer Prize | John F. Kennedy | 57%
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| To be a general in the U.S. Army | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 55%
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| To be president for less than one year | James Garfield | 54%
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| To attend the Constitutional Convention | James Madison | 54%
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| To win a presidential election despite losing the popular vote | George W. Bush | 52%
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| To win a Nobel Peace Prize | Theodore Roosevelt | 50%
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| To never marry | James Buchanan | 49%
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| To run essentially unopposed in a presidential election | James Monroe | 46%
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| To be born a British subject rather than an American citizen | John Quincy Adams | 45%
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| To use a different last name than the one he was born with | Bill Clinton | 42%
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| To fight in a war against the British | Andrew Jackson | 40%
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| To be a state governor | Ronald Reagan | 40%
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| To be president during a formally declared war against another country | James K. Polk | 37%
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| To die in office | Zachary Taylor | 36%
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| To be a Republican | George H.W. Bush | 35%
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| To be born on the 4th of July | Calvin Coolidge | 34%
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| To be a Whig | Millard Fillmore | 34%
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| To be rated one of the 5 worst presidents in all 6 of Siena College Research Institute's Presidential Expert Polls (1982-2018) | Warren Harding | 34%
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| To be the namesake of more than a dozen U.S. counties | Ulysses S. Grant | 32%
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| To never be elected president | Chester A. Arthur | 31%
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| To be born in Virginia | John Tyler | 30%
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| To be president when the U.S. acquired a piece of territory larger than West Virginia (~24,000 square miles) | Franklin Pierce | 29%
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| To serve in no elected office prior to being president | Herbert Hoover | 28%
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| To be born west of the Mississippi | Lyndon B. Johnson | 28%
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| To be a man | Martin Van Buren | 28%
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| To be mentioned by name in the "Mediocre Presidents" song from The Simpsons | Rutherford B. Hayes | 28%
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| To be born in Ohio | Benjamin Harrison | 25%
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