if you watch grey's anatomy you have Wilson and Pierce. Pretty Little Liars : Harding (Ian). Indiana Jones : Harrison and Ford. Garfield : Garfield. Imagine those characters together and you'll remember them
Instead of Washington, could we have a picture of Franklin Pierce - because he is the only one I missed. 59% of my fellow quiztakers are in the same boat. :-)
He's one of the four presidents to have been assassinated while in office.
What's both interesting and tragic about his death is that he likely would have survived if he had better medical care.
Even though the doctors' care was standard medical practice for the time (germ theory was just beginning to be understood and was essentially unpracticed), they still caused him extensive damage beyond that of the assassin's initial bullet. Their techniques caused severe infection. The pain was excruciating. He did survive for another 11 weeks, but they were 11 horrible weeks.
Isn't it shameful that this quiz is needed for the History Badge!? USA is not the centre of the world! I would rather cite all the roman or chinese emperors...
Neither are Rome and China the centers of the world (despite the latter's claim). However, Rome and China were the world's most powerful empires in their prime, and the United States still is.
I don't object to having it required for the badge, but I do object to needing every single answer. Most of these presidents were not massively relevant to world history.
Half of these presidents were not even very important to U.S. history. We don't even talk about most of these presidents in school or college history courses.
There are way more Chinese and Roman emperors than there are American presidents though. Memorizing all of them is nearly impossible. There are only 45 Presidents, and this is a site where many people have already memorized 196 countries. While I think there's no need for someone from another country to know every American President, I also think it's a much more reasonable request than expecting someone to know all the Roman or Chinese emperors.
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Why is this quiz included in the history badge? Non-American users who are interested in general history as a subject matter cannot be expected to be experts on American presidents. Plus, this quiz is already in the USA badge, so I would request you to remove this quiz from the history badge. Thanks!
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Everyone talks about the Electoral College (rightly so), but what about the fact that elections take place on a working day, and that voting is a complicated hassle compared to other countries? Average Joe thinks twice before going to vote. And if he does, he's drawn in by a hype around a charismatic, larger-than-life candidate. This was the case with Obama, and now with Trump.
Republicans seem to oppose anything that makes voting easier, though in this case I'm not sure if it really advantages them or not as more and more working class voters vote Republican. It would make a lot of sense to make it a national holiday.
Here's one way to remember, think of one important aspect of the president. For example, Taylor died because he ate too many cherries. Taft had to have a special bathtub built for him because he was just too fat. Presidents Fillmore, Buchanan, and Pierce refused the offer to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Hmmm, if you include Jimmy Carter, the USA has had 6 presidents with a first name of James.
Scotland had 6 King James, England only 2 (James the 1st being James VI of Scotland). Neither nation recognises the legitimacy of King LeBron James, although oddly the USA, on paper a monarchy-free republic, does.
This is completely random but I was trying to go through this quiz using both first and last names, and I noticed that donald j trump wasn't accepted, could you change that?
It seems like presidents' middle initials and middle names are accepted rather inconsistently. Richard M. Nixon is not accepted, but Dwight D. Eisenhower is. William Jefferson Clinton is accepted, but Barack Hussein Obama is not. It seems to me like the best fix is "don't make more work for yourself by entering unnecessary initials" but I can also see an argument that the quiz should be consistent on this.
I mean, if you want to do the two Harrisons, the two Johnsons, the two Adamses, and the two Bushes separately then fine, add first names and middle initials where necessary. But I agree, putting unnecessary middle initials is pointless. It is a bit weird how inconsistent the type-ins are with middle names, but it doesn't bother me really.
Not during his 2nd term. He left office after 2 terms, then decided he didn't like the job Taft was doing and sought a 3rd term. He failed to get the Republican nomination so he ran third party and ended up splitting the vote, thus leading to Wilson winning the election.
It's not looking like they will, but if they did; No, technically he wouldn't. Invoking the 25th doesn't actually remove the President from office. The Vice President becomes "Acting President" and all the President's powers are transferred over, but the sitting President remains the sitting President until their term ends or the 25th is revoked.
You're right, but the 25th actually has more detailed complications to it than that. CGP grey made a nice video about it here (https://youtu.be/boezS4C_MFc)
You don't recall correctly. If Trump had been impeached and removed from office, Pence would have been the President. If they'd just invoked the 25th, he would only have been acting President.
Sadly, Inauguration Day has arrived, so Tippecanoe's old record will stand.
this normal, this is because of Groover Cleveland who had two non-consecutive terms, due to that Cleveland is at the same time the 22nd and 24th presidents
Or read Bill Bryson's assertion that he was said to urinate out of the upper floor windows of the whitehouse. But the way I really remember him is from Futurama's hall of President heads, when he whines, "Chester A. Arthur fall down."
I always remember John Tyler from that episode, when they come back to the present and they are happy to see all the presidents, even john tyler, and he says: "That's the first time someone has talked to me in over 400 years"
Dang, I got 41, which I thought was ok. Not great, but ok. Then I saw that it was only better than like 59% of the people that took it. Now I feel like a big dummy.
Your comments here are as clever and balanced as the name you've chosen for yourself. Looking forward to seeing more of your genius and insight shared around the site.
Had all but damn Hayes for a solid 70 seconds. Literally had to start singing the president song to get that president! I even put in Grant first, I think their is no doubt Rutherford B Hayes is the most forgettable president, he wasn't good or bad enough.
He was a very influential president in the country of Paraguay, and is a hero there. He is practically the only reason they exist. Hayes agreed to negotiate a long-held border dispute between Argentina and Paraguay, and the decision gave Paraguay 60 percent of its land. This is the main reason he is viewed as a hero in Paraguay. Hayes was not a bad president by any means either for America
Well statistically speaking roughly 50% of the general population has an IQ below 100, which should be the mean. But the users of this site skew higher. I guess you could just look at the percentages and see how many there were.
how does a small man, former George's right hand man, reestablish the USMC within his 2nd year, make his wife say oh dear, lost his presidency without a shadow or hun, welcome everyone, to the JOHN ADAMS ADMINISTRATION!!!
My trick to remembering him is he was the one who got stuck in the bathtub (also that he didn't want to be president but instead a supreme court justice but that's not as funny).
That's because FDR is accepted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It's faster than typing Roosevelt. Maybe accept "Teddy" as a type in for Theodore Roosevelt--that is how the teddy bear got its name, after all.
It's crazy that a wrestling video helped me remember Taft through Obama and I learned the rest by president knowledge and taking this quiz with that wrestling video playing in my head.
Probably because Lyndon was popularly referred to as "LBJ" - which is a type-in for him. It's a similar situation for the Roosevelts - "FDR" is a type-in for Franklin.
Wikipedia says Tyler started as a Democrat but switched to Whig due to his opposition to Andrew Jackson during the Nullification Crisis. Either way, he was nominated as William Henry Harrison's running mate from the Whig Party.
Millard Fillmore and Chester A. Arthur are the only presidents I consistently forget every time I do a quiz. Even if I force myself to remember them I can never do it quickly to speedrun. Such forgettable people.
I wish they hadn't made the change to the badge system. I lost half of my badges at once, and I had worked so hard especially on this quiz to get the USA badge.
if you watch grey's anatomy you have Wilson and Pierce. Pretty Little Liars : Harding (Ian). Indiana Jones : Harrison and Ford. Garfield : Garfield. Imagine those characters together and you'll remember them
"There's Taylor, there's Tyler, there's Fillmore and there's Hayes. There's William Henry Harrison: 'I died in thirty days!'"
Also remembered Chester A. Arthur from Die Hard 3.
He was a good president, an even better family man, and an amazing human being. May he rest in peace.
Lord forgive me...
Can you please strandardise the acceptable spellings.
What's both interesting and tragic about his death is that he likely would have survived if he had better medical care.
Even though the doctors' care was standard medical practice for the time (germ theory was just beginning to be understood and was essentially unpracticed), they still caused him extensive damage beyond that of the assassin's initial bullet. Their techniques caused severe infection. The pain was excruciating. He did survive for another 11 weeks, but they were 11 horrible weeks.
Everybody has that one they just refuse to acknowledge as existing as President, don't they?
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Scotland had 6 King James, England only 2 (James the 1st being James VI of Scotland). Neither nation recognises the legitimacy of King LeBron James, although oddly the USA, on paper a monarchy-free republic, does.
Sadly, Inauguration Day has arrived, so Tippecanoe's old record will stand.
Scoring
You scored 26/45 = 58%
This beats or equals 32% of test takers
The average score is 33
Your high score is 27
Scoring
You scored 31/45 = 69%
This beats or equals 42.3% of test takers
The average score is 33
Your high score is 31
I got 34/45. WIP.
I got 29,and I'm a teen from Taiwan!
I’ve done this quiz so many times the names now just come to me. I’m not even American, lol!
Like this, https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/72360/us-presidents-in-chronological-order
But maybe this quiz is meant to be easier, since it's a badge quiz.
I enjoy taking it to practice, along with the chronological, and the picture quizzes.
When Johnson fills in, I get a ton of presidents for free (L J G H G A C H C M)