Someone probably could have, but it would take an exceptional president. The run of presidents from William Henry Harrison through Buchanan was all pretty bad, with the notable exception of Polk. Pierce and Buchanan were especially inept when the nation was teetering on the brink of war, but if we had more competent leadership in the twenty years preceding the war, a lot of things could have gone differently.
I didn't even read the clues. I just typed the ones I had the hardest time remembering when I was doing the quiz where you just name them. I got 9/10..missed Harding, which is of course the one I always Miss when I re-take it.
Interesting when you compare the guessed % and the correct %. Mckinley is hugely out of place and arthur is a bit too high, but other than that, they are mostly in order.
The only reason I ever remember Hayes is because he's the protagonist of Karen Russell's very weird and very good short story 'The Barn at the End of Our Term,' in which several presidents have been inexplicably resurrected as horses in some kind of afterlife:
This quizz may create a paradox: every time a user atempts this quizz and guesses the presidents, then those presidents lose standing on the "least guessed presidents"...
Well, I don't feel too bad considering the entire point of the quiz is that they're the least guessed
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1339849/least-guessed-presidents-of-the-least-guessed-presidents-qui
https://granta.com/the-barn-at-the-end-of-our-term/