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Name your Presidents

Willets Point Feb 19 2008 09:29 PM

Not the most challenging format, but fun to try nonetheless: http://www.sporcle.com/games/presidents.php

AG/DC Feb 19 2008 09:41 PM

I left out five. Bad.

Nymr83 Feb 19 2008 11:55 PM

I missed 7 (highlight the quote box if you care who, i don't want to leave a "spoiler" for anyone who cares to try it) ]Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Grover Cleveland AGAIN, and Warren Harding

Willets Point Feb 20 2008 12:14 AM

I got all but one. HINT: He shares a name with a famous aardvark.

Gwreck Feb 20 2008 12:36 AM

Got all of 'em. The other quizzes that site has are interesting. Didn't do so well on the "books of the bible" one.

Nymr83 Feb 20 2008 12:44 AM

books of the bible and u.s. states were easy enough, u.s. capitals is a bitch. i got most of the countries of Europe, but where the fuck is "FYROM???" shakespeare's plays was interesting... i got all but one of the tragedies and histories but less than half of the comedies (also is the tempest really a comedy? i found nothing comical about it when forced to read it in high school)

Gwreck Feb 20 2008 12:47 AM

FYROM is an abbreviation for something something Republic of Macedonia. What undid me on those was spelling. Herzegovinia? I can never remember how to spell it. Plus they hadn't updated with Kosovo yet, either.

RealityChuck Feb 20 2008 06:27 AM

Got 'em all. I memorized the list years ago.

Fman99 Feb 20 2008 06:38 AM

Got em all in 1:18.

AG/DC Feb 20 2008 06:59 AM

RealityChuck wrote: Got 'em all. I memorized the list years ago. So did I. Didn't stick, I guess. Nor did Shakespeare, where I came up seven plays short. Four of those I left out I've seen, one several times.

HahnSolo Feb 20 2008 07:20 AM

46 out of 50 on the state capitals, and should have had 47. Kept misspelling the capital of Kentucky.

seawolf17 Feb 20 2008 07:23 AM

Missed five presidents, nailed all the capitals. I've known my capitals since I was a little kid -- I had a wooden USA puzzle that had 'em all on there, so I know them cold.

Valadius Feb 20 2008 07:52 AM

Got them all. I memorized them when I was a kid - it was my hobby back then. My uncle used to ask me presidential trivia questions every time he came over.

Frayed Knot Feb 20 2008 08:39 AM

It won't let me play

AG/DC Feb 20 2008 08:50 AM

I had trouble with the string of interchangeable guys between the Civil War and World War II. One can get confused, as they all tend to be: overweight hairy-faced Civil War vets from Ohio. In the early part of the century, alliteration seemed to be a beneficial factor if you were running for the top office: Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.

Valadius Feb 20 2008 09:23 AM

The first two of those guys actually went by their middle names. They were actually Thomas Woodrow Wilson and John Calvin Coolidge.

AG/DC Feb 20 2008 09:28 AM

They knew the market-boost of the allterative.

Willets Point Feb 20 2008 12:18 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 20 2008 12:38 PM

44/46 on countries of Europe. Ran out of time before I could puzzle out Belarus and Lichtenstein. I was really thrown off by the fact that Corsica and Sardinia were never filled in even though they're parts of France and Italy respectively. 50/50 on US States with 7:28 left. If I could only type faster. 50/50 on State capitals with 6:02 left. 33/53 on countries of Africa. Pathetic.

Nymr83 Feb 20 2008 12:29 PM

Nebraska took me 5 minutes after i had the other 49.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 20 2008 12:33 PM

I got all 43 presidents, with 08:14 to spare. (The last one I remembered was number 14.)

metsmarathon Feb 20 2008 04:08 PM

i suck... i'm stuck at eleven to go... some government employee i am!

Frayed Knot Feb 20 2008 06:09 PM

I had to mentally go through all the presidents this past weekend because the Sunday NYTimes crossword theme involved scrambled names of various ex-Prez's. I kept forgetting Polk & Garfield but, as it turned out, neither of them were part of the answers.

metirish Feb 21 2008 07:15 AM

Got the countries in Europe, missed out on eight Presidents which is disappointing because I watched hours of "The Presidents" on the History Channel Presidents Day. Van Buren gets me all the time and for the life of me I could not remember Gerald Ford....

Nymr83 Feb 22 2008 06:41 PM

I'm really annoyed now that I missed Millard Fillmore because theres a cartoon in The Post every day called "Mallard Fillmore" (he's duck who makes fun of politics)

John Cougar Lunchbucket Feb 22 2008 08:42 PM

Fillmore is also a subject of the recent "Unheard-of President's Day Sale" ads for Kia. I thought that ad was funny but read where their head marketing guy was whacked over it because the big boss over in Korea doesn't like jokes, especially ones he doesn't understand.

Rockin' Doc Feb 22 2008 09:44 PM

I got 36 of the 43 presidents. The first 7 presidents and the most recent 13 presidents all came pretty quickly. Having read Team Of Rivals gave me the presidents of the Civil War and reconstruction period, as well as Chester Arthur whom I would have never remembered otherwise. I remembered most of the remaining 20th century presidents after a great deal of thought. There are two or three that I doubt I would have gotten regardless of a time issue.

AG/DC Feb 22 2008 10:11 PM

="Nymr83"]I'm really annoyed now that I missed Millard Fillmore because theres a cartoon in The Post every day called "Mallard Fillmore" (he's duck who makes fun of politics) He's not funny.

Nymr83 Feb 22 2008 10:54 PM

its hit or miss but i find it funny more often than not

metsmarathon Feb 23 2008 08:36 AM

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Fillmore is also a subject of the recent "Unheard-of President's Day Sale" ads for Kia. I thought that ad was funny but read where their head marketing guy was whacked over it because the big boss over in Korea doesn't like jokes, especially ones he doesn't understand. also, the high school in head of the class was named after him.

AG/DC Feb 23 2008 10:40 AM

Those regular Ted Kennedy jokes were played out a quarter century ago. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp Funny or unfunny?

Nymr83 Feb 23 2008 12:03 PM

that one (today's) wasn't so funny, but see february 4th, it made me laugh. [url]http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/mallard.asp?date=20080204[/url]

AG/DC Feb 23 2008 12:29 PM

Survey says...

Valadius Feb 23 2008 01:28 PM

February 4th was funny.

Willets Point Feb 27 2008 07:41 AM

The Editorials of Mallard Fillmore, Right-Wing Reporter