i got all of them, but it took me about 8 minutes. i had all but four in the first couple of minutes, but the others took some time to rattle through.

10/26/2010 6:09:21 PM

A more challenging one: http://www.sporcle.com/games/yaremchuk/influential_americans

Managed to get half of them in the 15 minutes, not sure if that is good or bad

10/26/2010 6:59:29 PM

33 before looking

10/26/2010 7:01:16 PM

this one was kinda fun ... had 1:30 left when done

http://www.sporcle.com/games/hsver1887/iqtest

10/26/2010 7:11:50 PM

28/44

Good old Grover Cleveland got me two points.


I forgot all the boring presidents.

10/26/2010 7:36:50 PM

32...wish i remembered Grover Cleveland.

10/26/2010 7:51:35 PM

re: "it's a trick question because there were only 43 individuals who were President"
I think an even worse trick question would be "what are their middle names" because 17 of them had no middle name (all but 8 of the 25 individuals up to and including Theodore Roosevelt) and 3 (Stephen Grover Cleveland, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, and John Calvin Coolidge) went by their middle names (notably if Willard Mitt Romney ever becomes the President, that would make 4): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States_by_name

The 8 Presidents before Taft who had a middle name were Stephen Grover Cleveland and his 4 Republican predecessors (Chester Alan Arthur, James Abram Garfield, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, and Ulysses Simpson Grant, excluding Benjamin Harrison) along with James Knox Polk, William Henry Harrison, and John Quincy Adams; the "van" in Martin van Buren is part of his surname (Dutch for "of" or "from"), Franklin Pierce is sometimes inaccurately referred to as Franklin K. Pierce or Franklin Kendrick Pierce, and George Herbert Walker Bush is the only President with two middle names.

Also Ulysses S. Grant can be thought of as a President who went by his middle name...at least the name he was born with, Hiram Ulysses Grant, which he despised because its initials spelled HUG (no other President's initials spell an English word); a slip-up with the Congressional nomination to West Point gave him the opportunity to start anew with a new name.
Another President who had changed his middle name was Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr., born Leslie Lynch King Jr., who changed his name to his adoptive father's while in law school.

[Edited on October 26, 2010 at 8:48 PM. Reason : FTR I got a perfect score

10/26/2010 8:47:53 PM

Quote :

"Thank you Die Hard 3. Chester A Arthur was the 21st president."

exactly what i said

10/27/2010 1:04:43 AM

39

10/27/2010 1:08:48 AM

I win for getting the least so far:

22

I actually think I'm losing my mind.

10/27/2010 3:26:37 AM

35

missed
Monroe
Van Buren
Polk
Fillmore
Pierce
Grant
Hayes
Harding
Hoover

10/27/2010 3:36:40 AM