...would you not recognize as US Presidents if someone were to mention them randomly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States
Of the 42, how many do you know anything about? (anything beyond recognizing the name counts)
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i've never heard of abraham lincoln.
1.George Washington: clearly the first president, his teeth were made of wool.
2.John Adams: Had a mini-series made for him where he was played by Paul Giammati; couldn't speak French.
3.Thomas Jefferson: Had illegitimate children with slaves.
4.James Madison: shortest president; still taller than me.
5.James Monroe: Had that whole "Monroe Doctrine" thing, whatever that was about. I only know that cause it has his name in it...
6.John Quincy Adams: first son of a president, or an S.O.P. (not to be confused with Standard Operating Procedure)...unfortunately that opened the doors for other S.O.B.s; thanks...
7.Andrew Jackson: He's on twenties. I like twenties.
8.Martin Van Buren: Isn't he the one who looks like Grandpa Munster?
9.William Henry Harrison: Shortest presidency, not to be confused with Madison who was the shortest president
10.John Tyler: Nope, I got nothing. I think if someone said John Tyler in conversation I wouldn't automatically think "president". Not a very distinct name, kid.
11.James K. Polk: Ooh! He's from North Carolina. Near Charlotte even. I've been to his house before. He wasn't there.
12.Zachary Taylor: Again, I've got nothin'.
13.Millard Fillmore: There was a duck named Mallard Fillmore...a comic strip perchance, I guess named after him. Also I think that was the rat-bastard who signed the Fugitive Slave Act.
14.Franklin Pierce: 14th president. Bet ya didn't know that, did ya?
15.James Buchanan: I've heard it speculated he was gay. I do know he never married.
16.Abraham Lincoln: He grew a beard because a little girl wrote to him and said he should.
17.Andrew Johnson: From Greeneville, TN. I can thank Josh Richard for living there that I know that one.
18.Ulysses S. Grant: He had something to do with a war in the states.
19.Rutherford B. Hayes: I just always liked his name, but beyond that, er, nope.
20.James Garfield: He was assassinated in office. I'm pretty sure I did a paper on him in high school, and I remember the name Guiteau, but only because I liked French at the time.
21.Chester A. Arthur: The A stands for Alan? Does that count?
22.Grover Cleavland: nope. Always reminds me of Grover from Sesame St. though.
23.Benjamin Harrison: Is he related to William Henry Harrison? See, I don't even know that.
24.Grover Cleavland: didn't know he served split terms. Learn something new everyday don't you. Does that count twice?
25.William McKinley: I'm pretty sure they named a mountain after him.
26.Theodore Roosevelt: Inspired the name of the Teddy Bear.
27.William H. Taft: Nada
28.Woodrow Wilson: He was from Virginia. I know this because my little brother's middle school was named after him.
29.Warren G. Harding: Also has an awesome name.
30.Calvin Coolidge: "Why I make more money than Calvin Coolidge...put together!"...a quote from a great movie...I guess he was pretty wealthy
31.Herbert Hoover: There's a song from one of my favorite musicals about thanking Hoover, and even as a child I realized it was meant sarcastically. It wasn't until later I realized it was because it was being sung by a group of homeless people in New York because of that whole Depression thing. I hear he got a bad wrap for it though.
32.Franklin D. Roosevelt: Married his cousin. How crazy is that?
33.Harry S. Truman: Atomic bomb, that's all I'll say.
34.Dwight D. Eisenhower: Nickname of "Ike".
35.John F. Kennedy: I think there's speculation he had an affair with some actress lady who was famous for having her skirt blown up. I don't really now much about it though.
36.Lyndon B. Johnson: His wife's name was Lady Bird! HA! Sounds like a dog's name.
37.Richard Nixon: His likeness was used as a mask in that movie "Point Break".
38.Gerald Ford: Took office cause that Point Break guy screwed up somehow.
39.Jimmy Carter: Coolest president ever. Regardless of that whole Iran hostage crisis. He got them home, dammit!
40.Ronald Reagan: The actor?!
41.George Bush Sr.: Spawned that Dubya guy.
42.Bill Clinton: Played the saxophone. Little known fact
43.George W. Bush: Lowest IQ of a president ever.
So that makes...um...35...I'm gonna say. And that I guess 41 for the first question, cause of that John Tyler guy.
I would like to thank Stanford Brown of Macon, Ga for any information here that is correct. I would also like to apologize to Stanford Brown of Macon, Ga for the fact that I didn't pay more attention in his history classes.
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