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How many former Presidents can you name? According to a new study, the average person in America can only name 5 former US Presidents.
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Washington jefferson lincoln roosevelt x2 adams fillmore eisenhower truman kennedy carter nixon johnson bush x2 clinton obama hoover
ReplyDeleteAnd i'm English
I know more US Presidents than UK PMs, probs because ours were all so dusty and dull
Delete...and these people are allowed to vote.
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DeleteThat is such a sad commentary (if it is a true statistic) on the state of our country if the average American can only name 5 presidents.
ReplyDeleteI'm 44 and i was able to name 11 right off the bat without thinking too hard.
I'm Canadian and let's see who I can name: Washington, Lincoln, Nixon, Carter,Reagan, Clinton,Bush and Obama.
ReplyDelete13 just off the top of my head. But the longer I think about it the more I get. I'm up to 15 now.
ReplyDeleteJust those who were president in my lifetime exceed five...FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama. God, I've been alive a long time!
ReplyDelete14 off the top of my head. Dayum. People are scary anymore.
ReplyDeleteGood lord. And they keep cutting history from U.S. schools. All the schools focus on is standardized testing. It's TRAGIC.
ReplyDeleteAll of them. In order. Yes, I'm a freak.
ReplyDeleteAbout 10...but I'm Dutch.
ReplyDeleteYeah, i can name a slew. Ignorance if history has serious consequences. How do you if you're being lied to if you were never familiar with the facts? Between no knowledge of facts and the misinformation channel, there is little hope to make rational intelligent decision. It doesnt matter what side of an issue u decide, but at least base it on facts and history thats known to be true. Ok, off soapbox, lol
ReplyDeleteAbout 35,not necessarily in order - I get a little confused between Jackson & Lincoln
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ReplyDeleteWashington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams 2, Andrew Jackson (related!), Van Buren, Polk, Lincoln, Johnson x2, Roosevelt...all the rest in my lifetime: Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., Clinton, Dubya, Obama. Eisenhower...
ReplyDeleteGood for you, Spacecowboy!! I used to know them in order, too.
Sad, sad, sad it's only 5. :(
Washington
ReplyDeleteJohn Adams
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
J.Q. Adams
Jackson
Van Buren
W.H. Harrison
Tyler
Polk
Taylor
Fillmore
Pierce
Buchanan
Lincoln
A. Johnson
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
Cleveland
B. Harrison
Cleveland
McKinley
T. Roosevelt
Taft
Harding
Coolidge
Wilson
Hoover
FD Roosevelt
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
L. Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
GHW Bush
Clinton
GW Bush
Obama
I mean which presidents come between Jackson and Lincoln.
ReplyDeleteI used to study the presidents in high school. Not so much these days.
ReplyDeletewashington, adams, jefferson, madison, monroe, quincy adams, jackson, van buren, tyler, cleveland, lincoln, johnson, grant, pierce, taft, mckinley, rooselvelt, wilson, coolidge, hoover, rooselvelt, truman, eisenhower, kennedy, johnson, nixon, ford, carter, reagan, bush, clinton, bush, obama
ReplyDeleteI'm forgetting a bunch in the middle (and many are mixed up). But 33 isn't bad!
@FSP - exactly.
ReplyDeleteWithout thinking about it, I got 13; thinking about it, I got another 10. That leaves 20 of them who obviously didn't register during history class. Spacecowboy-- I'm impressed!!
ReplyDelete@prolixe, Martin Van Buren (who no one ever cared about) is my five-times great grandfather.
ReplyDeleteIIRC, Van Buren was the first president born after the US was created and whose first language was Dutch, not English.
ReplyDeleteI suck at presidents but I got 27 in just a few minutes. At the very least, a person should be able to name the presidents in their lifetimes and the assassinated ones.
ReplyDeleteAll ot them it's called Google, plus I keep a list on my board at work.
ReplyDeleteAll of them. But being Canadian makes me fall outside the study...
ReplyDelete@prolixe: I learned a mnemonic from an old lady years ago to remember the first 14 presidents in order: "When a joke made me a joker, Van had to poke the fiery poker." The first letter of each word is the first letter of the presidents' last names. Simple, but effective!
Nerdcrest out.
@Lew, bet that helped at testing time!!
DeleteThis YouTube video is kind of like what my teacher did. It was all folksy and 70s and made us laugh at her, but damn, I aced that part of every history exam ever. IIRC, she put in a part after their name that had the number of years served (like "Kennedy almost 3") so you could do the math in your head to figure out which number they were.
Oh geez, now I need a nerdcrest out! :b
All of them. But being Canadian makes me fall outside the study...
ReplyDelete@prolixe: I learned a mnemonic from an old lady years ago to remember the first 14 presidents in order: "When a joke made me a joker, Van had to poke the fiery poker." The first letter of each word is the first letter of the presidents' last names. Simple, but effective!
Nerdcrest out.
I got to 24 before I went to Google, looks like I need to brush up on my American history.
ReplyDeleteKaren for some reason Van Buren sticks out the most in my mind, he is always the first one I name and then I start chronologically for some reason.
Washington, Jefferson, J Adams, JQ Adams, Filmore, Lincoln, T Roosevelt, FD Roosevelt, Madison, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Regan, G bush, Clinton, GW Bush, Obama.
ReplyDeleteMore than five off the top of my head.
Without looking it up:
ReplyDeleteWashington
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Jefferson
Monroe
Buchanan
Madison
Lincoln
Hoover
A. Johnson
Van Buren
McKinley
B. Harrison
WH Harrison
Filmore
Polk
Wilson
LBJ
Jackson
Nixon
Eisenhower
Carter
Ford
Hayes
Cleavland
Pierce
Coolidge
JFK
T. Roosevelt
FDR
Zachary Taylor
John Tyler
Taft
Truman
Reagan
Bush I
Bush II
Clinton
My edumacation went good. :(
All I remember is the president I would have love to sleep with. CALL ME BILL CLINTON.
ReplyDeleteI can name a lot, though not in order of their term. Thank you, 6th grade social studies!
ReplyDeleteI can name 20 off the top of my head and I am Canadian. My 8th grader can name 10.
ReplyDeleteIt is a sad commentary on our education system -- and yet the cuts just keep coming.
ReplyDeleteEventually we will have a nation of completely uninformed voters and we will go off blindly to hell in a handbasket.
Well over half fairly easily, in my day History was a big deal in school.
ReplyDeleteIt's too bad kids or schools don't take it more seriously today. Great men have studied the lives and actions of men generations before them to learn. You can learn from the past and put it to use even in today's fast paced rat race.
Garfield's in my family tree.
ReplyDeleteWont come down,eh? ( sorry, cldnt resist)
DeleteAll of them. In order. And no apologies for it.
ReplyDeleteI'm Indian and I came up with 16.
ReplyDeleteVirtually all. I've got LBJ in my family tree, although I'm not terribly proud of it.
ReplyDeleteAnd the education system, just. oh. my. God. My youngest is a senior and I can't wait until he's out of the OK school system. Pathetic, and yet they're going to make more cuts to education. . .
Like SpaceCowboy I can name them all forward and backward. Pub trivia is a recreation of mine, so over time I picked it up.
ReplyDeleteThe hard part for most is all of the presidents between Monroe and Lincoln.
I got 37. 5? Really? That seems entirely too low. There's the big three that everyone knows: Washington, Lincoln, and Kennedy. That leaves two more, which I would guess would be Obama and GWB since they're the most recent? The average person in America can't name Clinton, or Reagan, or FDR?
ReplyDeleteI mean, Mt. Rushmore gives you four right there. Paper money gives you five, six if you count the $2 bill. I'm having a hard time buying 5. 10 is believable, and that's scary enough. It's like you have to go out of your way to not know at least twenty presidents if you live in the US.
I came up with 22 right off the top of my head. Who are these people in this study? Then again I shake my head ever time I see one of those Jay walking segments, on jay Leno.
ReplyDeleteObama
ReplyDeleteClinton
Bush, Jr
Bush, Sr
Carter
Nixon
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Truman
F.Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Adams
Jefferson
Washington
Cleveland
Arthur
Lincoln
Taft
Jackson
Tyler
Even the stoners I know can name 10. I call bullisht on this and want to source of the study!
ReplyDelete27, and I'm French.
ReplyDeleteWashington, John Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Lincoln, Jackson (mixed up with Johnson, but still a president), Grant, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, GWB, Obama, Palin.
Oops, my mistake for the last one. I should give up on parallel universes fan fiction.
STONER here -- I forgot 8 completely. Of the rest, I got most of them in the correct order -- I had most trouble with the Garfield-McKinley years.
ReplyDeleteTaft, Madison, Washington, Jefferson, Clinton, Bush 1, Bush Jr, Roosevelt 1, FDR, JFK, LBJ, Reagan, Carter. Ford, Nixon, Hoover, Obama, Hayes, Garfield, Chester A Arthur, Buchanan, Dwight Eisenhower, Truman, Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Grant, Adams. Thats it Im dry! 27, if I counteed right.
ReplyDeleteIm a stone cold Married With Children fan--how the freak could I forget the greatest President of All, James Polk? :-D
ReplyDeleteAll of them. Washington, Adams, Madison, Monroe, Adams, Jackson, Harrison, Tyler, Pierce, Fillmore, Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Arthur, Garfield, Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama.
ReplyDeleteI missed Garfield when I ran through them on my fingers, but I caught him when I typed it here.
Oops. Missed Van Buren in this run through, too.
ReplyDeleteIn high school, I knew all the VP's, and I knew the major party Presidential/Vice Presidential losers in every election. I was the captain of the local TV quiz show team. Geek.
I'm Irish and the few I can think of off the top of my head are.
ReplyDeleteAbraham Lincoln
George Bush
George Bush Jr
Bill Clinton
Ronald Reagan
JFK
William McKinley*
James K Polk*
Gerald Ford
Andrew Johnson
Woodrow Wilson
Jimmy Carter
*Thanks to Glee and Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
I know I'm not doing these in order: Washington, Adams (father & son), Jefferson, Monroe, Wilson, Bush (father & son), Carter, Nixon, Ford, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Taft, Harding, T.Roosevelt,F.Roosevelt, Reagan, Clinton, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Truman, Jackson, Madison, Fillmore, Hoover, Cleveland, Garfield, Polk, Coolidge, Harrison, Hayes,Garfield, Arthur, Pierce, Buchanan, Tyler, Taylor, McKinley, and Obama.
ReplyDeleteI know most of them because so many San Francisco streets are named after them, and Harding died in my home town.
Oh yeah Van Buren!
ReplyDeleteWell, I'm pretty skeptical about polls about people's knowledge of some particular subject. Still, if it's true that people could only name five presidents, well, sheet, I've LIVED through more presidents than that!
ReplyDeleteA whole load of white dudes, that's who. I'm too busy to list a bunch, but I can think of at least 12 off hand. Rutherford B Hayes, just because his name is so snazzy...
ReplyDeleteI pulled out my wallet and came up with Washington, Lincoln, Hamilton, Jackson, Ben Franklin and Salmon P Chase.
ReplyDeleteI just found a $2.00 bill. Add Jefferson to my list.
ReplyDeleteThese are in no particular order just off the top of my head:
ReplyDeleteLincoln
Washington
Adams
Jefferson
Taft
Pierce
Eisenhower
Nixon
Polk
Roosevelt
JFK
Wilson
Ford
McKinley
Harrison
Cleveland
Truman
Grant
Johnson
Carter
Reagan
Clinton
Bush
Bush 2
I know I missed a few but the reason why I knew most of them to begin with is because we would go to Washington DC every summer and we would play a game in the car ride to guess them all. Thanks ma & dad!
25 off of the top of my head, 38 with about 5 more minutes. I used to know them all...about 20 years ago.
ReplyDeleteI got 10. I wonder if anyone could name 5 Aussie Prime Ministers...
ReplyDeleteFive? Seriously?
ReplyDeleteI probably can't do all of them, but I can sure as hell do better than 5. That's really sad.
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ReplyDeleteI'm Canadian and just off the top of my head I can name about 16 or so, which is a hell of a lot better than asking me who Canadian Prime Ministers were.
ReplyDeleteI got 11 and I'm Jamaican.
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ReplyDeleteI can name 28 and picture others whose name I have forgotten.
ReplyDeleteObama, G W Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Johnson, Nixon, Kennedy, Franklin D Roosevelt, Hoover, teddy Roosevelt, Ulysses S Grant, Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Millard Fillmore, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Gerald Ford, William Mckinley, Howard Taft, Harrison, Madison, Rutherford B Hayes,
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ReplyDeleteWow, really? I'm Australian and I could think of 10 off the top of my head.
ReplyDeleteI had 11 without stopping to really think. More after that but I only count those initial 11. I'm Canadian. How many of our Prime Ministers can you name? Aaaand, GO!!
ReplyDeleteWashington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Adams (the son?), Van Buren, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland (2x), Jackson, Garfield, Wilson, Taft, Hoover, Roosevelt, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama. And I'm stupid and have a short attention span, so I'm done. This is sad.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, Andrew Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, Buchanan, Fillmore, Polk, Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, George W Bush, Obama.
ReplyDeleteCanadian Prime Ministers:
ReplyDeleteMacdonald Mackenzie Abbott Thompson Bowell Tupper Laurier Borden Meighen William Mackenzie Pearson
Trudeau St Laurent Clark
Diefenbaker Turner Harper Campbell Chretien Martin
Australian:
Barton Deakin Watson Reid Menzies Fadden Curtin Forde Chifley Holt
McEwen McMahon Fraser Hawke Gillard
Rudd Howard Hughes Bruce Scullin Lyons Page Whitlam
Britian:
Balfour Campbell-Bannerman Asquith Lloyd George Law Baldwin MacDonald
Chamberlain Churchill Attlee Eden
Wilson Macmillan Heath Douglas-Home Callaghan Thatcher Major Blair Brown Cameron Salisbury Gladstone Roseberry Disraeli
Washington
ReplyDeleteJ Adams
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
JQ Adams
Polk
Fillmore
Grant
Arthur
A. Jackson
Lincoln
Cleveland
T Roosevelt
F Roosevelt
A Johnson
L Johnson
Kennedy
Truman
Eisenhower
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
GH Bush
Clinton
GW Bush
Obama
All of them.
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ReplyDeleteAll of them but not in order.
ReplyDeletewashington, jefferson, adams, adams, taylor, harding, lincoln, kennedy, johnson, ford, carter, reagan, bush sr, bush, obama, taft, eisenhower, roosevelt, monroe ... could come up with more if I wanted to sit here all night. *And* I managed to miss out on having to memorize the presidents in elementary school so I don't have that to fall back on.
ReplyDeleteI just popped open my text editor and listed 36 off the top of my head and was shamed I couldn't remember the last ones AND that I only knew for certain I had from Obama to Hoover in the correct order was was totally uncertain after that! Off to Wiki to memorize in order along with dates!!
ReplyDeleteYes .. I suck as an American. : (
I know one Australian prime minister was McMahon, but that's because he's Julian McMahon's father.
ReplyDeleteWashington, Jefferson, John Adams, John Q. Adams, Monroe, Lincoln, Johnson, Grant, Jackson, Fillmore, Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Harrison, Cleveland, Eisenhower, Truman, JFK, Nixon, LBJ, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, GW Bush, Obama.
ReplyDeleteDang it!! I know there'll be others that I'll go "Ohhh, yeah...."