What's your brilliant thought?
3. John Q. Adam
4. Benjamin Harrison
5. George Washington
11. Harding
15. Grover Cleveland
16. Nixon
17. Ronald Regan
21. John Adams
22. GWB
25. Grant
27. Barack Obama
28. Madison
30. FDR
32. LBJ
33. Taft
34. Carter
35. Ford
36. JFK
39. Eisenhower
42. Chester Arthur
43. Truman
Extra Credit: Ford
8. I'm going to guess Lincoln, since everyone makes such a big deal about his beard. Probably not, though.
9. Tyler?
12. Jefferson (AAWAN BUWWW!)
13. Herbert Hoover
14. I don't know, but he ought to be ashamed of himself.
15. President Queen Latifah
17. JFK
23. This is killing me because I'm pretty sure I read it on Wikipedia yesterday.
27. Martin Van Buren
31. James Monroe
36. Nixon?
37. (I cheated and looked that one up, but I knew who the husband was and looked it up that way. Can I have the point?)
38. George Washington!
42. Chester Alan Arthur! I learned this on Wikipedia yesterday! Yay!
I like to go through the list and answer "Barack Obama" for everything, since I haven't figured out which one is him yet. I especially like that for #18.
Could Obama be #7?
I'm going to guess Andrew Johnson for #18, just because I think you would ask someone who was impeached about his regrets.
14. TRUE!
15. I didn't realize she was POTUS. Silly me.
37. Eh, why not?
38. Drunk History is NOT a credible source. Alexander Hamilton did not shoot HIMSELF.
2. Andrew Johnson
18. Andrew Jackson
41. Woodrow Wilson
Okay, then, #37 is Zachary Taylor (whose daughter married Jefferson Davis). I just had a brain fart and almost put down the President of the Confederacy as "Jefferson Smith."
I object! Millard Fillmore may have signed the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, but the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 would have been under Washington's presidency.
Stop doubting my sources just because they are a little durnk.
Do I get at least partial credit for that?
You can have an extra credit point for knowing that, even though that wasn't the one I was talking about.
I think pretty much all I have left is guesses.
9. Teddy Roosevelt (Tyler had a bunch of kids, but apparently THEY weren't as prolific?)
18. Andrew Jackson
14. Let's see, which Ohio presidents haven't we done yet? I just looked at a list of Ohio presidents (don't worry, it didn't give me the answer) and it occurs to me that you may have a heightened chance of dying in office if you are from Ohio. Hardly any of them made it. I'm going to say Rutherford B. Hayes.
26. Also Rutherford B. Hayes.
19. Andrew Johnson
29 confuses me because I think we only had one president from Iowa and he's already been guessed. Must be a later transplant.
WAIT, have I just assumed that it's one question per president, or can there be repeats?
May I just say how excited I am that - even though Elisabeth is playing now - no one has guessed Bush40 for anything yet? You may have stumped her! I'm going to say he was #20. And also #19.
I'm going to say Harding Again for 16.
One question per POTUS, even though I gave you a point for the GW Fugitive Slave Act thingy.
Since I can't think of anything else William Henry Harrison did, I'm going to guess that Harriet Beecher Stowe hated him (#19).
I just realized Gerald Ford hasn't been guessed yet. I don't think he's the grandchildren one, and he WOULDN'T DARE be the Ohio State one, so I'm going to go with #10.
Clinton hasn't been guessed yet either. #1?
#29 has to have been sometime in the radio age and hasn't been guessed yet, so that leaves Clinton, Bush40, Ford and Reagan, I guess. So I'll go Reagan, with his actorly voice.
21 comments? I feel ever so popular!
How would Harriet Beecher Stowe have known George H.W. Bush?
It was a JOKE.
Wow, I got the GHWB question right? That was totally a guess, unless it was based on something in the corners of my memory!
He played baseball for Yale and played in the first College World Series, in Kalamazoo, MI!
16. Since it wasn't Nixon I'm thinking it may be my second choice of Clinton
Franklin Pierce isn't up there yet, so I'm going to guess him for #6. I know nothing about Franklin Pierce except he was supposedly the most attractive president. So maybe he and Mrs Pierce created a lot of kids who had great Pierce genes and attracted mates who created a lot of kids, etc. and he's the grandkid one. But I'm going to go with #6 until you tell me it's wrong, and then I'll try him somewhere else. I need to figure out who else is left! Now I am just typing stream-of-consciousness style.
We seem to be doing pretty well on the early and late ones - it's those mid-to-late 19th century ones that get us. By my count, the presidents (not the trivia questions) that we have left are 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 20, 25 and 26.
This seems extraordinarily late, but was #38 Teddy Roosevelt?
Franklin Pierce and his wife had three kids, all of them died before he made it to the White House.
I can't believe no one has even TRIED the TEN BONUS POINT question.
OH HOW SAD. Poor Pierces.
I think either Aunt Pam or Sarah will probably win, unless someone impresses me with their presidential trivia knowledge and earns a WHOLE LOT of points for unrelated POTUS trivia.
I'm looking at you, Elisabeth.
Franklin Pierce Jr. apparently died three days after birth, Frank Robert Pierce died age four and Benjamin Pierce was apparently the only fatality of a train accident, age 11.
Also, unless he was a hijillion times better looking when he was younger, he was NOT the best looking man ever elected POTUS.
According to Wikipedia, Franklin and Jane Pierce were shaken up by the accident, but Benjamin was crushed to death.
I guess I've forgiven Wikipedia since yesterday.
Did you have this wallpaper background when I was home last? I have a guess as to what it is, but I don't know if that's because I've already seen it.
Yes, it's been my desktop since October.
35. I'm going to guess James Garfield for this one. I just remember him and don't see him listed as being answered.
For 16 (vindication):
I'd like to say Bush but enough history hasn't gone by.
So, I'll say Buchanen...?
9. Didn't Sarah get this one right? It wasn't Tyler?
19. Since Pierce hasn't been answered for this I'll guess him.
9. If for some reason Sarah didn't guess Tyler ( she did!) then I'm guessing.
Nooo, I missed getting the GHWB question. But for bonus points, if I can get them:
Marian Robinson will be the second MIL in the White House. Truman's MIL lived with them, even though she hated Truman.
Lou Hoover is credited for the first Girl Scout cookie sales.
GHWB has not written a presidential memoir.
In school Hayes frequently won spelling bees.
Benjamin Harrison was the first to attend a baseball game. His nickname was "Kid Gloves" Harrison. He had a goat named Whiskers.
Lyndon Johnson drove an amphibious car.
Coolidge's VP Charles Dawes wrote a hit song.
Obama is the only president that was born in Hawaii.
Clinton was in a saxophone trio called "Three Blind Mice."
Grant was once fined for riding his horse too fast.
Edith Wilson loved horse racing.
Woodrow Wilson had a PhD in political science.
Two WH hostesses were professional actresses: Priscilla Tyler and Nancy Reagan.
William Rufus King had crazy hair. And he had the shortest term as VP.
President Bartlet hid his MS from the public.
Dwayne Comacho was a professional wrestler before coming president.
Bill Pullman was our only president to fly into space, unless it was Jeff Goldblum who did that, in which case he was our only president to send Jeff Goldblum into space.
9 is William Henry Harrison, so I hear.
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