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Memorize these and you could recognize 51.4% of all U.S. Presidents clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theodore Roosevelt | 123 | Not only was he the 1st president to win a Nobel Prize, he was also the first American to do so |
| 2 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | 98 | This president kept a personally significant coconut shell on his White House desk |
| 3 | Richard Nixon | 93 | When he visited the Chinese landmark, he commented, "I must say that the Great Wall is a great wall" |
| 4 | Woodrow Wilson | 92 | The last of his Fourteen Points called for the creation of a League of Nations |
| 5 | Abraham Lincoln | 89 | Nancy Hanks |
| 6 | Dwight David Eisenhower | 89 | "Crusade in Europe" |
| 7 | Harry S. Truman | 89 | President who preferred Chopin's waltzes to this, his musical "trademark": |
| 8 | Lyndon Baines Johnson | 89 | When asked about his condition this president said, "I don't have ulcers, I give 'em" |
| 9 | Ronald Reagan | 78 | In 1957 this future president sang, "I've got a crush on you, sweetie pie" to Gisele MacKenzie on her TV show |
| 10 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | 76 | At his 2nd inaugural he said, "I see 1/3 of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished" |
| 11 | Herbert Hoover | 74 | In a 1964 survey, he was named 1 of the 2 greatest engineers in U.S. history |
| 12 | Gerald Ford | 73 | Before Clinton, he was the last U.S. president who was a law school graduate |
| 13 | Thomas Jefferson | 72 | While serving as this man's vice president, Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton |
| 14 | Jimmy Carter | 66 | This former president is a real traveling man; in 1995 he visited Haiti... Sudan... Nigeria... |
| 15 | Ulysses S. Grant | 65 | Though his 2nd administration was scandal-ridden, he was almost nominated for 3rd term in 1880 |
| 16 | Andrew Jackson | 59 | This future president decisively defeated the Creek Indians at Horseshoe Bend in 1814 |
| 17 | George Washington | 59 | For the presidential portraits, Gilbert Stuart stuffed his sunken cheeks with cotton |
| 18 | William Howard Taft | 56 | As Chief Justice, he swore in Herbert Hoover as president in 1929 & messed up some of the words |
| 19 | John Adams | 53 | On March 4, 1801 he slipped out of town early to avoid Jefferson's inaugural |
| 20 | Martin Van Buren | 50 | "The Sage of Kinderhook" |
| 21 | Grover Cleveland | 49 | Ex-hangman who admitted he'd sired an illegitimate son, he didn't marry until in the White House |
| 22 | Calvin Coolidge | 44 | A famous 1924 campaign slogan was "Keep Cool With" this man |
| 23 | William McKinley | 43 | This Ohio gov. ran his 1896 campaign from his front porch in Canton & won |
| 24 | Warren G. Harding | 41 | Scandal-plagued pres., his father once told him, "It's lucky you weren't born a gal, because you can't say no" |
| 25 | Bill Clinton | 40 | Georgetown(class of 1968) |
| 26 | James Madison | 37 | He's the only president to ask the U.S. Congress to declare war on Great Britain |
| 27 | Andrew Johnson | 36 | It was the vote of Kansas Rep. Edmund G. Ross that kept him from being removed from office |
| 28 | William Henry Harrison | 35 | "Old Tippecanoe" |
| 29 | James Buchanan | 35 | Jackson's amb. to Russia, Polk's Sec'y of State, Pierce's amb. to Britain & our 15th president |
| 30 | John Quincy Adams | 34 | The only president to marry a woman born in another country was this son of another president |
| 31 | Benjamin Harrison | 28 | He was preceded & succeeded as president by the same man |
| 32 | Zachary Taylor | 27 | Jefferson Davis' commanding officer in the Mexican War was this man, his former father-in-law |
| 33 | Aaron Burr | 24 | Cyrus Griffin, the last president, went on to be one of the judges at this man's treason trial |
| 34 | George Herbert Walker Bush | 24 | He was the first baseman & captain of Yale's 1948 baseball team |
| 35 | Spiro Agnew | 22 | He wrote 2 books inspired by his career: "The Canfield Decision" & "Go Quietly... or Else" |
| 36 | John Tyler | 21 | Not satisfied with siring 8 children by his 1st wife, this Virginian, our 10th Pres., had 7 by his 2nd |
| 37 | Rutherford B. Hayes | 21 | His father died before he was born so he was raised by an uncle, Sardis Birchard |
| 38 | Franklin Pierce | 21 | He signed the Gadsden Purchase |
| 39 | James Monroe | 20 | 1st U.S. president who did not sign the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution |
| 40 | James Garfield | 20 | Alexander Graham Bell used special phone trying to find the bullet near this President's spine |
| 41 | Nelson Rockefeller | 19 | Only 2 men have been appointed VP under the 25th Amendment: Gerald Ford & this New York governor |
| 42 | George Bush | 18 | GHWB |
| 43 | James K. Polk | 17 | Originally, his family name was Pollok |
| 44 | Walter Mondale | 16 | He's the only vice-president who was born in Minnesota; nope...Humphrey was born in South Dakota |
| 45 | Hubert Humphrey | 16 | He & his future running mate Lyndon Johnson began their Senate careers at the same time |
| 46 | Chester Arthur | 13 | After Garfield's death, he refused to move into the White House until it was redecorated |
| 47 | Dan Quayle | 12 | Before Mike Pence, he was the last vice president from the state of Indiana |
| 48 | Virginia | 10 | John Tyler & his father, who was also named John, both served as governor of this state |
| 49 | Millard Fillmore | 10 | He named one of his kids Mary Abigail, the other Millard Powers |
| 50 | Barack Obama | 10 | He's the only president since 1900 whose last name contains more vowels than consonants |