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Can you name the first names of the U.S. Presidents?

Enter a first name in the box below
Correctly named first names will show up below
Click any empty President or Name to answer for that location
This game contributed by Limelight05 on 09/22/2009
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Note: Most common usage OR give first names accepted.

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President	Name
Washington
Adams
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
Quincy Adams
Jackson
Van Buren
Henry Harrison
Tyler
Polk
Taylor
Fillmore
Pierce
Buchanan
Lincoln
Johnson
Grant
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
Cleveland

President	Name
Harrison
McKinley
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Delano Roosevelt
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Baines Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
H.W. Bush
Clinton
W. Bush
Obama

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There are 107 comments for this game.
(Warning: comments may contain spoilers)

	Limelight05:	Sep 23rd, 2009 at 04:40 GMT	16 points
	the main answers in this quiz are the names that the presidents were most commonly known by, but some alternate acceptable answers include their real first names and a few nicknames.

	quiztaker:	Sep 26th, 2009 at 07:26 GMT	22 points
	Awesome quiz.

	Boomhauer:	Sep 26th, 2009 at 19:22 GMT	10 points
	Great quiz! Grraaarr Taft!

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	American:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 08:39 GMT	9 points
	great quiz!

	BigThing:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 19:21 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz! I had this fun idea to make all members of the band The Presidents Of The United States Of America into bonus answers.

	Yurian:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 19:23 GMT	10 points
	Awesome 5/5!! Now, onto the nicknames! Teddy!

Sep 27th, 2009 at 19:26 GMT

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Taft was usually referred to as Howard Taft, but with Howard being his middle name, William was his first name. And I missed that.

	Tom_the_Dog:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 19:29 GMT	33 points
	I like that you can get almost a third of the answers if you just guess John, James, or William.

	PopdCulture:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 19:31 GMT	26 points
	I must once again thank Animaniacs.

	Eliot:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 19:35 GMT	18 points
	re "some alternate acceptable answers include their real first names" ... oddly enough, Jimmy Carter was so opposed to using his real name that he once actually went to court to make sure his name did not appear on an election ballot as "James". Said that if they didn't list him as "Jimmy", he would withdraw. [I learned that from a TV show; they displayed one of the court documents.] Anyway, super quiz! Likely to end up on the list of most-tried quizzes.

	Zycoolaman:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 19:36 GMT	6 points
	Great quiz!

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	awesomegerbzy:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 19:43 GMT	9 points
	Sweet quiz, made me feel like that U.S. History class actually paid off in some way...although I think it's funny how many presidents were named James and John.

	smreidy113:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 19:47 GMT	14 points
	An easy quiz to make you feel good about yourself is always welcome.

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	chikka2:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT	6 points
	Great quiz, though for a non-American, this is one of those ones where having lived a long time in the States would have helped. A lot.

	Tahnan:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT	4 points
	To make it harder, shrink your browser window so you can't see the name above the blank or the grid below the blank. (I had to scroll up twice to get the name--once for the first Harrison, who I forgot came at that point, and once for Harding, which I knew was Harding but needed it confirmed when "William" kept not working.) [Followup note to Eliot: indeed, Carter was the only president inaugurated under a nickname.]

	zach12:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:09 GMT	7 points
	Good quiz.

	Skydog:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:10 GMT	4 points
	I like this quiz, got me thinkin!

	ElDavo:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:17 GMT	3 points
	I like that Dick is accepted for Nixon. I didn't like that Barry wasn't accepted for Obama.

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	pg2470:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:30 GMT	7 points
	Surprising how many people don't know the current president's first name.

	thelargeone:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:31 GMT	8 points
	I think that Gerald Ford was born Lesley King Jr. Adopted President!

	orbit:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:32 GMT	-2 points
	Am I the only one who thinks the three presidents that went by their middle names should only have their first names as the correct answer?

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	ted:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:38 GMT	6 points
	@GeoExpert: You piqued my curiosity, as I have never heard Taft referred to simply as "Howard." Do you have a link/source?

	koozbane:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:41 GMT	0 points
	I completely agree with orbit. To make this quiz even remotely challenging, it should only accept the given first name of those presidents who went by their middle name. After all, the quiz asks for "the first names of the US Presidents". Woodrow WASN'T Wilson's first name, etc., just the name he went by. So possibly four tricky ones, if you include Eisenhower. Ford should probably accept either name.

	iceman1731:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:45 GMT	0 points
	Damn you Arthur, Harrison, and Harding

	theGrit:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:48 GMT	3 points
	Did some people actually miss the current President's first name?!

	gracie:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:49 GMT	15 points
	1912-1932 is commonly known to most historians as "the era of presidents with weird first names."

	koozbane:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:50 GMT	7 points
	Actually, 5 tricky ones, with Eisenhower included. Coolidge was John. Cleveland was Stephen. Wilson was Thomas. And Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant. A clerical error at West Point resulted in the change. He didn't protest because, supposedly, he didn't like his given initials spelling out HUG.

	Lindsay:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:53 GMT	2 points
	I missed Taylor and Pierce... I'm somewhat embarrassed.

	koozbane:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 20:54 GMT	6 points
	Yeah Grit, I find it interesting that there's never a 100% score for an answer. Does that mean that someone really didn't know Washington's first name, or does it reflect that perhaps someone started a quiz and then left or blew it off?

	jiminymatthew:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 21:04 GMT	7 points
	yes! i love president quizzes!

	Uhlan:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 21:04 GMT	3 points
	Damn, clicked on 'give up' not next.

	jonnywardy:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 21:17 GMT	7 points
	For all those people saying this is an easy quiz... only if you know the answers =P

	Mutford:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 21:20 GMT	29 points
	I'm pretty sure George Jefferson, Steven Tyler, Joe Jackson, Lou Grant, James Taylor and Bea Arthur were all presidents of your country at one time, were they not?

	ZSP:	Sep 27th, 2009 at 21:23 GMT	5 points
	Other possible president quizzes: Two-term presidents; One-term presidents; less-than-one-full-term presidents.