Can you name the U.S. Presidents by process of elimination? by WindSword

Can you name the U.S. Presidents by process of elimination?

created by WindSword

Enter a president (last names acceptable) in the box below
Correctly named presidents will show up below
Click any empty Hint or President to answer for that location
Source: Format shamelessly stolen from cthulhu's States quiz. Go Play it!
Each statement relates to only one remaining President. For example, if the statement is "Has the last name Johnson", and you've already answered Andrew Johnson, the answer must be LBJ.
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Hint	President	Eliminated Presidents
Born in the state of Hawaii		0
Attended Harvard Law School		Obama
Visited Puerto Rico as a sitting President		Obama
Had a last name ending in 'Y'		Kennedy
Buried in Arlington Cemetery		Kennedy
Succeeded by a President Johnson		Kennedy
Succeeded Grover Cleveland		McKinley
Elected directly from the Senate		Obama, Kennedy
Assassinated in office		Kennedy, Lincoln, McKinley
Saw combat during the Civil War		Hayes, McKinley, Garfield,B Harrison
Served as a Republican in the 1800's
Graduated from West Point		Grant
Oversaw Reconstruction		Lincoln, Grant, Hayes
Died younger than 60		Kennedy, Harding, Garfield, Arthur
Served in the same administration as Nixon		Eisenhower
Shot while in office		Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy
Was a Methodist		Polk, Grant, McKinley
Beat a candidate who won the popular vote		Hayes, Bush,B Harrison
Attained the rank of General		Eisenhower, Grant
Related to an earlier President		Bush II, Adams II, B Harrison
Portrayed on a standard US coin		Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Kennedy
Portrayed on Mount Rushmore		Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson

Hint	President	Eliminated Presidents
Was a college professor		Adams II, Taft, Obama
Signed the Constitution		Washington
Was President during a formally declared war
Was a Democratic-Republican		Jefferson, Madison, Adams
Elected in a year ending in zero
Had at least seven children
Had John C. Calhoun in his administration		Monroe, Adams II, Tyler
Born a British subject
Ran as a third-party candidate		Lincoln, T. Roosevelt
Won a Nobel Prize		Obama, T Roosevelt, Wilson
Died in office
Born in a log cabin
Had a state join during his term
Served two full terms
Is still living		Carter, Clinton, Bush II, Obama
Signed a Civil Rights Act		Grant, Eisenhower, Bush I
Shared a first name with another President
Had an amendment ratified during his term
Spoke a language other than English
Had an alliterative name		Wilson, Hoover, Reagan
Was a President		Everyone else!

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Presidents by Elimination Quiz

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	WindSword:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 04:00 GMT		5 points
	I'm going to stave off a lot of angry comments by saying, yes, Obama was born a British subject. His father was born in a British Commonwealth, which meant that until Kenya delcared its independence, Obama was a British citizen under the British Nationality Act of 1948. None of this affects his ability to be President. See: http://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/obamas-kenyan-citizenship/

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	brook5584:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 18:20 GMT		4 points
	Martin Van Buren ran for for President in 1848 for the Free Soil party @iceman1731 Lincoln was not a senator from Illinois he lost the senate election to Stephen Douglas

	cocky:	Jul 11th, 2011 at 19:20 GMT		1 point
	McKinley was from Ohio, not Illinois.

	WindSword:	Jul 12th, 2011 at 02:20 GMT		1 point
	Mistakes fixed. There happened to be a William McKinley who served as Senator of Illinois, I mistakenly thought he was the president. Martin Van Buren I just missed.

	StreetMeat:	Jul 12th, 2011 at 05:06 GMT		3 points
	Loved this quiz

	johnlk:	Jul 12th, 2011 at 20:55 GMT		2 points
	Jackson was also born a British subject, and not yet eliminated.

	WindSword:	Jul 12th, 2011 at 23:34 GMT		2 points
	Fixed. Also, for those of you who are wondering about the asterisks for the children question, Jackson's children were mostly adopted and Jefferson only has seven depending on how many of Sally Hemming's children were his.

	singin185:	Jul 13th, 2011 at 15:22 GMT		2 points
	I'm thoroughly confused. I'm assuming the clues show up in the same order each time. Up until "Had John C Calhoun in his administration", all of those presidents listed in the red column had previously shown up in the white column. So a prerequisite, if you will, for landing in the red column is having previously been in a white column. John Tyler is in the red column "Had John C Calhoun..." before he ends up in the white column for "At least seven children". Am I misunderstanding the format?

	singin185:	Jul 13th, 2011 at 15:23 GMT		2 points
	In any case, this is a really neat way of having to name the Presidents, and learning trivia along the way.

	MikeN:	Jul 13th, 2011 at 17:25 GMT		2 points
	George Bush Sr served in World War 2.

	WindSword:	Jul 13th, 2011 at 23:28 GMT		2 points
	@singin185- No, that's just a mistake I missed when I was fixing the last mistake. Fixed. @MikeN- I meant that they served as President during a declared war. I changed the wording to make it less ambiguous.