 | thedpr: | Jul 2nd, 2011 at 20:59 GMT | | 3 points    |
| It is disputed whether Jackson was born in N or S Carolina. You might want to make a note indicating to "choose the more southern of the two possibilities" or something like that without giving the answer away. |
 | bazmerelda: | Jul 2nd, 2011 at 22:21 GMT | | 9 points |
| Yeah. I went with the Sporcle accepted answer for him from this http://www.sporcle.com/games/uspresbirthstates.php. It also means that it doesn't matter which Carolina you go for, as neither are mines. If I included him for North Carolina, anyone guessing South Carolina for him would hit a mine. So it seemed most sensible to just to accept him for South Carolina. |
 | Dralcoffin: | Jul 3rd, 2011 at 00:25 GMT | | 19 points |
| Ah, so Ford wasn't born in Michigan... |
| MisterF: | Jul 3rd, 2011 at 03:29 GMT | | 7 points |
| It would be interesting to see if any of the Virginia presidents, who were all born before the Civil War, were born in the part of the state that would later become West Virginia. |
| Dralcoffin: | Jul 3rd, 2011 at 15:53 GMT | | 6 points |
| @MisterF: None of them were. The closest was Wilson who was born in Staunton which is about twenty miles southeast from a corner in the modern West Virginia border. |
| cuendillar: | Jul 4th, 2011 at 05:48 GMT | | 8 points |
| @Dralcoffin: And Cleveland was apparently not from Ohio. |
| vic3233: | Jul 4th, 2011 at 23:31 GMT | | 4 points |
| @Dralcoffin: I looked it up and Ford was actually born in Omaha, Nebraska, before growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
| mlebaron: | Aug 2nd, 2011 at 12:12 GMT | | 2 points |
| the box and instructions say to "enter a president" when the quiz really wants you to "enter a state" |
 | SonyHTCApple: | Aug 21st, 2011 at 09:00 GMT | | 1 point |
| hi bazmerelda great game and by the way how do you create a minefield! |
| bazmerelda: | Aug 22nd, 2011 at 12:09 GMT | | 3 points |
- In the game info, set bonus answers to appear as wrong answers and for wrong answers to end the game.
- Your first line should be a dummy answer which the mines appear in (otherwise players lose their first answer when they hit a mine). Type something like "Mine" in the left column and some safe message in the middle column. Make any of your correct answers alternates to this safe message so the message appears when someone gets a correct answer ie - No mines hit/answer 1/answer 2 etc.
- Add in the data for your correct answers as normal below line 1 with some stat based clue or ranking in the left column.
- Add in all your mines below your correct answers. Put ee in the third column next to your mines. Leave the first column blank (it will work as long as the first column is different to any of the first columns for the correct answers or dummy answer line - leaving it blank just takes no effort).
That is one way to do it anyway. There are other A-Z style methods too. A word of caution though - it's very easy to make a minefield quiz out of a subject which doesn't really suit mines. Make sure it is something which has a range of answers from obvious to obscure where people can get some answers with confidence before moving onto educated guesses and finally stabs in the dark. |
 | conradmcmasters: | Nov 8th, 2011 at 00:32 GMT | | 4 points |
| One of the better quizzes I've taken on here in a while. |
Game published: Jul 7th, 2012 at 15:03 GMT
 | Extinctanimals22: | Jul 7th, 2012 at 16:32 GMT | | 12 points |
| I'm from Missouri and they've never let us forget Harry S. Truman was born here. |
Comment below threshold: show it | save_ferris15: | Jul 7th, 2012 at 17:28 GMT | | -5 points |
| I'm glad we don't live in a world where Alaska is on this list. |
Comment below threshold: show it | arseniobilingham: | Jul 7th, 2012 at 17:34 GMT | | -10 points |
| I tried Kenya but it didn't work |
| Dralcoffin: | Jul 7th, 2012 at 18:30 GMT | | 28 points |
| @save_ferris15: I see what you did, but she was born in Idaho. |
Comment below threshold: show it | ktappe: | Jul 7th, 2012 at 21:44 GMT | | -21 points |
| Sorry, not a great quiz because it matters more where the presidents were FROM not where they were born. |
| ileggin: | Jul 7th, 2012 at 22:17 GMT | | 4 points |
| How cum Kenya ain't on dere? (fires gun into air, drives off in Confederate flag truck...) |
| brneyedgrrl: | Jul 8th, 2012 at 00:39 GMT | | 10 points |
| Yep, I'm from Illinois and while our license plates say "Land of Lincoln," he wasn't born here, he was born in Kentucky. But Reagan WAS born here!! I guess "Land of Reagan" doesn't quite have the same ring to it. |
 | Lige: | Jul 8th, 2012 at 02:48 GMT | | 4 points |
| Since taking these quizzes my ability to spell Massachusetts and Connecticut has vastly improved. |
 | tulliuscicero: | Jul 8th, 2012 at 03:30 GMT | | 2 points |
| My computer sort of froze after I typed New Hampshire. I suddenly remembered he was a Bowdoin alum and was horrified and assumed he was from Maine. Then it entered and my heart attack was averted. |
| azk3000: | Jul 8th, 2012 at 03:59 GMT | | 4 points |
| There is absolutely NO reason not to show us the answers at the end... |
| bazmerelda: | Jul 8th, 2012 at 10:40 GMT | | 4 points |
| @azk3000: There's actually a very good reason not to show the answers at the end. It's not possible in minefields. Try any of the quizzes on the minefield sub-category page and you'll find the same. You might want to try submitting a suggestion to Sporcle to create that option. |
 | barnztormre: | Jul 8th, 2012 at 13:45 GMT | | 5 points |
| I had no idea that Gerald Ford was not born in Michigan. Regardless, having "The Victors" played at his funeral in lieu of "Hail to the Chief" was a genius move. Godspeed, sir, and Go Blue. |
Comment below threshold: show it | Dublin4711: | Jul 8th, 2012 at 16:43 GMT | | -5 points |
| I got them all right but there were 21 not 22 |
| colbert: | Jul 8th, 2012 at 21:21 GMT | | -3 points |
| @ Extinctanimals22: There is no "." after the "S" in Harry S Truman. It's just an S. |
 | Pogues: | Jul 9th, 2012 at 02:40 GMT | | 7 points |
| Tennessee seemed like a no brainer. All it got me was blown up. |
| BrentH: | Jul 9th, 2012 at 15:40 GMT | | 5 points |
| For the sake of accuracy, Andrew Jackson's birth state is questioned. It might have been North Carolina, not South Carolina (his father had died weeks before his birth and there is some question as to whether he was born at his North Carolina uncle's house or his South Carolina uncle's house) |
| Dave78514: | Jul 9th, 2012 at 16:28 GMT | | 0 points |
| @Brent H In clarification to your comment about Andrew Jackson while his birth state is questioned Jackson himself always claimed South Carolina as his birth state and in the present day the Waxhaws are in South Carolina. |
| apbadogs: | Jul 11th, 2012 at 21:01 GMT | | -3 points |
| Where's Kenya? |
 | diving: | Jul 13th, 2012 at 18:40 GMT | | 10 points |
| apbadogs - in Africa between Ethiopia & Tanzania, but what does that have to do with this quiz? |
 | AtomicIce: | Nov 7th, 2012 at 21:29 GMT | | 1 point |
| REALLY surprised there is not Michigan nor Tennessee, yet HUGE Vermont can claim 2 native sons that went to the White House. |
| crashintoavan: | May 2nd, 2013 at 22:53 GMT | | 1 point |
| President Bartlet was also born in New Hampshire |
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