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Can you name the middle names of these United States Presidents?
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Kicking222
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President
Middle Name
Initial
John Adams
Q.
William Harrison
H.
James Polk
K.
Ulysses Grant
U.
Rutherford Hayes
B.
James Garfield
A.
Chester Arthur
A.
Grover Cleveland
G.
William Taft
H.
Woodrow Wilson
W.
Warren Harding
G.
Calvin Coolidge
C.
Herbert Hoover
C.
President
Middle Name
Initial
Franklin Roosevelt
D
Harry Truman
S
Dwight Eisenhower
D.
John Kennedy
F.
Lyndon Johnson
B.
Richard Nixon
M.
Gerald Ford
R.
Jimmy Carter
E.
Ronald Reagan
W.
George Bush
H. W.
Bill Clinton
J.
George Bush
W.
Barack Obama
H.
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Presidential Middle Names Quiz
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Created Jul 4, 2009 in
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Featured Jul 4, 2009
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JohnJF
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 04:26 GMT
58 points
Warren Harding's actual middle name was "Gangsta."
Kicking222
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 04:30 GMT
15 points
Yet another one for which I don't know how I came up with the idea, but I thought it'd be interesting. I hope everyone has fun, and I also hope everyone (who celebrates it today) has a wonderful Independence Day. I'll be spending it in Philadelphia- sure, it's got tons of great history, but it will also have an excellent barbecue.
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MovieDynamic
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 04:36 GMT
-43 points
How can your middle name "just" be a single letter? Truman's mom: "How about just 'S'?" Truman's dad: "Well if that ain't the dumbest idea I've ever heard of... how will people respond come the inevitable Sporcle quiz about presidents' middle names?" Truman's mom: "Honey, let's not get ahead of ourselves here."
shoredude2
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 04:38 GMT
8 points
Because it's just S. Live with it. And 75.5% knew it was just S.
MRL
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 04:39 GMT
35 points
@shoredude2: Well, maybe. I knew, and I'm sure many knew, but it'd also be easy to get if someone started to guess any name starting with S.
Skydog
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 04:41 GMT
0 points
Very Cool Idea Kicking! The S shocked me but i still got it, was my only guess for him.
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MovieDynamic
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 04:43 GMT
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AlexSmith
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 04:51 GMT
-99 points
Hold on. Barrack HUSEIN Obama!?!?! What have we gotten ourselves into!!!!
cocky
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 04:52 GMT
3 points
Ike's birth name was David Dwight Eisnehower. He switched the order after he was an adult. I can't believe I spelled Harding's middle name right the first time. I knew Cleveland went by his middle name, but it took a few times typing Steven spelled various ways to figure out you wanted Grover.
AddiSnow
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 05:00 GMT
0 points
It's not the most common names to guess if you don't know them. Had fun thought I only managed 10.
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bsd987
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 05:03 GMT
-14 points
cocky is absolutely correct.
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zalagreensbury
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 05:08 GMT
-14 points
I bet as kids most of them got their butts kicked everyday, c'mon 'Birchard'?*shakes head*
JohnJF
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 05:13 GMT
68 points
@AlexSmith: The fact that the president's middle name is the same as that of a noted Middle Eastern terrorist should not be nearly as alarming to Americans as the notion of somebody just hearing about it on July 4, 2009.
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TallKool1
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 05:35 GMT
-6 points
Silly semantics, but you may want to include that "Bill" and "Jimmy" are birth named William and James...
F20101992
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 05:48 GMT
20 points
22.3% didn't even bother to type in the letter "S" for Harry Truman. LOL
Djibouti
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 05:49 GMT
21 points
Random information that I find interesting: Harry Truman was named for his uncle Harrison Young. His middle name was chosen because both his grandparents had a name that started with S (Solomon Young and Anderson Shippe Truman). His middle name is actually the letter S, which is why you sometimes see it written without a period.
cocky
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 05:51 GMT
7 points
He is commonly referredto as Harry S. Truman, so his middle inital should be better known today than Obama's will be in 57 years. you rarely hear of him as Barack H. Obama or Ronald W. Reagan.
zaprow
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 05:57 GMT
9 points
I managed to figure out Ulysses Grant by being given the letter, but something still has me stumped. I thought it was Ulysses S. Grant, I'm guessing there are two different people? Or I just haven't taken a history class in a while...
cocky
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 06:02 GMT
17 points
Grant also changed his name, supposedly because his initials (HUG) were embarrassing.
JoeFish
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 06:03 GMT
7 points
Well, Zaprow, the story is that his name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but his Military possessions had his initials on them. HUG is not a particularly tough nickname, so he changed it. That story might be apocryphal, i don't know. Also don't know where Simpson came from.
alexielrieth
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 06:17 GMT
13 points
Copying what I wrote over on the US presidents quiz: Grant was named Hiram Ulysses Grant, but when he entered West Point his Congressman erroneously referred to him as Ulysses Simpson Grant because he knew Grant's mother's maiden name was Simpson. The school refused to accept Grant's change (wanting to make it Ulysses Hiram Grant), so he agreed to take it with the middle name being just an initial.
fatbeard
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 06:22 GMT
9 points
I am fairly sure that I knew none (or very few) of these a year ago. So I can proudly say now that Sporcle has indeed taught me as much as any history teacher I've ever had.
NightOwl
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 06:29 GMT
8 points
Great quiz - love the presidential ones. Had never come across Hoover's middle name before; you learn something every day at Sporcle.
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Diablo11d
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 06:43 GMT
-9 points
harry truman didnt have a middle name. he just used the letter s as a middle name. so technically this is correct, in the way that he used it, but not the way he was born. either way great quiz!
Giants2082
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 07:47 GMT
3 points
what's funny is, according to the results, there are people who did not get the correct answer to Harry Truman's middle name... obviously they did not even try to guess a name because they would virtually automatically get it right
Giants2082
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 07:53 GMT
6 points
oh yea, and zaprow, i could've sworn it was Ulysses S. Grant also and that I was going crazy! Weird how somebody else thought the same thing
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juusosieni
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 09:23 GMT
-10 points
I got 7 but missed both of Bushes! Instead of them I got Ulysses Simpson Grant and James Knox polk.
White
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 09:29 GMT
3 points
Thanks to whoever made a comment somewhere else about Woodrow Wilson's (alliterative names quiz I think) name being Thomas because that got me four answers (him, Grant, Cleveland, Coolidge).
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starsaphire:
Jul 4th, 2009 at 09:36 GMT
-10 points
19 of 26... not bad for an English major! ;)
chicago
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 12:21 GMT
3 points
Im surprised W wasnt number 1 or 2.
Exodiafinder687
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 14:30 GMT
4 points
I don't know if the ones where the first name is their middle name is really fair or not.
Lyn_Marie
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 14:34 GMT
1 point
Somehow through all the presidential trivia I've read and tried to memorize, I never came across Hoover using a middle name or middle initial.
btroup1
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 14:51 GMT
0 points
I remember S from an episode of "Webster." George was on some game show, got nervous, and all he could say was S
italstallianion
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 15:49 GMT
4 points
What's funny is that if you see a president who's middle name begins with the same letter as the first name, in many cases just type in their first name. That worked at least 3 times.
qaanik
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 16:00 GMT
3 points
Having attended (probably the only one in the country!) Hoover School, we always knew it was Clark. Guess it's not common knowledge! Thanks Sporcle for the quizzes!
DreamSabbathTallica:
Jul 4th, 2009 at 16:24 GMT
3 points
The middle school I went to was named after Hoover and I never knew he had a middle name.
JohnJF
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 17:06 GMT
3 points
@qaanik: Attending the only institute of higher learning in the nation named after Harry S Truman, we never are really specifically told about his middle name, but I guess we do acquire the knowledge to at least guess on answers (and therefore get them right if we can merely read the initial).
American
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 17:40 GMT
0 points
Just S? Made my day
IHateRegistering
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 18:34 GMT
0 points
Ahaha...I just got the subtitle on the main page. Very clever
lulubelles
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Jul 4th, 2009 at 18:45 GMT
0 points
Moviedynamic: I've reported your disgraceful comment. It's either racist or a disgusting term used for people with downs syndrome. It doesn't matter which, it's a foul thing to say.
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