Can you name the who was president when...?

Event	President
The Battle of the Little Bighorn occurred
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded
The Vietnam War began
The day that Elvis Presley died
Atomic bombs are dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The day Princess Diana died
When Texas became the 28th state of the union
The Berlin Wall came down
The Chicago Cubs last won the World Series
NASA first landed a man on the moon
The Second Battle of Bull Run occurred
The Black Tuesday Stock Market crash occurred
The Hindenburg disaster occurred
The Titanic sank
Harvard Law School founded
The Battle of the Alamo
Thomas Edison invented light bulb
John Glenn first orbited the Earth

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Who was President? Quiz

by Derek

Created Jul 27, 2009 in History
Featured Jul 27, 2009
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	Massagraf:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:07 GMT		26 points
	Great fun and challenging! Keep up the good work Sporcle!

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	HPZ:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:14 GMT		15 points
	@Davidrocks: you can always click "Next" to skip a line, or click the line you'd like to work on.

	chris1889:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:17 GMT		4 points
	great quiz. I thought I had learnt the presidents from the other quiz- obviosuly not

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	Gramarye:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:21 GMT		33 points
	I would like to point out that Edison did not invent the lightbulb, only the first commercially viable one.

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	ianbob:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:25 GMT		11 points
	9 correct. Definitely more challenging than memorizing the presidents in order.

	GeoExpert:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:35 GMT		17 points
	Challenging quiz. Today is just a good day to play Sporcle.

	pbysr:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:36 GMT		4 points
	A little bit too much time to make this truly challenging. Also JFK should be accepted for Kennedy.

	JohnTheRev:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:37 GMT		9 points
	Great quiz. Who said dates weren't important?

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	zalagreensbury:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:48 GMT		18 points
	This is my kind of quiz. History Buffs unite!

	Guinevere:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:49 GMT		-2 points
	Stupid Rutherford B. Hayes ruining my stupid perfect score. He really never did do anything good, did he?

	InsertCleverName:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:50 GMT		9 points
	Fun quiz--nice mix of events that are recent enough for most people to remember and ones that are challenging because I could guess to within a couple of decades when they happened, but that required a fair amount of guessing. Nice job.

	pbysr:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:51 GMT		7 points
	Bretzky. The clue tests the user's actual knowledge of US history. If the clue had said Gulf of Tonkin resolution then Johnson would be correct.

	jonnyboy180:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:58 GMT		3 points
	bretzky's absolutely right. U.S. military advisors were in vietnam starting from 1950 (truman's presidency), but it only became a war in 1964 (with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution - Johnson's presidency). either way, it's certainly not eisenhower. johnson is the correct answer, or possibly truman if you consider observation and training the same as getting involved.

	jonnyboy180:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 16:59 GMT		1 point
	see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

	Augustulus:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 17:03 GMT		0 points
	16/18... Somehow couldn't place the battle of Alamo in the timeline of US. history. And I couldn't for the life of me tell you what the cubs have won and when...

	pbysr:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 17:05 GMT		25 points
	The Vietnam War is not limited to the US involvement during the war. The Vietnam War started in 1959 during Eisenhower's presidency.

	CareBear:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 17:09 GMT		0 points
	18/18 - I love presidential history. Only grabbed the perfect score though because I just taught this past school year High School U.S. History............I for some reason always forget Polk's name. Knew the time frame but had to put in several presidents..............

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	jomaw:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 17:18 GMT		7 points
	It's "Diana" with only one "n".

	jorgeb91:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 17:25 GMT		0 points
	5 on APUS exam didn't get me college credit but atleast it helped me with this

	JohnJF:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 17:27 GMT		11 points
	"The Chicago Cubs last won the World Series: Theodore Roosevelt." Oh, Sporcle, you just made this Cardinals fan's day.

	kyah:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 17:32 GMT		5 points
	great quiz! Fun idea.

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	MPJohnson34:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT		4 points
	Very surprised only about half know the president during the Civil War.

	GeoExpert:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 17:52 GMT		-2 points
	@JohnJF- The Cardinals are evil! Um, who's leading the division now? I will be the one laughing when sometime this quiz is updated to change that answer to "Barack Obama."

	kcap1:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 18:00 GMT		19 points
	@MPJohnson34 I think it's more that half didn't know that Bull Run was a civil war battle.

	sporcloid:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 18:03 GMT		0 points
	Can the title of the quiz be fixed so that it makes sense? Either remove "the" or put another word after it. Great quiz, by the way.

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	TeganX7:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 18:08 GMT		9 points
	Not only a great quiz, but a great mix of difficulty ... some relatively easy, some relatively difficult.

	GeoExpert:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 18:09 GMT		0 points
	@H. There are problems with that. On the creation page, "Can you name the" is a permanent fixture while to type in the rest.

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	jaymc:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 18:14 GMT		5 points
	Re Vietnam War: Britannica uses the span 1955-75.

	bananaman:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 18:24 GMT		0 points
	17/18, didn't know what year Harvard was founded and didn't have enough time to go through all of em, kind of a slap in the face when I would've gotten it on the 5th guess.

	bobc:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 18:25 GMT		5 points
	Great quiz! It definitely had to be done in order, to keep from just guessing presidents that could match any. But I wish the Next button wouldn't keep jumping around. I know I can also go click on the box for each question below, but it would be easiest to have it in one place to skip multiple events without hunting for the Next button.

	chicago:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 18:27 GMT		8 points
	Being from Canada, and never taking American history i think my 14 was pretty good. I had to guess for most though...the ones in the 20th century were easier cause it was more world news. For a lot of those battles and what not i just guessed old presidents. Good Quiz!!!