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Can you name the first and last names of US Presidents that are least common in the US population as a whole?
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nrsilver
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First name is the name the president went by in his adult life.
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First
1,543
1,543
7,714
15,429
16,971
24,686
38,571
54,000
89,486
118,800
Last
114
1,099
1,226
3,298
4,765
4,914
6,237
6,622
9,825
17,928
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Least Common Presidential Names Quiz
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groug
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Feb 11th, 2010 at 06:01 GMT
15 points
This is a great idea for a quiz, but it could use an extra minute or two.
nrsilver
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Feb 11th, 2010 at 08:46 GMT
7 points
Added one more minute due to popular demand.
rockgolf
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Feb 11th, 2010 at 18:32 GMT
5 points
5 Orcles and nominated!
JayHankEdLyon
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Feb 11th, 2010 at 21:22 GMT
8 points
Very fun quiz, but you should say maybe "given names" due to the amount of presidents you listed that went by their middle names (Wilson's first name was Thomas, Cleveland's first name was Stephen.) Still, gotta go with rockgolf on this one.
enough
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Feb 11th, 2010 at 21:36 GMT
35 points
There needs to be more Dwights in the country
Thalia
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Feb 11th, 2010 at 21:39 GMT
8 points
I find it amusing that someone whose username is "enough" is asking for more of something...
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bigthree4life
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Feb 11th, 2010 at 23:27 GMT
-11 points
if it werent for dwight howard that would be 89,485
bigthree4life
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Feb 11th, 2010 at 23:32 GMT
-3 points
i had very much fun with that link
jametz
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Feb 11th, 2010 at 23:35 GMT
4 points
Wow, I hadn't expected the last name that is second last to be on there. I'm from Cincinnati where he's from and we've got plenty of them around here!
y2jdilemma
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Feb 12th, 2010 at 08:19 GMT
6 points
Dont you hate when you try a guy's first name and it doesnt come up, but forget to try his last name? Damn you, Silent Cal!
npr
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Feb 12th, 2010 at 14:54 GMT
4 points
good stuff
penguinsfan
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Feb 12th, 2010 at 15:42 GMT
1 point
Great idea, but another minute would be nice.
recklessness
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Feb 12th, 2010 at 22:03 GMT
1 point
I thought Coolidge was a fairly common surname.
Esme
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Feb 14th, 2010 at 01:09 GMT
4 points
I never would have guessed some of these had I not gotten desperate. Abraham, Franklin, Reagan, Garfield...I know multiple, non-related people with each of those names. Then again, each of those people are about 200 years old, so that could explain it.
adamnvillani
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Feb 14th, 2010 at 07:52 GMT
-2 points
There's a problem in that we're comparing against the first names of Americans, yet two of the "first" names given aren't actually the presidents' first names. Woodrow Wilson's first name is Thomas and Grover Cleveland's first name is Stephen. This quiz only works if you check the population for middle names, too. Also, are there really so few Coolidges? And it seems suspect for there to be equal numbers of Baracks and Rutherfords? Seems weird for the number to be the same.
JayHankEdLyon
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Feb 14th, 2010 at 14:39 GMT
10 points
Just went on the link, and another correction should be made; there aren't 1543 Baracks/Rutherfords and 114 Obamas, there are FEWER THAN 1543 and 114 of each, respectively. I don't know why they chose such an arbitrary number, but there you go. For all we know there's only 12 Baracks, or 50, or 114, we have no idea. I think putting in
Game published: Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:02 GMT
Penny
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:18 GMT
41 points
Embarrassed (embaracked?) that I didn't think of our current president when taking this quiz!
smreidy113
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:24 GMT
9 points
going through the list chronolically, of course i went through the james's and john's first. then, at the end of the list, i facepalmed myself. and then time ran out. unique quiz, good job!
Sporctastic
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:30 GMT
20 points
Just played around with your source and I really think you should put "less than" 1,543 and 114 because that is what it says on the site. Really good idea though.
cmkeller
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:35 GMT
47 points
I cannot believe that Millard placed only fifth.
Reyazul
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:38 GMT
11 points
I could've used another minute or 2. Other than that, great quiz.
Hal_10000
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:38 GMT
9 points
I think this quiz was designed with the #1 answers in mind! :)
BSF111
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:42 GMT
1 point
@ cmkeller, LOL, I thought the same thing.
mitchconn
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:48 GMT
17 points
There are ore than 110,000 people out there named Chester? Those poor souls.
seemandemon
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:51 GMT
-2 points
should've gotten rutherford. i figured roosevelt couldn't have been on the list because there were two presidents with that name
mendelevium
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:51 GMT
17 points
14 out of 20. two i missed were Barack and Obama. if you hear a constant loud banging noise in the next 10 minutes that's me banging my head against the wall
lftyg33
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 16:58 GMT
22 points
as soon as i saw this quiz the word "millard" instantly popped into my head
mattrollins
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 17:16 GMT
0 points
speaking of banging your head against the wall, how about not remembering the "c" in "Barack"? uggghhh....
refwen
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 17:16 GMT
4 points
im just not good with their first names, only last.....i fail
sknapp
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 17:27 GMT
7 points
Shocked Roosevelt is the second least popular presidential last name
Burtleton
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 17:28 GMT
25 points
The fact that a decent percentage of people got "Obama" and not "Barack" kinda bothers me.
DRB
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 17:38 GMT
12 points
Surprised Truman is in there, I always thought that was a relatively common surname. Same with Garfield although I guess Jims Carrey and Davis may have persuaded some to change their names!
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tripleb
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 17:41 GMT
-6 points
HIs name wasnt actually Woodrow it was like James or John or something like that
KyleB
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 17:44 GMT
11 points
@tripleb: It was Thomas.
DTNelson
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 17:46 GMT
4 points
Yes, Woodrow Wilson's first name was Thomas, not Woodrow. And Grover Cleveland's first name was Stephen. And (although not at issue here) Calvin Coolidge's first name was John.
match
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 17:56 GMT
3 points
How funny that the highest office in the nation has never had something like John Smith or Bill Jones. I guess John Adams was the closest to most common? John Edwards coulda been - oops! Great quiz here - 5 orbs. :-)
croverja
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 18:00 GMT
-4 points
I told myself to think of recent presidents, and kept thinking Bush was the current president. FAILURE
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jaypunkrawk
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 18:25 GMT
-11 points
Booya!
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Iridium
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Feb 15th, 2010 at 18:39 GMT
-27 points
I suppose all of the children named after Barack Obama, and all of the women changing their last name to Obama, didn't make it into the quiz.
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