Presidents by State Quiz

Can you also do a quiz of the presidents' birth states?

I found a quiz for you

Turns out I have no idea where presidents are from.

Got all but Ford with a guess or two, but had to run through about 25 states to get Ford. And of course, it was Michigan. Really should have made that connection before...

To the previous commentors, read the instructions: Name the state of origin for each U.S. president. (The place of their political base, not necessarily their birth place.)

Not related to Henry. Born Leslie King and was given the name Gerald Ford by his stepfather. Also from Grand Rapids, not Detroit.

Thank you Die Hard With a Vengence for the Chester A. Arthur answer. "Find out who the 21st president is." "Chester A. Arthur...did you know he was the collector of customs right here in New York?" Awesome!

39, not bad.

At first I put "nobody knows" for where Obama was born, but then I read the footnote......

I'm pretty sure his mother, grandparents, those that printed his birth announcement in the newspaper, and the government officials who verified his legitimate birth certificate was on file could all help you find Hawaii on the map if you're not sure where it is yourself.

Do you think those same officials could help you find your way to a sense of humor?

Savage

Would be a lot more likely than you finding any sense at all, Quizzler.

and I wish you knew the difference between "could have" and "could of," and "their" and "his," and "saw" and "seen," and "won" and "stole"...

but sometimes we just have to accept being disappointed.

Got the first seven and last six (hint for the early ones: Virginia and Massachusetts). Rest were mostly a crap shoot. C'mon this is way harder than some of my other leaders quizzes. Also, though I got it, was Bush Sr.'s power base really in Texas? I thought he was a Mass resident. I know the family has ties to many states. Not really important...

Herbert Hoover was from West Branch, Iowa (I live there!) !

First of all, to Kalabahamut: I find I very much enjoy your quiz commenrs and that I agree with you a lot. I know when I see your name that the post will be worth reading. Secondly, I love this quiz. Where a politician makes his or her home and political base should always take precedence over where he or she was born unless it is the same place. Ronald Reagan has always and will always be remembered as a Californian even though he was born in IL and was already an adult when he headed for Hollywood. Abraham Lincoln was born in KY and raised in IN but he chose to make IL his home an that's the reason it is the 'Land of Lincoln.' And President Obama (regardless of what certain lying fools like Donald Trump and Orly Taitz say), although being born in Hawaii, has made Illinois his home.

Franklin Pierce University is in New Hampshire, making that one a little easier to remember.

lol soooo many from OHIO

Got a few by guessing Virginia for all of the older ones.

Dwight D.Eisenhower ran for President from New York not Kansas

Well, you'll get over a quarter of them just typing 'New York' or 'Ohio'. Throw Virginia and Massachusetts in and you'll get a decent score. Considering their populations, California and Texas are underperforming in the presidential stakes, particularly since Texas only got two and three quite recently.

California's population is only relatively recently huge. We'll probably be seeing a lot more presidential contenders from it in the near future.

And to top it all off, Reagan's base was in California

Actually, Barack Obama was born in Hawaii...It's okay that you made that mistake, not everyone is as smart as me.

Most can still read though, which is doubtful in your case.

The problem is that it's contradictory. "Place of origin" universally means birthplace. Then the footnote cancels that out by saying that it's actually looking for political base. (A bit like saying, "Name the animals in the following pictures" and then having a footnote that says, "By which we mean, name the plants in the following pictures".) If that's the case, then use that as the description of the quiz and the argument goes away.

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson really helped with, well, everything up to Andrew Jackson, inclusive.

Using the same logic as the others (and I agree with it), Nixon ran from New York.

Guess no one wants to run for president from a political base waist-deep in potatoes and sugar beets...... When I'm old enough, I'm probably gonna run for president in the place I was born and raised:Idaho.

Could u accept state abbreviations? Plz?

Does anyone else just guess Virginia for all the early presidents hoping to get lucky?

coolidge was born in vermont not massachusetts

polk is north carolina so is andrew johnson

I thought Jackson was from SC

For the 2nd column if you don't know, just guess Virginia, Ohio, Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee or Illinois and you'll do okay.

For the first column Texas, Ohio, New York and California are pretty safe bets.