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Clue	President	% Correct
A famous painting depicts him crossing the Delaware River	George Washington	94%
Died on the same day as Thomas Jefferson	John Adams	91%
His father was born in Kenya	Barack Obama	90%
Issued the Emancipation Proclamation	Abraham Lincoln	89%
The only President born in Hawaii	Barack Obama	89%
President during all manned missions to the Moon	Richard Nixon	89%
Born in a log cabin in Kentucky	Abraham Lincoln	88%
Was careful to almost never be photographed in a wheelchair	Franklin D. Roosevelt	88%
The original spelling of his first name was Maarten	Martin Van Buren	88%
The Boulder Dam was renamed for him in 1947	Herbert Hoover	87%
His brother Robert served as Attorney General	John F. Kennedy	87%
The most recent president to see military combat	George H.W. Bush	84%
Was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize just eight months into his Presidency	Barack Obama	82%
Appeared on the reality TV show "The Apprentice"	Donald Trump	81%
Was a five star general	Dwight D. Eisenhower	81%
Promised to keep America out of WWI but then led them into it	Woodrow Wilson	81%
The first Republican president	Abraham Lincoln	80%
His wife also ran for President	Bill Clinton	80%
His dentures were not made of wood, but instead of other human teeth, hippopotamus ivory, brass and gold	George Washington	79%
Has had the longest timespan as ex-President	Jimmy Carter	79%
Served two non-consecutive terms	Grover Cleveland	78%
President at the beginning of the Great Depression	Herbert Hoover	78%
His daughter is named Chelsea	Bill Clinton	77%
Dick Cheney was his Vice President	George W. Bush	77%
Pardoned all the Vietnam War draft dodgers	Jimmy Carter	77%
John Hinckley Jr. tried to assassinate him	Ronald Reagan	77%
Led the Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War	Theodore Roosevelt	77%
Starred as Knute Rockne in the movie "Knute Rockne, All American"	Ronald Reagan	76%
Killed about 1000 large animals during a safari in Africa	Theodore Roosevelt	75%
Ended Prohibition	Franklin D. Roosevelt	74%
His wife while president was named Martha	George Washington	74%
Known as the "Father of the Constitution"	James Madison	74%
Appears on the $50 bill	Ulysses S. Grant	74%
It was falsely claimed that he got stuck in the White House bathtub	William Taft	74%
Gave radio addresses known as "fireside chats"	Franklin D. Roosevelt	73%
Founded the Bull Moose party	Theodore Roosevelt	73%
Was assassinated by an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz	William McKinley	73%
The first president to be impeached	Andrew Johnson	72%
Once a part owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team	George W. Bush	71%
Never elected as either President or Vice President	Gerald R. Ford	71%
The only President from the Federalist Party	John Adams	71%
Hippies chanted "hey, hey, ___, how many kids did you kill today?"	Lyndon B. Johnson	71%
Was forced to flee the White House by British troops	James Madison	69%
Lincoln said, about him, "I can't spare this man; he fights"	Ulysses S. Grant	69%
Shot by Charles J. Guiteau but finished off by his incompetent doctors	James Garfield	68%
Won 525 electoral votes, the most of any person ever	Ronald Reagan	68%
Founded the University of Virginia	Thomas Jefferson	68%
Became President after the death of Warren Harding	Calvin Coolidge	67%
Considered as one of the worst Presidents for failing to stop the Civil War	James Buchanan	66%
Lived at Monticello	Thomas Jefferson	66%
Had the longest inaugural address of any President, and the shortest term	William Henry Harrison	66%
The tallest mountain in the country used to be named for him	William McKinley	66%
His mother was named Abigail	John Quincy Adams	65%
Likely had children with Sally Hemmings	Thomas Jefferson	65%
Former head of the C.I.A.	George H.W. Bush	64%
One of three authors of "The Federalist Papers"	James Madison	64%
According to the adage, only he could go to China	Richard Nixon	64%
Nearly died during an expedition in the Amazon	Theodore Roosevelt	63%
Played football for the University of Michigan	Gerald R. Ford	61%
Had a sign on his desk which read "the buck stops here"	Harry Truman	61%
His real first name was Hiram	Ulysses S. Grant	61%
Almost lost to Thomas Dewey	Harry Truman	59%
Is known for the Teapot Dome scandal	Warren Harding	59%
Became President after the death of James Garfield	Chester A. Arthur	58%
Served on the Supreme Court after his term as President	William Taft	57%
Opposed the 14th amendment, which gave citizenship rights to former slaves	Andrew Johnson	56%
The interstate highway system is named for him	Dwight D. Eisenhower	55%
Ran unopposed in 1820	James Monroe	55%
His administration was known as "Camelot"	John F. Kennedy	54%
Elected as Vice President with the slogan "Tippecanoe and ____ too"	John Tyler	54%
Elected in 1876 despite losing the popular vote to Samuel J. Tilden	Rutherford B. Hayes	54%
He fought a "War on Poverty"	Lyndon B. Johnson	53%
President during the Spanish–American War	William McKinley	53%
His wife was named Mamie	Dwight D. Eisenhower	52%
Signed the Kansas–Nebraska Act in 1854	Franklin Pierce	51%
The only President to never marry	James Buchanan	51%
Won in a landslide election over Barry Goldwater	Lyndon B. Johnson	51%
His 1920 nomination happened in a "smoke-filled room"	Warren Harding	50%
As a teenager, he was struck by a sword after refusing to clean a British officer's boots	Andrew Jackson	49%
Expanded U.S. territory more than any other President, adding Texas and California among other states	James K. Polk	49%
Had a dog named Checkers	Richard Nixon	49%
Had a political program named "The Square Deal"	Theodore Roosevelt	48%
Toni Morrison called him "the first black president"	Bill Clinton	47%
He left office in 1853 as the last President from the Whig Party	Millard Fillmore	47%
The hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe	William Henry Harrison	47%
Wrote the book "Profiles in Courage"	John F. Kennedy	46%
Shares his middle name with the town in Massachusetts in which he was born	John Quincy Adams	46%
The first vice president to succeed to the presidency without election, in 1841	John Tyler	46%
Born and raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania	Joe Biden	45%
Was forced to exit via a window when a drunken mob of well-wishers crowded the White House after his first inauguration	Andrew Jackson	43%
Has been known to say "malarkey" a lot	Joe Biden	43%
The Panic of 1893 started just after he left office	Benjamin Harrison	42%
A "dark horse" candidate in 1844	James K. Polk	41%
Presided over "The Era of Good Feelings"	James Monroe	41%
Victorious general in the Mexican–American War	Zachary Taylor	41%
The only President to be a university president	Woodrow Wilson	40%
The first president from New York state	Martin Van Buren	39%
Supposedly a woman made a bet that she would get three words out of him. His response: "You Lose".	Calvin Coolidge	38%
His election marked the end of Reconstruction	Rutherford B. Hayes	36%
Has multiple strokes throughout his life, but kept them secret	Woodrow Wilson	35%
His home was known as the Hermitage	Andrew Jackson	33%
A record six states were admitted to the Union during his term: North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming	Benjamin Harrison	31%
Was considered a puppet of New York senator Roscoe Conkling, but defied his sponsor once in office	Chester A. Arthur	23%
Said "facts are stubborn things"	John Adams	23%
Detractors chanted "Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa?" after he was accused of rape	Grover Cleveland	20%
It was claimed that he could write in Greek and Latin at the same time with different hands	James Garfield	19%