U.S. Presidents by Picture Quiz

Well he is the current President...

not four long. Gooooo cruz

Ha. More like, "Go home Cruz."

Good. I'm democratic. but do you like trump?!!

funny anyone would think that was funny

Many of those presidents wear wigs, like Washington, but Obama is the only black man. And he's in office right now.

Washington never wore a wig.

True, but he powdered his hair.

Also, only four Presidents wore wigs: Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe.

Four years later, and I wouldn't make the same mistake again. Thank you Hdny42, ander217, Jacktheguy, and Jetpunk.

Why do Garfield, Harrison and Hayes all have the same haircut w/ beard? 42/43

Fashion. Why does every Republican in Congress today have the same haircut, clean shaven face, and wear a tie?

Not including the small handful of women, pretty close to all, yes. I'm also not counting parting your hair on different sides or being bald as a "different haircut." I scrolled quickly through the portraits at congress.gov and only spotted two with facial hair. Of course it is fashion.

Adams, Van Buren and Washington all kind of look alike too. Garfield and Hayes almost look like twins.

missed Pierce, Garfield and Hoover. How could I miss Hoover???

It's an "old" portrait of Hoover (he lived to be 90) looking much more like Eisenhower than he did when he was President.

Yeah Hoover looks like an old Eisenhower or Ford.

9!

People are missing the point...more people don't necessarily know JFK than President Obama, or the current President over George Washington, but people do the test in the order in which it is presented...some may not get down to Washington unless they skip to him.

23/43 not too shaby!!!

Not the most attractive bunch.

Grant was very handsome. There's also one photo of college-age Nixon that pops up a lot in which he looks like a Hollywood idol (and, more specifically, like John Dillinger). I don't know if it's just the best photo ever taken of him or if things really south in the looks department as he aged, but it's always amused me that he is so famously homely and cantankerous, and there's one photo out there of him looking like a coverboy.

got 100% with 7 seconds left... Arthur gave me problems and so did Fillmore.

100% with 1:45 left. Booyah!

100% With 2:37 To Go. :)

I expected two pictures of Cleveland...

Passed them all with ease, 2:49 left.

Wow! Can't believe that only 96% of the people got Obama correct. He's easy to reconize I thought.

Is it just me or does Millard Fillmore look like Alec Baldwin, and Andrew Johnson like Tommy Lee Jones?

Johnson looks a lot like Tommy Lee Jones in that pic. To a lesser extent Calvin Coolidge looks like Crispin Glover. They should make an Avengers-style US presidents team-up movie so we can do the casting.

To me, Ford looks like Biff from the Back to the Future series.

Donald Trump would make an excellent future Biff from Back to the Future 2.

Buchanan in this photo looks a bit like Tom Wilkinson.

Lincoln kind of reminds me of Daniel Day-Lewis a little bit. Anyone else agree?

Amazing. Too bad Lincoln's not still around to star in a movie about the life of Daniel Day-Lewis.

My Presidential lookalike is a little obscure - James K Polk looks like Asylum Director Chilton from Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Heald).

What about David Paymer as Martin van Buren? He's a recognizable character actor but I doubt anyone knows his name. Took me 5 minutes to try and look it up myself.

A great quiz, which I have taken several times before. One small criticism, though; all of the portraits appear to have been made during or close to each president's term of office except for Hoover, which looks like a much later rendering. Perhaps a more contemporary likeness could be found? Thank you for your consideration.

I think it is kind of sad that Obama doesn't have 100%. I get that there are non americans on this site, but I would think that he is pretty globally recognized.

I think that when there's such an obvious answer to a quiz, it doesn't get 100% because I'm sure there are people who just click on a quiz then click away, or immediately click the "Give Up" button because they just want to know the answers. I'm pretty certain that everybody who has access to the Internet can recognize Barack Obama.

one of the worst presidents, not surprised.

You mean besides that clown we have now?

Firstly, we are not "more ignorant than any other" generation. That's ridiculous. Previous generations were so enlightened that they denied women, gay people, and minorities basic human rights. Secondly, why is it so damning if someone can't pick one bourgeois white guy apart from 40 others? I learned all about James Madison...the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, the War of 1812, etc., etc. Why does it matter that I missed his picture? It's really a trivial matter. Get over yourself.

Uh Lots of politicans today are trying to deny LGBT people, women, and minorities basic human rights. *Cough* Right-wing Republicans *Cough*

Trying, and failing. Marked change from the good ol' days.

That's your excuse for missing one.

The right not to be fired or denied housing for your sexuality, for one. So you can stop waiting. Good try though.

So if the person firing someone or refusing to rent/sell to someone doesn't specifically say "I'm doing this because I'm racist against your kind," then it doesn't ever happen? I guess no one is ever murdered until their killer confesses, either.

@kenpo17 Attribution matters. Proving intent is fundamental to law.

@pmack, you're wrong. A good way to know someone's argument is terrible is when they need to set the parameters themselves: "If you can't name a specific instance of someone being denied a job for being gay, your argument is null and void." Says who? Says you? It is well-established that there are jurisdictions in which people can be denied housing and jobs based on their sexuality. Analogously, the speed limit in New York is 55 miles per hour. Whether I personally know anyone who got a speeding ticket in New York does not affect the law. Federal law (and many state laws) do not protect certain groups the same as they protect others. The extent of the damage and injustice coming from that is very much up for debate, but to deny it outright is silly. Gay marriage wasn't even legal in many states until the Supreme Court intervened. Before that happened, plenty of states had those discriminatory laws on the books. And they still have discriminatory laws regarding other subjects.

Have to agree with jmellor. Where are you getting this from, other than nostalgia and the mythology of better days gone by? This generation of Americans are among the most informed, educated, enlightened people to ever walk the Earth. I know at least half of you reading this comment just bust out laughing... but it IS true. Sure there are ignorant Americans today, but they are no more ignorant and no greater in frequency than any place else in the world. Nor are they more ignorant/greater in number than at any point in history. Not everyone in the past was Thomas Jefferson.

Also, not being able to recognize a picture of McKinley doesn't exactly make you exceptionally ignorant.

Then again, a much smaller number of Americans today know how to saddle a horse, spin cloth, make soap, etc. Much of the knowledge of yesteryear was of a more practical nature. (Plus, they had a lot fewer presidents to remember!)

Name me one person from 1776 who knew how to program a VCR, drive a car, compute the mass of an object based on its energy and the speed of light, or knock over a building with an angry bird.

I wasn't disagreeing with your original statement, I was just saying that the knowledge of the "good 'ol days" was of a different kind.Their knowledge was more about providing food and shelter. They didn't have time to go beyond the basics of life.

You say that we know more stuff, so I take it you agree that we are more informed and educated than any people that preceded us.

As to being enlightened, I stand by what I said. Yes we still squabble... but... compared to ages past? The world is much more peaceful and less violent. Societies are much more prosperous and equal. We take better care of the poor an infirm among us. There is much great equity between and opportunities for people of all genders, "races," nationalities, religious affiliations, sexual orientations, etc. We understand now almost universally that these things are wrong: racism, rape, slavery, child molestation, torture; yet none of them get a mention in the 10 commandments.

The world is far from perfect. I'll be the first to admit that. But it was never better than it is today. At least correcting for minor trends (for example, SJWs in the USA have set back race and gender relations at least a generation, but that's only the past 10 years).

Also, I only missed stupid Millard Fillmore this time taking the quiz and that's not even good enough for 90th percentile.

You realize not everyone using JetPunk is American?

Sounds about white.

I'm happy with 16 considering i'm not from the US :)

Arrgh! No matter how many times I take this quiz I ALWAYS forget McKinley!

100% on the first try! I had one second left!

Excluding the founders and Abe Lincoln, I really don't know anybody before 1900.

Won at 1:03 seconds

Surely you know his face more because of his historically famous short reign? It's not like you've been living through the whole period and couldn't remember Harrison because you didn't manage to glance at the news enough during the one month he was president?

I always get W.H. Harrison right, but only because he looks so very much like Jack McCoy to me.

i got all but mckinley

Who takes these quizzes? How is JFK one percent more known than Obama? He's only really known for his death, and was it really more memorable than like, ANYTHING POLITICAL IN THE LAST 6 YEARS??? Especially know in the era of 24 hour news and how much station dissect him and everything he does, and not to mention it's white guy, white guy, white guy, white guy, white guy, black guy, white guy, white guy, white guy, he's not exactly hard to pick out in this crowd...

you forgot Martin Van Buren

I would've got Fillmore but apparently Alec Baldwin isn't an acceptable answer...

I'm trying to design a quiz that includes pictures like this one. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to import any pictures. Can you tell me how it's done?

You can also use Pixabay if you don’t want to be specific.

43/43 with 3:00 left and I cheated. How the heck am I supposed to know these? I wouldn't even know the majority of our British Prime Ministers.

I don't understand why people cheat on these quizzes. It skews the percentages for the rest of us. I can maybe see trying to look up the correct spelling when you know the answer but can't spell it, but looking up all the answers you don't know just to say you got 100% doesn't make sense to me. Why not just retake the quiz a few times until you know the answers and actually deserve that 100%?

Is it just me or does John Tyler look like Judge Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame?

More people got JFK than Obama. That is sad.

Why? There is no Obama International Airport, no Obama Space Center, no Obama Center for the Performing Arts, Obama's likeness isn't on any of our money, there haven't been numerous movies and documentaries made about him (yet), and many of us are old enough to remember where we were when we first heard the news that President Kennedy was shot. JFK's assassination made him an icon. Those events are forever etched in our brains just as 9-11 is for younger generations. And perhaps it's merely due to something as simple as some people not being able to spell Obama.

I wouldn't think it sad but I would say it is very surprising. Except that Kennedy appears in the first position on the quiz.

He was literally the current President of the United States at the time that your comment and the one you were responding to were made. So yeah, it's pretty friggin' sad. He's also the only President who was a different race from all the rest.

Borocco Bahmer is pretty hard to spell though.

Though now that he's been moved to the fourth position, after Obama, I expect that in time Obama will be more guessed? Maybe

Irritated I only got 34! Despite being British, the US Presidents really interest me.

I always think Grant and Benjamin Harrison look quite similar!

4 seconds left!

If you want to score high, remember that: Portraits generally mean 1790s-1820s. Black and white photos go from the 1820s to 1960s-ish. Color photos come after the 1970s generally.

What they wear around their necks is even more telling. The earliest ones wore cravats or neck cloths. Bow ties were grouped together in the mid-1800s,, and modern presidents wear neck ties. Not too sure what McKinley is wearing around his neck. Whatever it is, apparently it was bad luck.

The fancy wigs also help identify the first few presidents

Holy crap, Andrew Johnson looks like Tommy Lee Jones.

where is thomas jefferson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The second image after Kennedy.

William Henry Harrison looks like Jack McCoy from Law & Order. For the record, I would absolutely vote Jack McCoy for president.

Don't know the character, but I bet he would last longer as President than Harrison did.

I'm always pleased to see that the electoral difficulties did not get in t he way of Hayes' magnificent beard.

Where's Trump. LOL

top right corner

Probably on vacation playing golf. Or did you mean where's his picture?

They all look exactly the same, I only got 14

only missed harding...

Just remember...Millard Fillmore looks like a long lost Baldwin.

It's funny how all the pictures look as if they were taken in while in office, but the picture for Trump is just one from a town hall in New Hampshire. Hopefully a better image is used when he gets into office.

Thanks for putting Donald Trump on this quiz

it's sad that the orange guy is on here

It's great that the Wicked Witch of Washington isn't on here.

It's sadder that either one of them was their party's nominee in the first place.

So, you mean all of them? Why are you complaining if all of them "do not look incompetent nor ignorant of international affairs and policy making."?

There are 45 of them.

There are only 44 answers to the quiz. The reason there are 45 Presidents is because Grover Cleveland's terms were non-consecutive, making him the 22nd and 24th President. So yeah, saying "44 of them do not look incompetent" doesn't quite gel with what CyrusK is trying to say, because there are only 44 people pictured here.

I feel so bad for John Adams. Just look where he is.

Well, he had to rule between Washington and Jefferson. After seeing his legacy outshadowed by two of the greatest US presidents in history, I'm sure that at least he can rest assured that he'll look great between those two pieces of horseshit.

Adams's portrait isn't on any US money, and just isn't encountered nearly as often as a lot of the other early Presidents. It's no surprise to me that it's less recognized.

Trump is not president yet. Way to pander, JetPunk.

I'd bet 50$ that you wouldn't have said the same thing had Clinton won.

Yeah Clinton was terrible, we all agree on that. But comparing her to Trump is like comparing The Sixth Sense to The Last Airbender.

I wonder if JetPunk will still be around in 50 years so that our descendants will know if this ends up being true.

Good quiz

John Tyler looks kind of like Bill Nye.

It wasn't until this quiz that I realized that I had no idea what Harry S Truman looked like.

So many better pictures out there for Trump

Do you mean "better" as in "more amusing"? Because, and I really mean this apolitically, I have always been struck by how odd he looks in still photos. His smile is bizarre.

Well, his official presidential picture is terrible. He looks like a grimly mean old guy who's trying to guess letters during an eye test. And the way it's focused on his head with a blurry flag pin.

Yes, by "better" I guess I actually meant "worse," from a certain perspective.

Unfortunately you don't accept more colorful terms for our current President.

It's weird how I remember people like Andrew Johnson but not George Bush

Re 'lookalikes' ........ I think William Henry Harrison looks like Percy Kilbride i.e. Pa Kettle. and Millard Fillmore favours Alec Baldwin nowadays.

What have you got against James Polk?

Sorry, but since when can anybody start "recognizing" if a person is the president of a country? Can there be 2 leaders of the United States?

Maybe the guy isn’t good with faces. You never know.

the picture of James Madison is not the best

True, but without that this wouldn't be any different from the regular name the Presidents quiz.

Got all of them but Hoover.

This quiz would be better if the pictures rearranged itself each time, a lot like some of the other quizzes

For sure. They're nearly all white men between age 45 and 65, and they're from the white-collar sector of society, so it's really about using context clues to pin down the era of the picture (e.g., photo or painting? Color or black & white? What kind of tie and collar combination? Facial hair?) I recognize probably 32 presidents without any help, but for the others (Garfield, Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, Pierce, Tyler...), I just narrow it down to time period and eliminate the ones I could recognize on my own. Works fairly well. I got 42 right.

Boom! :45

Oprah is Oprah now.

You are missing Herbert Hoover; president before FDR

There seems to be a theme lol

Where is Warren Harding?

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Donald Trump right next to George Washington. I don't know what to say

This quiz is too America-centric

You don't say?