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A little late for this, I guess, but it’s still officially the Fourth-of-July weekend so why not try your knowledge — How many Presidents can you name in ten minutes?:
Link via I See Invisible People.
I got a paltry 32 — which would have been a D when I was going to school. Sheesh.
Predictably perhaps, my lacunae were in the 19th Century. I got all the 18th Century founders, up through Jackson, and all the 20th Century, and those Presidents around the Civil War, but early 19th century and late 19th century, nothing. But then my memory of American history is that we sort of skimmed between Jackson and Buchanan.
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1. darlene replies at 11th July 2007, 12:22 pm :
Got ‘em all, Sherry, in two minutes and forty seconds. Kept misspelling stuff, especially Nixon. I thought it had an s in it. I learned to sing the presidents to the tune of Ten Little Indians so I could teach them to my students. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have known them.
That was fun.
2. sherry replies at 11th July 2007, 3:13 pm :
Wow, Darlene! That’s phenomenal. I actually quit after about 7 minutes because I knew I wasn’t going to dredge another name out of my head. But I could spell the ones I remembered.
I’m horrible with names anyway. Take for example William Henry Harrison. I kept saying “Tippecanoe and Tyler too” but I couldn’t remember the man’s name.
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