would you recognised by his portrait/photo alone? All of them, 3/4 of them, half of them, quarter of them?
Which presidents would you have trouble recognising?
Which presidents would you have trouble recognising?
How many US Presidents
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Probably 3/4. I'll struggle between Van Buren and Peirce, but that's about it.
I got 8 wrong on that quiz (well, I missed one, but I didn't get 8 on the first try).
I got 16 right.... I'm apparently not real keen on American presidents...
I got 14 right. But then I'm not American.
I took the quiz and got them all right. WOOHOO! 
I am asking everyone this, not just Americans, so I don't see what recognition of Australian PMs have to do with it. I don't expect anyone but Australians to be able to recognise Aussie PMs. However American history is much better known to a degree that I recognise American presidents better than I recognise early Australian PMs. I was interested to see which American presidents were best known and I didn't expect anyone to be suspicious of such a question.
The only 19th century US Presidents I would recognise are Lincoln and Grant. Lincoln is understandable and Grant is because I have seen photos of him in some books on Native American histoy.
Early 20th century presidents I would recognise are the two Roosevelts and Taft. I would recognise the presidents from Kennedy onwards though I am not 100% sure about Johnson and Ford.
Edit to add - only got 15 correct - so about a third.
I took the quiz and got them all right. WOOHOO!
I didn't take the quiz, but since history is my second favorite reading subject behind sci-fi, I would get them all right also.
In fact, one of the history books on my shelf contains an error. It has a listing for James Madison, but the picture, a painting done in the early 19th century, is in fact of James Monroe.
So, you guys who missed a few, take heart, even the so-called experts screw up from time to time.
8 wrong on the first try.
Didn't even recognize Adams and Alan Arthur.
Didn't even recognize Adams and Alan Arthur.
Monroe looks ridiculously old in that pic, btw. I'm used to seeing him from his Constitutional Convention days so he looks almost unrecognizable there.
I wouldn't expect non-Americans to recognize more than 3 or 4 presidents prior to Franklin Roosevelt unless that president's term in office had an especially marked effect on the country. For instance, I imagine quite a few people from the Philippines would recognize President McKinley, whose policies led to the US annexation of the Philippines.
^^^ I think most non-Americans would recognise Washington, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. In fact I think that it would difficult to find anyone who didn't recognise Lincoln.
Jefferson, too, right?
Jefferson, too, right?
I am not sure about Jefferson. I got him right in the quiz, I doubt my sons would. They would get Washington and Lincoln.
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