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Old 04-01-2009, 07:35 PM
 
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Hello, I know a lot about history, and more important, tricky history questions, so lets see if anyone knows the answers to the following presidential questions.

1. How many Presidents has there been in american history (including Obama)?

2. How many times has a President had the same last name as a later President?

3. Who was the first President to be born in a hospital?
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Old 04-01-2009, 09:48 PM
 
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2. How many times has a President had the same last name as a later President?
Too soon to tell. We haven't yet seen all the later presidents. There have been some who had the same name as earlier presidents, though. Adams, Harrison, Johnson, Roosevelt, Bush.
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Old 04-02-2009, 07:23 AM
 
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Hello, I know a lot about history, and more important, tricky history questions, so lets see if anyone knows the answers to the following presidential questions.

1. How many Presidents has there been in american history (including Obama)?

2. How many times has a President had the same last name as a later President?

3. Who was the first President to be born in a hospital?


1. 44 Presidents


3. Jimmy Carter
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Old 04-02-2009, 03:18 PM
 
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1. 44 Presidents


3. Jimmy Carter
3 is correct but 1 is actually very tricky, and many would argue the answer but im looking for a different number
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Old 04-02-2009, 03:19 PM
 
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Too soon to tell. We haven't yet seen all the later presidents. There have been some who had the same name as earlier presidents, though. Adams, Harrison, Johnson, Roosevelt, Bush.
well true, but we're going with the presidents we've already had, however the number you gave is wrong
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Old 04-02-2009, 04:06 PM
 
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3 is correct but 1 is actually very tricky, and many would argue the answer but im looking for a different number

I see your point. In that case it would be 43. Grover Cleveland served as the 22nd and 24th president 1885-1889 and 1893 to 1897
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Old 04-02-2009, 04:42 PM
 
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I see your point. In that case it would be 43. Grover Cleveland served as the 22nd and 24th president 1885-1889 and 1893 to 1897
you are clever, i didnt even catch that. your first guess was actually correct, the number of american presidents in history is actually 44, can you guees the extra one? (hint: in the 1800's)
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Old 04-02-2009, 05:21 PM
 
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didnt I already answer that?
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Old 04-02-2009, 05:25 PM
 
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Dick Cheney signed a letter identifying himself as "Acting President of the United States", which gives him a better claim to that than David Atchison. In fact, the VP gets sworn in before the Prez, so every VP could claim to have been president for a few minutes.

If You lined up all the men who had been president, there would be 43 of the\m. So there have been 43 presidents.
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Old 04-02-2009, 07:41 PM
 
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okay, i think i'll give the answers now, the anwers to 1 is 44, the extra president is Jefferson Davis, president of the Confedarate states of america, now i know he was not president technically, but if the government says the states did not have the right to secede, then he was the president of an illegitimate government, but still a president.
2. 6, adams, harrison, johnson, roosevelt, bush, and cleveled
3. jimmy carter

now i'll open up the trivia to anyone who wishes to put in questions.
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