How old were you when you could first name all the US Presidents?

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

What other lists of world leaders can people name? I can name every head of government of South Africa, both prime ministers and presidents. It's a neat party trick. I can also name all the Fifth Republic presidents of France, but that's not difficult.

I can name all 5th Republic Presidents and PMs, all post-WW2 leaders in UK, Germany, Canada, Sweden, and democratic Spain. Italian ones only from 1992 onwards, sadly.

I feel really stupid now . I can only name British Prime Ministers after Churchill.

[Sol]

4. I went thru a phase where I was 110% obsessed with them.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

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What other lists of world leaders can people name? I can name every head of government of South Africa, both prime ministers and presidents. It's a neat party trick. I can also name all the Fifth Republic presidents of France, but that's not difficult.

All Presidents of the French Republic
Emperors of Russia and subsquent Soviet and Russian Leaders
South African leaders (yes, Xahar, that's a neat party trick indeed)
Rulers of Poland
Presidents of Poland
(almost) all Prime Ministers of Poland
Chancellors of Germany
Presidents of Brazil
Prime Ministers under the Fourth and Fifth Republics (there's no way I'm memorazing the Third Republic )
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom since mid-19th Century
Presidents of Iraq

Also some very short lists as PRC Leaders, Presidents of Egypt, UN Secretaries General etc.

A better question is if you can name all 100 Senators?

Yep. Governors as well.

[TDAS04]

A better question is if you can name all 100 Senators? I took a quiz and could only name 95 (I missed Harkin, both Idaho Senators, and two others who I can't recall).

I think so, I've generally been able to since about 2003.  Sometimes I forget temporary ones who are appointed after a death or resignation.  I've forgotten the name of the one appointed after Byrd's death in West Virginia or the temporary senator before Ed Markey in Massachusetts. 

[Supersonic]

I always forget a few in the 1830-1860 range, so option seven.

Still, for a Brit, it's still very good.

[I Will Not Be Wrong]

13.

[LeBron]

A better question is if you can name all 100 Senators?

Yep. Governors as well.

This. I can also name all of the Soviet leaders, but that's not a big task since there was only 8 of them (if you count Malenkov).

And I was about 11-12 when I learned all the Presidents and terms in office. I took a U.S. History class in 7th grade where we started from the founding of the Constitution through all of the Presidents and they had this cool Presidential index thing in the back of the textbook with all of the basic info of all Presidents (Name, birthplace, place of death, party affiliation, term in office and picture) and were all in order chronologically up to Dubya, so I would look at that once every few weeks and eventually got it down solid.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

A better question is if you can name all 100 Senators?

Yep. Governors as well.

This. I can also name all of the Soviet leaders, but that's not a big task since there was only 8 of them (if you count Malenkov).

You can be hardcore by counting troikas

[Oakvale]

I can't. I don't think I can name all the leaders of any country. Maybe Ireland if you gave me a while but I'd probably end up missing out one of the one term mediocrities.

e: I've never been as confused by the responses to an Atlas thread. "Oh yeah I was 12 when I learned off the names of all those irrelevant 19th century Presidents".

[Boris]

I can't. I don't think I can name all the leaders of any country. Maybe Ireland if you gave me a while but I'd probably end up missing out one of the one term mediocrities.

e: I've never been as confused by the responses to an Atlas thread. "Oh yeah I was 12 when I learned off the names of all those irrelevant 19th century Presidents".

I can name all the Presidents of Uzbekistan! And all post-revolution Cuban leaders!

Anyway I just did the sporcle quiz and missed Madison and Polk.

[7,052,770]

6-7 thanks to a souvenir ruler somebody got me.  Much later before I knew significant achievements for each.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Probably 12 or 13, if not earlier.  I can name them in the right order and their term years, as well.  I can name them by full name, too, including middle name.

[angus]

What other lists of world leaders can people name?

I could name all the Bundeskanzlers starting with Adenauer when I was a small child living in West Germany, but there were only about six of them at that time.  My father had received a proof set of silver two-mark pieces commemorating each one, and from that I learned them.

I had the names of all the Chinese dynasties down for a while, starting from the Xia (circa 2100 BC) till the last one (Qing, ending in 1911) but I've forgotten them. 

For a while I could remember the names of all the captains of warp-capable ships named Enterprise, but I've forgotten them as well.  Also, there's some debate as to Captain April's legitimacy.  Some Trekkies claim that the animated version is not canon.

[Randy Bobandy]

7-9.

[Cranberry]

I always forget a few in the 1830-1860 range, so option seven.

Still, for a Brit, it's still very good.

Me too (Without the Brit thing)

I can memorize all the Austrian Chancellors of the Second Republic, though, or let's say: I know them well after Kreisky (1970 on) and with some errors before.

The states I learned about 10/11 the capitals I think I know most, but most of the time I've got one or two errors cause I'm to lazy to learn them

[Oakvale]

Is a fondness for lists a classic sign of

[angus]

The states I learned about 10/11 the capitals I think I know most

Those I learned pretty young as well.  I think I could probably tell you the capital of each U.S. state by the summer of my fifth year.  That's the sort of thing my parents pressed me on at an early age.

I do that with my son as well.  He's 9 and probably could probably only name two presidents, Washington and Obama, but I'm sure he can tell you the capitals of all the states.

[ElectionsGuy]

16

I can name them all now that I went through all of them in individual politics.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

I was 11, after learning them all I was waiting to see if the next one would be Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Romney, McCain, Paul, Huckabee, or Giuliani.

[Hatman 🍁]

I can name all of the Canadian Prime Ministers, but I wouldn't even come close to being able to name all the Presidents.

[Psychic Octopus]

I was five.

[Antonio the Sixth]

OK, now those who could do so before 8 do scare me.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

OK, now those who could do so before 8 do scare me.

I'm fairly certain I could have done by then, but then the list was noticeably shorter than it is now.

[Mordecai]

18. But it's only because of this mnemonic, without it I would probably remember less than half of them.

[angus]

OK, now those who could do so before 8 do scare me.

I'm fairly certain I could have done by then, but then the list was noticeably shorter than it is now.

I can name them up to Van Buren as well.