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« on: July 28, 2014, 05:06:56 PM »
Let's start off with this one:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/Hejman/flunked_out_of_the_electoral_college

I got 149/167.
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« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2014, 06:01:36 PM »
150/167
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« Reply #2 on: July 28, 2014, 07:32:09 PM »
121/167

Jeez people, I thought I was nerdy.
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« Reply #3 on: July 28, 2014, 07:45:06 PM »
142/167
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« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2014, 08:19:03 PM »
161/167

Would've had them all but I'm slow typing on my phone.
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« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2014, 11:34:45 PM »
137/167. I missed a good handful of candidates between 1788-1832 and in the late 1800s around Reconstruction as well as a few other scattered ones. It was't as easy as I thought this would be, though. Tongue
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« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2014, 08:39:34 AM »
153/167

The early elections + 1872 were the ones I missed
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« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2014, 08:51:55 AM »
152/167.
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« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2014, 08:55:07 AM »
149/167.
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« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2014, 09:09:58 AM »
110/167

I'm a bit ashamed that I missed obvious ones like Clay or Buchanan. I missed mostly the early elections until pre-civil war, and some (post-)reconstruction, then from 1896 everyone but Harding's and Coolidge's challengers, plus that one additional democrat in 1952/56 and that one additional Republican in 1972.
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« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2014, 02:21:46 PM »
132/167 (and damn it, I quit after 8 minutes, walked away and then immediately thought of a) the Dem candidate in 1864 and b) the President from 1808-16. So it ought to be 134. For a Limey that's not too bad.

One question: how did J*m*s *r*d*ll qualify in 1796 for Presidential votes? He was born in Sussex to a father from Bristol; surely less a natural-born citizen than someone born in British Kenyayaland or indeed the Panama Canal Zone? Where do the birther movement stand on that one?
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« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2014, 06:06:35 PM »
87/167 - which is apparently below average for takers of the quiz. xD
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« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2014, 09:58:20 PM »
Quote from: stepney on July 29, 2014, 02:21:46 PM
132/167 (and damn it, I quit after 8 minutes, walked away and then immediately thought of a) the Dem candidate in 1864 and b) the President from 1808-16. So it ought to be 134. For a Limey that's not too bad.

One question: how did J*m*s *r*d*ll qualify in 1796 for Presidential votes? He was born in Sussex to a father from Bristol; surely less a natural-born citizen than someone born in British Kenyayaland or indeed the Panama Canal Zone? Where do the birther movement stand on that one?

presumably he was a citizen/resident at the time of the adoption of the Constitution.
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