Perplexing Presidential Pondering
While you all were sleeping, I was putting my brain to good use. For example, I made this pneumonic device:
When a judge must make a just verdict, having to pause to fully placate both lawyers, justice gets his amazing chance, his moment, revealing the way he carefully hears revelations to easily keep jurisprudence neatly free, ceasing really bad courtroom brawls. Incidentally, Cleveland only counted once.
As if that wasn't enough, I also made a list of the presidential elections, and who won which. Items in parentheses are the correct answers to ones I got wrong. This was surprisingly hard to do, requiring much logic of the type used in Sudoku, I think (well, these guys were the same party so the first probably served two terms and stuff like that).
1789 George Washington
1792 George Washington
1796 John Adams
1800 Thomas Jefferson
1804 Thomas Jefferson
1808 James Madison
1812 James Monroe (James Madison)
1816 John Quincy Adams (James Monroe)
1820 Andrew Jackson (James Monroe)
1824 Andrew Jackson (John Quincy Adams)
1828 Martin Van Buren (Andrew Jackson)
1832 William Henry Harrison (Andrew Jackson)
1836 John Tyler (Martin Van Buren)
1840 James K. Polk (William Henry Harrison)
1844 Zachary Taylor (James K. Polk)
1848 Millard Fillmore (Zachary Taylor)
1852 Franklin Pierce
1856 James Buchanan
1860 Abraham Lincoln
1864 Abraham Lincoln
1868 Andrew Johnson (Ulysses S. Grant)
1872 Ulysses S. Grant
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes
1880 James Garfield
1884 Grover Cleveland
1888 Benjamin Harrison
1892 Grover Cleveland
1896 William McKinley
1900 William McKinley
1904 Theodore Roosevelt
1908 William Taft
1912 Woodrow Wilson
1916 Woodrow Wilson
1920 Warren G. Harding
1924 Warren G. Harding (Calvin Coolidge)
1928 Herbert Hoover
1932 Franklin Roosevelt
1936 Franklin Roosevelt
1940 Franklin Roosevelt
1944 Franklin Roosevelt
1948 Harry Truman
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower
1960 John F. Kennedy
1964 Lyndon Johnson
1968 Richard Nixon
1972 Richard Nixon
1976 Jimmy Carter
1980 Ronald Reagan
1984 Ronald Reagan
1988 George Bush
1992 Bill Clinton
1996 Bill Clinton
2000 Al Gore
2004 John Kerry
I was pretty sure that Madison was a two-timer, but what threw off the early 1800s was the fact that William Henry Harrison was eight years later than I had thought. That kind of screwed all of that up. However, except for Coolidge (I thought harding died later), I got all of the recent ones right. I don't think I did too badly, all things considered.
I also took a tally of presidential last names. H has the most with five; C, J, and T all have four; A, B, M, and R have three; F, G, P, and W have two apiece; the onesies are E, K, L, N, and V. Lonely are D, I, O, Q, S, U, X, Y, and Z. What were you doing at 3:30 this morning, huh?
When a judge must make a just verdict, having to pause to fully placate both lawyers, justice gets his amazing chance, his moment, revealing the way he carefully hears revelations to easily keep jurisprudence neatly free, ceasing really bad courtroom brawls. Incidentally, Cleveland only counted once.
As if that wasn't enough, I also made a list of the presidential elections, and who won which. Items in parentheses are the correct answers to ones I got wrong. This was surprisingly hard to do, requiring much logic of the type used in Sudoku, I think (well, these guys were the same party so the first probably served two terms and stuff like that).
1789 George Washington
1792 George Washington
1796 John Adams
1800 Thomas Jefferson
1804 Thomas Jefferson
1808 James Madison
1812 James Monroe (James Madison)
1816 John Quincy Adams (James Monroe)
1820 Andrew Jackson (James Monroe)
1824 Andrew Jackson (John Quincy Adams)
1828 Martin Van Buren (Andrew Jackson)
1832 William Henry Harrison (Andrew Jackson)
1836 John Tyler (Martin Van Buren)
1840 James K. Polk (William Henry Harrison)
1844 Zachary Taylor (James K. Polk)
1848 Millard Fillmore (Zachary Taylor)
1852 Franklin Pierce
1856 James Buchanan
1860 Abraham Lincoln
1864 Abraham Lincoln
1868 Andrew Johnson (Ulysses S. Grant)
1872 Ulysses S. Grant
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes
1880 James Garfield
1884 Grover Cleveland
1888 Benjamin Harrison
1892 Grover Cleveland
1896 William McKinley
1900 William McKinley
1904 Theodore Roosevelt
1908 William Taft
1912 Woodrow Wilson
1916 Woodrow Wilson
1920 Warren G. Harding
1924 Warren G. Harding (Calvin Coolidge)
1928 Herbert Hoover
1932 Franklin Roosevelt
1936 Franklin Roosevelt
1940 Franklin Roosevelt
1944 Franklin Roosevelt
1948 Harry Truman
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower
1960 John F. Kennedy
1964 Lyndon Johnson
1968 Richard Nixon
1972 Richard Nixon
1976 Jimmy Carter
1980 Ronald Reagan
1984 Ronald Reagan
1988 George Bush
1992 Bill Clinton
1996 Bill Clinton
2000 Al Gore
2004 John Kerry
I was pretty sure that Madison was a two-timer, but what threw off the early 1800s was the fact that William Henry Harrison was eight years later than I had thought. That kind of screwed all of that up. However, except for Coolidge (I thought harding died later), I got all of the recent ones right. I don't think I did too badly, all things considered.
I also took a tally of presidential last names. H has the most with five; C, J, and T all have four; A, B, M, and R have three; F, G, P, and W have two apiece; the onesies are E, K, L, N, and V. Lonely are D, I, O, Q, S, U, X, Y, and Z. What were you doing at 3:30 this morning, huh?