A cool trivia quiz
Feb. 11th, 2010 05:39 pmAn LJ friend posted the following quiz in a friends-locked post. With his permission, I'm reproducing it here because it's SO COOL:
There were 42(*) men who served as president before Obama. Here are the number of days they spent in office:
4,422 2,922 2,922 2,922 2,922 2,922 2,922 2,922 2,922 2,922 2,922 2,922 2,865 2,840 2,728 2,040 2,027 1,886 1,654 1,503 1,461 1,461 1,461 1,461 1,461 1,461 1,461 1,461 1,461 1,461 1,461 1,460 1,430 1,419 1,262 1,036 969 895 881 491 199 31
Can you match 'em up? I especially like "1,460" (how'd that happen?). I'm also surprised that barely half the presidents were either "2,922" or "1,461".
(*) Here I'm counting Cleveland once, and anomalies such as Cheney serving as "acting president" (while G.W. Bush was incapacitated during an operation) not at all.
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