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By this time next week, a new president with a fresh, young face will be leading our nation. It’s not always easy to identify some of our former presidents by their mugs, however – it seems they all have those dour expressions, long hair, and heavy wrinkles. In our Presidential Portraits quiz, you’ll try to match 10 former commanders-in-chief with their images… and it’s tough. Good luck!
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frick! the Man blocks pictures at work…
posted by theYerg on 1-14-2009 at 11:37 am
I got Johnson, McKinley, Monroe, and Buchanon.
All the guys with the long beards begin to look the same. I was sure one of them was Grant until I saw he wasn’t an option.
posted by BassMan on 1-14-2009 at 11:41 am
50% Better than I thought I would get.
posted by dunn on 1-14-2009 at 2:22 pm
It appears we must credit James K. Polk with the invention of the mullet.
I can always remember R.B. Hayes because he looks like Jeff Daniels as Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain in “Gettysburg”, and Benjamin Harrison looks like Alec Guinness in a beard. James Garfield just looks like someone who should be shot.
posted by Scott on 1-14-2009 at 2:50 pm
tough one…..i only got 40%. Monroe (the earliest prez in the quiz and the oldest looking pic) and Johnson were the only ones I was 100% sure of.
posted by Ian on 1-15-2009 at 8:39 am
I am pretty pleased with my 60%. :)
Of course, none of those guys can hold a candle to my girlhood presidential crush, Franklin Pierce. ;)
posted by NYCGirl on 1-25-2009 at 6:22 pm