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Weekend Genius Challenge Winners!
by Sandy - October 15, 2007 - 11:27 AM

“Well done!” to all those who partipated in our latest Weekend Genius Challenge. It took some time to dig up the 40 presidential names that were scattered in the anagrams in our list (and the two “leftovers”), but the first to do so correctly was Mike Jackson. Congratulations!

Click here if you missed the puzzle and wish to try it yourself. And if you didn’t win this time, don’t worry. We’ll put up a new Weekend Genius Challenge on Saturday, October 20. Join us then!

The correct answers:

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. George Herbert Walker Bush
3. James Buchanan
4. Zachary Taylor
5. Andrew Johnson
6. Millard Fillmore
7. Rutherford Birchard Hayes
8. Gerald Rudolph Ford
9. William Henry Harrison
10. Franklin Pierce
11. James Abram Garfield
12. Benjamin Harrison
13. Andrew Jackson
14. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
15. James Calvin Coolidge
16. George Walker Bush
17. William McKinley
18. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
19. John Adams
20. William Howard Taft
21. Warren Gamaliel Harding
22. William Jefferson Clinton
23. Harry S. Truman
24. James Monroe
25. Lyndon Baines Johnson
26. Martin Van Buren
27. Thomas Jefferson
28. John Quincy Adams
29. James Madison
30. Herbert Clark Hoover
31. James Earl Carter
32. George Washington
33. Grover Cleveland
34. Richard Milhous Nixon
35. Thomas Woodrow Wilson
36. Ulysses Simpson Grant
37. Chester Alan Arthur
38. Theodore Roosevelt
39. Dwight David Eisenhower
40. Ronald Wilson Reagan
And the two leftovers: James Knox Polk and John Tyler.

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Comments (3)

  1. I wish I would have checked this over the weekend. You can do it in minutes with an anagram solver such as:

    www.crossword-dictionary.com/anagram.asp

    posted by David Rodriguez on 10-15-2007 at 2:46 pm

  2. You could use an anagram solver — but that would take the fun out of it. It’s a game, not a job!

    Sandy: how do I get you my mailing address for the Macbeth Soap XL tshirt?

    Tx. It was a fun puzzle (solved w/o anagram device) if you looked for quirks of letters in presidents’ names. M.

    posted by Mike Jackson on 10-16-2007 at 2:36 pm

  3. Anagrams and presidents! Two of my all-time favorite things. I am sorely sorry I missed the contest. More anagram fun:

    actuallyhome.blogspot.com

    posted by Izzy on 10-24-2007 at 11:28 am

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