Trivia question for the times--NO google, Yahoo or otherwise looking it up!

[DFW]

Out of your high school American History or other recesses of your memory...

Assuming Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected our 45th President, how many pairs of Presidents will have shared the same last name? How many of those pairs were blood relations (without going back centuries)?

Don't spoil it for the others by naming names, just numbers, e.g. 10 pairs, 7 of them blood related (not correct, btw!). Anyone can use Google. Please don't look it up until after you post what you think is the answer!

Note to Republican "visitors:" fair warning--if you get even half of them right, you risk being expelled from your party for being an intellectual pointy head. Don't say you weren't told ahead of time!

[alarimer]

1. I know! I Know!

5 pairs, 4 related.

[baldguy]

3. That's what I got too.

[Tom Kitten]

2. since you noted Hillary would be 45th president

Then I would assume you would count the guy who was related to himself?

Then I would come up with 7 pairs, of which 6 are related.

If not, then 6 and 5.

[trackfan]

4. 6 pairs, 4 blood related. You could make it sort of a trick question,

and say 7 pairs, 5 blood related.

[DFW]

5. Well, I should have specified

Do not count Grover Cleveland as being related to himself.

[Tom Kitten]

7. Then 6 pairs, 4 related by blood.

Both of my earlier answers were incorrect.

[DFW]

8. That's what I came up with, too

(No Republicans in my family)

[mrmpa]

6. I remember reading this awhile back.............

43. All 43, one wasn't, are directly descended from an English King.

[DFW]

9. That is why I said "without going back centuries"

Go back far enough and you'll probably find a common ancestor for all of them.
Allen Sherman's Ooga Magoog is a candidate, I'm sure......

[mrmpa]

10. Missed that let me see if I can figure that out.......eom

[meow2u3]

11. I can think of 4, 3 of the pairs blood-related, off the top of my head

- John and John Quincy Adams (father and son)
- Teddy and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (distant cousins)
- George H.W. and George W. Bush (father and son)
-Assuming HRC is elected President, it'll be the first time we had husband and wife Presidents, albeit at different times--Bill and Hillary Clinton.

[mrmpa]

12. okay...........

I've got 6 with the same last name 9counting the Clintons), 4 of those were related by blood.

[Aristus]

13. Mine.

John Adams
John Quincy Adams - father & son.

William Henry Harrison
Benjamin Harrison - Grandfather & grandson.

Andrew Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson - no relation.

George H. W. Bush
George W. Bush - father and son

Bill Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton (???) - Husband and wife.

No reference sources whatsoever. US Presidents are just a favorite topic. How did I do?

[Iggo]

14. You forgot the Roosevelts.

[Aristus]

15. Wow! How the hell did I forget them?

[Iggo]

16. Don't beat yourself up, I missed the Harrisons and the Johnsons.