Geography quiz
Click the states where a US president was born
Presidents have come from only some of the 50 states. Click every state where at least one was born: 20 to find, with South Carolina left out of play.
- Format
- Map quiz
- Items
- 20 on the map
- Limit
- 3:00
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
The rules as listed below.
- To find
- 20
- Out of
- 49 on the map
- Time limit
- 3:00
- Wrong clicks
- 3 end the round
- Click every place that fits the rule, in any order.
- Switch to Rule out (or press M) to hatch a place you have decided against. A ruled out place cannot be clicked by accident.
- A click counts for the place under it, so zoom in (pinch, or the zoom buttons) before picking a small one.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Click every state where a president was born.
RuleClick each state where at least one of the 45 people who have been president was born. South Carolina is not in play: Andrew Jackson's birthplace is given only as a settlement in the Carolinas.
Drawing the map
About this quiz
A thinking quiz on the states map. Virginia and Ohio are the easy ones; the test is the 12 states with a single president. When the round ends every state is listed with the presidents born there.
- Virginia is the birthplace of eight presidents and Ohio of seven.
- No president has been born in Florida, Michigan or Washington state.
- You can mark a state as ruled out so that it cannot be clicked by accident.
Sources
- [1]The White House. Presidents.
- [2]National Archives. Meet the Framers of the Constitution: Virginia.
- [3]National Park Service. William Howard Taft National Historic Site.
Last checked October 3, 2026
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