Presidential Hobbies: Test Your Knowledge! (QUIZ, PHOTOS)

Although they worked hard as the Commanders-in-Chief, these men can also be looked to as leaders in leisure.

Who painted and who played piano? Who collected stamps and who cleared brush? Test your knowledge below.

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Comments

[lily31]

06:16 PM on 07/21/2009

The picture of President Johnson with his dog as they "sing" together is priceless!!

I missed the horse shoe and the jogger. Didn't know Clinton did crosswords in ink but recognized his hands!!

[dinglebe]

10:59 AM on 07/20/2009

Who did cocaine?

[pilgrimbaby]

12:30 AM on 07/20/2009

"Barack Obama, of course." Of course, because only black people play basketball, right?

[clearthinker2008]

07:08 AM on 07/20/2009

You know right?

[nothingmusic42]

09:22 AM on 07/20/2009

um, remember the whole "he's gonna tear out the bowling ally for a basketball court."
sorry, but the media has covered obama's ball skills repeatedly.
and c'mon, can you really picture nixon doing an ally-oop? eisenhower nailing a fade-away?

[jamesmac10]

05:42 PM on 07/18/2009

Does anyone know what kind of music did Nixon and Truman play at the piano?

[verycold]

05:56 PM on 07/18/2009

I have ridden lots of horses and carried tons of brush and so I certainly can identify with those "hobbies". They are really good for the soul. There is nothing like riding a horse. Nothing.

[ptillen]

09:21 PM on 07/18/2009

Truman was a decent player of classical music, and Nixon played light classical , hymns and other schlocky stuff, as I understand.

[ywcachieve]

04:14 PM on 07/18/2009

I like Carter's legs.

[1088]

02:58 PM on 07/18/2009

Which President was the cross dressing one?

[Weirdwriter]

03:41 PM on 07/18/2009

You're thinking of J. Edgar Hoover.

[auegg]

12:48 PM on 07/18/2009

Eisenhower surprised me. Clintons hobby was more alive then crosswords.

[teron678]

12:50 PM on 07/18/2009

Stop it ... LOL ... if you're insinuating what i think you are

[teron678]

12:47 PM on 07/18/2009

HP ... this is the Slide-show Format you should use ... don't know if you heeded my plea to bring it back .. but thanx anyways .. detest the one you've been using recently ..

LOL @ the "Brush Cleaner"

[cyndie1030]

08:43 AM on 07/19/2009

I laughed at the staged Brush Cleaner one, also. What a crock. Of course, they couldn't show his true hobby of licking Cheney's boots.

[clearthinker2008]

07:10 AM on 07/20/2009

Mayby sitting in front of the TV watching baseball or something. Clearing brush for what? That clown wasn't a rancher.

[mendelcrosses]

12:23 PM on 07/18/2009

W Bush has the most expensive hobby, W A R S

[teron678]

12:45 PM on 07/18/2009

LOL .......

[wyldthings]

04:44 PM on 07/18/2009

Mendelcrosses, So WW1, WW2 , Korea and Vietnam which claimed over 100 million lives were under all Democratic Presidents but you blame Bush as the war monger. Let me know when both his wars come close to the losses under the Democratic leaders of our last century!!! If you want to talk warmongers let's start with Johnson!

[SmallChange]

01:02 PM on 07/19/2009

Where you been hidin'? W's wars are the most expensive than all previous wars combined and counting....................... These were optional wars, wars for personal gain for the bush & chenet crime families.

[Z2a]

01:04 PM on 07/19/2009

Johnson was a warmonder? What about Nixon, what did he do, bombed Cambodia and Laos, not to mention bombed the sh*t out of the North. And he doesnt make your list? How about Regan, he was so itching for any war that he bombed Libya, and wanted to play soldier so he invaded Granada. And how about Lebanon. Then tell me how Bush the draft dodger and wanna-be General, wasn't a warmonder.

[mlaiuppa]

12:16 PM on 07/18/2009

Pipe smoking is not a hobby.

[plzchuteme]

12:51 PM on 07/18/2009

Really! Collecting pipes or carving pipes is a hobby. Smoking a pipe is an activity.

[clearthinker2008]

07:11 AM on 07/20/2009

Maybe, but he wasn't doing that, just smoking a pipe does not a hobby make.

[SmallChange]

01:03 PM on 07/19/2009

I thought the same thing. Could pardoning a foul mouthed criminal ex-president be a hobby?

[lily31]

06:10 PM on 07/21/2009

and your reference on the foul mouth "fact"????

[miranda2060]

12:00 PM on 07/18/2009

Didn't know pipe smoking was a hobby. Fun feature, though.

[mlaiuppa]

12:17 PM on 07/18/2009

They should have used golf.

[teron678]

12:50 PM on 07/18/2009

It is ...

[epiphany1234]

11:27 AM on 07/18/2009

Jimmy Carter has great looking legs!

[suntzu]

10:54 AM on 07/18/2009

Don't forget Thomas Jefferson. His hobby was the totality of human knowledge.

[cindyw]

12:54 PM on 07/18/2009

A great mind, but how does one explain his slave ownership?

[Phillip Garcia]

10:04 PM on 07/18/2009

A combination of laziness and bigotry,

[Roguer]

07:51 AM on 07/19/2009

Slaves were property, Historians have put forth that: one, he inherited them along with a lot of debt (some of which he accumulated on his own) and had to keep them as they were part of the collateral for this debt.

From what I have read about the man, he treated them like family and took good care of the children he had by the one lady even after his death.

Just because someone is a slave does not necessitate that they were treated poorly.

Not that owning a person is right or justifiable and you forget that many whites sold themselves into servitude for payment of debt, as well.

Life was different in 1700's. Jefferson can not be vilified for owning slaves.

[Jas Wee]

10:54 AM on 07/18/2009

ROFL that photo of Jimmy Carter jogging made me smile

[Progress08]

12:46 PM on 07/18/2009

All he needed was a can of Tab and a Pinto in the background.

[maisnon55]

09:10 AM on 07/18/2009

uh, just wondering......why is Obama a basketball player "of course"

[suntzu]

10:53 AM on 07/18/2009

Because he is black?

[ptillen]

11:15 AM on 07/18/2009

Because he's our current president and it's been a very visible part of his campaign and his presidency that he likes to unwind by shooting buckets.

[nowRnever]

11:16 AM on 07/18/2009

I think the "of course" is related to the headline to "test your knowledge." As in, of course O is the bb player, because EVERYONE KNOWS that O is the bb player. Which means EVERYONE probably got that one correct. Not, of course O is the bb player, because he's the black man.

[kellyne]

11:13 AM on 07/18/2009

Because everybody knows he plays basketball.