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Where we live: Test your knowledge of the presidents

To help celebrate the presidents holiday weekend, here is a quiz on how well you know your presidential history.

1. Who was the only president to serve more than two terms?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• George Washington

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. Who was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms?

• Ronald Reagan

• Grover Cleveland

• Theodore Roosevelt

3. Who was the oldest elected president?

• Ronald Reagan

• Donald Trump

• Dwight D Eisenhower

4. Who was the first president to live in the White House?

• John Adams

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

5. Who was the first president to be born outside the contiguous United States?

• Benjamin Harrison

• William Howard Taft

• Barack Obama

6. Which U.S. president signed the treaty to purchase Alaska from Russia?

• Ulysses S Grant

• Andrew Jackson

• Andrew Johnson

7. Who was the first president to appear on TV?

• Dwight D Eisenhower

• John F Kennedy

• Franklin D Roosevelt

8. Who was the first president to be impeached?

• Bill Clinton

• Richard Nixon

• Andrew Jackson

9. Walt Whitman’s poem “Oh Captain My Captain” was written about which president?

• Ulysses S Grant

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

10. Who is the only president to resign from the office?

• Richard Nixon

• Franklin Pierce

• Bill Clinton

11. Which president signed the Civil Rights Act that extended the rights of emancipated slaves?

• Ulysses S Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Rutherford B Hayes

12. Who awarded Rosa Parks the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

• Jimmy Carter

• Barack Obama

• Bill Clinton

13. Who is the only president to earn his Master of Business Administration?

• George H.W. Bush

• Bill Clinton

• George W. Bush

14. Who is the first president to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Jimmy Carter

• Barack Obama

15. Which president was the first to use an armored limousine. And who “donated” it for the president’s use?

• Woodrow Wilson; from Henry Ford

• Franklin Roosevelt; from Al Capone

• Dwight Eisenhower; from Howard Hughes

16. What disease did John F. Kennedy contract as a young child?

• Asthma

• Scarlet fever

• Polio

Hope you were able to have a little fun and think back on some of our presidential highlights.

Here are the correct answers, 1. Franklin D Roosevelt; 2. Grover Cleveland; 3. Donald Trump; 4. John Adams; 5. Barack Obama; 6. Andrew Johnson; 7. Franklin D Roosevelt; 8. Andrew Jackson 9. Abraham Lincoln; 10. Richard Nixon, 11. Ulysses S Grant; 12. Bill Clinton; 13. George W Bush; 14. Theodore Roosevelt; 15. Franklin Roosevelt/Capone; 16. Scarlet fever.