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.