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	Questions	Answers Answer All
1.	Which president was also an actor?	Answer Ronald Reagan
2.	How many presidents have served more than 2 terms?	Answer Only one, Franklin D. Roosevelt served for 12 years
3.	Who was the oldest elected president?	Answer Donald Trump, he was 70 years and 7 months old when he was inaugurated on January 20, 2017
4.	Who was the youngest elected president?	Answer John F. Kennedy, he was 43 years old
5.	Who was the first president to be born on American soil?	Answer Martin Van Bure. He was the 8th President and his first language was Dutch although he was born in Kinderhook, New York.
6.	Who was the first president to live in the White House?	Answer President John Adams and his wife, Abigail, took residence in the White House in 1800.
7.	Which president was impeached in August 1974?	Answer Richard Nixon
8.	Which president was born in Hawaii?	Answer Barak Obama
9.	Which president never married?	Answer James Buchanan was a bachelor all his life. His niece Harriet Lane was his first lady.
10.	Which president inspired the teddy bear?	Answer Theodore Roosevelt. While hunting at the invitation of the Mississippi Governor Andrew Longino, Roosevelt could not locate a single bear. One of his assistants cornered an older black bear with dogs and tied it to a tree for Roosevelt to shoot. Viewing this as extremely unsportsmanlike, Roosevelt refused to shoot the bear. News spread quickly and a toy maker dedicated a black bear doll to the president named "Teddy’s Bear". It was mass-produced and sold worldwide.
11.	How long is a presidential term?	Answer Four years
12.	How many presidents have been assassinated while in office?	Answer Four: Abraham Lincoln (1861 - 1865), James Abram Garfield (1881), William McKinley (1897-1901), and John F. Kennedy (1961-63).
13.	Which president was known as the ‘Conservationist President’?	Answer Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt. He created 150 national forests, 51 federal bird reserves, 5 national parks, and 4 national game preserves
14.	Who was the youngest elected president?	Answer John F. Kennedy, who was 43 years, 236 days, at his inauguration. The youngest person to assume the presidency was Theodore Roosevelt, who, at the age of 42 years, 322 days, succeeded to the office after the assassination of William McKinley.
15.	What instrument does President Bill Clinton play?	Answer Saxophone
16.	Who was the president when the Baby Boomer era began in 1946?	Answer Harry Truman
17.	What is the name of the airplane that carries the president?	Answer Air Force One
18.	Which president was known as ‘The Peanut Farmer’?	Answer Jimmy Carter
19.	Which president lived the longest life?	Answer George W. Bush so far, he lived 94 years and 171 days
20.	Which president had the shortest tenure?	Answer The 9th President William Henry Harrison, elected in 1841 died on his 32nd day in office.