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Today is Presidents' Day, and to mark the occasion, here is our second Ruth Dahlgren Presidents' Day Quiz, named for the reader who inspired us to do our first quiz a year ago.
1. What is the minimum age to be president?
2. Which presidents are depicted on Mount Rushmore?
3. Which living former president could not become president again?
4. Who was president when the 50th state was admitted to the union?
5. Who was president when the last of the 48 continental states was admitted to the union?
6. Which two presidents were graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point?
7. Which president was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis?
8. Who was the last president to serve without having attained a college degree?
9. Which two presidents were heads of Ivy League universities before their tenure at the White House?
10. Which three presidents won the Nobel Peace Prize (two while in office and one after leaving office)?
11. Which president served in the U.S. House after leaving office?
12. Which Republican president had a Democratic vice president?
13. Who is the only presidential candidate to receive more than 50 percent of the popular vote and lose the election?
14. Which president won an election in which his cousin finished fifth?
15. Which president married a woman whose last name was the same as his?
16. Which three presidents were wed while in office?
17. Which president had the most children?
18. For whom is Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland, named?
19. What was the retreat called before it was Camp David?
20. Which president had an indoor swimming pool installed at the White House?
PRESIDENTS AND MINNESOTA
21. How many electoral votes does Minnesota have?
22. Who was the first candidate to carry Minnesota in a presidential election?
23. Which president received his party's nomination for reelection in Minnesota?
24. Which president lived for a time in Minnesota before he was president? Hint: It was also before Minnesota was a state.
25. Which Minnesotan nominated John F. Kennedy for president at the 1960 Democratic convention? Hint: This person's son is a current Hennepin County official.
BONUS QUESTION
Which Stearns County native and subsequent North Dakotan finished third in a presidential election?
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