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February is Presidents Month

As we wave goodbye to the month dedicated to presidents, let's look back at some presidential history. Thanks to "The World Almanac and Book of Facts 2010" for these sources in our theme quiz.

1. What is the annual taxable salary of the U.S. president?

2. Which president was elected by a record of electoral and popular votes?

3. Only two presidents ever won their election races with the action of the House of Representatives. Name them.

4. Name the only Catholic member at the White House.

5. Name the highest number of church members who served in the presidential office; they were members in the same church.

6. Who was the first president to be photographed while serving in the White House?

7. Name the first president to address the nation on the radio.

8. Who was the first chief executive to live in the White House?

9. Who was the first president to be born as a U.S. citizen?

10. Who was the first president to serve the 50 states?

Answers

The national payments for the U.S. president, including expenses for travel, add up to $400,000.

2. Ronald Reagan's second term swept 525 electoral votes and carried 49 states.

3. Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams were the two presidential winners by votes in the House of Representatives.

4. John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic to be a president.

5. Eleven presidents were Episcopalians and seven were Presbyterians.

6. James Polk was the first president to be photographed in 1849.

7. Warren Harding addressed the people on the radio in 1922.

8. In 1800, the John Adams family was the first presidential group to move into the home on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C.

9. Martin Van Buren, who was born in Kinderhook, N.Y., in 1782.

10. In 1953, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first president to lead a 50-state nation.

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