Inaugural Quiz

— -- An inaugural quiz, with selected questions and answers taken from quizzes compiled separately by the National Archives and Records Administration, the White House Historical Association and the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies:

1. Who was the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C.?

2. Who was the first president inaugurated for a term limited bythe Constitution?

3. Who was the youngest president-elect at the time of hisinauguration?

4. When was the first inauguration under the 20th amendment tothe Constitution which changed the date from March 4 to Jan. 20?

5. Who was the first president to wear a beard at his inaugural?

6. How was snow removed from Pennsylvania Avenue for PresidentJohn F. Kennedy's inaugural parade?

7. Who was the only president elected unanimously in theElectoral College?

8. When was the first inaugural ball held?

9. Where in the Constitution is the oath of office found?

10. Who was the first president born an American citizen?

11. When did the first inauguration take place on the West Frontof the Capitol?

12. What president was sworn in secretly two days before theofficial inaugural ceremony?

13. Which inauguration was the first to be televised?

14. Who was the first inaugurated president to be born outsidethe original 13 states?

15. Who was the first vice president to succeed to thepresidency, taking office on April 6, 1841?

16. Which was the first inaugural recorded on movie film andgramophone record?

17. Which president was accompanied to his two inaugurals by adifferent wife?

18. Which president was the first to ride to his inaugural in anautomobile?

19. Who was the only 20th century president to walk with hisfamily from the Capitol down Pennsylvania Avenue to the reviewingstand in front of the White House?

20. Who was the only president to attend two inaugurations asthe outgoing president?

Answers

1. Thomas Jefferson in 1801.

2. Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. The 22nd amendment to theConstitution limits a president to two terms.

3. John F. Kennedy at 43 years, 236 days. Theodore Roosevelt was42 years, 322 days old when he was sworn in following theassassination of President William McKinley.

4. 1937, the second inauguration of President Franklin D.Roosevelt.

5. Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

6. Army flame throwers.

7. George Washington drew no opposition in the Electoral Collegein both 1789 and 1793, receiving 69 votes each time.

8. In 1809, following the inauguration of James Madison.

9. Article II, section I, clause 8, which states: "Before heenter on the Execution of his office, he shall take the followingOath or Affirmation: — "I do solemnly swear [or affirm] that Iwill faithfully execute the Office of President of the UnitedStates, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect anddefend the Constitution of the United States."

10. Inaugurated in 1837, Martin Van Buren was born on Dec. 5,1782, in New York. All previous presidents were born as Britishsubjects.

11. In 1981, at the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan. Atotal 35 inaugurations were held on the East Front of the Capitol,from Andrew Jackson's in 1829 to Jimmy Carter's in 1977.

12. Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877. Hayes won the Electoral collegeby just one vote while losing the popular vote to Democrat SamuelTilden. He was sworn in in the Red Room of the White House on March3, just before a private dinner given by President Ulysses SGrant. The official ceremonies were held on March 5, a Monday.

13. The inauguration of Harry S. Truman and Vice President AlbenW. Barkley in 1949.

14. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois.

15. John Tyler, after the death of William Henry Harrison.

16. That of William McKinley in 1901.

17. Woodrow Wilson. His first wife, Ellen Louise Axon, died Aug.6, 1914. He remarried Edith Bolling Galt on Dec. 18, 1915.

18. Warren G. Harding, on March 4, 1921.

19. Jimmy Carter, on Jan. 20, 1977.

20. Grover Cleveland, elected to two nonconsecutive terms, didso in 1889 and 1897.