"Pure mathematics is, in its way,
the poetry of logical ideas."
~ Albert Einstein ~
Inauguration Quest for Facts
Can you find the correct answers to each of these questions before your classmates? Search these sites to answer the questions on the worksheet provided by Ms. Quirk. Remember, your answers have to be correct and complete!
Websites to start with:
http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/factsandfirsts/index.cfm
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0119/breaking29.htm
http://www.tvoneblogs.com/inaug/2009/01/inauguration-facts-101/
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/inauguralincident.html
The Questions:
1. On what book does the president-elect place his hand? To what passage is it opened?
2. Who was the only president sworn in without this book?
3. Who was the first to include African-Americans in his parade?
4. Which president wrote the shortest inaugural address? How long was the speech and what year was it delivered?
5. Whose inauguration was the first ceremony to be recorded by a motion picture camera? What year was this?
6. Who was the first president to be inaugurated at Capitol Hill?
7. Who was the only president to be sworn in by a woman?
a. What year?
b. Who was the woman?
8. For what president was the first inaugural ball held? What year was that?
9. Who was the first president sworn in wearing long pants? What year was that?
10. Whose speech was the longest inaugural address? How did he die and why?
11. Who was inaugurated on Superbowl Sunday? What year?
12. Whose inauguration was the first to be televised? What year was this?
13. Which two presidents were the only ones to walk to and from their inauguration? What years?
14. Which was the first inauguration to be photographed?
15. Who was the first president to have his mother attend her son's inauguration?
16. Which president’s wife was the first one to accompany her husband in the procession from the Capitol to the White House? What year?
17. Which president was the first to include women in his inaugural parade? What year?
18. Who was the first president to ride to and from his inaugural in an automobile? What year was this?
19. Whose oath was the first to be broadcast on the radio? What year was this?
20. What poet was the first to participate in the official ceremony?
a. What president’s inauguration was this?
b. What year?
21. Who was the only other president to include poets?
a. What poets? What years?
22. Whose inaugural parade featured solar heat for the reviewing stand and handicap-accessible viewing? What year?
23. Which was the first ceremony broadcast on the Internet? What year?
24. Which six presidents did not take the presidential oath in Washington, DC? Where did they take the oath, and in what years?
25. Whose bible will Obama use for his swearing in ceremony?
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