Presidential Inauguration Quiz
Questions
1
In what city was the first inauguration? (April 30, 1789)
2
Who gave the shortest inauguration speech of only 135 words?
(March 4, 1793)
3
Who was the first President to be sworn into office in Washington DC?
(March 4, 1801)
4
What President gave the longest inaugural address of more than 8,400
words? (March 4, 1841)
5
What President was the first to have a photo taken at his inauguration?
(March 4, 1857)
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&A
6
Who was the first President to ride to his inauguration in an automobile?
(March 4, 1921)
7
Who was the President when the inauguration ceremony was first
televised? (January 20, 1949)
8
At whose inauguration did a poet first read an original poem to
celebrate the occasion? ( January 20, 1961)
9
At whose inauguration did a woman first administer the oath of office?
(November 22, 1963)
10
Which President was the first to have his inauguration broadcast live on
the Internet? (January 20, 1997)
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Match the numbers
on the left with the
correct answers below.
Answers
A
Harry S. Truman
B
George Washington
C
William H. Harrison
D
James Buchanan
E
William F. Clinton
F
Thomas Jefferson
G
Lyndon B. Johnson
H
Philadelphia
I
Warren B. Harding
J
John F. Kennedy
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George Washington, 1789-1797 (1)
Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 (16)
Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933 (31)
John Adams, 1797-1801 (2)
Andrew Johnson, 1865-1869 (17)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945 (32)
Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809 (3)
Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-1877 (18)
Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953 (33)
James Madison, 1809-1817 (4)
Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881 (19)
Dwight David Eisenhower 1953-1961 (34)
James Monroe, 1817-1825 (5)
James Abram Garfield, 1881 (20)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963 (35)
John Quincy Adams, 1825-1829 (6)
Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885 (21)
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969 (36)
Andrew Jackson, 1829-1837 (7)
Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 (22)
Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974 (37)
Martin Van Buren, 1837-1841 (8)
Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893 (23)
Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977 (38)
William Henry Harrison, 1841 (9)
Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897 (24)
James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981 (39)
John Tyler, 1841-1845 (10)
William McKinley, 1897-1901 (25)
Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989 (40)
James Knox Polk, 1845-1849 (11)
Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 (26)
George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 (41)
Zachary Taylor, 1849-1850 (12)
William Howard Taft, 1909-1913 (27)
William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001 (42)
Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853 (13)
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 (28)
George Walker Bush, 2001-2009 (43)
Franklin Pierce, 1853-1857 (14)
Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-1923 (29)
Barack Hussein Obama (44)
James Buchanan, 1857-1861 (15)
Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 (30)
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