The staff at the Liverpool Public Library put together this Inauguration Day quiz.
How many questions can you answer?
Don't cheat. The answers are at the bottom.
1. Who was the first president to have an inaugural parade?
2. Who was the first president to have an African-American in his inaugural parade?
3. Who was the first to have his inauguration photographed?
4. Whose inauguration was the first to be recorded by a motion picture camera?
5. Who was the first vice president to assume the presidency upon the death of the president?
6. Whose inaugural address was first broadcast on national radio?
7. What president's inauguration was the first to be televised?
8. Whose inauguration had the poet, Robert Frost, participate in the official ceremony?
9. Whose inauguration had to compete with Super Bowl Sunday?
10. What president had his inauguration broadcast on the Internet first?
11. Who was the first unelected vice president to become president?
1. Who was the first president who was not born a British subject?
1. Thomas Jefferson (March 4, 1805)
2. Abraham Lincoln (1865)
3. James Buchanan (March 4, 1857)
4. William McKinley (1897)
5. John Tyler (April 6, 1841)
6. Calvin Coolidge (March 4, 1925)
7. Harry Truman (1949)
8. John Kennedy (1961)
9. Ronald Reagan (1985)
10. Bill Clinton (Jan. 20, 1997)
11. Gerald Ford (Aug. 9, 1974)
12. Martin Van Buren (March 4, 1837)