The Learning Log for 2009 Inauguration – Inauguration Trivia

My name:______________________________

Go to  http://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/inaugLocation_012005.html.  You will be hunting on this webpage to find the questions to these questions.  Please do NOT forget to use complete sentences to answer these questions.

1. What was the coldest inauguration on record?  What was the warmest inauguration? 

Go to http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pioaths.html

2. Who was sworn in by Sarah T. Hughes?

Go to http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pinotable.html

3. Who was the first president to say, “So help me God.”?

4. Name the first president to take the oath of office outside?

5. Name the first president to have the ceremony broadcast live on the Internet?

Go to http://www.smithsonianmag.comPresidential-Inauguration-Firsts.html

6. Who gave the longest inaugural address?  How many words? What happened to him?

7. How much did the tickets to the first inaugural ball cost?  What president attended? 

Reflection: IF you had the choice of attending ANY presidential inauguration, which one would you attend?  Please write at least a four sentence paragraph.  You can use the back of this sheet.