Monday, January 21, 2013

Take the Oath of Office Quiz-- Part 2

Answers below.

4.  BLACK SOLDIERS FIRST MARCHED IN WHOSE INAUGURATION PARADE?

A) Abraham Lincoln's,  B)  Ulysses S. Grant's,  C) Theodore Roosevelt's


5.  WHICH CHIEF JUSTICE ADMINISTERED THE MOST PRESIDENTIAL OATHS?

A)  John Jay,  B)  John Marshall,  C)  Earl Warren


6.  INAUGURATION DAY WAS OFFICIALLY CHANGED FROM MARCH 4 TO JAN. 20 THANKS TO THE PASSAGE OF THE 20TH AMENDMENT IN 1933?  WHY?

A)  It often rained on March 4,  B)  Congress did not want the inauguration to fall during Lent,  C)  The transition period between election and inauguration was deemed too long.


7.  WHICH PRESIDENT TOSSED THE SUPER BOWL COIN THE SAME DAYS AS HIS SWEARING-IN? 

A)  Richard Nixon,  B)  Gerald Ford,  C)  Ronald Reagan






ANSWERS

4.  A)  Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865.  (I forgot about the second one and went with Grant.)

5.  B.  Marshall administered it nine times from Jefferson to Jackson.  (I didn't know he was chief justice that long.)

6.  The old March 4th date had been chosen when travel and communication was much slower.  This became a real situation in FDR's first election in 1932.  (I got his one right considering the possible answers.)

7.  C.  ON Jan. 20, 1985, Reagan took the oath privately in the White House and then went to the Map Room to flip the coin on live TV via satellite.  The 49ers won the flip and the game.  (No clue for this one.  Possibly Reagan or Ford as both played college football.)

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