January 20, 2005
Inauguration History
The Washington Post has an inauguration history quiz. Some questions are easy; some tough. However I found that the button to check the quiz wasn't working. I don't know if it's my computer or their HTML.
The National Geographic has some more interesting inauguration/presidential trivia.
More here at the Olympian.
Precedents and Notable events from the Library of Congress. And here are some artifacts from selected inaugurations. This is a link to the whole site.
Though I can't find it now. US News also had a quiz. I'll have to find it later.
One bit of trivia I remember was who was first sworn in by his father and the next time by an ex-President?
UPDATE: For more on the inauguration and other comments on today's events check out Outside the Beltway's Inaugural Traffic Jam.
For the answer to the trivia question there are some things to consider:
1) In the case of the first inauguration, it likely wasn't in Washington (else the Chief Justice) likely would have performed the duty. Where was the president and why wasn't he in Washington?
2) How many ex-presidents would have traditionally handled the swearing in ceremony?