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1. The U.S. Constitution requires that the incoming President must be sworn in while placing a hand on what instrument?
2. Until 1933 the Constitution required that all Presidential inaugurations had to be held on what day and month?
3. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" was stated by which incoming President and in what year?
4. What occurred during Lincoln's 2nd inaugural in 1865, for the first time?
5. Which President's inauguration was the first to be broadcast live on television?
6. President William Henry Harrison was the first President to arrive by what means of transportation to Washington for the inaugural?
7. Who was the first Presidential wife to participate in the swearing in ceremony?
8. What terrible tragedy did President Franklin Pierce and his family endure on route to participate in his inauguration?
9. Which President's election was not positively determined until just days before his inauguration?
10. Presidential inaugurations have always only taken place in Washington D.C.
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