Questions:
1) Louis Armstrong came to New Orleans in 1922 to play with what band?
2) This president gave his State of the Union Address in the usual fashion of delivering a live speech. His last two were in written form.
3) This president was the first to be photographed while in office.
4) This Creole musician proclaimed himself to have invented jazz.
Answers:
1) King Oliver
2) Woodrow Wilson. The last two were written due to his having suffered a debilitating stroke.
3) James Polk was the first to have had his photograph taken - on this date in 1849 - while in office.
4) Jelly Roll Morton. Though he was one of the first musicians to play jazz and was very influential, it is doubtful that he was its "inventor."
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