1.
Which First Lady wore this inaugural gown?
Barbara Bush |
Hillary Clinton |
Nancy Reagan |
Rosalynn Carter |
2.
Like all First Ladies, Laura Bush held a special role as a diplomat of the United States. However, two First Ladies were born in other countries. Can you name them?
Dolly Madison and Lucretia Garfield |
Edith Wilson and Letitia Tyler |
Louisa Adams and Melania Trump |
Martha Jefferson and Florence Harding |
3.
Mrs. Laura Bush taught at an elementary school named after which First Lady’s husband?
Jackie Kennedy |
Lady Bird Johnson |
Mamie Eisenhower |
Martha Jefferson |
4.
Which first Lady made the following statement: "I know what’s best for the President. I put him in the White House. He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not."
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Ellen Wilson |
Florence Harding |
Lou Hoover |
5.
Mrs. Laura Bush was born in Midland, Texas. Which other First Lady is a native Texan?
Barbara Bush |
Lady Bird Johnson |
Mamie Eisenhower |
Rosalynn Carter |
6.
Which First Lady described her role, saying, "I live a very dull life here ... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else."
Abigail Adams |
Dolley Madison |
Elizabeth Monroe |
Martha Washington |
7.
Mrs. Laura Bush addressed both the 2000 and 2004 Republican National Conventions. Which First Lady was the first to address a national political convention?
Bess Truman |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Lou Hoover |
Mamie Eisenhower |
8.
Which First Lady wore this gown at her husband’s inauguration?
Bess Truman |
Eleanor Roosevelt |
Grace Coolidge |
Lou Hoover |
9.
Mrs. Laura Bush married President George W. Bush only three months after meeting him. Which other Presidential couples have had whirlwind courtships, getting married less than six months after meeting?
Abigail & Millard Filmore, Florence & Warren Harding, John & Jackie Kennedy |
Anna & William Henry Harrison, Edith & Woodrow Wilson, Lady Bird & Lyndon Johnson |
Julia & Ulysses Grant, Bess & Harry Truman |
Mary Todd & Abraham Lincoln, John & Abigail Adams |
10.
Which First Lady proudly declared, "I had always had the satisfaction of knowing almost as much as he [the president] about the politics and intricacies of any situation."
Edith Roosevelt |
Grace Coolidge |
Helen Taft |
Lucretia Garfield |
All trivia images courtesy the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.