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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.