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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.