Do you know these First Ladies?
In recognition of National Women’s History Month, we have created the following
quiz on first ladies. Information is from the website of the First Ladies Library,
www.firstladies.org.
1. Which first lady served as an “inquiring photographer” for the Washington Times
Herald?
2. The first woman to graduate from Stanford with a geology degree; she spoke fluent
Chinese and was national president of Girl Scouts.
3. Who served as White House hostess as her bachelor uncle’s first lady?
4. She suffered a severe stroke just months after her husband’s inauguration, but
through strong will and determination was back in command again within a year.
5. Who was the first to write a memoir?
6. She attended the same school as her husband, from fifth grade through high school
and was a “superb athlete.”
7. Her son was tragically killed in a train accident two months before her husband was
inaugurated as president.
8. She attended the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, a non-sectarian, coeducational
institution which later became Hiram College.
9. She served on the board of the National Geographic Society and founded the
National Wildflower Research Center.
10. She was a direct descendent of Pocahontas.
11. The first wife to ban alcoholic beverages from the White House; she hosted the first
Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn.
12. The only wife to have been born in a foreign country; she played the harp, wrote
satirical plays and raised silkworms.
Bonus: She held regular press conferences, wrote a daily newspaper column, a
monthly magazine column and hosted a weekly radio program.