{"id":122,"date":"2011-12-24T18:07:52","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=122"},"modified":"2016-01-15T07:02:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T14:02:03","slug":"quiz-on-american-first-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Quiz on American First Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Click<\/a>A friend suggested I do a column on American First Ladies patterned after my Presidential quiz of a few months ago.<\/p>\n

Why not?<\/p>\n

We ought to know more about the wives of our presidents. I have been impressed with this thought ever since my family viewed the statued models of the First Ladies at the Smithsonian institution during a visit to Washington several years ago.<\/p>\n

Let’s have 20 numbered questions. I suggest you take the quiz before checking the answers in the last part of the column.<\/p>\n

1. What first lady was the wife of one president and the mother of another?<\/p>\n

2. What first lady was appointed a delegate to the United Nations after her husband’s death?<\/p>\n

3. Who was the first lady at the time the British burned the White House during the War of 1812 – the one who fled with a bag full of state papers and the Stuart portrait of George Washington?<\/p>\n

4. Which first lady asked the Marine Band to play “Hail to the Chief” whenever her husband appeared?<\/p>\n

5. Which one served as confidential secretary to her husband, the first woman to hold the post?<\/p>\n

6. Who became the bride of the first president to be married in the White House?<\/p>\n

7. Who was the first first lady to live in the White House?<\/p>\n

8. Which first lady, though wife of one of president and grandmother of another, never lived in the White House?<\/p>\n

9. Who donated her own picture, thus starting the first-ladies portrait collection in the White House?<\/p>\n

10. What first lady wrote a newspaper column known as “My Day”?<\/p>\n

11. Historians say the romance of one first lady and her husband-to-be started when they were five years old. Who was she?<\/p>\n

12. What first lady personally answered thousands of letters of sympathy when her husband was recovering from a heart attack?<\/p>\n

13. Which first lady started the White House china collection?<\/p>\n

14. Who was the first first lady to get a college degree?<\/p>\n

15. Who was the first one to hire a social secretary?<\/p>\n

16. Initials of what first lady were the same as her husband’s and their two daughters?<\/p>\n

17. What first lady was credited with helping to manage her husbands political career as astutely as she had managed his newspaper for 14 years?<\/p>\n

18. One first lady said she kept herself as busy as a bee, cheerful as a cricket and steady as a clock. Who was she?<\/p>\n

19. Who was the first first lady to put a library in the White\u00a0House?<\/p>\n

20. Who was the\u00a0first first lady to he called first lady?<\/p>\n

ANSWERS:<\/p>\n

1. Abigail Adams. (John and John Quincy Adams).<\/p>\n

2. Eleanor Roosevelt.<\/p>\n

3. Dolley Madison.<\/p>\n

4. Julia Tyler.<\/p>\n

5. Sarah Polk.<\/p>\n

6. Frances Folsom Cleveland.<\/p>\n

7. Abigail Adams.<\/p>\n

8. Anna Harrison, wife of President William Henry Harrison and grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison. Illness prevented her from accompanying Mr husband from\u00a0Ohio to Washington for\u00a0his inauguration in 1841. He died a month after taking office.<\/p>\n

9. Julia Tyler.<\/p>\n

10. Eleanor Roosevelt.<\/p>\n

11. Bess Truman.<\/p>\n

12. Mamie Eisenhower.<\/p>\n

13. Caroline Harrison.<\/p>\n

14.\u00a0Lucy Hayes.<\/p>\n

15. Edith Roosevelt.<\/p>\n

16 Lady Bird Johnson.<\/p>\n

17. Florence Harding.<\/p>\n

18. Martha Washington.<\/p>\n

19. Abigail Fillmore.<\/p>\n

20.\u00a0Lucy Hayes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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