Full Names of the First Ladies Multiple Choice Quiz | World

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1. What was the name of James Monroe's (5th US President) wife?

Answer: Elizabeth Kortright Monroe

Elizabeth Kortright Monroe was born in 1768 and died in 1830. She was First Lady from 1817-1825.

2. President Hoover's wife, Lou, had a masculine sounding maiden name. What was it?

Answer: Henry

Lou Henry Hoover was born in 1874 and died in 1944. She was First Lady from 1929-1933. Interestingly enough, she was the first American woman to graduate from college with a degree in geology.

3. What was Lucretia Rudolph Garfield's nickname?

Answer: Crete

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield was born in 1832 and died in 1918. She was First Lady from Jan. 1881- July 1881, after her husband, James Garfield, was killed by an assassin.

4. What was the name of Ulysses S. Grant's (18th president) wife?

Answer: Julia Dent Grant

Julia Dent Grant was born in 1826 and died in 1902. She was First Lady from 1869-1877. The name Ulys was Julia's nickname for her husband.

5. Nancy Reagan's full name is Nancy Frances Davis Reagan?

Answer: False

Her full name is actually Anne Frances Robbins Davis Reagan. Nancy is her nickname. She was born in 1921. She was First Lady from 1981-1989. Nancy and Ronald were both acting in Hollywood when they met.

6. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's maiden name was Roosevelt.

Answer: True

Eleanor Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt were fifth cousins. She was born in 1884 and died in 1962. She was First Lady from 1933-1945. She is also a niece of Theodore Roosevelt (thanks to rootsgrrl for pointing this out).

7. What was Martha Washington's full name?

Answer: Martha Dandridge Custis Washington

Marth Dandridge Custis Washington was born in 1731 and died in 1802. She was First Lady from 1789-1797. Martha Washington was much wealthier that George was, this was partly why they married. Their marriage never produced any children, but George happily adopted Martha's two children from her first marriage.

Her great-granddaughter would go on to marry Robert E. Lee, the general of the Confederacy during the Civil War.

8. After her husband, Grover Cleveland's death, Frances Folsom Cleveland became the 1st First Lady to remarry after her husband's death. What was the last name of the man she married?

Answer: Preston

Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston was born in 1864 and died in 1947. She was First Lady twice, from 1886-1889 and from 1893-1897, something that has never been done since.

9. Chester A. Arthur never had a first lady. His wife Nell died before he came to office. What was Nell's full name?

Answer: Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur

Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur was born in 1837 and died, from pnuemonia, in 1880. Twenty months later, Chester became president. He mourned her for the rest of his life by keeping a picture of her close by. He never re-married.

10. Thomas Jefferson's wife died 18 years before he came to office. What was her name?

Answer: Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson

Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson was born in 1748 and died in 1782. Most people say she was worn out after giving birth to six children over the years. Only two survived. One, Martha Jefferson Randolph, stood in for her mother during her father's term in office. Thomas was heart broken at the loss of his wife and refused to talk about her in public.

11. Hillary Rodham Clinton's middle name in Diane.

Answer: True

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton was born in 1947. She was First Lady from 1993-2001. She went on to become the 1st First Lady to hold a political office after her husband's terms as President.

12. What nickname is Claudia Taylor Johnson more commonly known by?

Answer: Lady Bird

Claudia (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson was the wife of Lyndon Johnson. She was born in 1912. She was First Lady from 1963-1968. She got the nickname from a nanny who proclaimed her to be "as pretty as a ladybird."

13. What was Patricia Nixon's full name?

Answer: Thelma Catherine Patricia Ryan Nixon

Thelma Catherine Patricia Ryan Nixon was born in 1912 and died in 1993. She was First Lady from 1969-1974.

14. Everybody knows Theodore Roosevelt, but what was his second wife's name?

Answer: Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Edith (Edie) Kermit Carow Roosevelt was born in 1861 and died in 1948. She was First Lady from 1901-1909. Edie was a frail woman who married a robust man, but despite their differences, they remained devoted to each other through out their marriage.

His first wife was named Alice, whom he married in 1880. Sadly, she died in 1884 aged only 22, of a fatal kidney disease.

15. Mamie Eisenhower's real first name was Marissa.

Answer: False

Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower was born in 1896 and died in 1979. She was First Lady from 1953-1961.

16. What is Rosalynn Carter's first name?

Answer: Eleanor

Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter was born in 1927. She was First Lady from 1977-1981. She was did much to help charitable causes, which is part of the reason why her and her husband continue to support causes like Habitat for Humanity.

17. Abigail Adams had a very common maiden name. What was it?

Answer: Smith

Abigale Smith Adams was born in 1744 and died in 1818. She was First Lady from 1797-1801.

18. Dolley Madison was married once before she married James Madison. What was the name of her first husband?

Answer: John Todd

Dolley Payne Todd Madison was born in 1768 and died in 1849. She was first lady from 1809-1817. Her first husband, John Todd, was a Quaker lawyer who died in the yellow fever epidemic, along with one of their two children. This left Dolley a widow and a single mother at the age of 25. To break away from her Quaker family, she married the much older and non-religious James Madison.

19. Lucy Hayes' (wife of Rutherford B. Hayes) maiden name was also the name given to their oldest son. What was his name?

Answer: Webb

Lucy Ware Webb Hayes was born in 1831 and died in 1889. She was First Lady from 1877-1881.

20. James Buchanan never married. Instead, he used his niece as an unofficial first lady. What was her name?

Answer: Harriet Lane Johnston

Harriet Lane Johnston served as First Lady from 1857-1861. She was born in 1830 and died in 1903. She remained devoted to her uncle for the rest of her life.

21. What was the name of the 1st First Lady to die in office?

Answer: Letitia Christian Tyler

Letitia Christian Tyler was born in 1790 and died in 1842, just one year after her husband, John Tyler, was given the presidency after the death of William Henry Harrison. Pricilla Cooper Tyler, John's daughter-in-law, acted as first lady after Letitia's death.

22. Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was Woodrow Wilson's first wife.

Answer: False

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was born in 1872 and died in 1961. She was First Lady from 1915-1921. She survived her husband by 38 years, yet never remarried. Woodrow married Edith while still in office. His first wife, Ellen Louise Axson died in 1914 of kidney disease.

23. What was the name of the first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson?

Answer: Ellen Louise Axson Wilson

Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was born in 1860 and died in 1914. She was First Lady from 1913-1914. People say that she was worn out from the years of following her husband. Woodrow was devastated by her death, but re-married one year later.

24. History tells the story of how Andrew Jackson married his beloved wife. She married her first husband when she was a teenager, and when the marriage turned abusive, she fled into the arms of Andrew. They got married soon after, but it was discovered that her first husband had never filed for divorce. Even after the Jackson's got the divorce finalized, and were remarried, people still talked about Andrew's wife. He went so far as to kill a man in a duel who insulted his beloved wife. What was his wife's name?

Answer: Rachel

Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson was born in 1767 and died in 1828. Rachel never got to be First Lady, because on her way to Washington for the inaugural ball, she suffered a heart attack and died. Andrew always believed that the rumors had killed her, and planted magnolia trees at the White House as a public reminder to Rachel.

He wore a pendent with her picture around his neck for the rest of his life.

25. Ida Saxton McKinley was never seen in public.

Answer: False

Ida Saxton McKinley was born in 1847 and died in 1907. She was First Lady from 1897-1901. She didn't appear in public as First Lady more than was absolutely necessary for fear of having an epileptic fit (seizure). Strangely enough, shortly after her husband was assassinated, her illness mysteriously disappeared, and she lived six more years, completely healthy.

Source: Author marimba_girl

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