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What’s the Big Deal About First Ladies? TRIVIA CARDS Print, cut out, and fold these trivia cards to quiz your friends or yourself about first ladies!

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Which was also What did the first second lady (Vice famously rescue from the President’s wife)? during the ? a) Martha a) Painting of George b) Roosevelt Washington c) Abigail b) The Declaration of Independence d) Dolley Madison c) The Constitution d) All of the Above

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Who was the first lady What was NOT allowed in during ? Sarah Polk’s White a) House? b) Edith a) Drinking c) Nellie Taft b) Dancing d) c) Dogs d) Spinach

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ANSWERS: 1) c, 2) a, 3) b, 4) b, 5) c, 6) d, 7) c, 8) a, 9) b, 10) c, 11) b, 12) d

What’s the Big Deal About First Ladies? TRIVIA CARDS Print, cut out, and fold these trivia cards to quiz your friends or yourself about first ladies!

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What was Dolley Who was the first first Madison’s favorite flavor lady to give birth at the of ? White House? a) Chocolate a) b) Pistachio b) c) Oyster c) Bess d) Black pepper d)

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Which of the following is Which of the following NOT in the White House? White House pets a) Bowling alley belonged to ? b) Movie theater a) Raccoon named Rebecca c) Mini-golf course b) Dog named Millie d) Swimming pool c) Flock of sheep d) A panda

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ANSWERS: 1) c, 2) a, 3) b, 4) b, 5) c, 6) d, 7) c, 8) a, 9) b, 10) c, 11) b, 12) d

What’s the Big Deal About First Ladies? TRIVIA CARDS Print, cut out, and fold these trivia cards to quiz your friends or yourself about first ladies!

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Which first lady served as What color did Mamie president of the Girl Eisenhower decorate her Scouts? private rooms entirely in? a) Carrie Harrison a) White b) Lou Hoover b) Blue c) Jackie Kennedy c) Pink d) d) Gold

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How many candles were at 12. Which President’s wife Julia Tyler’s Grand Finale had her daughter serve as Ball? first lady instead of a) 200,000 herself? b) 1,000 a) c) 3,000 b) d) None c) Eliza Johnson d) All of the above

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ANSWERS: 1) c, 2) a, 3) b, 4) b, 5) c, 6) d, 7) c, 8) a, 9) b, 10) c, 11) b, 12) d

What’s the Big Deal About First Ladies? TIMELINE

1939: ______1974: ______was diagnosed with breast 1995: ______gave a speech in made sure that Marian cancer and bravely talked about it, inspiring China where she said the famous line, Anderson got to sing at women to get examined by doctors “… are women’s rights and the women’s rights are human rights”

1789: ______became America’s very first first lady 2009: ______planted a vegetable garden on the White House South Lawn

1969: ______started 1985: ______visited with 1814: ______saved a famous painting a children’s garden on the the pope about helping people of when the British White House grounds who were addicted to drugs that set fire to the White House would harm people’s bodies

1800: ______1893: ______moved 1961: ______helped 1979: ______spoke in became the first back into the White House turn the White House into front of Congress so that they first lady to live in with her daughter, whose a living museum of the would make a law helping the White House nickname was Baby Ruth presidency people with mental illnesses 2007: ______famously rode a camel on a trip to Jordan 1918: ______kept sheep on the White House lawn and sold their wool to raise money for the 1990: ______visited Red Cross Saudi Arabia and ate two 1860: ______met Thanksgiving dinners with , a former troops during the Gulf War slave who became her seamstress and good friend

1972: ______took a historic trip to Faulkner © Matt Art China and inspired the Chinese leaders to donate two panda bears to the National Zoo

What’s the Big Deal About First Ladies? TIMELINE ANSWERS For those answers you couldn’t find in What’s the Big Deal About First Ladies? check out the links below for more information and fun facts!

1789: Martha Washington 1800: Abigail Adams 1814: Dolley Madison 1860: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-story-of-elizabeth-keckley-former-slave-turned-mrs-lincolns-dressmaker-41112782/?no-ist 1893: Frances Cleveland 1918: http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/05/18/98264808.html?pageNumber=8 1939: Eleanor Roosevelt http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/biography/eleanor-anderson/ 1961: Jacqueline Kennedy https://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/The-White-House-Restoration.aspx 1969: Lady Bird Johnson https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/history/grounds/garden/ 1972: Patricia Nixon 1974: Ford 1979: http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=40 1985: http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/05/world/nancy-reagan-and-pope-discuss-war-on-narcotics.html 1990: 1995: 2007: 2009: Art © Matt Faulkner © Matt Art