Statistics for United States Trivia: First Ladies

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What is the most common first name among First Ladies?	Elizabeth	71%
How many First Ladies were sitting next to their husbands when their husbands were assassinated?	2	70%
Which First Lady graduated from George Washington University with a B.A. in French Literature?	Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy	61%
Who was the first First Lady to hold her own press conferences?	Anna Eleanor Roosevelt	60%
How many women are officially considered First Ladies despite having died before their husbands took office?	4	55%
At 5'11", Eleanor Roosevelt is one of the two tallest First Ladies. Which other First Lady stands at 5'11"?	Michelle Robinson Obama	46%
Who was the only First Lady to be born in Europe?	Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams	45%
Which First Lady was once a member of the Martha Graham Concert Group and worked as a model for the John Robert Powers agency?	Elizabeth Bloomer Ford	37%
Which First Lady was the first woman to graduate from Stanford University with a degree in geology?	Lou Henry Hoover	35%
Who described Martha Washington as "one of those unassuming characters which create Love and Esteem"?	Abigail Adams	34%
Who is the only woman to serve officially as First Lady despite not being married to the President?	Harriet Lane	33%
This pro-suffrage First Lady is quoted as saying, "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."	Florence Kling Harding	31%
Which First Lady, along with her President-elect husband, watched her son Benjamin die during a train accident in which their car was derailed?	Jane Means Appleton Pierce	30%
Who was the first woman to marry a sitting President?	Julia Gardiner Tyler	29%
Who was the first First Lady to deliver the President's Weekly Radio Address?	Laura Welch Bush	25%
Which First Lady presided over the first Presidential Inaugural Ball?	Dolley Payne Todd Madison	20%
Who worked as a volunteer nurse during her time as First Lady?	Mary Anne Todd Lincoln	19%
Which First Lady died of pneumonia a little more than a year-and-a-half before her husband took the oath of office, and was later memorialized with a stained-glass window that her husband donated to the famous St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House?	Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur	18%
Which First Lady attended only one social function at the White House -- the wedding of her daughter Elizabeth?	Letitia Christian Tyler	17%
Which First Lady worked as a government economist during WWII?	Patricia Ryan Nixon	17%