Name their First Lady
First Lady Firsts
Fun Facts
First Ladies' Pets
FLOTUS Misc.
100
The wife of President Barack Obama, she started the White House Kitchen Garden to provide fresh fruits and vegetables for the White House, in line with her initiative of encouraging healthy choices.
Who is First Lady Michelle Obama?
100
She was the first First Lady to also be the mother of a president.
Who was First Lady Abigail Adams?
100
This First Lady is said to be a descendant of Pocahontas (whose real name was Mataoka).
Who was Edith Wilson?
100
A gift from the American Consul in Bangkok to First Lady Lucy Hayes and her husband, Siam was the first of this breed of cat to be brought to the US.
What is Siamese?
100
This First Lady created White House tours for the blind and deaf, and was the first First Lady to wear pants in public.
Who is Pat Nixon?
200
The wife of President John F. Kennedy, she started the White House Historical Association to maintain the historical integrity of the White House.
Who was First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy?
200
She was the first First Lady to be captured on film when her husband gave a speech at the Pan-American Exposition in 1901. Her husband was later assassinated at the same expo.
Who was First Lady Ida McKinley?
200
This First Lady's image was printed on $1 banknotes in 1886, 1891, and 1896.
Who was First Lady Martha Washington?
(In 1896 she was printed alongside her husband)
200
This First Lady and her family had the most pets of any First Family to date, with more than 40 animals that ranged from dogs, to a badger, all the way to a lion!
Who was First Lady Edith Roosevelt?
200
This First Lady substituted for her husband in his weekly radio addresses.
Who is Laura Bush?
300
The wife of President Bill Clinton, she is a former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator and has also run for president herself.
Who is First Lady Hillary Clinton?
300
She was the first First Lady to host an Inaugural Ball back in 1809
Who was First Lady Dolley Madison?
300
A lover of learning, First Lady Abigail Fillmore applied for $2,000 in Congressional funding to establish this room in The White House.
What is The White House Library?
300
This First Lady posed next to one of her family's many pets, a white collie named Rob Roy, for her official White House Portrait.
Who was First Lady Grace Coolidge?
300
This First Lady is the only First Lady given an honorary seat on the floor of Congress.
Who is Dolley Maddison?
400
The wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, she was the last First Lady to be born in the 1800's and preferred to be called "Mamie."
(We're looking for her real name if you know it)
Who was First Lady Marie Geneva Eisenhower?
(She also famously loved pink!)
400
She is the first, and only, First Lady to get married in The White House. She is also the first, and only, First Lady to give birth in The White House
Who was First Lady Frances Cleveland?
400
First Lady Helen "Nellie" Taft planted these trees at The White House after she visited Japan, they now bloom across D.C. every spring.
What are Cherry Trees?
400
Determined not to lose her southern roots, First Lady Eliza Johnson brought these animals to The White House.
What are cows?
(The cows would frequently be seen grazing the front lawn)
400
This First Lady worked as a teacher of deaf students, and became the first First Lady to speak in sound newsreels.
Who is Grace Coolidge?
500
The niece of President James Buchanan, who acted as his First Lady for his presidency since he never married.
(He was the only president to never marry)
Who was First Lady Harriet Lane?
500
She was the first to be called the "First Lady" in the media, officially creating a title for the role.
Who was First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln?
500
Though officially considered the First Lady from 1837-1838, this First Lady died 18 years before her husband, Martin, became president.
Who was First Lady Hannah Van Buren?
(President Martin Van Buren never remarried, so the title of First Lady only passed to Angelica Van Buren in 1838 when she married the president's son, Abraham)
500
This First Lady is known for her collection of silkworms, which she would collect the silk from and use it to spin with.
Who was First Lady Louisa Adams?
500
This First Lady worked as her husband's salaried Senate aide and never gave an interview as first lady.
Who is Bess Truman?