First Ladies

History 615 clues in database

Gimme Answers (top 48 most recurring)

Memorize these and you could recognize 56.4% of all First Ladies clues.

#	Answer	Appearances	Sample Clue
1	Mary Todd Lincoln	25	She was the only first lady born in Kentucky
2	Eleanor Roosevelt	24	"Murder in the Rose Garden" is the 7th in a series of mystery novels featuring her as a sleuth
3	Dolley Madison	22	The cologne worn by this wife of our 4th president is still being marketed
4	Abigail Adams	21	Her 54-year marriage to our 2nd president has been called a "love feast"
5	Lady Bird Johnson	19	Thomas Jefferson Taylor, a Karnack, Texas rancher
6	Betty Ford	19	Like her husband, she grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan
7	Nancy Reagan	17	She married husband Ronnie in 1952 when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild
8	Rosalynn Carter	17	She studied interior decorating at Georgia Southwestern College
9	Martha Washington	16	The $1 silver certificate issued in 1886 was 1st bill bearing a woman's portrait--hers
10	Mamie Eisenhower	16	Mary Geneva Doud
11	Pat Nixon	13	She was a Whittier, California high school teacher when she met the future president
12	Jackie Kennedy	12	On March 11, 1962 she became the 1st wife of an incumbent pres. to have a private audience with the pope
13	Bess Truman	12	Probably the "Bes"t First Lady athlete, she once shook 2483 hands in a single day
14	Barbara Bush	11	This first lady whose maiden name is Pierce is a distant relative of President Franklin Pierce
15	Hillary Clinton	9	She was born in Chicago on October 26, 1947
16	Jacqueline Kennedy	8	By court order, photographer Ron Galella must keep at least 25 feet away from her
17	Edith Wilson	7	2 of the 3 first ladies seen in the photo here:
18	Lucy Hayes	6	After her husband left office, a minister wrote the White House was "purer because" this first lady "has been its mistress"
19	Frances Folsom Cleveland	6	Oscar Folsom, the law partner of her future husband
20	Warren G. Harding	5	His wife Florence often consulted a Washington astrologer known as Madame Marcia
21	Lou Hoover	4	She was president (Natl. Pres. of the Girl Scouts, that is) in the 1920s while her husband was merely Secy. of Commerce
22	Woodrow Wilson	3	Last president to marry in office, he wed Mrs. Edith Bolling Galt, 16 months after his first wife died
23	Lou Henry Hoover	3	In 1898 she became the first woman to graduate as a geology major at Stanford
24	Grace Coolidge	3	"If she knew sign language & taught the deaf to speak, why", someone joked, "didn't she teach Cal"
25	Mrs. Grant	3	1 of the 2 19th century presidents who marred women named Julia
26	William McKinley	2	Ida Saxton, the daughter of a Canton, Ohio banker, married this future president in 1871
27	William Henry Harrison	2	As this pres.'s wife, Anna, was preparing to move into the White House, he suddenly took ill & died
28	Texas	2	Lady Bird Johnson was the first first lady born in this state
29	Smith	2	Though no president had this common last name, it was the maiden name of three First Ladies
30	Mrs. Nixon	2	Her first name is Thelma, not Patricia
31	Mary Lincoln	2	Mary Tyler Moore played this Mary in a 1988 TV miniseries
32	Laura Bush	2	A former school librarian, she helped organize the Texas Book Festival to raise money for local libraries
33	Kentucky	2	Mary Todd Lincoln, like her husband, was born in this state
34	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis	2	Of all the First Ladies past & present still living, she is the youngest
35	Jackie's khakis	2	Mrs. Kennedy's light tan pants
36	Hillary Rodham Clinton	2	It's the name our current First Lady uses professionally
37	Edith	2	First name shared by a Roosevelt & a Wilson
38	Dolley's trolleys	2	Madison's streetcars
39	"Hail To The Chief"	2	Julia Tyler started the tradition of greeting the president with this song
40	John Tyler	2	This president's first wife, Letitia, gave birth to 9 children: his second wife, Julia, had 7
41	the Daughters of the American Revolution	2	Mrs. Benjamin Harrison was the 1st president-general of this group of descendants of Rev. War figures
42	Mrs. Lincoln	2	This neurotic 19th century first lady was disparagingly known as "The She-Wolf"
43	John Adams	2	Her mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Quincy
44	Mrs. Carter	2	Asked before her husband's election what he had that Ford didn't, she reportedly said, "Me"
45	a lady bird	2	When Claudia Alta Taylor was 2 years old, her nurse said she was as pretty as one of these
46	James Buchanan	2	The widow Sarah Polk was linked for a while in the press to this bachelor president
47	Jacqueline Onassis	2	At 24, she married a senator; at 34, she was a president's widow
48	Frances Folsom	2	She outlived the president by nearly 40 years, having married him in 1886 when she was 21