Abigail Adams

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# Clue Answer As Given Value Round Category Air Date Show
In 1800 she complained that she could find no one willing to chop firewood for the White House Abigail Adams $600 J FIRST LADIES 2015-10-20 #7152
The first "Second Lady" & the second First Lady Abigail Adams $200 J FIRST LADIES 2011-12-09 #6265
1797-1801 Abigail Adams $600 J FIRST LADIES' TERMS OF SERVICE 2005-04-05 #4747
Born in Massachusetts, she was descended from the Quincy family on her mother's side Abigail Adams $200 J FIRST LADIES 2002-11-11 #4186
During her time in the White House--Nov. 1800 to March 1801--she hung the family wash to dry in the East Room Abigail Adams $1,000 J FIRST LADIES 2002-05-31 #4100
In November 1800 she wrote to her daughter that "The principal stairs are not up" in the White House Abigail Adams $400 J FIRST LADIES 2000-02-04 #3555
Quincy was her mother's maiden name & the middle name of her son Abigail Adams $300 J MORE FIRST LADIES 1999-01-08 #3305
She was the second first lady Abigail Adams $100 J FIRST LADIES 1998-12-25 #3295
Our second first lady, she was married to the future president by her father, a minister Abigail Adams $400 DJ FIRST LADIES 1997-05-13 #2937
She watched the Battle of Bunker Hill from a hill near her home with her 7-year-old-son John Quincy Abigail Adams $300 J FIRST LADIES 1996-02-15 #2644
In 1800 she found the unfinished White House "habitable", but barely Abigail Adams $600 DJ FIRST LADIES 1995-12-26 #2607
Her son Thomas, born in 1772, became a chief justice in Massachusetts Abigail Adams $1,000 DJ FIRST LADIES 1995-05-22 #2481
She didn't live to see son John Quincy become president; she passed away 7 years earlier Abigail Adams $200 DJ FIRST LADIES 1995-03-31 #2445
She missed her husband's 1797 inauguration because she was nursing his sick mother in Massachusetts Abigail Adams $400 DJ FIRST LADIES 1994-10-13 #2324
Her daughter-in-law Louisa was also a first lady Abigail Adams $1,000 DJ FIRST LADIES 1994-05-27 #2255
Alphabetically, she's first on the list of First Ladies Abigail Adams $100 J FIRST LADIES 1993-11-24 #2123
After returning to Quincy in 1801, she wrote that she resumed her "operations of dairy-woman" Abigail Adams $400 DJ FIRST LADIES 1993-06-04 #2030
She spent much of her youth with her maternal grandmother, Mrs. John Quincy Abigail Adams $400 DJ FIRST LADIES 1993-04-30 #2005
Her grandfather, Col. John Quincy, was a speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Abigail Adams $400 DJ FIRST LADIES 1992-02-17 #1726
She didn't live to see her son elected president but she did see him become Monroe's Secretary of State Abigail Adams $200 DJ FIRST LADIES 1991-09-12 #1614
She didn't attend her husband's 1797 inauguration because her mother-in-law was ill Abigail Adams DD $500 J FIRST LADIES 1991-04-01 #1526
This earliest resident of the White House used to hang her laundry in the East Room Abigail Adams $600 DJ FIRST LADIES 1990-05-29 #1337
She died in 1818, so she never knew that her son became president Abigail Adams $200 DJ FIRST LADIES 1990-04-16 #1306
In 1776 this future First Lady urged her husband John "to remember the ladies," or else... Abigail Adams $500 J FIRST LADIES 1989-10-23 #1181
Ency. Americana calls her the "mother of the most important family dynasty in American public life" Abigail Adams $1,000 DJ FIRST LADIES 1987-04-22 #618
Her 54-year marriage to our 2nd president has been called a "love feast" Abigail Adams $800 DJ FIRST LADIES 1985-09-11 #263
Only wife of 1 president & mother of another Abigail Adams $500 J FIRST LADIES 1984-12-05 #63
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