Michelle Obama Trivia

1. Michelle Obama (née Robinson) was born on January 17, 1964. What major city in the United States was the city of her birth?

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Answer: Chicago, Illinois

Michelle Obama was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Her father worked at the city's water plant and her mother was a secretary at a catalog store. Her mother later became a stay at home mom to raise Michelle and her brother. Although they did not have much money, they were a very close family that stayed together.

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Answer: Chicago

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 17, 1964 to Frasier Robinson III and Marian Shields Robinson. She is the descendant of South Carolina slaves.

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Answer: Jesse Jackson

Michelle Obama graduated in 1981 from Whitney Young High School in Chicago. She was included in a hand-picked group of freshmen who entered the state-of-the-art school. Her classmate, Santita Jackson, is the daughter of one-time presidential candidate The Reverend Jesse Jackson and the sister of Chicago politician Jesse Jackson, Jr.

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Answer: Harvard Law School

Michelle went on to attend Harvard Law School after graduating from Princeton University in 1985. During her time at Harvard, Michelle was an active participate in pushing for more minority students and professors. She graduated in 1988.

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Answer: Princeton

She also minored in African-American studies. Her senior thesis at Princeton was titled "Princeton Educated Blacks and the Black Community."

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Answer: They worked together at a law firm

Michelle and Barack were both lawyers at the Chicago law firm, Sidley Austin. Michelle met Barack when she was assigned to him as a summer mentor. Although she was hesitant, Barack soon impressed her and the couple dated for two years. The couple was celebrating Barack's accomplishment of finishing the bar in his lawyer career, when Barrack proposed. After the couple became the presidential family of the United States, Chicago set up a plaque where the couple had their first kiss and date outside of a local shopping center.

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Answer: Basketball coach at Oregon State University

Craig Robinson, born 1962, received an MBA from the University of Chicago and was a vice-president at Morgan Stanley Dean Whitter. He had originally wanted to be a teacher and coach but was talked out of it. After many years in the financial world, Robinson switched careers and began as an assistant at Northwestern under head coach Bill Carmody. He became the head coach at Brown in 2006 and left for Oregon in 2008.

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Answer: Trinity United Church of Christ

Michelle Obama was raised a Methodist but became a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ when she married Barack. They were members of the church for many years, until the leadership of the church started publicizing views that conflicted with the couple's political views. They cut ties with the church during Barack Obama's first campaign for the presidential election.

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Answer: She mentored him when he was a summer intern at her law firm

The couple worked together at the tony Chicago law firm Sidley Austin where she mentored him while he was a summer intern. Their first date is said to be seeing the film "Do the Right Thing" by Spike Lee. The couple has two daughters, Malia and Natasha (who is called Sasha).

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Answer: 2008

Michelle downsized many of her public roles and careers when her husband ran for President of the United States. When he received the Democratic nomination for the party's candidate, Michelle had at first been concerned about their family and the effects being the Presidential family would have on their children. However after the decision was made, she gave her husband her full support, actively participating in speaking events, promotions, talk shows, and various news reports. Their efforts were rewarded when President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, and took his first inaugural oath on January 20, 2009.

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Answer: Malia Ann and Natasha

Michelle Obama was a proud mother of both her girls, Malia Ann (born in 1998) and Natasha (born in 2001). When Michelle was campaigning with her husband for the presidential election she made a commitment to not be away from her children while on political campaigns for more than two days and only away overnight once a week. She also took advice from previous First Ladies of the White House on how they raised their children in the White House environment. Michelle Obama stated concerning advice she gave her daughters, "Barack and I always tell our girls that you can be smart, you can be beautiful, but if you don't know how to treat people, if you don't walk into a room and say hello, if you don't say thank you, if you're not looking out for the girl who's sitting alone by herself...then who are you?" (Parenting, magazine, issue #266, August 2012)

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Answer: Jason Wu

Jason Wu was born in Taiwan and was 26 at the time Mrs. Obama put him on couture map. His designs have been compared to fashion titans Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrera, but with a more whimsical and youthful twist. Both Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush wore de la Renta gowns at the Inaugural Balls of 1997 and 2005, respectively. James Gallanos designed the gowns worn by Nancy Reagan at the Inaugural Balls of 1981 and 1985. Kathy DeFazio was my high school English teacher.

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Answer: Sleeveless dresses

Early in her tenure as First Lady, Michelle Obama's well-toned arms became fashion "musts" for middle aged women. Though criticized by some for adhering to a look judged too casual for the Oval Office, she received mostly accolades for her chic yet attainable style.

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Answer: Laura Welch Bush

Like Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton is also a law school graduate. Laura Bush holds a master's degree in Library Science from the University of Texas. Nancy Reagan received an undergraduate degree from Smith College. Mrs. Hoover graduated from Stanford University where she met her husband, 31st president Herbert Hoover. Rosalynn Carter was the valedictorian of her high school class in Plains, Georgia and attended Georgia Southwestern College but left college before graduating.

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