Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) Trivia Quiz

Answer: Anna

Eleanor was named after her mother Anna and her aunt Anna. Since Eleanor was very young, she went by her middle name, Eleanor.

Answer: 9

Eleanor's mother died of diphtheria when Eleanor was eight. Her father died almost two years later of problems with alcoholism. Eleanor was almost ten then.

Answer: Allenswood

Eleanor went to Allenswood, a boarding school in England in 1899. Eleanor's mother had gone there when she was a child. After her mother's death and before boarding school, Eleanor's grandmother on her mother's side took care of her and her brother strictly. At Allenswood, Eleanor got self confidence that she did not have before boarding school.

Answer: Her uncle, Theodore

Eleanor Roosevelt's father's brother was President Teddy Roosevelt. Eleanor loved him a lot. Teddy Roosevelt was the president during the Roosevelt-Roosevelt wedding. Eleanor was the only first lady not to have to change her last name when marrying since her husband was a Roosevelt and she was too.

Answer: fifth cousins, once removed

Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed. They knew each other since Eleanor was two years old. At first they were just friends, but in 1903 they became engaged.

Answer: 4

Eleanor had four sons and a daughter. The daughter Anna Eleanor was the oldest, followed by James, Elliot, Franklin Delano Jr., and John Aspinwall. She also had a son in between James and Elliot that died in infancy also named Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Answer: She found letters to FDR from Lucy

Franklin had an affair with Lucy Mercer, his wife's social secretary, many years before he became president. The affair is thought to have begun in 1916. In 1918, Eleanor found out about it when she discovered a bundle of their letters to each other. Eleanor told her husband to end the affair or divorce her. FDR agreed to end the affair with Lucy for his political career and his children, although Lucy was with him when he died in 1945.

Answer: My Day

Eleanor wrote "My Day" six days a week from 1935-1962. The only time she did not write six days a week, was FDR's death when she skipped four days.

Answer: U.S. Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly

Eleanor was appointed to the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations General Assembly by President Truman. She resigned from that position in 1953. Eleanor was also chairman of the Human Rights Commission. After Eleanor resigned, she became an American representative to the World Federation of the United Nations Associations, and later the chairman of the Associations' Board of Directors. President John F. Kennedy appointed Eleanor as a member of the National Advisory Committee of the Peace Corps and the chairman of the President's Commission on the Status of Women.

Answer: Hyde Park, NY

Eleanor died in late 1962 in an apartment in New York City. She was buried next to her husband in a rose garden in their estate in Hyde Park, where the Roosevelts lived for many years.