Free Michelle Obama Trivia Questions
Michelle followed her brother to what University?
A: Princeton University.
When did her brother graduate?
A: In 1983.
Where did her brother coach basketball?
A: At Oregon State University and Brown University.
She recalls that some of her teachers in high school tried to dissuade her from what?
A: Applying to Princeton.
She had been told she was doing what?
A: Setting her sights too high.
She believed that her brother's status as an alumnus may have helped her during what?
A: The admission process.
She was resolved to demonstrate her own what?
A: Worthiness.
Her white roommate’s mom reportedly unsuccessfully tried to get her daughter moved because of what?
A: Michelle's race.
Michelle recalls her time at Princeton as being the first time she was aware of her what?
A: Ethnicity.
While at Princeton, she got involved with what academic and cultural group that supported minority students?
A: The Third World Center (now known as the Carl A. Fields Center).
What did she do for them?
A: Ran their day care center, which also included after school tutoring.
Why did Michelle challenge the teaching methodology for French?
A: Because she felt that it should be more conversational.
As part of her requirements for graduation, she wrote a thesis titled what?
A: Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community.
She researched her thesis by sending a questionnaire to whom?
A: African American graduates, requesting they specify when and how comfortable they were with their race prior to their enrollment at Princeton and how they felt about it when they were a student and since then.
Michelle sent the survey to 400 alumni, and how many responded?
A: Fewer than 90.
Michelle’s findings did not support her hope that what?
A: The black alumni would still identity with the African American community.
What did Michelle major in?
A: Sociology.
What did she minor in?
A: African American studies.
Michelle went on to earn her what from Harvard Law School in 1988?
A: Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree.
Who was Michelle’s faculty mentor at Harvard Law?
A: Charles Ogletree.
Charles has said that she had answered what question that had plagued her throughout Princeton by the time she arrived at Harvard Law?
A: Whether she would remain the product of her parents or keep the identity she had acquired at Princeton.
What did she conclude?
A: That she could be "both brilliant and black.
At Harvard she participated in demonstrations advocating what?
A: The hiring of professors who were members of minorities.
She is the third First Lady with what, after her two immediate predecessors, Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush?
A: A postgraduate degree.
She would later say her education gave her what?
A: Opportunities beyond what she had ever imagined.
In July 2008, she accepted the invitation to become an honorary member of the 100-year-old what?
A: Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha.