Melania Trump Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Trivia quiz with answers about Melania Trump.

Melania Trump Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers

Who is Melania Trump?
A: Melania Trump is a Slovenian-American former fashion model and, as wife of the 45th U.S. President Donald Trump, the current First Lady of the United States.

When was Melania born?
A: April 26, 1970.

What was her birth name?
A: Melanija Knavs.

Where was she born?
A: In Novo Mesto, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia).

Who was her father?
A: Her father, Viktor Knavs, was from the nearby town of Radeče.

What did her father do for a living?
A: He managed car and motorcycle dealerships for a state-owned vehicle manufacturer.

Who was her mother?
A: Her mother Amalija who came from the village of Raka.

What did she do?
A: She worked as a patternmaker at the children's clothing manufacturer Jutranjka in Sevnica.

As a child, Melania and other children of workers at the factory participated in what?
A: Fashion shows that featured children's clothing.

Who is her older sister?
A: Ines, who is an artist and her "longtime confidant".

Who is her brother?
A: She has an older half-brother, whom she reportedly has never met—from her father's previous relationship.

Her father was in the League of Communists of Slovenia, which espoused a policy of what?
A: State atheism.

As was common, however, he had his daughters secretly what?
A: Baptized as Catholics.

When Melania was a teenager, she moved with her family to a what?
A: Two-story house in Sevnica.

As a high-school student, she lived where?
A: In a high-rise apartment in Ljubljana.

She attended the Secondary School of Design and Photography in Ljubljana, and studied architecture and design at what university?
A: The University of Ljubljana for one year before she dropped out.

She began modeling at how old?
A: Five years old.

When did she start doing commercial work?
A: At sixteen when she posed for the Slovenian fashion photographer Stane Jerko.

When she began working as a model, she transcribed the Slovene version of her last name "Knavs" to what?
A: The German version "Knauss".

At eighteen, where did she sign with a modeling agency?
A: In Milan, Italy.

In 1992, she was named what?
A: Runner-up in the Jana Magazine "Look of the Year" contest, held in Ljubljana.

It promised its top three contestants what?
A: An international modeling contract.

She worked as a fashion model through agencies in Milan and Paris, later moving to where in 1996?
A: New York City.

Her modeling career was associated with what agencies?
A: Irene Marie Models and Trump Model Management.

In 2001, Knavs became what?
A: A permanent resident of the United States.

In what year did she marry Donald Trump?
A: In 2005.

When did she obtain U.S. citizenship?
A: In 2006.

Why is the legitimacy of this citizenship in dispute?
A: Because she illegally worked in the US without a work VISA.

Instead, she was using what?
A: A tourist VISA.

She is the second American First Lady born outside the United States, the first what?
A: Naturalized U.S. citizen to become First Lady.

When the Trumps met Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2017, Melania brought her rosary and did what?
A: She asked the Pope to bless it.

How many paid modeling jobs did she have in the U.S. in the seven weeks before she received legal permission to work in the country?
A: 10.

In 2010 she launched her own line of what?
A: Jewelry, Melania Timepieces and Jewelry, for sale on QVC.

She also marketed what?
A: A Melania Skin Care Collection, sold in high-end department stores.

According to a financial filing in 2016, her businesses brought in how much money that year?
A: Between $15,000 and $50,000.

In 2017, the two companies that manufactured her jewelry and skin care products under license said they had what?
A: Terminated their relationship with her.

On inauguration day her companies and products were listed in her official White House biography, but they were what?
A: Quickly removed.

In September 1998, she met what real estate mogul?
A: Donald Trump.

Trump and Marla Maples had been separated since when?
A: May 1997.

Donald Trump attended the party with whom?
A: Celina Midelfart.

When Midelfart went off to use the restroom, Trump approached Knauss and asked for what?
A: Her telephone number.

She took his phone number instead, and they subsequently began what?
A: A relationship and frequented the 1990s Greenwich Village hot spot Moomba.

While they were dating, her family relocated to what city?
A: New York, where they now live for most of the year.

In 1999, the couple gained attention after what?
A: An interview on The Howard Stern Show.

When she was asked by The New York Times what her role would be if Donald Trump were to become President, what did she reply?
A: "I would be very traditional, like Betty Ford or Jackie Kennedy."

In 2000, she appeared with Donald Trump while he campaigned for what?
A: That year's Reform Party presidential nomination.

Knauss and Donald Trump became engaged in what year?
A: 2004.

When did they get married?
A: On January 22, 2005.

Where did they get married?
A: They married in an Anglican service at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida.

Where was the reception?
A: In the ballroom at her husband's Mar-a-Lago estate.

At the reception, Billy Joel serenaded the crowd with "Just the Way You Are" and supplied new lyrics to what?
A: The tune of "The Lady Is a Tramp".

She wore a $200,000 dress made by whom?
A: John Galliano of the house of Christian Dior.

When was their son Barron William Trump born?
A: On March 20, 2006.

In November 2015, she was asked about her husband's presidential campaign and replied what?
A: "I encouraged him because I know what he will do and what he can do for America. He loves the American people and he wants to help them."

In 2016, she told CNN her focus as First Lady would be to do what?
A: Help women and children.

She also said she would combat what?
A: Cyberbullying, especially among children.

In July 2016, her official website was redirected to where?
A: Trump.com.

On July 18, 2016, where did she give a speech?
A: At the 2016 Republican National Convention.

The speech contained a paragraph that was nearly identical to a paragraph of what?
A: Michelle Obama's speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

When asked about the speech, Trump said what?
A: That she wrote the speech herself "with as little help as possible."

What happened two days later?
A: Trump staff writer Meredith McIver took responsibility and apologized for the "confusion".

She assumed the role of First Lady of the United States on what date?
A: January 20, 2017.

She continued living in Manhattan at the Trump Tower with their son, Barron, until when?
A: The end of his 2016–2017 school year at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School.

They moved into the White House in Washington, D.C., on what date?
A: June 11, 2017.

What is her Secret Service code name?
A: "Muse" (beginning with the same letter as Trump's code name, "Mogul", per Secret Service tradition).

Her staff of nine is less than half of that of whom?
A: The two previous first ladies.

How tall is she?
A: 5 feet 11 inches.

On March 8, 2017, she hosted her first White House event, a luncheon for what?
A: International Women's Day.

In October 2018, Trump took a four-country, sole tour of Africa, without whom?
A: Her husband, focusing on conservation and children and families, visiting Ghana, Malawi, Kenya, and Egypt.

On May 7, 2018, Trump formally started what?
A: The Be Best public awareness campaign.

Vogue has compared Trump's wardrobe as First Lady to that of whom?
A: Jacqueline Kennedy and Nancy Reagan.

What is her native language?
A: Slovene.

She also speaks what?
A: English and Serbo-Croatian.

Trump has said that she also speaks what?
A: French, Italian, and German.

She is the first Catholic to live in the White House since whom?
A: President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline and the second Catholic First Lady of the United States.