History
Victoria Woodhull was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement. She was the first women to operate a brokerage firm on Wall Street. She was also the first women to ever run for president (even though she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age of 35) in what year? (If no one gets it right, closest to the answer gets the points!)
1872 election
Who has been called the world's first computer programmer?
Ada Lovelace
The top 3 women in the US with the most olympic medal come from the same sport. What sport was this?
Swimming
What was the first territory/state in the US to give women the right to vote?
Wyoming
This woman was a real admiral in the US States Navy. She also implemented the first complier!
Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
In 2016, this popular movie wrote about the African-American female mathematicians who worked at NASA during the Space Race.
Hidden Figures
This project was a secret WWII project run by the US Army and was the first computer that could send complex calculus equations in seconds. In the mid-190s, 6 women were recognized for their efforts in this project. What was this project?
ENIAC - Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
She was the first to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. She is sometime's known as the first woman of finance.
Muriel Siebert
The Queen of Soul was the first women elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Who was she?
Aretha Franklin
This president was the first to have a female member on his cabinet in 1933. Frances Perkins served as Secretary of Labor.
Franklin D Roosevelt
The Imitation Game was a popular 2014 movie about the life of Alan Turing and the Enigma machine. There was only one woman who worked on decrypting the German Enigma message. What was her name? (not the actor's name)
Joan Clark
Edith Wharton is the first women to with a Pulitzer prize in 1921. Her novel was a critique of the insulary and hypocrisy of the upper class in turn-of-the-centry New York. What was the name of this novel?
The Age of Innocense
In 1892, this person penned a column in the Free Speech and Headlight, urging residents of Memphis to leave because officials in the town failed to "protect our lives and property, nor give us fair trial in the courts, but takes us out and murders us in cold blood when accused by white persons"? Who is this investigative reporter?
Ida B Wells
Who was the first American women (and nun) to recieve a Ph.D in computer science? She was also part of a small team that developed the language, BASIC.
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller
In December 2020, this woman coauthored a groundbreaking paper showing that facial recongition twas less accurate at identifing women and poeple of color. At the time, she was the co-lead of the Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team at Google before being forced out due to this paper.
Timnit Gebru
What were the first women sports introduced to the Olympics in 1900? Note: 5 sports
tennis, sailing, croquet, equestrianism and golf.