Math & Sci
What facilities did Florence Nightingale help establish?
a) airports
b) nursing schools
b) nursing schools
How did Michelle Bachelet inspire Chilean women?
a) holding protests for womens rights
b) becoming the first female Chilean president
c) murder
b) becoming the first female Chilean president
While in a Japanese prison camp, Colonel Ruby Bradley assisted in 230 major operations and delivered 13 babies. She survived for three years eating,
a) 1 loaf of bread daily
b) 1 cup of rice daily
c) 1 bowl of noodles daily
b) 1 cup of rice daily
Who was the first woman to fly across the English channel?
a) Marie Marring
b) Harriet Quimby
c) Amelia Earhart
b) Harriet Quimby
How did Billie Jean King promote gender equality?
a) helped legitimise womens tennis
b) fought Bobby Riggs
c) organised protests
a) helped legitimise womens tennis
Marie Curie won her Nobel prizes for investigating ...
a) radioactivity
b) chemistry
c) astronomy
a) radioactivity
Sheikh Hasina (Bangladesh) is the longest serving female Head of State or Prime Minister in the world. In total she served as leader for ...
a) 12 years
b) 16 years
c) 20 years
c) 20 years
What role did Queen Elizabeth II have during WWII?
a) front line soldier
b) fighter pilot
c) truck mechanic
c) truck mechanic
Amy Johnson was the first woman to fly solo from Brittan to ...?
a) Mexico
b) Australia
c) England
b) Australia
Who is the only tennis player to achieve a 'Golden Slam'? - win all four Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal in the same calendar year
a) Serena Williams
b) Roger Federer
c) Steffi Graf
c) Steffi Graf
What was Ada Lovelace's contribution to computing?
a) inventing the keyboard
b) developing the screen light
c) writing the first computer algorithm
c) writing the first computer algorithm
Who was the first democratically elected female president in Africa?
a) Sylvie Kinigi - Burundi
b) Ellen Johnson Sireleaf - Liberia
c) Sahle-Work Zewde - Ethiopia
b) Ellen Johnson Sireleaf - Liberia
Lieutenant Colonel Martha McSally was the first woman to,
a) fly in combat and command USAF fighter squadron
b) drive a miltary tank
c) command an aircraft carrier
a) fly in combat and command USAF fighter squadron
How old was Joan Merriem Smith when she recieved the first female airline transport rating?
a) 22
b) 23
c) 24
b) 23
Jarmila Kratochvilova's 800m world record has been unbroken since it was set ...
a) 40 years ago
b) 30 years ago
c) 20 years ago
a) 40 years ago
In 2014 Maryam Mirzakhan became the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal. What topic did her research investigate?
a) geometry
b) calculus
c) trigonometry
a) geometry
What is Isabel Martinez de Peron's greatest achievement?
a) first woman on the Moon
b) inventing the television
c) first female president in the world
c) first female president in the world
Joan of Arc is viewed as a symbol of French freedom and independence because of ...
a) giving birth to five highly decorated soldiers
b) her role in ending the 100 year war between England and France
c) saving hundreds of lives by training army nurses
b) her role in ending the 100 year war between England and France
When did the Church of England ordain its first female priest?
a) 1994
b) 1984
c) 2004
Sonita Muluh became the first drug-tested female athlete to squat what milestone weight in 2024?
a) 200kg
b) 150kg
c) 300kg
c) 300kg