Pop Culture
In 2004, Unilever launched a campaign for what soap brand, using the slogan “Real Beauty”, showing women of all shapes and sizes in their advertisements?
Dove
Which U.S. state was the first which granted women the right to vote? When women were enfranchised, it was not yet a state but a territory. Suffrage came in 1869 and statehood in 1890.
Wyoming
What tennis star, whose last name is the same as the Japanese city where she was born, won the women's singles competition at the 2021 Australian Open?
Naomi Osaka
Famed American author Louisa May Alcott lived in Boston for much of her life, but based her most famous novel on events from her childhood in Concord, MA. This novel about the March sisters had its eighth film rendition released in December 2019. What is this novel?
Little Women
In the 19th and early 20th centuries in America, what two-word term was used to describe two women living together without financial support from a man -- often, but not always, a lesbian partnership?
Boston Marriage
A 1982 George A. Romero horror anthology film, with screenplay by Stephen King, was called ______show. Fill in the blank, also a 1994 TLC hit about women sleeping around in order to get attention from their unfaithful lovers.
Creep
In what year did New Zealand become the first country to grant women the right to vote?
1893
What U.S. Olympic track and field star in 2000 was the first woman to win medals in five different events at the same Olympics?
Marion Jones
What American novelist was born in 1931 and is known for her prolific writings including "The Bluest Eye," "Song of Solomon," and "Beloved?" That last book was made into a 1996 movie produced by Oprah Winfrey. This Ohioan won both a Nobel Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Toni Morrison
Although kissing runners was not allowed in 2021, the "scream tunnel" is an iconic portion of the Boston Marathon in which runners pass through the campus of what all-women's school?
Wellesley College
Adrianne Curry, Yoanna House, Eva Pigford, and Naima Mora were the winners of the first four seasons of what fashionable reality show that debuted in 2003? The show has filmed most of its 20+ seasons in Los Angeles although a handful have been in New York.
America's Next Top Model
The first woman to hold federally-elected office in the U.S. was Jeannette Rankin, a Representative from Montana. Rankin was famously the only member of the U.S. House to vote against a declaration of war against what Asian nation in a 1940s vote?
Japan
By winning the women's 55 kg category at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which weightlifter became the first athlete from the Philippines to win an Olympic Gold?
Hidilyn Diaz
In 1949, who was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize?
Gwendolyn Brooks
In 1999, what women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts officially consolidated with Harvard to become one and the same?
Radcliffe College
What was the name of the Seinfeld character that allegedly found a loophole in life by going on dates asking women out directly?
Todd Gack
In 1972, Ruth Bader Ginsburg co-founded the Women's Rights Project within what broader organization? A year later she became the Project's general counsel and within two years the group had participated in more than 300 gender discrimination cases.
ACLU
Located about 100 miles east of Charlotte, what North Carolina golf course that has played host to four U.S. Open women's tournaments is named for features of an evergreen tree?
Pine Needles
In what 1995 poem did Maya Angelou declare, "Pretty women wonder where my secret lies / I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size?"
Phenomenal Woman
Born in Cambridgeport, MA, the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism wrote "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" which is often considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Who was this native New Englander?
Margaret Fuller
As of December 30, 2020 there have been 16 seasons of "The Bachelorette" with 17 total "Bacherlorettes." According to Wikipedia, how many of these women are still in a relationship with the show's "winner"?
5
As of November 2020, there have been 53 different people who have served as justices on the High Court of Australia. How many of these 53 have been women?
5
The Scotties Tournament of Hearts is Canada's national women's championship in what sport?
Curling
"A Raisin in the Sun," the first play written by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway, opened in March 1959. The author was a 29-year-old woman who won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Name the author.
Lorraine Hansberry
What famed medical woman was born in Massachusetts in 1821, never married, and spent much of her childhood undergoing attempts from her parents to "overcome shyness?"
Clara Barton