History
Who became the first female prime minister in modern world history when she took office in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1960?
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
What singer holds the record for the most Grammy nominations in history?
Beyoncé
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields (Physics and Chemistry)?
Marie Curie
Which women’s college basketball team has won the most NCAA national championships in history?
University of Connecticut
Which abolitionist and women's rights activist delivered the famous extemporaneous speech on women's rights in 1851 that is widely remembered by the title "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
Which singer's 1992 cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" became the best-selling single by a female artist?
Whitney Houston
Who is widely credited with writing the world's first computer algorithm/program for Charles Babbage's mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine, in the 1840s?
Ada Lovelace
Who was the first player ever officially signed to the WNBA?
Sheryl Swoopes
Which 19th-century English author wrote timeless literary classics including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma?
Jane Austen
Oprah Winfrey earned an Academy Award nomination for her big-screen feature film debut playing Sofia in which 1985 Steven Spielberg drama?
The Color Purple
Who was the brilliant astronomer and Harvard researcher who established in her 1925 doctoral thesis that stars are composed overwhelmingly of hydrogen and helium?
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
How many total Grand Slam singles titles did Serena Williams win throughout her career?
23
Who served as the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, earning the moniker the "Iron Lady"?
Margaret Thatcher
Which iconic Mexican artist is celebrated worldwide for her uncompromising self-portraits and bold, vibrant style?
Frida Kahlo
Which chemist and X-ray crystallographer produced "Photograph 51," the crucial image that revealed the double-helix structure of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
In what year were women first allowed to compete in the modern Olympic Games?
1900
Known as the "Moses of her people," who led approximately 70 enslaved people to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad and served as an armed scout and spy for the Union Army?
Harriet Tubman
Who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983 for her powerful epistolary novel The Color Purple, becoming the first Black woman to win the award in that category?
Alice Walker
While working at DuPont in 1965, which chemist invented an ultra-strong, lightweight synthetic fiber famously used in bulletproof vests?
Stephanie Kwolek
In what year were women first allowed to compete in the modern Olympic Games?
Tara Lipinski