Activism & Firsts
How many push-ups does Ruth Bader Ginsburg do every day?
20
When was the Nineteenth Amendment ratified? 100 point bonus for the first team to explain the Amendment.
1920
What is Madeleine Albright known for?
Being the first woman to become Secretary of State
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
a. Selma Lagerlof
b. Gerty Cori
c. Marie Curie
d. Elinor Ostrom
Marie Curie (c)
Who said "No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body"?
a. Margaret Sanger
b. Naomi Wolf
c. Harriet Tubman
d. Barack Obama
Margaret Sanger (a)
What is Clara Barton known for?
Founding the Red Cross
When was the first woman allowed to try a case before the Supreme Court?
1879
Who was the first woman of color elected to the U.S. Senate?
Carol Moseley Braun
When was the first woman able to earn a doctorate in dentistry?
1866
Who said "As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking"?
a. Betty Friedan
b. Roman Payne
c. Virginia Woolf
d. Jessica Valenti
Virginia Woolf (c)
Who coined the term "Jane Crow" to mark the intersection of race and sex?
a. Hillary Clinton
b. Lyndon B. Johnson
c. Harriet Tubman
d. Pauli Murray
Pauli Murray (d)
What year was the first International Women's Day celebrated?
1911
Who was the first black woman to hold a cabinet position?
Patricia Roberts Harris
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Peace?
a. Marie Curie
b. Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner
c. Barbara McClintock
d. Gerty Cori
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner (b)
Who said "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"?
a. Irina Dunn
b. Madonna
c. Margaret Atwood
d. Brigham Young
Irina Dunn (a)
Who was the first person to undergo gender reassignment surgery?
a. Winston Churchill
b. Christine Jorgensen
c. Pauli Murray
d. Betty Friedan
Christine Jorgensen (b)
How many women does it take to screw in a lightbulb
1
Who was appointed to fill her husband's seat in the U.S. Senate upon his sudden death in 1931?
Hattie Wyatt Caraway
Who was the first known woman to ride in a hot air balloon?
a. Sophie Blanchard
b. Lilian Bland
c. Elisabeth Thible
d. Marie Marvingt
Elisabeth Thible (c)
Who said "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own"?
a. Gloria Steinem
b. Mary Wollstonecraft
c. Jane Austen
d. Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde (d)
Who is considered the first feminist philosopher?
a. Betty Friedan
b. Kate Sheppard
c. Mary Wollstonecraft
d. Emmeline Pankhurst
Mary Wollstonecraft (c)
What year was the equitable pay act passed?
1963
Who was the first woman to serve on two (2) major law reviews (Harvard Law and Columbia Law)?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
When did the first woman race in NASCAR? 100 point bonus if you know who she was.
1949 (Sara Christian)
Who said "Remember the women"?
a. Helen Gurley Brown
b. Margaret Sanger
c. Abigail Adams
d. Louisa May Alcott
Abigail Adams (c)