Famous Women
Famous Women
Famous Women
Famous Women
Famous Women
100

What is the name of the famous woman primatologist who studied chimpanzees?

 Jane Goodall

100

Which woman became as "white as snow" as a result of punishment for challenging authority?

 Miriam

100

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

100

What organization, founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, has almost three million members across all age groups and raises over $750 million between January and March each year with their annual fundraising efforts?

The Girl Scouts

100

Which women's musical group had Number 1 hits in the 1980s including "Walk Like an Egyptian" and "Eternal Flame"?

The Bangles

200

Who is the famous woman in the Spanish Civil War who said "They shall not pass"?

Dolores Ibarruri

200

 Who was the first British woman to fly solo round the world in 1966?

Sheila Scott

200

 What slang term for marijuana is also the name of a style of women's shoes that have a strap across the top of the foot?

 Mary Jane

200

Jenny Craig is the sister nutrition program of what women's-only gym chain, which promotes its 30-minute total body workout?

Curves

200

DuPont first produced what thermoplastic polymer material at one of its plants in Seaford, Delaware in 1935 that is synonymous with a piece of women’s undergarment?

Nylon

300

What is the name of the woman narrator in Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights'?

Nelly Dean

300

Which of Louisa May Alcott's characters in the  novel "Little Women Little Women" wanted to be a writer?

Jo

300

What Irish boxer is the undisputed women's lightweight champion of the world, and also the winner of the women's gold medal in boxing at the 2012 Olympic Games?

Katie Taylor

300

A 2014 Reality TV show featured a group of American women thinking that they were competing to marry which member of the British royal family, who would actually go on to marry an American woman in 2018?

Prince Harry

300

What famed Boston author of "Little Women" was previously taught by Henry David Thoreau and even penned him a poem titled "Thoreau's Flute?"?

 Louisa May Alcott

400

 What nickname was given to Nadya Suleman, the woman from Southern California who gave birth to eight babies in January of 2009?

Octomom

400

In 1999, what women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts officially consolidated with Harvard to become one and the same?

Radcliffe College

400

What international competition has been won by women from the Philippines on four occasions: Gloria Diaz in 1969, Margie Moran in 1971, Pia Wurtzbach in 2015, and Catriona Gray in 2018?

Miss Universe

400

Which 2015 Netflix comedy stars Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda as two older women whose husbands have just left them—for each other?

 Grace and Frankie

400

Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital was in the news in January 2022 for refusing to perform a transplant of what vital organ on a patient who was unvaccinated against COVID-19?

Heart

500

What two gymnastic events are done in competition by both men and women?

Vault and Floor

500

In 1893, New Zealand was the world's fist nation to pass what suffrage-related measure?

Women's right to vote

500

Celebrated by many on November 13th, what holiday on which women ask men out originated from the Al Capp comic strip, "Li'l Abner?"

Sadie Hawkins Day

500

Who was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court?

 Sandra Day O'Connor

500

Danica Patrick, the most successful woman in the history of American open-wheel racing, is originally from the town of Beloit in what midwestern American state?

Wisconsin

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