WOMEN IN HISTORY
WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT/ACTIVISM
WOMEN IN ART
WOMEN IN EDUCATION
Women in STEM
100
True or False
The first female ruler ever recorded was the queen of Egypt Hatshepsut.
What is False
Kubaba is the first recorded female ruler in history. She was queen of Sumer, in what is now Iraq about 2,400 BC.
She reigned for 100 years – roughly in the Early Dynastic III period (ca. 2500–2330 BC) of Sumerian history.
100
She graduated from Wellesley College and went on to become a first lady and a senator.
Who is Hillary Clinton?
100
Marian Anderson was barred from singing in the Washington’s Constitution Hall because she was Black. Her open–air concert was a triumph over bigotry for this international star. Her 1939 Easter Sunday concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial drew a crowd of how many?
A. 42,000
B.75,000
C. 100, 000
What was 75,000 people.
100
She is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. Hint: She had an attempt to her life to keep her silent and she survived.
A. Nadia Murad
B. Malala Yousafzai
C. Tawakkol Karmen
Who is Malala Yousafzai
She was born 12 July 1997), often referred to as Malala, and by her married name Malala Yousafzai Malik is a Pakistani activist for female education and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is also the world's youngest Nobel Prize laureate, and second Pakistani to ever receive a Nobel Prize. She was only 17. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become the country's "most prominent citizen".
100
Who was the first woman in Space?
A. Valentina Tereshkova
B. Ellen Ochoa
C. Mae C. Jemison
Who is Valentina Tereshkova
She made history as the first woman in space aboard the then-Soviet Union's Vostok 6 spacecraft in 1963. In the nearly six decades since Tereshkova first ventured into space, 64 more women have followed suit, albeit in fits and starts.
200
In this year ALL women secured the right to vote in the United States.
A. 1945
B. 1955
C. 1965
What is 1965?
200
The first British Prime Minister, she served the longest term in 150 years.
Hint: There's only been two so far. Her nickname was the "Iron lady"
Who is Margaret Thatcher
The United Kingdom has had two female Prime Ministers: Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990) and Theresa May (2016–2019). The longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century, she was the first woman to hold that office. As prime minister, she implemented policies that became known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style
200
What 19th-century English author penned Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, among other works? Her novels focused on character, relationships, and marriage.
Who is Jane Austen
200
True or False.
Mary McLeod Bethune, known as “The First Lady of The Struggle”, started a public school due to her commitment to building better livelihoods for African
Americans through education.
False
She started a private school which turned to a university
Bethune Cookman University
200
This mathematician is known for calculating the trajectory of the Apollo 11 mission and for her role in the movie Hidden Figures.
A. Dorothy Vaughn
B. Mary Jackson
C. Katherine Johnson
Who is Katherine Johnson
300
True or False
Historically beer making was dominated by women because it was believed it was witchcraft.
True
Humans have been drinking beer for almost 7,000 years, and the original brewers were women. From the Vikings to the Egyptians, women brewed beer both for religious ceremonies and to make a practical, calorie-rich beverage for the home.
So if you traveled back in time to the Middle Ages or the Renaissance and went to a market in England, you’d probably see an oddly familiar sight: women wearing tall, pointy hats. In many instances, they’d be standing in front of big cauldrons. They wore the tall, pointy hats so that their customers could see them in the crowded marketplace. They transported their brew in cauldrons. And those who sold their beer out of stores had cats not as demon familiars, but to keep mice away from the grain.
The fundamentalist religious movement, which originated in the early 16th century, preached stricter gender norms and condemned witchcraft. Male brewers saw an opportunity. To reduce their competition in the beer trade, these men accused female brewers of being witches and using their cauldrons to brew up magic potions instead of booze. At the time, being accused of witchcraft wasn’t just a social faux pas; it could result in prosecution or a death sentence.
300
Who was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
A. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
B. Sonia Sotomayor
C. Sandra Day O'Conner
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor.
President Ronald Reagan appointed her. She began serving as an associate justice in 1981 and remained on the court for 24 years.
300
This 1930s female Dancer, Actress along with her dancing partner are credited with revolutionizing the Hollywood Musical genre. After winning an Oscar for her role in Kitty Foyl, She became one of the biggest box-office draws and highest paid actresses of the 1940s.
Who is Ginger Rogers
300
Lucy Diggs Slowe was selected as the first African-American woman to be named Dean of Women at which university?
A. Howard University
B. Stafford University
C. Harvard University
What is Howard University
300
Jane Goodall is known for her work with?
What is Chimpanzees
400
This state refused to join the US without a guarantee that women in this state would be able to vote
A. Wyoming
B. Vermont
C. California
What is Wyoming.
400
Who was the United States delegate to the United Nations who championed and won the approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Hint: She was the longest serving first lady.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt
400
Who was the famous singer who was known as the Empress of the Blues?
A. Ma Rainey
B. Bessie Smith
C. Memphis Minnie
Who is Bessie Smith
400
True or False
The founder of #1000blackgirlbooks, a campaign that started in 2015 with the goal to collect and donate 1,000 books to students that featured black girls as the main characters was started by a 13 year old.
What is true
Marley Dias was 13 years old. Her work has also earned her a spot as the youngest person on Forbes 2018 “30 Under 30” list.
400
True or False
Only 58 women in history has received the Nobel Prize?
What is True
As of 2021, 59 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 58 women.
The distribution of Nobel prizes awarded to females is as follows:
- Eighteen women have won the Nobel Peace Prize (16.5% of 109 awarded).
- sixteen have won the Nobel Prize in Literature (13.6% of 118 awarded).
- twelve have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (5.4% of 224 awarded).
- seven have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (3.7% of 188 awarded).
- four have won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1.8% of 219 awarded).
- and two, Elinor Ostrom and Esther Duflo, have won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2.2% of 89 awarded).
500
In 1893 this country became the first in modern history to grant women the right to vote nationwide.
A. Netherlands
B. New Zealand
C. Ireland
What is New Zealand
500
Under FDR, this woman was the first to be appointed to a presidential cabinet, serving as Secretary of Labor.
Who is Frances Perkins?
500
This woman is called the Mother of American modernism". She played an important part in the development of modern art in America, becoming the first female painter to gain respect in New York's art world in the 1920s. Her unique and new way of painting nature, simplifying its shapes and forms meant that she was called a pioneer. Hint: She studied at UVA.
Who is Georgia O'Keefe
500
This woman stated that woman ought to and should obtain college degrees so that if a woman was called upon to support herself, she would be able to do so.
A. Alice Palmer
B. Mary Bethune
C. Lucy Slowe
Who is Alice Palmer
She argued that women ought to and should obtain college degrees so that if a woman was called upon to support herself, she would be able to do so. Discussions of American education would be incomplete without her. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Great Americans.
500
Who was the first woman to receive a Nobel prize? Hint: think Radium
Who is Marie Curie
December 1903 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded Pierre Curie, Marie Curie, and Henri Becquerel the Nobel Prize in Physics, "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel." At first the committee had intended to honour only Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, but a committee member and advocate for women scientists, Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler, alerted Pierre to the situation, and after his complaint, Marie's name was added to the nomination. Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
