History
Who founded the ACLU Women’s Rights Project in 1972
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
This female gymnast has the most medals in world championship history?
Simone Biles
Who is the patron saint of France, revered as a martyr, and an early symbol of feminism?
Joan of Arc
This legislature caused women’s participation in athletics, particularly college athletics, to skyrocket in the late 20th century?
Title IX
This supreme court case was recently overturned, causing women to lose rights they’d had since 1973? (Bonus: what year and month was it officially overturned?)
Roe v. Wade; June, 2022
This was the first college in America to be coeducational (educate men and women)? (Bonus: when did Niagara University become coeducational?)
Oberlin in 1835; 1944
This women’s college basketball player recently got their name and number on the court, before even graduating?
Caitlin Clark
In which ancient civilization was the first evidence of women playing sports found?
Egypt
This team is the reigning WNBA champions?
Las Vegas Aces
This amendment gave women the right to vote? (Bonus: What year was it passed?)
The nineteenth amendment; 1920
When was the first woman appointed to the supreme court? (Bonus: who was it?)
1981; Sandra Day O’Connor
She has the most GRAMMYs?
Beyoncé
With Monaco being number one, four countries are tied at having the second highest life expectancy for women. Name one.
Japan, San Marino, China, South Korea
The USA has won the most women’s world cups, this country is the only other one to have won multiple, in 2003 and 2007.
Germany
This event signaled the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement?
The Seneca Falls Convention
Which early president was famously told by their wife in a letter to “remember the ladies,” and then infamously didn’t do anything for them?
John Adams
This relatively local woman, was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement, and was even arrested for trying to vote?
Susan B. Anthony
Who was the first female prime minister of England?
Margaret Thatcher
When/ where was the first U.S. Olympic team in women's wrestling established?
Indianapolis, Indiana,
Bonus, in 2004
This state was the first to give women the right to vote?
Wyoming
When was Title IX passed?
1972
This woman was the first black woman to receive a P.H.D from MIT, and her research led to inventions like caller I.D, the portable fax, and solar cells.
Dr. Shirley Jackson
What is the head covering worn in public by some muslim women called?
A Hijab
What is the name of the first documented women’s sporting event, taking place in Olympia?
The Heraean Games
When did the #MeToo movement become very popular? (Bonus: When did it officially start?)
2017; 2006