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General Trivia
100
This civil rights activist refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
This singer of “Bad Guy” became the youngest artist to win the four major Grammy categories in the same year.
Who is Billie Eilish?
100
She co-invented the first compiler and helped develop COBOL, making computer programming more accessible to businesses.
Who is Grace Hopper?
100
International Women’s Day is observed annually on this date.
What is March 8?
200
She became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
200
This movie received three Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay in 2017.
What is Hidden Figures?
200
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences: Physics and Chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?
200
What is the color of International Women’s Day?
What is purple?
300
This U.S. Supreme Court Justice became a cultural icon known as the “Notorious RBG.”
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
300
Before becoming an Oscar-winning actress, this Harvard graduate earned a degree in psychology.
Who is Natalie Portman?
300
In the 1840s, she wrote what is considered the first computer algorithm, intended for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
300
This country elected the world’s first female prime minister in 1960
What is Sri Lanka?
400
In 1916, she became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
Who is Jeannette Rankin?
400
This bestselling nonfiction book by Rebecca Skloot tells the story of the woman whose cancer cells became one of the most important tools in modern medical research.
What is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks?
400
Her work on calculating trajectories was critical to NASA’s early space missions, and she helped send John Glenn into orbit.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
400
When did the first woman go to space?
1963