Women in Sports
This is the year the PWHL (Professional Women's Hockey League) was founded
What is 2023?
This woman is a well-known children's book author, but is also a mycologist! She was one of the first researchers in Britain to successfully germinate fungal spores
(mycology is the study of fungi)
Who is Beatrix Potter?
This woman is not a woman
Who is Justin Giles
This woman was the first to clean sweep the Grammys in each of the Big Four categories; album of the year, song of the year, record of the year, and best new artist
Who is Billie Eilish?
This woman was the first to achieve a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event
Who is Nadia Comaneci?
Women dominate this percentage of social science occupations
What is 61 percent?
This woman founded 'Friday's for Future' at age fifteen, bringing international attention to climate change
Who is Greta Thunberg?
This woman is a ballet dancer
Who is Chelsea Stalsberg?
This woman was the first woman to ever be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
This ballet dancer became the first African American female principle dancer
Who is Misty Copeland?
She was the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States
Who is Marie Maynard Daly?
This woman was the youngest to ever receive a Nobel Peace Prize, at age seventeen
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
This woman love pickles
Who is Payton Zoll?
The woman is the first woman to win Best Rap Album at the Grammys
Who is Ms. Lauryn Hill?
This woman was the first woman from Saudi Arabia to participate in track and field at the 2012 Olympics, racing in the open 800m
Who is Sarah Attar?
This woman co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses, which eventually merged into the American Nursing Association in 1936 and was the first African-American woman to complete a course of professional study in nursing
Who is Mary Eliza Mahoney?
This woman was the co-founder of Critical Resistance, an organization that aims to end the prison industrial complex
Who is Angela Davis?
This woman is pink reincarnated
Who is Lauren Barnes?
This woman is the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice
Who is Stevie Nicks?
This is the fastest time in Olympic history for an open 800m, held by Jarmila Kratochvílová
What is 00:01:53.28?
(for those who don't know 800m races, this is 56.5 seconds per lap)
This woman started the legacy of early detection for cancer while making many milestones in oncology and African-American women in healthcare!
Who is May Edward Chinn?
This woman's activism for equal pay in tennis and boycotting the US Open led it to be the first major tournament to offer equal pay
Who is Billie Jean King?
This woman sleeps in 333 phelps hall
This woman was the first woman and African-American to be appointed CEO/chairman of a major label
Who is Sylvia Rhone?