Women's History Month
Since 1995, every politician in this office has issued a proclamation declaring March Women's History Month, usually with a statement about its importance.
Who is the President of the United States?
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and the first PERSON to win two Nobel Prizes.
Who is Marie Curie?
Ruth Graves Wakefield, of East Walpole Massachusetts, invented this classic cookie in 1938.
What are chocolate chip cookies?
The first woman to hold federally-elected office in the U.S. was Jeannette Rankin, a Representative from this state.
A. Wyoming
B. Connecticut
C. Montana
D. Colorado
What is
C. Montana
Women make up 28% of this American political body.
What is Congress?
The first president to declare March as Women's History month after congress passed a law designating March as "Women's History Month."
Who is Ronald Reagan?
The first female justice on the US Supreme Court.
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
Eunice Newton Foote was the first scientist to make the connection between the amount of this gas in our atmosphere and climate change in 1856.
What is carbon dioxide?
This state was the first to give women the right to vote.
A. Massachusetts
B. Wyoming
C. Pennsylvania
D. Virginia
What is
B. Wyoming
Since the 1980s, women have exercised this right at a higher rate than men.
What is voting in presidential elections?
The year of the first women's history month.
A. 1920
B. 1972
C. 1987
D. 2005
What is
C. 1987
The first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of fame.
A. Aretha Franklin
B. Diana Ross
C. Carole King
D. Tina Turner
Who is
A. Aretha Franklin
Bessie Blount Griffin used plastic, boiling water to mold the material, a file, ice pick, hammer, and some dishes to create this device which allowed patients to control how much they would eat without assistance from others.
What is a feeding tube?
In 1893, this was the world's first nation to give women the right to vote.
What is New Zealand?
In 2022, this percent of women were part of the labor force.
A. 49.2%
B. 56.8%
C. 66.5%
D. 71.3%
What is
B. 56.8%
The first women's history week started as a local celebration in this city.
A. Santa Rosa, California
B. San Francisco, California
C. Seneca Falls, New York
D. Rochester, New York
What is
A. Santa Rosa, California
Sally Ride was the first American woman, and the first LGBTQ...
A. Fortune 500 business owner
B. Astronaut
C. Michelin star chef
D. Newspaper editor
What is
B. Astronaut
In 1936, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann was able to conclude that the Earth had this layer., which explained inconsistencies in seismic wave data from earthquakes.
What is Earth's Inner Core?
The first woman was paid a salary for scientific work in this century.
A. The 1600s
B. The 1700s
C. The 1800s
D. The 1900s
What is
B. The 1700s
Caroline Herschel discovered eight comets, received the Gold Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society, and helped discover the planet Uranus!
In this state, women-owned businesses make up 24.7% of all businesses—the most of any state.
A. Washington
B. Maine
C. New Mexico
D. Hawaii
What is
D. Hawaii
The first national Women's History Day took place in 1909, commemorating the one-year anniversary of this event.
A. Garment Worker's Strikes
B. The opening of the first women's industrial school in Virginia
C. The founding of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first race inclusive sorority
D. The Women's Sunday Suffragette march
What is
A. Garment Worker's Strikes
Katharine Graham was the first woman to become a Fortune 500 CEO in this year.
A. 1952
B. 1966
C. 1972
D. 1982
What is
C. 1972
A pioneering female American doctor, medical researcher and an outspoken voice in the pediatrics community, the supercentenarian Leila Alice Denmark (1898–2012) is credited as co-developer of this vaccine.
What is the Pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine.
Kathryn Bigelow was the first woman to win a Best Director Academy Award for this movie in 2010.
What is The Hurt Locker (2008)?
The number of STEM degrees awarded to women has increased by this percent since 2008.
A. 45%
B. 71%
C. 93%
D. 110%
What is
C. 93%