Women's History
In this year, the Constitutional Amendment gave women a voice and presence in political elections.
Bonus: Double the points if you can name the amendment.
1920
Bonus: 19th Amendment
Who was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court appointed by President Reagan making her its first woman justice in the year 1981?
Sandra Day O'Connor
This Oakland native recently won Olympic gold at the 2026 Milan Winter Games.
Bonus point if you can name the female artist she performed to for this final.
Alysia Liu - Olympic Figure Skating
Bonus: Donna Summer("MacArthur Park")
This woman was the first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.
Bonus: Double the points if you can name what movie.
Halle Berry
Bonus: Monsters Ball (2001)
Why is International Women's Day March 8th?
It began in New York City on March 8, 1857, when female textile workers marched in protest of unfair working conditions and unequal rights for women. It was one of the first organized strikes by working women, during which they called for a shorter work day and decent wages. Also on March 8, 1908, women workers in the needle trades marched through New York City's Lower East Side to protest child labor and sweatshop working conditions, and demand women's suffrage. Beginning in 1910, March 8 became annually observed as International Women's Day. Women's History Week was instituted in 1978 to begin adding women's history into educational curricula. In 1987, the National Women's History Project successfully petitioned Congress to include all of March as a celebration of the economic, political, and social contributions of women.”
1917 - On the last Sunday of February, Russian women began a strike for "Bread and Peace" in response to the death of over 2 million Russian soldiers in World War 1. Opposed by political leaders, the women continued to strike until four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. The date the women's strike commenced was Sunday February 23 on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia. This day on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere was March 8.
This American feminist journalist and social political activist became nationally recognized as the spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970's
Gloria Steinem
This female athlete broke the all-time NCAA Division 1 scoring record for both men and women, surpassing Pete Maravich’s 50-year-old record of 3,667 points.
Caitlin Clark – 3,951 points
This woman made history as the youngest artist to win the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2020.
Billie Eillish - 18 Years Old
Which state/territory was the first to grant women the right to vote?
Bonus: Double the points if you can say what year.
Wyoming Territory
Bonus: 1869
Hailed a global Renaissance woman, celebrated poet, educator and multi-linguists, actress, filmmaker, civil rights activist, and author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings."
Maya Angelou
Which female athlete holds the highest single-year record for annual earnings?
Naomi Osaka - $57.3 million in 2021
This production company founded by a woman is known for producing hit television dramas, Bridgerton, Grey’s Anatomy, and Scandal to name a few. What is the company, and who is the founder? Credit only for full answer.
Shondaland, founded by Shonda Rhimes
It was in this year on January 24 the Pentagon signed an order opening all ground-combat missions to women. This order lifted the 1994 rule, which stated that women could not be assigned to units in direct ground conflict. What year was this?
2013 (formally passed for all military branches by 2016)
The first woman to be featured on U.S. coinage and a social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure in the early women’s rights movement who joined with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the suffrage movement for women’s right to vote.
Bonus: what coin was she featured on
Susan B Anthony
Bonus: on the US dollar coin minted from 1979-1981
How many World Cups has the US Women’s National Team won? Double the points if you can list which years.
4 Titles
Bonus: 1991, 1999, 2015, 2019
Some soundbites:
In the movie KPop Demon Hunters, the song "Takedown" is performed by three members of this real-life K-pop powerhouse girl group.
TWICE
Women couldn't get credit cards until what year?
1974 - Congress passed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974, which allowed women to get credit cards in their own names.
This first lady was the first to hold the White House's first press conference for women reporters
Eleanor Roosevelt
Celebrated for her involvement in a multitude of humanitarian causes, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was a leader in her own right. One of her many trailblazing accomplishments was holding the White House’s first press conference for women reporters in March of 1933 -- an especially noteworthy move given women were largely excluded from the media at that point in history. Over the next 12 years, she held 348 such press conferences, all covering subjects “of special interest and value to the women of the country,” according to WomensHistory.org.
And while Roosevelt initially avoided topics considered to be within the political purview of her husband, the scope of these weekly sessions quickly broadened to include everything from defending affordable housing to supporting equal pay for equal work. The subsistence homestead program, old age pensions, and the minimum wage were also topics of discussion.
What is the 2026 WNBA Collective Bargaining Agreement?
The 2026 WNBA Collective Bargaining Agreement brings massive financial changes to the league, including a salary structure tied to revenue sharing. The agreement raised the minimum salary of WNBA players from $66k to $270k, while also giving players a percentage of the league’s gross revenue. The new agreement also aims to improve player experience through mandated charter flights (which were not codified in the previous labor deal) and enhanced standards for staffing and family planning benefits.
For which film did Kathryn Bigelow win the Academy Award for Best Director, becoming the first woman to do so?
Kathryn Bigelow: Won for "The Hurt Locker" in 2009, becoming the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar.