History
In what year did Women's History Week become a full month?
A.) 1972
B.) 1977
C.) 1984
D.) 1987
D.) 1987
What Constitutional Amendment granted women the right to vote?
The 19th Amendment
Grace Murray Hopper was a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy in the 1940s and created the first...
A.) Walkie Talkie
B.) COBOL computer system
C.) Submarine Telescope
D.) Landing platform on ships
B.) COBOL Computer System
Hopper created COBOL, which is the first user‐friendly business computer software system in the 1940's. She also termed the word "bug", a glitch in the computer system, when she found a moth in it, which was causing problems.
Which mother led a 125–mile march of child workers all the way from the mills of Pennsylvania to President Theodore Roosevelt’s vacation home on Long Island?
A) Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
B) Clara Lemlich
C) Mother Teresa
D) Rosa Parks
A) Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Which iconic singer, known as the "Queen of Soul," helped shape the sound of American music with hits like "Respect" and "Natural Woman"?
A) Billie Holiday
B) Whitney Houston
C) Aretha Franklin
D) Tina Turner
C) Aretha Franklin
In what state did Women's History Month originate?
A.) Chicago
B.) New York
C.) California
D.) Washington DC
C.) California
In Santa Rosa, California
Who helped found the Women Strike for Peace in 1961 which opposed the Vietnam War and the first women elected to Congress on a women’s rights peace freedom?
A) Bella Abzug
B) Eleanor Roosevelt
C) Jeanette Rankin
D) Betty Friedan
A) Bella Abzug
Marie Van Brittan Brown created what in 1969?
A.) CCTV
B.) Jukebox
C.) Walkman
D.) Mobile phone
A.) CCTV
CCTV or Closed Circuit Television was invented due to the slow response of the police in her neighborhood. Her invention still influences modern CCTV today.
One of the most important Union spies and scouts during the Civil War was a Black woman who had escaped from slavery
A) Sojourner Truth
B) Frances Harper
C) Harriet Tubman
D) Ida B. Wells
C) Harriet Tubman
Which author wrote the groundbreaking novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which tackles themes of racial injustice in the American South?
A) Harper Lee
B) Maya Angelou
C) Toni Morrison
D) Zora Neale Hurston
A) Harper Lee
Which President signed a Proclamation that established March 8th as National Women's History Week?
A.) Jimmy Carter
B.) Richard Nixon
C.) Gerald Ford
D.) Ronald Reagan
A.) Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter signed the Proclamation in 1980, declaring that the week of March 8th was National Women's History Week
Who was the only female attorney on the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund team the won Brown v. Board of Education winning 9 of 10 of her arguments and later became a federal judge?
A) Thurgood Marshall
B) Constance Baker Motley
C) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
D) Shirley Chisholm
B) Constance Baker Motley
Shirley Ann Jackson is an award-winning theoretical physicist who created…
A.) A lightbulb
B.) A Phone
C.) Call Waiting and Caller ID
D.) Bluetooth
C.) Call Waiting and Caller ID
She is regarded as the greatest ballerina born in America. Her father was the Chief of the Osage Indians
A) Misty Copeland
B) Maria Tallchief
C) Isadora Duncan
D) Martha Graham
B) Maria Tallchief
Which Mexican artist, known for her vibrant self-portraits, became a symbol of resilience and is regarded as one of the most influential female painters of the 20th century?
A) Georgia O'Keeffe
B) Frida Kahlo
C) Clara Peeters
D) Mary Cassatt
B) Frida Kahlo
Women's History Month was born out of a protest to include more women's stories in what?
School history books and or school curriculum
Which woman played a key role in advocating for the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935, becoming a prominent figure in shaping U.S. social policy?
A) Eleanor Roosevelt
B) Frances Perkins
C) Margaret Sanger
D) Betty Friedan
B) Frances Perkins
Who started “Mother’s Day” as an annual event when women could demonstrate against war; first event was a women’s peace festival on June 2, 1873?
A.) Julia Ward Howe
B.) Susan B. Anthony
C.) Jane Adams
A.) Julia Ward Howe
Daughter and granddaughter of Paiute Indian Chiefs from Nevada, she lobbied Congress, wrote extensively, and traveled across country during the late 1800s lecturing on the hardships brought upon Native Americans by the U.S. Government
A) Wilma Mankiller
B) Debra Haaland
C) Pocahontas
D) Sarah Winnemucca
D) Sarah Winnemucca
Which pioneering African American poet is known for her works like I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and became a voice for the Black feminist movement?
A) Audre Lorde
B) Nikki Giovanni
C) Gwendolyn Brooks
D) Maya Angelou
D) Maya Angelou
The initial March 8th date was chosen to correspond with this international observance?
International Women's Day
Which woman served as the first female Supreme Court Justice, breaking barriers in U.S. judicial policy?
A) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
B) Sonia Sotomayor
C) Elena Kagan
D) Sandra Day O'Connor
D) Sandra Day O'Connor
Eldorado Jones is best known for banning men from working in her factory and only allowing women over the age of 40 to work. She was also known for creating the first airplane muffler, light electric iron, a small ironing board, and a salt shaker that kept salt from getting damp. Her nickname was..
A.) Tin Woman
B.) Iron Woman
C.) Man Crusher
D.) Iron Creator
B.) Iron Woman
She came to the U.S. when she was a teenager to study science and stayed to become "the world's foremost female experimental physicist." Her most famous experiment disproved what had been thought to be a fundamental scientific law.
A) Marie Curie
B) Lise Meitner
C) Chien-Shiung Wu
D) Rosalind Franklin
C) Chien- Shiung Wu
Who is considered the first female director in Hollywood history, known for pioneering techniques in film directing with works like The Passion of Joan of Arc?
A) Alice Guy-Blaché
B) Kathryn Bigelow
C) Agnès Varda
D) Lina Wertmüller
A) Alice Guy- Blache