Female Firsts
In 2018, she became the first American woman to win a medal in every single event at the World Gymnastics Championships.
Who is Simone Biles?
Roxie Hart & Velma Kelly
What is Chicago?
The name of the female protagonist from “The Hunger Games” series by Suzanne Collins.
Who is Katniss Everdeen?
This Egyptian queen famously aligned herself with Julius Caesar and later Mark Antony.
Who is Cleopatra?
This primatologist is renowned for her groundbreaking study of chimpanzees, challenging the traditional scientific views on animal behavior and human evolution.
Who is Jane Goodall?
A few years before playing Rose on "The Golden Girls", she became the first woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host.
Who is Betty White?
Mean-spirited orphanage mistress Miss Hannigan.
This young girl, known for her love of reading and vivid imagination, falls down a rabbit hole into a whimsical world filled with peculiar characters.
Who is Alice from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"?
This woman, known as the "Iron Lady," served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
One of many times she saved their butts, Sacagawea rescued valuable supplies for this duo after they fell into a river.
Who is Lewis and Clark?
In 1975, Junko Tabei was on top of the world when she became the first woman to reach the summit of this highest peak.
What is Mount Everest?
Sally Bowles & Fraulein Schneider
What is Cabaret?
A specialist in waterproof fires, she was known to use a time-turner so she could be in 2 classes at once.
Who is Hermione Granger?
Known as the "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement," this African American woman refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Intrepid writer Eliza Scidmore lobbied for years to bring these Japanese trees to Washington; Mrs. Taft finally listened.
What are Cherry Blossoms?
Decades before becoming the first female Supreme Court justice, she refused a marriage proposal from future Chief Justice Rehnquist.
Who is Sandra Day O’Conner?
Lorrell Robinson, Deena Jones, Effie White
What is Dream Girls?
In Jane Austen's novel "Pride and Prejudice," which character is famously known for saying, "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife"?
Who is Mrs. Bennet?
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was a key player in the design of this 1935 act creating a national pension system.
What is The Social Security Act?
This American author and conservationist is famous for her series of books chronicling her outdoor adventures and travels in the American West.
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?
The first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Katharine Graham was the longtime publisher of this D.C.-based newspaper.
What is The Washington Post?
Mimi & Joanne
What is Rent?
In the sci-fi novel "Gideon the Ninth", Gideon is a cavalier bonded to Harrowhark, one of these bone-raising conjurers.
What is a necromancer?
This mathematician's work laid the foundation for computer programming and artificial intelligence. She was a pioneer in conceptualizing machine-independent programming languages.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This astronaut, engineer, and physician became the first American woman to travel to space in 1983 aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
Who is Sally Ride?