Women in Sports
The women's sport organization that won a 24 million equal pay settlement this year
Who is the U.S. National Women's soccer team?
In 2021 this musical artist fought and won ownership of her previously recorded songs and re-released her music.
Who is Taylor Swift?
Also known as The Notorious RBG, this Supreme Court Justice was best known for her women and gender rights championing.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsgberg
Women make up what percentage of the workforce in the science, technology, engineering, and math fields?
What is 28%.
What is Ms.Prange's Dogs name?
*each are worth 500 pts*
Who is Donkey
She was the only woman on the list of the world's highest-paid athletes, according to Forbes. Is considered one of the pioneers of a new era in tennis that is focused on power
Who is Serena Williams?
The first woman graffiti artist, nicknamed the "first lady of graffiti"
Who was Lady Pink?
This leader and civil rights activists who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association. Did everything Cesar Chavez did, but as a mother of 11 kids.
Who is Dolores Huerta
The NASA scientist who alongside two other African American scientists worked together to create the calculations that made space exploration possible.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
This teacher coached the boys and girls soccer team here at Roosevelt. She was also born in England
*each worth 500 pts*
Who is Ms. Collins
Due to World War 2 from 1941-1945, this sport was able to be professionally played by women for the first time ever because many men were being drafted to the war.
What is professional baseball?
This Kenyan-Mexican actress and activist is famous for her many roles in film, and in 2019 published a children's book inspired by her childhood
Who is Lupita Nyong'o?
Known as an outspoken advocate for gay rights, she was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969
Who is Marsha P. Johnson.
Her study of chimpanzees has led to an increase of wildlife preserves and pushed forward the study of anthropology and social sciences.
Who is Jane Goodall
This teacher LOVES physics and astronomy, and likes to read physics books for fun!
*each worth 500 pts*
Who is Ms.Scales
Name of a 13 year old girl who became Japan’s youngest gold medal winner for Skateboarding.
Who is Momoji Nishiya?
The Mexican painter most famously known for her vibrant and colorful self portraits.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
This 17 year-old high school senior from San Carlos, Arizona, passionate about her culture, identity, and tribal sovereignty, has become an internationally renowned Indigenous Rights and environmental leader
Who is Naelyn Pike
The first African American woman to go to space was
Who is Mae Jemison?
This teacher is canadian and has lived/worked in Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco
*worth 500 pts*
Who is Ms. Deschamps
This African American sprinter was the first American woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympics and broke the gender barrier of all-male events in track and field
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
The first African-American woman to own her first solo art exhibition.
Who is Alma Thomas?
Anishinaabe Indigenous rights advocate from the Wiikwemkoong First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Ontario Canada. She was names Chief Water commissioner for the Aniishnabek Nation in 2019 at 17 years old.
Who is Autumn Peltier
Of these 5 items which was not invented by a woman?
1.windshield wipers
2.medical syringes
3.The ice cream maker
4. tampons
5. invisible glass
4. tampons
(hint have you seen a board on the the third floor)
*worth 500 pts*
Who is Ms. Kniffel