Suffragettes
The first women's rights convention was held here.
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What is Seneca Falls, NY.
Mary Shelley's most famous work; it spawned an entirely new sub-genre of horror fiction.
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What is Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.
The first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Who is Amelia Earhart.
She said "Failure is impossible."
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Who is Susan B. Anthony
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, this is the number of cents on the dollar that women earn compared with men today.
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What is 77.
In 1873, pioneering women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony went on trial for doing this.
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What is voting in a Presidential election.
In the first century CE, this British Celtic queen led a revolt against the invading Roman forces.
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Who is Boudicca.
The first state to allow women to vote.
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What is Wyoming.
This famous feminist insisted, "I don't breed well in captivity."
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Who is Gloria Steinem.
This retail giant was recently ordered to pay $12 million in a gender discrimination lawsuit.
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What is Wal-Mart.
This is the year women won the right to vote in federal elections in the United States.
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What is 1920.
Mary Wollstonecraft's best-known work, which rejected the idea that women are naturally inferior to men, and which argued for women's equality through education.
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What is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Though she did not appear on the ballot, this woman was the first to run for President of the United States. The year: 1872.
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Who is Victoria Woodhull.
She wrote, "That all men and women are created equal."
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Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
This is the percentage of women who voted in the 2008 elections, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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What is 66%.
The number of women who attended the first women's rights convention and who went on to vote after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (which granted women the vote).
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What is one.
This Greek woman was an important and influential poet in her time (7th Century BCE), but the majority of her works have been lost. The term "lesbian" is taken from her life.
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Who is Sappho.
She was the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
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Who is Hattie Wyatt Caraway.
This famous founder of the Hull-House in Chicago said, "Civilization is a method of living and an attitude of equal respect for all people."
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Who is Jane Addams.
Percentage of college students in 2008 who were women.
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What is 55%.
The Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote in national elections. It was also known as the _________ Amendment, named after one of the most famous suffragettes in American history.
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What is the Anthony Amendment.
She's better known now for her tragic romance with Pierre Abelard, but when she lived in the twelfth century CE, this woman was famous for her brilliant scholarship.
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Who is Heloise.
The first woman appointed to the Supreme Court.
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Who is Sandra Day O'Connor.
This Sensible author said of history, "The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all — it is very tiresome."
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Who is Jane Austen.
Percentage of women in the armed forces, as of 2008.
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What is 14%.