Women Activists
Famous for being a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, a secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom. She was an abolitionist, Union spy, and a suffragist.
Harriet Tubman
Physics Knowledge: Often called "The First Lady of Physics", known for her groundbreaking in Nuclear Physics. Who is she?
Hint: she played a crucial role in the Manhattan Project, developing a process for separating uranium isotopes by gaseous diffusion.
Chien-Shiung Wu
Considered the greatest women's tennis player of all time!
Serena Williams
APUSH knowledge: Name the 36th state to Ratify the 19th amendment, ultimately giving women the right to vote
Tennessee
Member of the Powhatan tribe and played pivotal role on maintaining peace between her tribe and colonists.
Hint: Disney movie named after her
Pocahontas!
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and an Abolitionist.
Her book helped galvanize the anti-slavery movement in the North.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Throwback to APES: Who was marine biologist who wrote the book "Silent Springs" to raise awareness about dangers of pesticide?
Rachel Carson
She's in the United States Women's National artistic gymnastics team.
Signature move+Hint: The "Biles", which is a double layout with a half twist on the floor exercise.
Simone Biles
A young jewish girl--a victim of the Holocaust--who wrote a diary about her experiences hiding from the Nazis. Her diary is one of the most read books in the world!
Anne Frank
Helped discover the radioactive element protactinium and was first to coin the term "Nuclear fission" in a scientific paper.
Lise Meitner
Name the pioneering trans woman who was one of the leading figures of the Stonewall Riots
Marsha P. Johnson
Everyone talks about the man to land on the moon however, no one talks about the woman behind his success. Who was the mathematician who put him on the moon? Hint: She was one of the first African American woman to work for NASA and was known as "A Human Calculator"
Katherine Johnson
Former #1 tennis player and social activist who is considered as one of the GOAT. She won 39 Grand slam titles in her tennis career and led the fight for equal pay in tennis. Became the first president of the Women's Tennis association.
Billie Jean King
British chemist and X-Ray crystallographer who discovered the structure of DNA.
Sad Fact: Watson and Crick published their paper without giving her Credit. in 1962, Watson and Crick won a Nobel price for "their" discovery that they stole.
Rosalind Franklin
Where was international Women's Day first recognized?
ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland or just Europe
Betty Friedan
Which Hollywood starlet's contribution to the WWII effort laid the groundwork for WI-FI and bluetooth technology?
Hedey Lamarr!!
WNBA star and guard for the Indiana Fever.
Hint: She's #22 and surpassed Pete Maravich's record for most points in Division I history (men's and women's)
Caitlin Clark
Name the indigenous woman who guided the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the newly acquired Louisiana territory?
Sacagawea
Who was the first Self-made female millionaire in the US?
Hint: It was for Beauty/Hair Care products
Madam CJ Walker
Key labor leader an activist for Farm workers and the co-founder of the National Farm workers association with Cesar Chavez
Dolores Huerta
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Hint Hint: It was in chemistry
Marie Curie
Who was the woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Aretha Franklin!
Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Hint: Disappeared in the central Pacific Ocean while attempting to circumnavigate the globe.
Amelia Earhart
Iraqi and British architect, who was first woman to win the Pritzker Architect prize in 2004
Hint: Her Last name is the same as 2 famous Arab- American model sisters.
Zaha Hadid