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100

She is accredited with being the champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work. She was the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association and helped pave the way for giving women the right to vote.

A. Betsy Ross

B. Susan B. Anthony

C. Lucy Stone

D. Ida B. Wells

B. Susan B. Anthony

100

Who was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in 1903?

A. Marie Curie

B. Gerty Cori

C. Irène Joliot-Curie

D. Rosalind Franklin

A. Who is Marie Curie

100

This woman (D-California) became the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives in 2007.

A. Sarah Palin

B. Nancy Pelosi

C. Catherine Cortez Mastro

D. Madeleine K. Albright

B. Who is Nancy Pelosi?

100

In 2012 this actress was entered into Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-paid actress, with $56 million. In 2009 she won the award for Best Actress at the Golden Globes, Academy Awards, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the blockbuster hit The Blind Side. What is her name?

A. Angelina Jolie

B. Sandra Bullock

C. Jennifer Lopez

D. Anne Hathaway

B. Who is Sandra Bullock?

100

Who was the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal?

A. Alice Coachman

B. Jackie Robinson

C. Serena Williams

D. Simone Biles

A. Alice Coachman

200

In this year Congress delcared March as National Women's History Month. Since this date, a special Presdential Proclamation is issued every year which honors the extraordinary achievements or Americn women.

A. 1987

B. 1980

b. 2000

d. 100 B.C.

A. What is the year 1987?

200

Who was the first African American woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree?

A. Mary Putnam Jacobi

B. Rebecca Lee Crumpler

C. Ann Preston

D. Susan LaFlesche Picotte

B. Rebecca Lee Crumpler

200

I am the first woman and first African American to serve as provost of Stanford University and later became Secretary of State?

A. Sarah Palin

B. Sonia Sotomayor

C. Elizabeth Warren

D. Ivy Taylor

D. Who is Condoleezza Rice?

200

Who was the first woman director

A. Meryl Streep

B. Ella Fitzgerald

C. Ava Duvernay

D. Alice Guy-Blaché

200

Which driver is the only female to have won an IndyCar Series race?

A. Janet Guthrie

B. Sara Christian

C. Danica Patrick

D. Sarah Fisher

C. Danica Patrick

Although Danica Patrick never won a NASCAR Cup race, she did win an IndyCup race in 2008 in Japan at the Twin Ring Motegi race course.

300

In the year 1920, this Constitutional Amendment gave women a voice and presence in political elections.

A. 20

B. 22

C. 19

D. 17

C. What is the 19 Constitutional Amendment?

300

I am a mathematician who calculated the trajectories of Apollo 11, the mission which enabled man to take his first steps on the Moon. Who am I?

A. Katherine Johnson

B. Mary Jackson

C. Dorothy Vaughan

D. Ingrid Daubechies

A. Katherine Johnson

300

In 1997 she became the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State.

A. Barbara Ann Mikulski

B. Nancy Kassebaum

C. Madeleine K. Albright

D. Nancy Pelosi

C. Madeleine K. Albright

300

She was the first woman to acquire the title of "co-host" in 1974. Two years later, she became the first female co-anchor in an evening news program.

A. Barbara Walters

B. Oprah Winfrey

C. Katherine Hepburn

D. Mary Pickford

A. Barbara Walters

300

In what year did women first compete in the Olympics?

A. 1908

B. 1932

C. 1892

D. 1900

That year, 22 of the 997 total athletes were women. The sports they were allowed to participate in were limited but included golf, sailing, tennis, and croquet

400

The first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1921 for her novel The Age Of Innocence. this book inspired several stage and screen adaptations and can be attributed to as the model for the popular Gossip Girls series of books.

A. Maya Angelou

B. Alice Walker

C. Edith Wharton

D. Emily Dickinson

C. Who is Edith Wharton?

400

Who is the British chemist who was instrumental in discovering the structure of DNA. A rover going to Mars in 2021 will bear her first name.

A. Alice Bunn

B. Dorothy Hodgkin

C. Rosalind Franklin

D. Marie Curie

C. Rosalind Franklin

400

Who was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court appointed by President Reagan making her its first woman justice in the year 1981?

A. Sandra Day O'Connor

B. Hillery Clinton

C. Arlene Violet

D. Geraldine A. Ferraro

A. Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?

400

Who was the first female artist to win a Grammy for Album of the Year?

A. Judy Garland

B. Liza Minnelli

C. Ella Fitzgerald

D. Taylor Swift

A. Judy Garland

400

How many titles does Serena Williams hold?

A. 23

B. 30

C. 33

D. 39

500

I was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in approximately 15 hours.

A. Valentina Tereshkova

B. Mae Jemison

C. Svetlana Savitskaya

D. Amelia Earhart

D. Who is Amelia Earhart?

500

Elizabeth Blackwell's status as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States is well known, however, how was she able to be accepted into medical school?

A. She paid double the tuition of a male student.

B. Her father used his influence with the school's dean.

C. She was unanimously voted in by her all-male classmates.

D. She disguised herself as a man in order to attend medical school.

C. She was unanimously voted in by her all-male classmates (thinking the matter was a prank)

500

Who was the first woman to serve as chief of the Cherokee Nation?

A. Wilma Manpiper

B. Madeleine Kunin

C. Wilma Mankiller

D. Madeline Coolidge

C. Wilma Mankiller

500

This American television host, philanthropist, entrepreneur and media personality was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Her first movie debut in 1985 was in The Color Purple. At the end of the 20th century Life Magazine listed her as both the most influential woman and the most influential black person of her generation, and in a cover story profile the magazine called her "America's Most Powerful Woman”. Who am I?

A. Kamala Harris

B. Oprah Winfrey

C. Meghan Markle

B. Who is Oprah Winfrey?

500

This legendary woman is NFL's first female coach.

A. Lauren Silberman

B. Jen Welter

C. Jennifer King

B. Jen Welter became the first female coach in NFL history when the Arizona Cardinals hired her to an intern position in 2015.