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100
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 1987
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
Who is Marie Curie
She discovered polonium and radium in 1898. In 1903 they won the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering radioactivity. In 1911 she won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for isolating pure radium
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
Who is Nancy Pelosi?
In 2019 she regained her position (for a third term) being the first person to do so in more than 60 years. In 2013, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the American women’s rights movement.
100
What percent of college degrees awarded in the US everyday are given to women?
30%
40%
50%
60%
What is 60%
(Title IX was only passed in 1972. In fact, women are more likely than men to get a high school diploma as well.)
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
Who is Alice Coachman
Segregation in America had restricted her access to top-quality training facilities, but she agreed, per her coach, to attend the trials and she promptly destroyed the existing national high jump record, despite a back injury. She was the only American woman to win a gold medal at the 1948 Games.
200
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. Who is Susan B. Anthony
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
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
She studied at the New England Female Medical College and in 1864 she became the first African-American woman to become a doctor of medicine in the United States.
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
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
She served as the 66th Secretary of State of the United States, the second woman and first African American woman to hold the post. She also served as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (National Security Advisor) from 2001-2005, the first woman to hold this position as well.
200
Women weren't granted the ability to own their own credit card until what year?
1913
1931
1952
1974
What is 1974
(Before the Equal Credit Opportunity Act in 1974 women had to bring a man with them to co sign)
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
Who is Danica Patrick
She won the Indy Japan 3000 race in 2008. This is the only win by a woman in an IndyCar Series race.
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 was the director of software engineering for NASA’s Apollo space program and wrote the mathematical sequence that enabled the Apollo mission to be successful. Who am I?
Margaret Heafield
Valentina Tereshkova
Jessica U. Meir
Svetlana Savitskaya 
Margaret Heafield
(She was so good at what she did, NASA would have her double-check equations done by the computers. Here she is with the code that made the Apollo launch possible)
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
Who is Madeleine K. Albright
She was a professor, author, diplomat, and businesswoman who served as the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. Dr. Albright received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on May 29, 2012.
300
Which is a percent of women's median earnings as a percentage of men's median earnings, for full full-time, year-round workers 16 years and older? (as of 2019)
80.8%
92.0%
96.2%
99.6%
What is 80.8%
300
In what year did women first compete in the Olympics?
A. 1908
B. 1932
C. 1892
D. 1900
What is 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
Rosalind Franklin
(Chicago Medical School changed their name to Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine in 2004 and is historically one of the most prestigious Medical Schools in America located in Chicago, Illinois)
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. Hillary Clinton
C. Arlene Violet
D. Geraldine A. Ferraro
Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?
She thrived at the Radford School for Girls and graduated high school two years early. At sixteen, she was admitted to Stanford University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics. In 1950 she was admitted to Stanford Law. During her time at Stanford Law, she worked on the board of editors for the Stanford Law Review. She completed law school in just two years as opposed to the usual three. She graduated third in her class, with one of the students ahead of her being fellow future justice, William H. Rehnquist.
400
In 1900, 23 PhDs were awarded to women. By 1998, how many women received doctorates?
2,100
54,000
136,000
515,000
What is 515,000
(women in STEM!)
400
How many titles does Serena Williams hold?
A. 23
B. 30
C. 33
D. 39
What is 39
She has 23 in singles, 14 in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles.
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
Who is Wilma Mankiller
In 1985, Wilma Mankiller became the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. She sought to improve the nation’s health care, education system and government.
500
Khutulun was the great-great-granddaughter of legendary conqueror Genghis Khan. She was taught the inner workings of military life by her father and Khutulun became a skilled and powerful warrior. For her marriage, she proposed a challenge for her potential husband:
A fight until surrender
A bow-and-arrow competition
A wrestling match
What is a wrestling match
(If they lost they had to buy her a horse... Legend says she won over 10,000 horses)
500
This legendary woman is NFL's first female coach.
A. Lauren Silberman
B. Jen Welter
C. Jennifer King
Who is Jen Welter
She became the first female coach in NFL history when the Arizona Cardinals hired her to an intern position in 2015.