Historical Events
This Amendment granted women the right to vote.
What is the 19th?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What year was the 19th Amendment ratified?
She was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This TV host is known as the “Queen of all Media” and was the world’s only black billionaire from 2004 to 2006.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
She is a bestselling author and political activist who served as the first African American First Lady of the United States.
Who is Michelle Obama?
This American professional tennis player was the former World No. 1 in women's singles tennis.
Who is Serena Williams?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Who is the former World No. 1 professional tennis player, regarded as one of the greatest women's tennis players of all time?
Rosa Parks' arrest launched this civil rights protest after she refused to give up her seat for white person.
What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
She is the first and only woman to win two Nobel prizes for groundbreaking work in physics and chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?
Having grown up in a tiny one-bedroom cabin in the Smoky Mountains, this country singer now funds the Imagination Library to promote childhood literacy.
Who is Dolly Parton?
She was the second woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, serving from 1993 until her death in 2020.
Who is Ruth Bader Ginsberg?
She is the first female U.S. gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Olympic Games, and the first gymnast to win three consecutive world all-around titles.
Who is Simone Biles?
This law gives female athletes the right to equal opportunity in sports in federally funded educational institutions, from elementary schools to universities.
What is Title IX?
This 20-year-old Swedish environmental activist is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What renowned female scientist, known for her work with gorillas, does Greta cite as her biggest inspiration?
Known as the "Queen of Soul," she was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This 2014 Nobel peace prize laureate had an assassination attempt made against her by the Taliban because she advocated for female education
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
This track runner has taken the Internet by storm, becoming the sixth-fastest woman of all time in 2021 and the fourth-fastest American woman in history.
Who is Sha'Carri Richardson?
Founded on March 8, 1975, this social holiday was originally proposed by anti-fascist and socialist German leader Clara Zetkin.
What is International Women's Day?
Also known as the world's first computer programmer, she was a pioneering mathematician who was the first to recognize the potential of computers.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Famous for her mystery whodunnits, she is the best-selling female author of all time.
Who is Agatha Christie?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What is the name of Christie's most iconic character, found in novels like Murder on the Orient Express?
She is the first and only woman to have served as Prime Minister of the U.K.
Margaret Thatcher
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: What metallic nickname did Margaret Thatcher have due to her uncompromising leadership style?
She is the only woman to win an IndyCar Series race.
Who is Danica Patrick?
This 1848 convention featured Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and other activists. They discussed gender equality and signed the Declaration of Sentiments, formally agreeing to fight for women’s rights.
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
She became the first woman in America to receive a doctor of medicine when she graduated from New York’s Geneva Medical College in 1849.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Who is Georgia O'Keefe?
This woman is the current chancellor of Germany as well as the first woman to ever hold the position.
Who is Angela Merkel?
This rowdy WWE star is a two-time SmackDown Women's Champion and was named "world's most dominant athlete" in a 2015 Sports Illustrated story.
Who is Ronda Rousey?