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1
Which powerful female singer has a song titled 'Run the World (Girls)?
Beyoncé
Taylor Swift
Rhianna
Pink
2
Who, in 1865, became the first woman in Britain to qualify as a doctor?
Emily Blackwell
Marie Curie
Florence Nightingale
Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson
3
How many Grand Slam titles does Serena Williams have?
14
39
23
72
4
In 1975, this woman was the first to climb Mount Everest - what was her name?
Tryntje Young
Junko Tabei
Yasuko Namba
Ruchia Takahashi
5
Who wrote
The Second Sex
?
Iris Murdoch
Elizabeth Anscombe
Simone De Beauvoir
Mary Midgley
6
Dolores S. Williams is the author to which book?
Sexism and God-Talk
Sisters in the Wilderness
In Memory of Her
Standing Again at Sinai
7
Which English singer-songwriter became the first person in Grammy history to win the top three awards twice?
Dusty Springfield
Amy Winehouse
Kate Bush
Adele
8
1.Who was the First Woman to Fly Solo across the Atlantic?
Bessie Coleman
a) Harriet Quimby
Betty Miller
Amelia Earhart
9
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was the first qualified female doctor in the UK?
False
True
10
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
True
False
11
Which woman was born enslaved, became an entrepreneur & philanthropist, & co-founded the first black church in LA?
Madam C.J. Walker
Biddy Mason
Pauli Murray
Thelma "Butterfly" McQueen
12
Which US state was the first state in which women could vote?
Wyoming
Tennessee
New York
Mississippi
13
What is the 2023 tagline for International Women's Day?
#BalanceforBetter
#ChoosetoChallenge
#EmbraceEquity
#PressforProgress
14
According to Jewish tradition, how many prophetesses are there?
12
5
18
7
15
In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar. What was the film?
Point Break
True Lies
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
16
How did Hannah Arendt define the Banality of Evil?
The senselessness of violence
The ordinariness of immoral acts committed by individuals
The futility of resistance
The inevitability of oppression
17
Which suffragette threw herself in front of the King's horse as protesting women's suffrage at the Epsom Derby in 1913?
Millicent Fawcett
Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emily Davison
18
Who was the first female English monarch?
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Mary I,
Queen Victoria
Queen Anne
19
What famous phrase, based on her coverage of the trial of a Nazi war criminal, is Arendt known for?
'The malevolence of man'
'The evil of totalitarianism'
'Eichmann's evil'
'The banality of evil'
20
The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducted its first female performer in 1987. Who was it?
Shania Twain
Whitney Houston
Britney Spears
Aretha Franklin
21
Rosalind Franklin was a pioneer in the study of what?
organic chemistry
Molecular structures
atomic particles
natural science
22
Islamic feminist Fatima Mernissi’s book 'The Veil and the Male Elite...' was banned in which countries?
Malaysia, Iran and Pakistan
Morocco and India
The Arab states of the Persian Gulf and Pakistan
Morocco, Iran and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf
23
Which novelist had a blue plaque at 29 Fitzroy Square in London, where she lived from 1907 to 1911?
Iris Murdoch
Rebecca West
Virginia Woolf
Doris Lessing
24
Who was the first female Member of Parliament?
Nancy Astor
Anna Boschek
Constance Markievicz
Mary Clifford
25
The Musawah movement fights for equality & justice for women in the Muslim family and is based in which country?
Pakistan
Canada
Saudi Arabia
Malaysia
26
9.The daughter of which Romantic Poet is credited as being one of the first computer programmers?
Samuel Taylor-Coleridge
Lord Byron
William Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe-Shelly
27
Regina Jonas, often thought as the first female rabbi, was born and served as a rabbi in which city?
Warsaw
Jerusalem
New York City
Berlin
28
In 'Beyond God the Father' Daly argued against the construction of God being described exclusively in what term?
Intransitive verbs
None of the above, God isn't even mentioned in the Bible
Male
Female
29
In what year did all women receive the right to vote in the UK?
1903
1914
1928
1918
30
In what year was Girton College founded as the 1st residential college to offer degree-level education to women?
1948
1924
1869
1873