Gal's of History (MSV)

Question 1

Who was the inventor of the windshield wiper?

Accepted Answer

Mary Anderson

Question 2

Who was the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook?

Accepted Answer

Cheryl Sandberg

Question 3

Who invented a machine that created flat-bottomed brown paper bags?

Accepted Answer

Margaret Knight

Question 4

Who was the first woman to graduate from law school in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Ada Kepley

Question 5

Who was a pharmacist who was awarded the Noble Prize for medicine in treating cancers?

Accepted Answer

Gertrude Elion

Question 6

Who was the first American woman to obtain a degree in chemistry and founder of home economics?

Accepted Answer

Ellen Swallow Richards

Question 7

Who is an activist for girls education and the youngest ever to win a Nobel Prize?

Accepted Answer

Malala Yousafzai

Question 8

Who is known as the "Mother of Social Work?"

Accepted Answer

Jane Addams

Question 9

Who was the first female video game designer?

Accepted Answer

Joyce Weisbecker

Question 10

Who was the first woman to serve as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States?

Accepted Answer

Sandra Day O'Conner

Question 11

Who was the first African-American woman to become a licensed airplane pilot?

Accepted Answer

Bessie Coleman

Question 12

Who was the president of YouTube?

Accepted Answer

Susan Wojcicki

Question 13

Who was the chemist that invented Kevlar?

Accepted Answer

Stephanie Kwolek

Question 14

Who was the first computer programmer?

Accepted Answer

Ada Lovelace

Question 15

Who was the poet and author of such autobiographies as I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings?

Accepted Answer

Maya Angelou

Question 16

Who was a French fashion designer of clothing, hats, jewelry, handbags and perfume?

Accepted Answer

Coco Chanel

Question 17

Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and called the "Iron Lady"?

Accepted Answer

Margret Thatcher

Question 18

Who is the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director?

Accepted Answer

Kathryn Bigelow

Question 19

Who was the first woman to receive a medical degree?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 20

Who was the first African-American woman to travel in space?

Accepted Answer

Mae C. Jemison

Question 21

Who invented Frequency Hopping that would lead to wi-fi?

Accepted Answer

Hedy Lamarr

Question 22

What Indy woman was one of the most successful African-American business owners of the 1900's?

Accepted Answer

Madam CJ Walker

Question 23

Who was the first woman to play in the National Hockey League (NHL)?

Accepted Answer

Manon Rheaume

Question 24

Who was the first female film director?

Accepted Answer

Alice Guy Blache

Question 25

Who was the first woman race car driver to compete in the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500?

Accepted Answer

Janet Guthrie

Question 26

Who was the first female candidate for President of the United States?

Accepted Answer

Victoria Woodhull

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