Women's Trivia Questions

Who was the first woman to win an unshared Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine?

Who wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment, in 1923?

Anne Hutchinson was forced out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and sought sanctuary in Rhode Island in 1637

Who led the fight to criminalize lynching, helped form NAACP and aided many black people who migrated from the South?

Who is the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics in 1963 after she discovered the structure of atoms?

Eleanor Roosevelt was the United Nations US delegate who won approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

What comic book heroine was created by psychologist William Moulton Marston, inventor of the polygraph machine?

On average, how many periods do women get in a lifetime?

When did prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded school programs and activities occur?

When did officials of Little League Baseball announce that they would let girls play on their teams?

When was the Equal Rights Amendment first introduced into Congress?

The sound of your voice changes during your period

What political wife snapped: "I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette"?

When is International Women's Day?

What leading suffragist was arrested and convicted of attempting to vote in the 1872 election?

Which French military leader and strategist led an army aged only 16?

Who was the first woman to run for President of the United States?

Who refused to give up her seat to a white man in 1955, thus sparking the civil rights movement of the following decade?

Who was the first woman in modern history to lead a major Native-American tribe, the Cherokee Nation?

What former slave was a powerful speaker for the rights of women and Black people?

Who graduated at the top of her class and became the first licensed woman doctor in the US?

Who became the first female Secretary of State of the United States, appointed by President Clinton in 1997?

How much blood is released on average during a period?

Who was the first Native American to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963?

What are period cramps?

Who was invited to teach nuclear physics at Princeton University, though no female students were allowed to study there?

Who is the longest-serving female U.S. senator, elected in 1986?

What god, in classical mythology, dressed as a woman and performed womanly tasks for 3 years to appease his fellow gods?

Who was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

What woman has won a total of 56 Grand Slam tennis competitions events and 9 Wimbledon women’s singles titles?

Carol Moseley Braun was the first black woman elected to Congress

Who was the final ruler of Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty, famed for her beauty and shrewd politics?

Who was the first Hispanic woman to serve as U.S. Treasurer?

Who introduced America to French cooking in her books and television series from 1963 through the 1990’s?