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1
By choosing to stay seated, who is known as the "Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement"?
Angela Davis
Rosa Parks
Coretta Scott King
Ella Baker
2
What year did women in the U.S. gain the right to vote?
1930
1940
1910
1920
3
Who is recognized by Guinness World Records as the best-selling fiction author with over 2 billion copies of books sold?
Agatha Christie
J. K. Rowling
Jane Austen
P. L. Travers
4
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed an act that made Susan B. Anthony the first woman to appear on a U.S. coin.
True
False
5
No relation to Johnny, which woman was the first self-made female millionaire in the U.S. born in 1867?
Madam C. J. Walker
Martha Stewart
Elizabeth Arden
Oprah Winfrey
6
Which actress inspired the look of Disney's Snow White and patented the tech origins of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS?
Sarah B. Anthony
Ann Atwater
Madame C. J. Walker
Maria Beasley
7
Born in 1937 in Russia, who was the first woman in space?
Eileen Collins
Mae Jemison
Sally Ride
Valentina Tereshkova
8
Who was the first female Grammy winner for Album of the Year from their concert at Carnegie Hall in 1961?
Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday
Dionne Warwick
Judy Garland
9
Which civil rights activist is known for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama?
Sojourner Truth
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
Maya Angelou
10
Who was the first teacher to travel to space?
Katherine Jenkins
Eileen Collins
Sally Ride
Christa McAuliffe
11
Which woman wrote the famous novel "Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus"?
Louisa May Alcott
Mary Shelley
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Emily Dickinson
12
Born in 1836, who was the first woman to be awarded a patent in the United States?
Madame C. J. Walker
Ann Atwater
Sarah B. Anthony
Maria Beasley
13
Larisa Latynina is the most decorated female Olympian in history with how many medals?
18
15
20
10
14
Who was the first and only woman to win two Nobel Prizes?
Malala Yousafzai
Marie Curie
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Jane Goodall
15
Who was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1921?
Stephenie Meyer
Jane Austen
Margaret Mitchell
Edith Wharton
16
Which female singer garnered well-earned respect and is known as the "Queen of Soul"?
Diana Ross
Whitney Houston
Tina Turner
Aretha Franklin
17
Which saintly woman won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her efforts to alleviate poverty?
Aung San Suu Kyi
Mother Teresa
Malala Yousafzai
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
18
Women's History Month in the US began as a local week-long celebration in which flowery California city in 1978?
Santa Clarita
Santa Barbara
Santa Rosa
Santa Ana
19
Which woman wrote the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Alice Walker
Harper Lee
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
20
Who became the first female African-American Secretary of State and first woman to serve as national security advisor?
Condoleezza Rice
Madeleine Albright
Theresa May
Gina Haspel
21
During the Civil War, who became the first woman to lead an armed military raid, was a Union scout, spy, and nurse?
Rosa Parks
Harriet Tubman
Sojourner Truth
Mary McLeod Bethune
22
Which female author wrote the classic novel "Pride and Prejudice"?
Emily Dickinson
Charlotte Bronte
Mary Shelley
Jane Austen
23
In 1954, which famous woman was the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress?
Dorothy Dandridge
Halle Berry
Oprah Winfrey
Whoopi Goldberg
24
Considered as the most influential female painter, who painted "The Two Fridas"?
Mary Cassatt
Cindy Sherman
Georgia O'Keeffe
Frida Kahlo
25
Who was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director for the film, "The Hurt Locker" in 2008?
Kathryn Bigelow
Sofia Coppola
Greta Gerwig
Ava DuVernay
26
Who was the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Elena Kagan
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sonia Sotomayor
Sandra Day O'Connor
27
Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
Indira Gandhi
Theresa May
Nicola Sturgeon
Margaret Thatcher
28
Which famous woman was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Bessie Coleman
Harriet Quimby
Jacqueline Cochran
Amelia Earhart
29
In 1872, who was the first woman to run for President of the United States?
Elizabeth Warren
Shirley Chisholm
Victoria Woodhull
Hillary Clinton
30
Who was the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal in 1900?
Wilma Rudolph
Gertrude Ederle
Helene de Pourtales
Babe Zaharias