IA's Women's History Month Trivia 3.23

The 1st licensed woman doctor in the U.S. was turned down by 29 medical schools before she was accepted

Who was the first woman to be named TIME Person of the Year?

This Howard University senior founded "Generation Green," an organization fighting for environmental liberation.

Who is the author of a book about her experience in a Nazi Concentration Camp?

Who was the last queen of the Hawaiian Islands, deposed because American business interests wanted to annex Hawaii

Who has won back-to-back "World's Most Powerful Women" awards and is CEO of PepsiCo?

Women's Right to vote was affirmed in 1934 with the help of:

Alice Walker is the author of The Color Purple

At the age of 19, she became deaf and blind, and campaigned on behalf of people who are deaf and blind

She is one of the most influential Latinx artists of all time and won a Grammy in 1993 for Amor Prohibido

This writer dedicated her life to confronting and addressing injustices of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.

In what year did Little League Baseball announce they would allow women to play on their teams?

What is the name of this fictional character, that represented women who worked during WWII?

Dr. Jill Biden is the first First Lady to maintain her independent job.

Who is the first woman and woman of color to serve as Vice President of the United States?

Which leader was name The World's Most Powerful Woman by Forbes for the last 10 years in a row?

Who was the two time Nobel Prize winner in the areas of chemistry and physics?

The first Women's History Day was held in 1909

Longest running female news anchor on US Television & First Latinx woman to earn a Lifetime Achievement Emmy

Ascending to the British throne in 1952, she has become the longest serving British Monarch

Which celebrity is known for her role as UN High Commissioner for Refugees Goodwill Ambassador?

In what year did Deb Haaland, the first Native American to ever hold a Presidential cabinet position, get confirmed?

She is the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. History

Author of Harry Potter series, she became the first billionaire just from writing books

How old was Zara Rutherford when she became the youngest female pilot to fly solo around the world?

In 2022, the U.S. Mint announced that she will soon become the first Black woman featured on a U.S. quarter.

The 2nd woman to serve on the US Supreme Court and named one of Forbes 100 Most powerful women from 2004 to 2011

Where did Catherine the Great rule?

Who was the first disabled female veteran elected to the U.S. Senate?

Which President signed the Voting Rights Act that allowed all women, including women of color, the right to vote?

Lizzie Magie was the inventor of the original Monopoly game. What was it called?

She worked to save the lives of soldiers from both sides of WWI, without any discrimination

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is the first Latina Supreme Court Justice in US history.

Who used X-Ray crystallography to help determine the structure of DNA?

Wife to F. D. Roosevelt, she made significant contributions to the field of human rights

What was the first state to allow women to vote?

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

Before the 2020 election, what percentage of congress was women?

In what year did Women's History Week become Women's History Month?

Who was a figurehead for the civil rights movement in the US for refusing to give up her seat?

Who was the first female US Supreme Court Justice?

Who co-founded the Women’s Social and Political Union, focused on women's right to vote?

Known as the "Queen of Soul," she was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Who was the first woman to pass the astronaut tests but wasn't allowed to travel to space because of her gender?

This Afro-Latina news anchor confront racism in her book My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race

Beyonce was the first woman to headline Coachella.

Author of Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

This ecologist helped set off the American environmental movement and change laws around pesticide use

Sylvia Rivera is an American Activist most commonly known for inciting the raid at the Stonewall Inn in 1969.

Who rose from poverty to become the first African-American woman billionaire?

In 1865, Pocahontas became the first woman to appear on U.S. currency.

Who is the former First Lady and only First Lady to ever run for public office?

Who is Argentina's first elected female President?

Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court.

This 36 year old scientist works with the Vaccine Reaserch Center and was central to creating the Covid-19 vaccine

Despite the Equal Pay Act, signed in 1963, women were paid 82 cents for every dollar a man made in 2018.

In 2012, this 17 year old girl survived being shot for speaking out about education for girls

Author of several works on feminism, including Feminism Is for Everybody & Ain’t I a woman?: Black Women and Feminism. 

Who was the first woman to enter space and first LGBTQ+ astronaut?

Given the title "First Lady of the Blues," she was considered one of the greatest jazz singers

Who was the first female artist to win a Grammy for Album of the Year?

In 1963 the Business and Professional Women group watched as President Kennedy signed this into law

In what year did Women's History Day become Women's History Week?

In 1851, she gave the famous "Ain't I a woman" speech, which explained gender equality

Who was the first woman to serve as Attorney General?

She was the first female co-host and paved the way for women in journalism

Mary Kies was the first woman to be granted a U.S. Patent. What did she invent?

Being born a slave, who was a famous member of the underground railroad?

As an Albanian nun, worked for over 40 years and started missionaries in Calcutta, India

When were women allowed to own a credit card in their name?