WWN history quiz

Question 1

Women make up 57.8 percent of the labor force.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

In 1770, a bill proposing that women using makeup should be punished for witchcraft was presented to the UK Parliament

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Jane Addams

Question 4

Which of these statements are true?

Accepted Answer

All the above

Question 5

Cherokee leader Nancy Ward lead battle against the Creeks, and led the Cherokee to victory in 1775.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

Who was the first female elected leader of an African country?

Accepted Answer

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Question 7

Sally Ride was the first woman in space — and the first gay astronaut.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Who was the first computer programmer?

Accepted Answer

Ada Lovelace

Question 9

When could women get their own credit cards?

Accepted Answer

1974

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

Kathryn Bigelow

Question 11

In 1777, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington rode twice as far as Paul Revere to warn of a British attack.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Who was the United State's first Prima Ballerina?

Accepted Answer

Maria Tallchief

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

Gertrude Elion

Question 14

Who was the first woman to receive a medical degree?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 15

Who was the chemist that invented Kevlar?

Accepted Answer

Stephanie Kwolek

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Madam CJ Walker

Question 17

When did Women's History month start in Santa Rosa, California?

Accepted Answer

1978

Question 18

Which US state was the first to give women the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

Wyoming

Question 19

In 1853 Antoinette Blackwell became the first American woman to be ordained a minister in a recognized denomination.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

Hatshepsut was 1 of the most powerful women in the ancient world and the one & only female pharaoh in recorded history.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

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

Accepted Answer

Hedy Lamarr

Question 22

Which of these objects weren't invented by a Women?

Accepted Answer

Foundation/Makeup

Question 23

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

Accepted Answer

Janet Guthrie

Question 24

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 25

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

Accepted Answer

Victoria Woodhull

Question 26

The earliest recorded female physician was Merit Ptah, a doctor in ancient Egypt who lived around 2700 B.C.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

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

Accepted Answer

Ellen Swallow Richards

Question 28

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

Accepted Answer

Mae C. Jemison

Question 29

True or False. The first ever computer programmer was a woman.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

The first country to grant women the right to vote in the modern era was New Zealand in 1893.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

The 19th amendment didn't give all women the right to vote.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 32

Who was the first woman to head a democratic government in a Muslim majority country?

Accepted Answer

Benazir Bhutto

Question 33

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

Accepted Answer

Malala Yousafzai

Question 34

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

Accepted Answer

Ada Kepley

Question 35

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

Accepted Answer

Margaret Knight

Question 36

The first woman to rule a country as an elected leader in the modern era was Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 37

Which of these was invented by women?

Accepted Answer

Liquid Paper, Choc-chip Cookies, Life Raft, Circular Saw

Question 38

Aretha Franklin was the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

When is International Women's Day?

Accepted Answer

March 8th

Question 40

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

Accepted Answer

Maya Angelou

Question 41

Claudette Colvin refused to give up her bus seat 9 months before Rosa Parks did.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

The smartest person in the word is a woman named Marilyn vos Savant.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 43

Eleanor Roosevelt held over 300 all-woman press conferences.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 44

This year's Women History Month theme is "Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

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

Accepted Answer

Margret Thatcher

Question 46

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

Accepted Answer

Manon Rheaume

Question 47

Who was the inventor of the windshield wiper?

Accepted Answer

Mary Anderson

Question 48

Who is considered the "First Lady of Physics" and worked on the Manhatten Project?

Accepted Answer

Chien-Shiung Wu

Question 49

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

Accepted Answer

Bessie Coleman

Question 50

The world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji, was published in Japan around A.D. 1000 by female author Murasaki Shikibu.

Accepted Answer

True

WWN history quiz

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