Question 1

Discovered polonium and radium

Accepted Answer

Marie Curie - Franklin discovered DNA; Hodgkin won the Nobel prize in Chemistry; Goodall is a famous primatologist and anthropologist

Question 2

What is Ruby Bridges known for?

Accepted Answer

First student in an integrated school - Zora Neale Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God"; Maya Angelou wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"; Mae Jemison was the first woman of color in space

Question 3

Argued several landmark gender discrimination cases and was later appointed to the US Supreme Court

Accepted Answer

Ruth Bader Ginsburg - O'Connor was the first woman on the Supreme Court; Sotomayor was the first Latina Supreme Court Justice; Braun was the first Black US Senator

Question 4

Founded the American Red Cross

Accepted Answer

Clara Barton - Nightingale is known as the mother of modern nursing; Freeman was the first US woman to get a medical degree; Wright was a pioneering neurosurgeon; Bhutto was the Prime Minister of Pakistan who was later assassinated

Question 5

First woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest

Accepted Answer

Junko Tabei - Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic; Joan of Arc led the French army to victory over the English; Gibbs was the first woman to run a (sanctioned) marathon

Question 6

Known as ‘the human computer’ and helped calculate trajectories for the first person in space

Accepted Answer

Katherine Johnson - Lovelace is known as the first computer programmer; Hopper and Borg are groundbreaking mathematicians/computer scientists

Question 7

Helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad

Accepted Answer

Harriet Tubman - Truth was an abolitionist/suffragist who asked "Aint I a woman?"; Sacagawea was a native American who guided early settlers; Parks is often called the "mother of the civil rights movement"

Question 8

Youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner?

Accepted Answer

Malala Yousafzai - Thunberg has been nominated, but not won (yet); Maathai and Mother Teresa were in their 60s when they won; Malala was 17 when awarded the peace prize

Question 9

Who was Ida Tarbell?

Accepted Answer

Muckraker, Painter

Question 10

One of the most visible leaders of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the USA. Arrested for voting in 1872.

Accepted Answer

Susan B. Anthony - Huerta was a labor organizer and co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association; Wells was an anti-lynching advocate, author, and suffragist; Hamer was a leader in the civil rights movement

Question 11

Name the artist!

Accepted Answer

Mary Cassatt

Question 12

Ran the Boston Marathon 5 years before women were allowed to run

Accepted Answer

Kathrine Switzer - Cain was a prodigy who publicized the abuse commonly suffered by female runners; Felix is the most decorated female runner in Olympic history; Seidel is an amateur runner and full-time nurse who won the 2018 Boston marathon

Question 13

Author of "The Second Sex"?

Accepted Answer

Simone de Beauvoir - Shelley wrote Frankenstein and is known as the mother of sci-fi; Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Woolf was one of the most influential modernist authors

Question 14

Most Grammy Awards?

Accepted Answer

Beyoncé - Krauss was the correct answer a couple years ago; Carlile is Hannah's personal hero; Adele has some impressive vocals and a lot of grammys, just not enough to be the correct answer

Question 15

What event inspired the first Women's day?

Accepted Answer

the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York

2) What is Ruby Bridges known for?

3) Argued several landmark gender discrimination cases and was later appointed to the US Supreme Court

4) Founded the American Red Cross

5) First woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest

6) Known as ‘the human computer’ and helped calculate trajectories for the first person in space

7) Helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad

8) Youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner?

9) Who was Ida Tarbell?

10) One of the most visible leaders of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the USA. Arrested for voting in 1872.

11) Name the artist!

12) Ran the Boston Marathon 5 years before women were allowed to run

13) Author of "The Second Sex"?

14) Most Grammy Awards?

15) What event inspired the first Women's day?