Franklin discovered DNA; Hodgkin won the Nobel prize in Chemistry; Goodall is a famous primatologist and anthropologist
A
Her book, "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
B
Her poem, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
C
First student in an integrated school
D
First woman of color in space
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
A
Sonia Sotomayor
B
Sandra Day O'Connor
C
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
D
Carol Moseley Braun
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
A
Clara Barton
B
Florence Nightingale
C
Elizabeth Freeman
D
Benazir Bhutto
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
A
Amelia Earhart
B
Junko Tabei
C
Joan of Arc
D
Bobbi Gibbs
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
A
Katherine Johnson
B
Ada Lovelace
C
Grace Hopper
D
Anita Borg
Lovelace is known as the first computer programmer; Hopper and Borg are groundbreaking mathematicians/computer scientists
A
Sojourner Truth
B
Sacagawea
C
Rosa Parks
D
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"
A
Greta Thunberg
B
Wangari Maathai
C
Mother Teresa
D
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
A
Muckraker
B
Painter
C
Poet
D
Abolitionist
A
Dolores Huerta
B
Ida B. Wells
C
Fannie Lou Hamer
D
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
A
Yayoi Kusama
B
Eva Gonzalès
C
Mary Cassatt
D
Georgia O’Keeffe
A
Mary Cain
B
Allyson Felix
C
Kathrine Switzer
D
Molly Seidel
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
A
Mary Shelley
B
Mary Wollstonecraft
C
Simone de Beauvoir
D
Virginia Woolf
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
A
Beyoncé
B
Alison Krauss
C
Brandi Carlile
D
Adele
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
A
the 1908 garment workers' strike in New York
B
the 1925 Prohibition Strike
C
the 1957 women's convention in Seneca Falls
D
the 1959 meeting between Eleanor Roosevelt and Elizabeth II