Question 1

What year did Maya Angelou win the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Accepted Answer

2010

Question 2

What year did Marie Curie discover the elements radium and polonium?

Accepted Answer

1998

Question 3

What year did Chien-Shiung Wu win the National Medal of Science?

Accepted Answer

1975

Question 4

What year did Gertrude Ederle swim across the English Channel?

Accepted Answer

1926

Question 5

What year did Eleanor Roosevelt help pass the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Accepted Answer

1948

Question 6

What year did Sonia Sotomayor become the first Latina US supreme court justice?

Accepted Answer

2009

Question 7

What year was Malala Yousafzai the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

Accepted Answer

2014

Question 8

What year did Patsy Mink become the first Asian American woman to be elected into the US congress?

Accepted Answer

1967

Question 9

What year were women granted the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

1920

Question 10

What year were women granted the right to have their own bank account?

Accepted Answer

1974

Question 11

What year did Elizabeth Blackwell become the first woman to graduate medical school?

Accepted Answer

1849

Question 12

What year was the first female vice president sworn in?

Accepted Answer

2021

Question 13

What year did Sally Ride become the first woman in space?

Accepted Answer

1983

Women's History: Guess The Year Trivia Quiz

2) What year did Marie Curie discover the elements radium and polonium?