Women's History Month!

Solve the riddle: A father and son are in a horrible car crash that kills the dad. The son is rushed to the hospital; just as he’s about to go under the knife, the surgeon says, “I can’t operate—that boy is my son!” Explain.

Answer explanation

40-75% of people can’t solve this riddle because they’re unable to imagine the surgeon is a woman! The surgeon is the boy’s mother.

____ was a nurse during the Civil War who founded the American Red Cross.

• Clara Barton

• Victoria Woodhull

• Mary Cassatt

• Elaine Sanchez

____ is the first Latina Supreme Court justice.

• Sandra Day O’Connor

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Ana Maria Perez

• Sonia Sotomayor

Ada Lovelace, the First Computer Programmer, was born in ...

• 1954

• 1920

• 1973

• 1815

Answer explanation

Ada Lovelace has been called the world's first computer programmer. What she did was write the world’s first machine algorithm for an early computing machine that existed only on paper. Of course, someone had to be the first, but Lovelace was a woman, and this was in the 1840s. Lovelace was a brilliant mathematician, thanks in part to opportunities she was afforded that were denied most women of the time.

Can you name 3 women artists? 🤔

Answer explanation

Since 2016, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) has been asking this question (5 artists not 3) on social media each March during Women’s History Month. The campaign calls attention to the fact that women have not been treated equally in the art world, and today they remain dramatically underrepresented and undervalued in museums and galleries!

Bessie Coleman was the first African-American woman, and also the first woman of Native-American descent, to hold a _____ license

National Women's Day was fist celebrated in ...

• New York

• Berlin

• Buenos Aires

• London

Answer explanation

Theresa Malkiel, a women's rights activist established the first “National Women's Day” on February 28, 1909.

Congress officially designated Women’s History Month as a permanent event every March in year...

• 1952

• 1920

• 1987

• 2003

Answer explanation

Before it was a month-long celebration, the United States celebrated Women's History Week.

Alice Guy-Blaché is considered to be the first ever female film director, when did she direct her first film?

• 2002

• 1976

• 1954

• 1896

Answer explanation

The 1896 version of La Fée aux Choux (The Fairy of the Cabbages) is a lost film that featured a honeymoon couple, a farmer, pictures of babies glued to cardboard, and one live baby. This is arguably the world's first narrative film, and the first film directed by a woman.

Lizzie Magie invented which board game?

• Clue

• Monopoly

• Scrabble

• Risk

Answer explanation

Magie’s identity as Monopoly’s inventor was uncovered by accident in 1973. Before that people thought Charles Darrow had invented the game.