Women's History Month

She was a nurse who changed hospitals for the better (cleaning hospitals and preventing spread of diseases within the hospital)

• Rosa Parks

• Florence Nightingale

• Eleanor Rossevelt

• Ida Wells

Answer explanation

Florence Nightingale or the “Lady With the Lamp” helped treat soldiers during the Crimean War. She was shocked to discover that more soldiers were dying from infectious diseases like typhoid and cholera than from battle wounds. Because of her efforts, hospital’s death rate we estimated to drop from about 40 percent to around 2 percent.

How old was Joan of Arc when she first went to war?

• 17

• 18

• 19

• 20

Answer explanation

Joan of Arc at age 17 helped the French to victories against English in the hundred year war.

She was the first woman to win any kind of Nobel Prize

• Rosalind Franklin

• Lise Meitner

• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Marie Curie

Answer explanation

Marie Curie together with her husband Pierre discovered radium and polonium. She is the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different sciences (physics and chemistry).

Risked her life to hide people from the Nazis

• Shirley Chisholm

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Harriet Tubman

• Miep Gies

Answer explanation

Miep Gies hid Anne Frank and her family, which enabled the publication of “Diary of a Young Girl”

One of the first great female Pharaohs in the 1500s BC

• Hatshepsut

• Cleopatra

• Nefertiti

• Nimaethap

Answer explanation

One of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs, man or woman. Next was Cleopatra 1,400 yrs later.

Woman who paved the way for female mathematicians

• Hypatia

• Sacagawae

• Gertrude Elion

• Lise Meitner

Answer explanation

Hypatia was one of the first women to study and teach math, astronomy, and philosophy. Thanks to Hypatia, women had a public voice for the first time and proved that they could have intelligent thoughts just like men did.

This woman heped NASA send astronauts to the moon

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Rosa Parks

• Katherine Johnson

• Amelia Earhart

Answer explanation

She was known as a “human computer,” figuring out the difficult calculations needed for spaceflight. She broke racial barriers, like using the bathroom that was supposed to be for white women only. Her story can be seen in the movie "hidden figures."

She stood up for African Americans—by sitting down.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

• Shirley Chisholm

Answer explanation

She refused to give up her sit to a white riders. She sparked the bus boycott and inspired people to fight for their rights.

The first Filipina to lead an uprising against a foreign power.

• Gabriella Silang

• Tandang Sora

• Teresa Magbanua

• Josefa Llanes Escoda

Answer explanation

Gabriela Silang assumed leadership after husband (Diego) was assassinated

Her real name is Melchora Aquino

• Tandang Sora

• Teresa Magbanua

• Josefa Llanes Escoda

• Magdalena Leones

Answer explanation

Had the nickname Mother of the Revolution after taking care of Andres Bonifacio and other Katipuneros in 1896. She was captured and interrogated but refused to give any information