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Women's History Month Trivia

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who founded Bethune-Cookman College, established the National Council of Negro Women, and served as an advisor on minority affairs to President Franklin D. Roosevelt?

a)

Mary McLeod Bethune

b)

Susan McKinney Stewart

c)

Rutherford B. Hayes

2.

Who was the first woman to run for President of the United States (1872)?

a)

Emmeline Pankhurst

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Victoria Woodhull

3.

Who opened up social work as a profession for women, and also won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize for her anti-war organizing work?

a)

Angela Burdett-Coutts

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Mary Wollstonecraft

4.

What woman was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?

a)

Sophia B. Packard

b)

Angelina Emily Grimke Weld

c)

Toni Morrison

5.

Who wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment, in 1923?

a)

Nancy Lopez

b)

Marie Stopes

c)

Alice Paul

6.

Who was the first African-American woman elected to Congress?

a)

Mary Church Terrell

b)

Shirley Chisholm

c)

Josephine Butler

7.

Who was the first Asian-American woman ever elected to hold a statewide office in the United States?

a)

Anna May Wong

b)

March Fong Eu

c)

Patsy Takemoto Mink

8.

What woman was turned down by 29 medical schools before being accepted as a student, graduated at the head of her class, and became the first licensed woman doctor in the U.S.?

a)

Elizabeth Blackwell

b)

Amelia Earhart

c)

Jane Austen

9.

Who spoke out for the advancement of American Indians' rights from speaker's platforms nationwide and before Congressional committees in the 1880s?

a)

Susan La Flesche

b)

Lozen

c)

Sarah Winnemucca

10.

Who was the first Hispanic woman to serve as U.S. Treasurer?

a)

Romana Bañuelos

b)

Linda Chavez

c)

Lorna Dee Cervantes

11.

Who was Chair of the Board and publisher of The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine, and also oversaw six broadcasting stations?

a)

Katherine Graham

b)

Dolores Huerta

c)

Rosalind Franklin

12.

Who was the Shoshone Indian woman who served as guide and interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition?

a)

Buffalo Calf Road Woman

b)

Sacajawea

c)

Running Eagle