WorksheetsWomen's History Month Trivia
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
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?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Susan McKinney Stewart
Rutherford B. Hayes
Who was the first woman to run for President of the United States (1872)?
Emmeline Pankhurst
Marie Curie
Victoria Woodhull
Who opened up social work as a profession for women, and also won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize for her anti-war organizing work?
Angela Burdett-Coutts
Jane Addams
Mary Wollstonecraft
What woman was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
Sophia B. Packard
Angelina Emily Grimke Weld
Toni Morrison
Who wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment, in 1923?
Nancy Lopez
Marie Stopes
Alice Paul
Who was the first African-American woman elected to Congress?
Mary Church Terrell
Shirley Chisholm
Josephine Butler
Who was the first Asian-American woman ever elected to hold a statewide office in the United States?
Anna May Wong
March Fong Eu
Patsy Takemoto Mink
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.?
Elizabeth Blackwell
Amelia Earhart
Jane Austen
Who spoke out for the advancement of American Indians' rights from speaker's platforms nationwide and before Congressional committees in the 1880s?
Susan La Flesche
Lozen
Sarah Winnemucca
Who was the first Hispanic woman to serve as U.S. Treasurer?
Romana Bañuelos
Linda Chavez
Lorna Dee Cervantes
Who was Chair of the Board and publisher of The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine, and also oversaw six broadcasting stations?
Katherine Graham
Dolores Huerta
Rosalind Franklin
Who was the Shoshone Indian woman who served as guide and interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Buffalo Calf Road Woman
Sacajawea
Running Eagle
