WorksheetsWomen's History Month Trivia
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
When was International Women's Day started?
1903
1911
1923
1934
What Black woman refused to give up her seat to a White man, in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, thus sparking the civil rights movement of the following decade?
Coretta Scott King
Rosa Parks
Fannie Lou Hamer
Mildred Loving
According to Guinness World Records, this rap artist shattered Queen Bey’s titles for Most simultaneous Billboard US Hot 100 entries by a female artist and Most simultaneous Billboard US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Top 10 entries by a female artist.
Megan Thee Stallion
Cardi B
Lizzo
Missy Elliot
Who was the first woman to run for President of the United States (1872)?
Kamala Harris
Hillary Clinton
Victoria Woodhull
Shirley Chisholm
When did officials of Little League Baseball announce that they would “defer to the changing social climate” and let girls play on their teams?
1958
1962
1974
1985
Who was the first Black woman elected to Congress?
Lelia Foley
Jill Stein
Maxine Waters
Shirley Chisolm
What leading suffragist was arrested and convicted of attempting to vote in the 1872 election, and then was the first woman to appear on a US coin?
Susan B. Anthony
Eleanor Roosevelt
Amelia Earhart
Harriet Tubman
Who was the first female artist to win a Grammy for Album of the Year?
Taylor Swift
Ella FItzgerald
Judy Garland
Beyonce
"What issue was teen activist Greta Thunberg talking about when she said in a speech to the UN, “Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming whether you like it or not.”
Women's Voting Rights
Climate Change
Equal Education
LGBTQ+ Rights
When was the Equal Rights Amendment first introduced into Congress?
1919
1923
1934
1941
Who was the Shoshone woman who served as guide and interpreter on the Lewis and Clark expedition?
Sarah Winnemucca
Sacagawea
Maria Tallchief
Pocohontas
Which author wrote and published Frankenstein on a dare, creating the genre of science fiction?
Mary Shelley
Octavia Butler
Nnedi Okorafor
Suzanne Collins
What woman served as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad, freeing hundreds of southern slaves and leading them to safety in the North?
Harriet “Hattie” Purvis
Ida B. Wells
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Who recently made history after she was confirmed as the first Native American Cabinet secretary and head of the Interior Department?
Deb Haaland
Winona LaDuke
Ayanna Pressley
Ilhan Omar
Which first lady held women-only press conferences?
Michelle Obama
Ladybird Johnson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jackie Kennedy
Who was NASA's first black female engineer?
Mae Jamison
Mary Jackson
Ada Lovelace
Marie Curie
This 70s, all female hard rock band broke down barriers for women in rock and launch the solo careers of 80s rockers Joan Jett and Lita Ford.
The Go-Gos
The Bangles
Bananarama
The Runaways
Which Supreme Court Justice said, "When I'm sometimes asked 'When will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]?' and I say 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that."
Justice Elena Kagan
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
What is the name of the Mexican artist who began painting self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident?
Frida Kahlo
Georgia O'Keefe
Joan Miro
Paloma Picasso
This Bronx born Puerto Rican woman officially became the youngest-ever politician to be elected to office in the United States House of Representatives in 2018.
Ilhan Omar
Rashida Tlaib
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Ayanna Pressley
In 2001, she was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress.
Viola Davis
Halle Berry
Angela Basset
Gabrielle Union
Queen Liliʻuokalani was the last monarch of the Hawaiian Kingdom, until she was overthrown by forces from the US allied with which company that's still in operation today?
Dole
Hershey
Coca Cola
Green Giant
In 1973, this top women's tennis player beat top male champ Bobby Riggs after he told the press that women were inferior and he could defeat any woman in a match.
Billie Jean King
Venus Williams
Nancy Lopez
Mia Hamm
It's said that this transgender woman "threw the first brick" that started the Stonewall Riots, a major turning point in the LGBTQ+ rights movement.
Eva Perón
Mariah Lopez
Dolores Huerta
Sylvia Rivera
in 2015, she was the first actress to win both a drama and comedy Emmy Award for the same role on The Orange is the New Black.
Zendaya
Taraji P. Henson
Uzo Aduba
Kerry Washington
Kamala Harris, the first woman to be elected as Vice President of the United States, previously served as a US Senator from which state?
Arizona
California
New Mexico
Ohio
Even though they considers themself non-binary, Rebecca Sugar is often praised as the first woman to create a Cartoon Network series after creating which show?
Power Puff Girls
The Amazing World of Gumball
Teen Titans Go!
Steven Universe
Activist Malala Yousafzai was survived being shot by the Taliban for being an advocate for what issue?
Education for girls
World Peace
Healthcare for women
Immigrant rights
Temple Grandin, who has autism and is known for invented machines to help calm children with autism, is also a world wide expert in what field?
Animal Behavioral Science
Psychology
Quantum Physics
Social Sciences
Before this world recognized authority on chimpanzee research discovered otherwise, scientists believed humans were the only species able to make and use tools.
Birutė Galdikas
Jane Porter
Dian Fossey
Jane Goodall
