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Women's History Month Trivia

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 1hrs 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to:
a)
fly solo across the Atlantic
b)
fly a plane
c)
fly in the Air Force
d)
fly around the world
2.

Who was the first African-American Woman to earn a pilot's license.

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Bessie Coleman

c)

Alice Blackwell

3.

Who was the first black Congresswoman (1968) and ran for President in 1972, winning 151 delegates at the Democratic Convention?

a)

Coretta Scott King

b)

Betty Shabazz

c)

Shirley Chisholm

4.

Which Civil War nurse founded the American Red Cross?

a)

Florence Nightengale

b)

Dorothea Dix

c)

Clara Barton

5.

Who helped guide and interpret for Lewis and Clark as they mapped routes to the Pacific coast?

a)

Sacagawea

b)

Pochohantas

c)

Sarah Winnemunca

6.

Which famous Women’s Rights pioneer's image appeared on a dollar coin, making her the first woman to be depicted on U.S. currency?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Martha Washington

7.

Who was the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice?

a)

Sonia Sotomayor

b)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

c)

Sandra Day O'Connor

8.

In 1960, at the age of six, she was the first African-American female student to integrate an elementary school in the U.S. South.

a)

Ruby Bridges

b)

Marian Wright

c)

Misty Copeland

9.

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

a)

Mary Church Terrell

b)

Shirley Chisholm

c)

Josephine Butler

10.

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

11.

The first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Sally Ride

c)

Amelia Earhart

12.

Made history as the first African-American woman in space.

a)

Mae Jemison

b)

Jane Goodall

c)

Wilma Rudolph

13.

Her arrest that launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

a)

Amelia Earhart

b)

Sally Ride

c)

Rosa Parks

14.

Spent hiding from the Nazis with her family in the Secret Annex in Amsterdam, she wrote extensive daily entries in her diary to pass the time.

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Jane Goodall

c)

Ann Frank

15.

An American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Julia Child

16.

A primatologist most known for her long-term study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania.

a)

Jane Goodall

b)

Wilma Rudolph

c)

Laura Ingalls Wilder

17.

Who was the 1st First Lady to run for President?

a)

Hillary Clinton

b)

Michelle Obama

c)

Sarah Palin

18.

When is International Women's Day?

a)

April 8th

b)

March 1st

c)

March 8th

19.

I was born in Poland, and I'm the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two different areas. Who am I?

a)

Jane Goodall

b)

Marie Curie

c)

Ella Fitzgerald

20.

What amendment to the US Constitution granted women the right to vote?

a)

15th Amendment

b)

13th Amendment

c)

19th Amendment

21.

In what year were women granted the right to vote in the United States?

a)

1900

b)

1913

c)

1920

22.

Who is this woman who helped slaves escape?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Amelia Earhart

c)

Rosa Parks

23.

Who was the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives?

a)

Nancy Pelosi

b)

Nikki Haley

c)

Elizabeth Warren