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International Women's Day Trivia

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What woman has won a total of 56 Grand Slam tennis competitions events and 9 Wimbledon women’s singles titles?

a)

Martina Navratilova

b)

Martina Hingis

c)

Margaret Court

d)

Billie Jean King

2.

Who wrote “The Feminine Mystique” in 1968 and became a leading figure in the Women’s Movement?

a)

Gloria Steinem

b)

Gertrude Stein

c)

Betty Friedan

d)

Joan Didion

3.

Who was the United States delegate to the United Nations who championed and won the approval of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948?

a)

Madeleine Albright

b)

Hilary Rodham Clinton

c)

Frances Perkins

d)

Eleanor Roosevelt

4.

Who led the fight to criminalize lynching, helped form the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), and aided many black people who migrated from the South to Chicago?

Hint: She was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2020

a)

Sojourner Truth

b)

Ida Wells-Barnett

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Mary Church Terrell

5.

Which Asian-American woman is “the world’s foremost female experimental physicist” for her work in nuclear and particle physics?

a)

Chien–Shiung Wu

b)

Tsai-Fan Yu

c)

Xie Xide

d)

Grace Hopper

6.

Which country first gave women the right to vote?

a)

The Netherlands

b)

United States of America

c)

New Zealand

d)

Great Britain

7.

Who is the first Indian women to receive the Nobel Prize?

a)

Sarojini Naidu

b)

Aishwarya Rai

c)

Indira Gandhi

d)

Mother Teresa

8.

Which 17-year old won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 and found out while she was in chemistry class?

a)

Malala Yousafzai

b)

Greta Thunberg

c)

Kylie Jenner

d)

Lorde

9.

In 2022 the European Parliament elected the first woman president in 20-years. Who is she?

a)

Roberta Metsola

b)

Ursula von der Leyen

c)

Christine Lagarde

d)

Angela Merkel

10.

Who wrote the world's first published computer algorithm and is credited with being the world's first computer programmer?

a)

Grace Hopper

b)

Kay McNulty

c)

Ida Rhodes

d)

Ada Lovelace

11.

Who was the first openly transgender woman to win an Emmy Award and to be nominated for an Academy Award?

a)

Janet Mock

b)

Angela Morley

c)

MJ Rodriguez

d)

Laverne Cox

12.

Which British author wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1790?

a)

Jane Austen

b)

Mary Shelley

c)

Virginia Woolf

d)

Mary Wollstonecraft

13.

Which country has made having a pay gap between men and women illegal?

a)

Iceland

b)

Canada

c)

Sweden

d)

Finland

14.

Which country has the highest rate of women in parliament (61%)?

a)

Bolivia

b)

Rwanda

c)

Cuba

d)

United Arab Emirates

15.

As of 1 September 2021, there are _____ women serving as Heads of State and/or Government.

a)

13

b)

10

c)

52

d)

26

16.

Since when has International Women’s Day been observed?

a)

Since the early 1900s

b)

After the Second World War

c)

Since 2001

d)

Since the 1970s

17.

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

a)

Toni Morrison

b)

bell hooks

c)

Maya Angelou

d)

Audre Lorde

18.

Which famous Thai woman became the only member of the K-Pop band Blackpink?

a)

Tata Young

b)

Eve Pancharoen

c)

Lisa Manoban

d)

Nicole Theriault

19.

Which famous Thai woman founded Moxy - an e-commerce and media site for and by women - and was named as one of Campaign Asia’s 40 under 40 strategic thinkers in 2016?

a)

Kanpassorn Suriyasangpetch

b)

Sharinee Kalayanamitr

c)

Nalutporn Krairiksh

d)

Rarin Thongma

20.

Which country will host the Global Summit of Women in 2022?

a)

Thailand

b)

Portugal

c)

Switzerland

d)

Australia