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WorksheetsWomen's Trivia
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 12mins
This athlete has won six Olympic medals in her career. She's an heptathlon competitor and long jumper, and has represented the United States in three Olympic Games. Can you name her?
Florence Griffith Joyner
Marion Jones
Merlene Ottey
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
This Czech-born tennis player has won 18 Grand Slam singles titles. She has won the Women's Singles title at Wimbledon nine times. Can you name this all-time great champion?
Hana Mandlikova
Martina Navratilova
Jana Novatna
Anna Kournikova
Bonnie Blair was right up there with the all-time greats in her sport. She has represented the U.S. in four Olympic Games, winning a total of six medals, five of them gold. Can you name her sport?
Rowing
Speed Skating
Biatholon
Cycling
Brandy Chastain, Mia Hamm, Brianna Scurry, and Julie Foudy were a few of the players on the 1999 FIFA World Cup Championship soccer team. Which country did they play for
United States
Germany
Brazil
Sweden
Her name is Laila, and she's a boxing champion, just like her dad was. She won the super middleweight championship in 2002. Who is her very famous father?
Joe Frazier
Muhammad Ali
George Foreman
Sugar Ray Leonard
In 1903, Marie Curie was the first woman awarded a Nobel Prize for her incredible work in what?
Radiation
Conservation
Purification
Teleportation
Which soccer player has joined Mia Hamm as the only American woman player to both assist 20 and score 20 goals in the same calendar year?
Abby Wambach
Calri Lloyd
Alex Morgan
Tobin Heath
Which famous founder of modern nursing was nicknamed 'the Lady with the Lamp'?
Lady Dynamite
Annie Nightingale
Mother Teresa
Florence Nightingale
Lady Dynamite
Amelia Earhart - the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean - disappeared while flying around the world in what year?
1949
1961
1955
1937
She was a U.S. Alpine skier, with two World Cup Championships in downhill skiing and gold and silver Olympic medals to boot. Her first name is Picabo. What is her last name?
Lane
Alley
Street
Place
What was the first state to allow women to vote?
California
Utah
Colorado
Wyoming
Sally Ride is most famous for being the first woman to do what?
Enter Space
Race in NASCAR
Win 5 Gold Medals
CEO of a Fortune 500 Company
Joan Benoit Samuelson won the first Olympic Marathon race for women in 1984 in Los Angeles, representing the United States.
TRUE
FALSE
What did French Feminist Simone de Beauvoir famously say?
“One is not born but becomes a woman”
“Man, I feel like a woman”
“Just like a monkey I’ve been dancing my whole life!”
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”
Eileen Gu is the first Chinese American to win an Olympic gold medal in which category?
Speed Skating
Snowboarding
Free-style Skiing
Figure Skating
National Girls and Women in Sports Day is celebrated on which day?
February 24th
February 1st
February 1st
February 7th
February 24th
Who was the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court?
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sonia Sotomayor
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Elena Kagan
Which WNBA player was the first to win Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season?
Sheryl Swoopes
Candace Parker
Lisa Leslie
Sue Bird
What movement did Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai found?
Green Shoe Movement
Green Sock Movement
Green Scarf Movement
Green Belt Movement
Green Shoe Movement
Who was the first player signed to the WNBA?
Sheryl Swoopes
Lisa Leslie
Rebecca Lobo
Cynthia Cooper
What did Junko Tabei of Japan became the first woman to do in 1975?
Sail Around the World
Climb Mt. Everest
Coach in the Olympics
Win a Marathon
Who was the final ruler of Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty, famed for her beauty and shrewd politics?
Sumatra
Cominatcha
Ahh, Frankie Sinatra
Cleopatra
Who was the first woman to run a sub-four and a half minute mile?
Zamira Zaytseva
Mary Decker
Zola Bud
Mary Slaney
Which gifted mathematician who lived between 1815-1852 is considered to be the world's first computer programmer?
Anita Borg
Elizabeth Feinler
Ada Lovelace
Hedy Lamarr
For which individual event does Missy Franklin currently hold a world record?
100-meter freestyle
100-meter butterfly
200-meter breastroke
200-meter backstroke (long course)
Which French military leader and strategist led an army aged only 16?
Joan of Versailles
Joan of Arc
Joan of Sark
Joan of Thorpe Park
Which controversial novelist was an influential founder of the literary set the Bloomsbury Group?
Virginia Woolf
Helen Fielding
Katie Price
Anne Bronte
Mexico's most famous female artist?
Leanorra Siqueiros
Elizabeth Jordan
Minerva Cuevas
Frida Kahlo
Which female tennis player famously beat the former men's champion Bobby Riggs in what is known as the Battle of the Sexes?
Monica Seles
Margaret Court
Billie Jean King
Chris Evert
Which female golfer was the first to play against men in a PGA tour event?
Mickey Wright
Juli Inkster
Nancy Lopez
Babe Didrikson
What did the British warrior queen Boudicca famously do?
The Harlem Shake
Led revolts against Roman rule
Threw a rock at Emperor Hadrian
Was the first woman to climb Ben Nevis
Which beach volleyball duo won 21 consecutive Olympic matches and earned three straight Olympic gold medals?
Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Sweat
Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst
April Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings
Pride & Prejudice was written by which famous author?
J.K. Rowling
Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf
Agatha Christie
J.K. Rowling
Virginia Woolf
Agatha Christie
Jane Austen
Which woman was the first to run the Boston Marathon?
Katherine Switzer
Joan Benoit
Bobbi Gibb
Cathy Freeman
How many international golf tournaments did Annika Sörenstam win before she retired in 2008?
10
90
72
120
How many women are in the Knox-Lombard Athletic Hall of Fame?
26
15
8
30
