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Women's Trivia

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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?

a)

Florence Griffith Joyner

b)

Marion Jones

c)

Merlene Ottey

d)

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

2.

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?

a)

Hana Mandlikova

b)

Martina Navratilova

c)

Jana Novatna

d)

Anna Kournikova

3.

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?

a)

Rowing

b)

Speed Skating

c)

Biatholon

d)

Cycling

4.

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

a)

United States

b)

Germany

c)

Brazil

d)

Sweden

5.

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?

a)

Joe Frazier

b)

Muhammad Ali

c)

George Foreman

d)

Sugar Ray Leonard

6.

In 1903, Marie Curie was the first woman awarded a Nobel Prize for her incredible work in what?

a)

Radiation

b)

Conservation

c)

Purification

d)

Teleportation

7.

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?

a)

Abby Wambach

b)

Calri Lloyd

c)

Alex Morgan

d)

Tobin Heath

8.

Which famous founder of modern nursing was nicknamed 'the Lady with the Lamp'?

Lady Dynamite

a)

Annie Nightingale

b)

Mother Teresa

c)

Florence Nightingale

d)

Lady Dynamite

9.

Amelia Earhart - the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean - disappeared while flying around the world in what year?

a)

1949

b)

1961

c)

1955

d)

1937

10.

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?

a)

Lane

b)

Alley

c)

Street

d)

Place

11.

What was the first state to allow women to vote?

a)

California

b)

Utah

c)

Colorado

d)

Wyoming

12.

Sally Ride is most famous for being the first woman to do what?

a)

Enter Space

b)

Race in NASCAR

c)

Win 5 Gold Medals

d)

CEO of a Fortune 500 Company

13.

Joan Benoit Samuelson won the first Olympic Marathon race for women in 1984 in Los Angeles, representing the United States.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

14.

What did French Feminist Simone de Beauvoir famously say?

a)

“One is not born but becomes a woman”

b)

“Man, I feel like a woman”

c)

“Just like a monkey I’ve been dancing my whole life!”

d)

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

15.

Eileen Gu is the first Chinese American to win an Olympic gold medal in which category?

a)

Speed Skating

b)

Snowboarding

c)

Free-style Skiing

d)

Figure Skating

16.

National Girls and Women in Sports Day is celebrated on which day? 

February 24th

a)

February 1st

b)

February 1st

c)

February 7th

d)

February 24th

17.

Who was the first female justice on the United States Supreme Court?

a)

Sandra Day O'Connor

b)

Sonia Sotomayor

c)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

d)

Elena Kagan

18.

Which WNBA player was the first to win Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season?

a)

Sheryl Swoopes

b)

Candace Parker

c)

Lisa Leslie

d)

Sue Bird

19.

What movement did Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai found?

Green Shoe Movement

a)

Green Sock Movement

b)

Green Scarf Movement 

c)

Green Belt Movement 

d)

Green Shoe Movement

20.

Who was the first player signed to the WNBA?

a)

Sheryl Swoopes

b)

Lisa Leslie

c)

Rebecca Lobo

d)

Cynthia Cooper

21.

What did Junko Tabei of Japan became the first woman to do in 1975?

a)

Sail Around the World

b)

Climb Mt. Everest

c)

Coach in the Olympics

d)

Win a Marathon

22.

Who was the final ruler of Egypt’s Ptolemaic dynasty, famed for her beauty and shrewd politics?

a)

Sumatra

b)

Cominatcha

c)

Ahh, Frankie Sinatra

d)

Cleopatra

23.

Who was the first woman to run a sub-four and a half minute mile?

a)

Zamira Zaytseva

b)

Mary Decker

c)

Zola Bud

d)

Mary Slaney

24.

Which gifted mathematician who lived between 1815-1852 is considered to be the world's first computer programmer? 

a)

Anita Borg

b)

Elizabeth Feinler

c)

Ada Lovelace

d)

Hedy Lamarr

25.

For which individual event does Missy Franklin currently hold a world record?

a)

100-meter freestyle

b)

100-meter butterfly

c)

200-meter breastroke

d)

200-meter backstroke (long course)

26.

Which French military leader and strategist led an army aged only 16?

a)

Joan of Versailles

b)

Joan of Arc

c)

Joan of Sark

d)

Joan of Thorpe Park

27.

Which controversial novelist was an influential founder of the literary set the Bloomsbury Group? 

a)

Virginia Woolf

b)

Helen Fielding

c)

Katie Price

d)

Anne Bronte

28.

Mexico's most famous female artist?

a)

Leanorra Siqueiros

b)

Elizabeth Jordan

c)

Minerva Cuevas

d)

Frida Kahlo

29.

Which female tennis player famously beat the former men's champion Bobby Riggs in what is known as the Battle of the Sexes?

a)

Monica Seles

b)

Margaret Court

c)

Billie Jean King

d)

Chris Evert

30.

Which female golfer was the first to play against men in a PGA tour event?

a)

Mickey Wright

b)

Juli Inkster

c)

Nancy Lopez

d)

Babe Didrikson

31.

What did the British warrior queen Boudicca famously do?

a)

The Harlem Shake

b)

Led revolts against Roman rule

c)

Threw a rock at Emperor Hadrian

d)

Was the first woman to climb Ben Nevis

32.

Which beach volleyball duo won 21 consecutive Olympic matches and earned three straight Olympic gold medals?

a)

Lauren Fendrick and Brooke Sweat

b)

Laura Ludwig and Kira Walkenhorst

c)

April Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings

d)

Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings

33.

Pride & Prejudice was written by which famous author?

J.K. Rowling

Jane Austen

Virginia Woolf 

Agatha Christie

a)

J.K. Rowling

b)

Virginia Woolf

c)

Agatha Christie

d)

Jane Austen

34.

Which woman was the first to run the Boston Marathon?

a)

Katherine Switzer

b)

Joan Benoit

c)

Bobbi Gibb

d)

Cathy Freeman

35.

How many international golf tournaments did Annika Sörenstam win before she retired in 2008?

a)

10

b)

90

c)

72

d)

120

36.

How many women are in the Knox-Lombard Athletic Hall of Fame?

a)

26

b)

15

c)

8

d)

30