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Celebrating Women's History

Quiz

Test your knowledge of Women's History

  1. For two years she constructed a radio telescope which in 1967 led to her discovery of the first 4 pulsars. She is:
  2. This trial first introduced the priniciple of "the best interest of the child."
  3. She helped bring provisions to soldiers on the front lines and set up the Bureau of Records. She is:
  4. Best known for her series of well-loved children's books, this writer published her first book at the age of 65. Her books, still popular today, are autobiographical tales of her own childhood as a pioneer girl.
  5. Not only was she the first women to swim across the English Channel, she did it in record breaking time--beating the fastest man's record by 1 hour and 49 minutes. She is:
  6. Lucy Walker, an English mountaineer, is the first woman to successfully climb the Matterhorn in Switzerland in the year:
  7. This cosmonaut was the first woman in space, orbiting the earth 48 times in the Vostok VI in 1963:
  8. This actress has had her career Speed to new heights while Wrestling Ernest Hemingway and using a little more than just Practical Magic to steal fans' and critics' hearts alike. She is:
  9. This choreographer is to modern dance what Pablo Picasso was to modern art: the single greatest innovator of this century. Her name has become synonymous with modern dance in America. Her career spanned four decades and earned her the Medal of Freedom and the French Legion of Honor. This dancer is none other than:
  10. A self-proclaimed "published author earning substantial royalties" at an early age provided all the motivation necessary to become a respected, lauded author in her "later" years with works such as Jacklight and Love Medicine. This scribe is:
  11. This decision provided a clearer definition of what constituted sexual harassment on the job and under what circumstances the employer could be held liable for the actions of subordinates.
  12. Which author speculated that "American literature is made up of great novels about young men. If I can write a novel in which [he] grows up to be socially responsible, an effective, good man — forming a community around him, bringing joy to people . . . then I will have helped us all grow up."?
  13. She is president and chief executive officer of Avon Products Inc., one of America's largest direct sellers of cosmetics and other beauty products.
  14. The American painter who created a distinctive iconography that includes startling details of plant forms, bleached bones, and landscapes of the New Mexico desert — all rendered with pristine clarity is:
  15. Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, the first woman cabinet member in U.S. history in what year:
  16. In 1889, this woman opened Hull House in Chicago to help immigrants flocking to the city to find jobs during the Industrial Revolution.
  17. In 797 she was crowned sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire and became the first woman ever to hold the throne of the old Roman Empire.
  18. Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in:
  19. The "Jane Roe" in the famous Roe v. Wade trial later revealed her true identity as:
  20. Perceived as a long shot for the office — a woman and a Republican was considered an awkward mix — she advocated sweeping tax cuts, as well as abortion rights amidst a well-publicized disorganized platform to defeated the incumbent James Florio to become governor of New Jersey. She is:

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