Women’s History Quiz

Last updated on April 9, 2018

By Tayla Courage

Questions

1. In what U.S. city did the final vote to ratify women’s suffrage take place?
2. In 1932, who was the first American woman to fly the Atlantic solo?
3. Who was the first woman to run for president of the United States?
4. What’s the name of the World War II poster-girl commonly associated with the phrase “We Can Do It!”?
5. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the only person to win it twice?
6. What female artist has won the most Grammys?
7. Young women of the 1920s who cut their hair and shortened their skirts were referred to as what?
8. What was the only sport women were allowed to participate in in the 1928 Winter Olympics?
9. What U.S. Amendment was ratified to give women the right to vote?
10. Who was the first American woman to become a self-made millionaire?

Answers

1. Nashville, Tennessee, became “The Perfect 36” when it was the final state to ratify the 19th Amendment.
2. In 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
3. Despite the fact that women were not yet allowed to vote, there was no law in place to prohibit Victoria Woodhull from campaigning under the Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1872.
4. Rosie the Riveter, inspired by real-life woman worker Naomi Parker Fraley, was created in 1943 by Westinghouse Electric Corporation in an attempt to convince more women to participate in wartime labor efforts.
5. Alongside her husband Pierre, French physicist Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903. In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her contributions to radioactivity research.
6. Country music singer and musician, Allison Krauss, has won a total of 27 Grammy Awards putting her above Beyoncé, Aretha Franklin and Adele.
7. Flappers. After gaining the right to vote, these women rebelled against the societal norms for women of the time.
8. In the 1928 Winter Olympics, figure skating was the only sport that women were allowed to compete in. This didn’t change until 1948, when women were allowed to compete in skiing.
9. The 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, gave all American women the right to vote.
10. Sarah Breedlove, who went by the name Madam C.J. Walker, was the first woman to become a self-made millionaire for her successful line of African American hair-care products.