Women's History Quiz

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Instructions: Celebrate the remarkable women who made history! How many can you recall?

1.
Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
A
Bessie Coleman
B
Amelia Earhart
C
Harriet Quimby
D
Jacqueline Cochran
2.
Which woman is known as the 'Mother of the Modern Civil Rights Movement'?
A
Rosa Parks
B
Harriet Tubman
C
Sojourner Truth
D
Ida B. Wells
3.
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
A
Marie Curie
B
Jane Addams
C
Bertha von Suttner
D
Mother Teresa
4.
Which leader of the women's suffrage movement was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election?
A
Alice Paul
B
Lucretia Mott
C
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
D
Susan B. Anthony
5.
Who was the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
A
Theresa May
B
Barbara Castle
C
Margaret Thatcher
D
Queen Victoria
6.
Which woman led enslaved people to freedom via the Underground Railroad?
A
Phillis Wheatley
B
Harriet Tubman
C
Mary McLeod Bethune
D
Sojourner Truth
7.
Who was the first woman in space?
A
Sally Ride
B
Valentina Tereshkova
C
Mae Jemison
D
Svetlana Savitskaya
8.
Which nurse is considered the founder of modern nursing?
A
Florence Nightingale
B
Mary Seacole
C
Dorothea Dix
D
Clara Barton
9.
Who was the first female Secretary of State of the United States?
A
Hillary Clinton
B
Madeleine Albright
C
Janet Reno
D
Condoleezza Rice
10.
Which French teenager led the French army to several victories during the Hundred Years' War?
A
Marie Antoinette
B
Eleanor of Aquitaine
C
Charlotte Corday
D
Joan of Arc
11.
Who wrote 'The Feminine Mystique,' sparking the second wave of feminism?
A
Gloria Steinem
B
Simone de Beauvoir
C
Betty Friedan
D
Bell Hooks
12.
Which woman was the first to earn a medical degree in the United States?
A
Clara Barton
B
Virginia Apgar
C
Elizabeth Blackwell
D
Mary Edwards Walker
13.
Which activist and author wrote 'Silent Spring,' launching the modern environmental movement?
A
Rachel Carson
B
Sylvia Earle
C
Jane Goodall
D
Wangari Maathai
14.
Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress?
A
Cicely Tyson
B
Halle Berry
C
Dorothy Dandridge
D
Whoopi Goldberg
15.
Which woman organized the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention in the US?
A
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
B
Lucy Stone
C
Susan B. Anthony
D
Lucretia Mott

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