American Women Trivia #1 - Statistics

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  • The average score is 6 of 20
Answer Stats
Hint Answer % Correct
Who risked her life to help slaves escape on the Underground Railroad? Harriet Tubman
86%
Who was the first American woman in space? Sally Ride
86%
What was granted to all women by the 19th amendment? Suffrage
86%
Liliuokalani was the last queen of what territory that is now a state? Hawaii
77%
Whose novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, exposed the evils of slavery? Harriet Beecher Stowe
68%
Who was the first woman to be an anchor for an American evening news program on a major television network? Barbara Walters
50%
Name the actress who starred in such hits as Jezebel, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and Dangerous. Bette Davis
50%
What novel by Sylvia Plath described coming of age in the 1950s? The Bell Jar
45%
Helen Parkhurst, an educator, was the first person in the United States authorized to train teachers in what unconventional type of education? Montessori
18%
Who led the first convention for women's rights? Elizabeth Cady Stanton
14%
Margo Jones directed the first Broadway production of what Tennessee Williams play? The Glass Menagerie
14%
Maud May Park was the first president of what women's suffrage organization? League of Women Voters
9%
Marguerite Higgins was involved in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. In what capacity did she participate in these conflicts? Newspaper reporter
9%
Who devoted her life to improving conditions in mental institutions and prisons? Dorothea Dix
5%
Who was the first woman to serve on a president's cabinet? Francis Perkins
5%
Who was the first woman mayor of a United States city with a population over 500,000? Janet Hayes
0%
Who wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century? Margaret Fuller
0%
What is the oldest school which was established from inception as an institution of higher education for women that is still a women's college? Mount Holyoke College
0%
What bakery, turned corporation, was started by Margaret Rudkin? Pepperidge Farm
0%
Who was the first woman to run for president? Victoria Woodhull
0%
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