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Women's History Month

Created by stardust587

Fun Trivia : Quizzes : Famous Women
Womens History Month game quiz
"In honor of National Women's History Month - a quiz about American women's history."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Who was known as the 'Angel of the Battlefield' because of her work as a nurse during the Civil War?
    Lucy Stone
    Clara Barton
    Dorothea Dix
    Carrie Nation


2. What year did American women gain the right to vote?
    1920
    1896
    1848
    1945


3. Where and when was the first Women's Rights Convention held in the United States?
    Woodstock, NY 1970
    New York City, 1900
    Seneca Falls, NY, 1848
    Philadelphia, PA, 1776


4. Who was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States?
    Elizabeth Blackwell
    Margaret Sanger
    Anna Howard Shaw
    Jane Addams


5. Some 19th-century doctors thought that education was hazardous to women's health.
    True
    False


6. This 19th-century feminist designed a new style of clothing for women. The style never became popular, but her name entered the American language as a term for a specific type of garment.
    Amelia Bloomer
    Marie Corset
    Elizabeth Weskit
    Anna Henley


7. In the 1920s, young women scandalized their elders by shortening their skirts, bobbing their hair, wearing make-up, and dancing the Charleston with men whom they hardly knew. What were these young women called?
    Gibson girls
    lulus
    flappers
    women's libbers


8. Which 1920s movie star was known as the 'It' girl?
    Mary Pickford
    Mae West
    Tallulah Bankhead
    Clara Bow


9. Who made her fortune by developing a successful line of cosmetics for African American women in the early 1900s?
    Josephine Baker
    Ida B. Wells
    Madam C. J. Walker
    Sojourner Truth


10. Who was the first woman to be the vice-presidential nominee of a major political party?
    Geraldine Ferraro
    Elizabeth Dole
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    Margaret Chase Smith

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