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Quiz about The Glass Ceiling
Quiz about The Glass Ceiling

The Glass Ceiling Trivia Quiz


Match the job with the woman who was the first to shatter the glass ceiling in their field. Quiz title came from Zorba_scank.

A matching quiz by pennie1478. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
pennie1478
Time
3 mins
Type
Match Quiz
Quiz #
398,729
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Easy
Avg Score
12 / 15
Plays
409
Last 3 plays: Guest 12 (7/15), aandp1955 (10/15), Guest 108 (6/15).
(a) Drag-and-drop from the right to the left, or (b) click on a right side answer box and then on a left side box to move it.
QuestionsChoices
1. First female self-made millionaire  
  Aretha Franklin
2. First female Supreme Court Justice  
  Nancy Lieberman
3. First female president of New York Stock Exchange  
  Eliza Jane Nicholson
4. First female owner of a newspaper  
  Madam CJ Walker
5. First female lawyer  
  Marie Owens
6. First female director to win an Oscar  
  Elizabeth Blackwell
7. First female medical doctor in the U.S.  
  Arabella Mansfield
8. First female basketball coach   
  Sally Ride
9. First female inductee into Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame  
  Kathryn Bigelow
10. First female speaker of the House of Representatives  
  Nancy Pelosi
11. First female Post Master General  
  Sandra Day O'Connor
12. First American woman in space  
  Megan Brennan
13. First female police officer  
  Junko Tabai
14. First female to scale Mount Everest  
  Sara Christian
15. First female Nascar driver  
  Stacey Cunningham





Select each answer

1. First female self-made millionaire
2. First female Supreme Court Justice
3. First female president of New York Stock Exchange
4. First female owner of a newspaper
5. First female lawyer
6. First female director to win an Oscar
7. First female medical doctor in the U.S.
8. First female basketball coach
9. First female inductee into Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame
10. First female speaker of the House of Representatives
11. First female Post Master General
12. First American woman in space
13. First female police officer
14. First female to scale Mount Everest
15. First female Nascar driver

Most Recent Scores
Mar 15 2024 : Guest 12: 7/15
Mar 15 2024 : aandp1955: 10/15
Mar 15 2024 : Guest 108: 6/15
Mar 02 2024 : Guest 72: 5/15
Feb 08 2024 : PhNurse: 13/15
Feb 06 2024 : Nonsmiley: 5/15
Jan 29 2024 : Verbonica: 15/15

Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. First female self-made millionaire

Answer: Madam CJ Walker

Sarah Breedlove was born in Louisiana on December 23, 1867. She began her hair product line after suffering from a severe scalp problem that left her with hair loss. Before setting up Madam CJ Walker laboratories, she went to different cities and countries promoting her product. With the money she earned, Sarah gave to several charities, including building a YMCA in Indiana.

The name Madam CJ Walker came from her husband's name Charles Joseph Walker. Sarah Breedlove passed away in 1919 while living in New York.
2. First female Supreme Court Justice

Answer: Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day was born in Texas on March 26, 1930. She was nominated in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan to be a Supreme Court Justice. Sandra graduated Stanford in 1950 with a bachelor's degree in economics and furthered her education by attending Stanford Law School.

In 2006, Sandra Day O'Connor left the Supreme Court to take care of her husband, John Jay O'Connor, who was ill with Alzheimer's Disease. In 2018, Justice O'Connor announced her own Alzheimer's diagnosis to the world.
3. First female president of New York Stock Exchange

Answer: Stacey Cunningham

Stacey was born in 1974. She studied industrial engineering at Lehigh University and graduated in 1996. Stacey started out as an intern at the Stock Exchange. Stacey is the sixty-seventh president of the New York Stock Exchange. She said what got her through a male dominated world was never showing any doubt "whether or not I should be there".
4. First female owner of a newspaper

Answer: Eliza Jane Nicholson

Eliza Jane Nicholson was born on March 11, 1849 in Mississippi. When she wrote poetry she went by the pseudonym Pearl Rivers. After her husband's death in 1876, Eliza Jane became the owner of the "New Orleans Picayune". In 1884, Eliza became the president of the Women's National Press Association. She died at age forty-six in Louisiana.
5. First female lawyer

Answer: Arabella Mansfield

Arabella Mansfield was born on May 23, 1846 in Iowa. She joined the Iowa bar in 1869. Arabella helped organize the women's suffrage society. She never practiced law, but stayed on to teach at Iowa Wesleyan University. Arabella died in 1911 while living in Illinois.
6. First female director to win an Oscar

Answer: Kathryn Bigelow

Kathyrn Bigelow was born in California in 1950. She was inspired to work in the industry by her father who drew cartoons. Kathryn studied art at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Whitney Museum of Art in NYC. Her first movie was 1978's "The Set Up". Bigelow was known for such movies as "Blue Steel" and 1991's "Point Break".

Her Oscar came for the drama, "The Hurt Locker". She directed "Zero Dark Thirty" about the events that led up to the death of Osama Bin Laden.
7. First female medical doctor in the U.S.

Answer: Elizabeth Blackwell

Elizabeth Blackwell was born in 1821 in England. She graduated first in her class in medical school in 1849. She moved from her home country of England to the United States in 1832. When an eye infection caused her to go blind on one eye, she lost the chance to become a surgeon. Elizabeth died in 1910 in her home country of England.
8. First female basketball coach

Answer: Nancy Lieberman

Nancy was born in 1958. She played basketball at Old Dominion in 1976 and won back to back Association for Intercollegiate Athletic for Women championships. When she left Old Dominion, she was the leader in all team assists and steals. Nancy won gold at the Pan American games and a silver at the Olympics.

In 2009, she became the head coach of the Texas Legends, a Dallas Mavericks affiliate. In 1996, Nancy was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
9. First female inductee into Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame

Answer: Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin was born in 1942 in Tennessee. At fourteen, Aretha became a mother at the age of fourteen. She was inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. In 2008, she won her 18th Grammy Award. Columbia Records signed Aretha in 1960. Aretha Franklin died in her hometown in 2018.
10. First female speaker of the House of Representatives

Answer: Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi was born in 1940 in Maryland. She graduated from Trinity College with a Bachelor's degree in political science. She became speaker of the house in 2007 and left in 2011. Again in 2019, Nancy became speaker of the house. She is the first person in sixty years to serve non-consecutive terms as speaker of the house.
11. First female Post Master General

Answer: Megan Brennan

Megan Brennan was born in 1951 in Pennsylvania. She began her career in the post office as a letter carrier. Megan graduated Immaculata University in Pennsylvania and furthered her education as a Sloan Fellow at MIT graduating with an MBA. Before becoming PMG in 2015, Megan was COO and Executive VP of the Postal Service. As PMG, Megan oversees 634,000 employees.
12. First American woman in space

Answer: Sally Ride

Sally Ride was born in California in 1951. She graduated from Stanford with degrees in English and physics. Sally beat out one-thousand people for a spot at NASA. At NASA, Sally was a missions specialist who became the first American woman in space on June 18, 1983.

She was one of many investigators of the Challenger explosion in 1986. After leaving NASA, Sally became director of the California Space Institute in San Diego. She died in 2012 from pancreatic cancer.
13. First female police officer

Answer: Marie Owens

Marie Owens was born in 1853 in her home country of Canada. She became the first female police officer in Chicago after scoring a 99% on the civil service exam. As a police officer, Marie mainly worked with women fighting for child support and truant children. Marie held the rank of Sergeant Owens until her death in 1927.

Her superior officer in the Chicago PD was quoted, "Give me men like she is a woman and we will have the model detective bureau of the world".
14. First female to scale Mount Everest

Answer: Junko Tabai

Junko Tabai was born in 1939 in Japan. She graduated Showa Women's University with a degree in English and American Literature and completed her studies at Kyushu University. Junko began her mountain climbing career after she climbed Mount Nasu for the first time.

In 1969, she formed her own mountain climbing club. Junko's first foray up Mount Everest in 1975 made her the first woman to climb all seven summits of Mount Everest. She passed away in 2016.
15. First female Nascar driver

Answer: Sara Christian

Sara was born in 1918. She competed in the first Nascar race held on June 6, 1949 at Charlotte Speedway. Her best cup position was thirteenth. Her final race was in 1950 at Hamburg Speedway in 1950. Sara ran seven races in two years, but never took a pole position or won a race.

In 2004, Sara Christian was inducted into the Automobile Racing Hall of Fame and made the United States Drivers Association Woman Driver of the Year. She and her husband were the first Nascar couple to race together. Sara died in 1980.
Source: Author pennie1478

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