Womens History Month Quiz with Quiz Press

Couldn't confirm presence of Flash 8 or higher because JavaScript was disabled.Get FlashI really do have Flash installed.ul{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;list-style-type:none;padding-left:20px;}1. Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was the first woman to be appointed to a presidential cabinet. Which leader did she serve under?

[ ] Calvin Coolidge

[ ] John F. Kennedy

[ ] Franklin D. Roosevelt

2. Ellen Swallow Richards, the nation's female professional chemist, helped advance the place of women in science. She was also the first woman admitted to this prestigious university.

[ ] Stanford

[ ] Carnegie Mellon University

[ ] Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3. Which of these women made advancements of astronomical proportions in June 1963, when she bacame the first woman in space?

[ ] Sally Ride

[ ] Eileen Collins

[ ] Valentine Tereshkova

4. Victoria Claflin Woodhull was the first American woman to run for president. In which election was she a candidate?

[ ] 1912

[ ] 1900

[ ] 1872

5. Which of the following women was the first to be awarded an M. D., gaining acceptance to the Geneva Medical School in 1847?

[ ] Marie Curie

[ ] Clara Barton

[ ] Elizabeth Blackwell

6. In 1910 a pilot's license was granted to a woman for the first time. Who was the recipient?

[ ] Raymonde de la Roche

[ ] Harriet Quimby

[ ] Amelia Earhart

7. Antoinette Blackwell was a leader in the women's rights movement as well as a groundbreaker. In which of these areas did she achieve a "first"?

[ ] the ministry

[ ] transportation

[ ] business

8. The first female secretary of a branch of the U. S. military was Sheila Widnall. Which branch did she lead?

[ ] Navy

[ ] Army

[ ] Air Force

9. Who was the first wife of a president to hold the Bible at her husband's swearing in?

[ ] Martha Jefferson

[ ] Lady Bird Johnson

[ ] Hannah Van Buren

10. Which first lady met her husband while acting in an amateur theatrical production?

[ ] Pat Nixon

[ ] Bess Truman

[ ] Julia Grant

11. Which one of these presidents had someone other than his wife serve as first lady?

[ ] Theodore Roosevelt

[ ] James Madison

[ ] Andrew Jackson

12. Who was the first wife of a president to be elected to public office?

[ ] Eleanor Roosevelt

[ ] Hillary Rodham Clinton

[ ] Edith Wilson

13. It has been postulated that this president was so debilitated after having a stroke that his wife made virtually all his political decisions for him. This president was:

[ ] Franklin Roosevelt

[ ] Theodore Roosevelt

[ ] Woodrow Wilson

14. Which former first lady was declared insane in 1875 (but the decision was reversed a year later)?

[ ] Lucretia Garfield

[ ] Jane Pierce

[ ] Mary Todd Lincoln

15. Which first lady arranged for the planting of several thousand cherry trees around Washington, D. C.?

[ ] Lucy Hayes

[ ] Helen Taft

[ ] Martha Washington

16. Which first lady had studied modern dance with Martha Graham?

[ ] Grace Coolidge

[ ] Betty Ford

[ ] Ellen Wilson

17. Which first lady wrote about the White House as follows: "The house is made habitable, but there is not a single apartment finished... and the great unfinished audience room I made a drying-room of."

[ ] Dolley Madison

[ ] Abigail Adams

[ ] Martha Washington

18. Who was the first African American woman elected to Congress?

[ ] Eleanor Holmes Norton

[ ] Shirley Chisholm

[ ] Barbara Jordan

19. Which of these feminists helped found the National Organization of Women?

[ ] Bella Abzug

[ ] Kate Millett

[ ] Betty Friedan

20. Which of these American women artists did not create exclusively abstract works?

[ ] Louise Nevelson

[ ] Helen Frankenthaler

[ ] Georgia O'Keefe

21. Which of these women aviators disappeared while attempting to fly around the world?

[ ] Anne Morrow Lindberg

[ ] Amelia Earhart

[ ] Beryl Markham

22. Which of these educators developed a revolutionary method of teaching young children?

[ ] Marian Wright Edelman

[ ] Mary McLeod Bethune

[ ] Maria Montessori

23. Which of the following writers is well-known both as a cultural critic and as a novelist?

[ ] Simone Weil

[ ] Ada Louise Huztable

[ ] Susan Sontag

24. Who was the first American woman in space?

[ ] Sally Ride

[ ] Mae Jemison

[ ] Eileen Collins

25. This First Lady was one of the wealthies women in Virginia before she met her husband, the future president.

[ ] Abigail Adams

[ ] Martha Washington

[ ] Dolley Madison

26. This singer was known as "Empress of the Blues".

[ ] Betty Carter

[ ] Bessie Smith

[ ] Billie Holiday

27. Which of these singers was the first woman inducted into the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame"?

[ ] Aretha Franklin

[ ] Janus Joplin

[ ] Tina Turner

28. Who was the first woman to win an Academy Award for best actress?

[ ] Norma Shearer

[ ] Janet Gaynor

[ ] Mary Pickford

29. Who was the first woman awarded a Pulitzer prize for fiction?

[ ] Edith Wharton

[ ] Pearl S. Buck

[ ] Willa Cather

30. Who was the first female composer to win an Academy Award?

[ ] Barbra Streisand

[ ] Dolly Parton

[ ] Carly Simon