SUPERQUIZ ANSWERS:

Take this Super Quiz to a PH.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the freshman level, 2 points on the graduate level and 3 points on the PH.D. level.

WOMEN EVENTS BY DECADE

(e.g., 1869: _____ became the first territory to give women the right to vote. Answer: Wyoming.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL

1. 2020: She became the first Black woman to be a major party’s vice presidential nominee. 2. 2011: Nikki Haley became the first female governor of this state. 3. 2007: She became the first female speaker of the House of Representatives. 4. 1997: She became the first woman to serve as secretary of state. 5. 1983: She became the first American woman in space.

GRADUATE LEVEL

6. 1973: She defeated Bobby Riggs in the “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match. 7. 1966: NOW was co-founded by Betty Friedan. For what do the letters stand? 8. 1955: She refused to give up her seat to a white man in Montgomery, Ala. 9. 1942: WAC was formed during World War II. For what did the acronym stand? 10. 1932: She flew solo across the Atlantic.

PH.D. LEVEL

11. 1920: The 19th Amendment was passed. What right did it establish?

12. 1912: This all-girls club was founded. 13. 1903: She became the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize. 14. 1896: Mary Irwin became the first actress in America to do this on screen. 15. 1887: Phoebe Couzins was the first American woman to serve as a United States ____.

1. Kamala Harris. 2. South Carolina. 3. Nancy Pelosi. 4. Madeleine Albright. 5. Sally Ride. 6. Billie Jean King. 7. National Organization for Women. 8. Rosa Parks. 9. Women’s Army Corps. 10. Amelia Earhart.

11. American women’s right to vote. 12. Girl Scouts of America. 13. Marie Curie. 14. Kiss (in the film “The Kiss.”) 15. Marshal.