Statistics for American Women Trivia #1

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Who risked her life to help slaves escape on the Underground Railroad?	Harriet Tubman	85%
Who was the first American woman in space?	Sally Ride	77%
What was granted to all women by the 19th amendment?	Suffrage	77%
Liliuokalani was the last queen of what territory that is now a state?	Hawaii	69%
Name the actress who starred in such hits as Jezebel, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, and Dangerous.	Bette Davis	62%
Who was the first woman to be an anchor for an American evening news program on a major television network?	Barbara Walters	54%
Whose novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, exposed the evils of slavery?	Harriet Beecher Stowe	54%
What novel by Sylvia Plath described coming of age in the 1950s?	The Bell Jar	54%
Helen Parkhurst, an educator, was the first person in the United States authorized to train teachers in what unconventional type of education?	Montessori	23%
Margo Jones directed the first Broadway production of what Tennessee Williams play?	The Glass Menagerie	23%
Who led the first convention for women's rights?	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	15%
Maud May Park was the first president of what women's suffrage organization?	League of Women Voters	15%
Marguerite Higgins was involved in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. In what capacity did she participate in these conflicts?	Newspaper reporter	15%
Who devoted her life to improving conditions in mental institutions and prisons?	Dorothea Dix	8%
Who was the first woman to serve on a president's cabinet?	Francis Perkins	8%
Who was the first woman mayor of a United States city with a population over 500,000?	Janet Hayes	8%
Who wrote Woman in the Nineteenth Century?	Margaret Fuller	8%
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	8%
What bakery, turned corporation, was started by Margaret Rudkin?	Pepperidge Farm	8%
Who was the first woman to run for president?	Victoria Woodhull	8%