Year | Activists | Hint | Country | % Correct |
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1971 (1991) | 1971 at federal level, 1991 at local canton level | Switzerland | 83%
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1944 | Nicolas de Condorcet | The author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), Olympe de Gouges, was executed by guillotine. | France | 77%
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1917 | Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams | The first major world power to grant women the right to vote. | Russian Republic | 77%
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2015 | Wajeha Al-Huwaider | In 2011, women were admitted to both voting and candidacy in the 2015 municipal elections. Men can only vote in municipal elections as well. | Saudi Arabia | 77%
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1947 | Eva Perón | Argentina | 71%
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1902 | Henrietta Dugdale | The first country to allow women to stand for Parliament. However, Indigenous men and women were disqualified from voting. | Australia | 71%
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1893 | Kate Sheppard | The first self-governing colony in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. | New Zealand | 71%
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1918 (1928) | Emmeline Pankhurst | In 1918, women at 30 with property or university qualifications could vote. Their rights were equalized in 1928. | United Kingdom | 66%
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1920 | Carrie Chapman Catt | Nationally granted the voting right to white men and women in 1920. Universal suffrage wasn't adopted until 1965. | United States | 66%
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1906 | Mimmi Kanervo | First to grant complete universal suffrage, including for women and landless people. | Grand Duchy of Finland | 46%
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1776 (1797) | A U.S. state whose constitution gave vote to all inhabitants who had a certain level of wealth. Women's rights were clarified in 1797. | New Jersey | 46%
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(1985-1999), 2005- | Noureya Al-Saddani | All voters must have been citizens for at least 20 years. | Kuwait | 40%
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1946 | Universal suffrage was granted a year after the split from the following country, four years before their war. | North Korea | 40%
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1948 | Universal suffrage was granted three after the split from the country above, two years before their war. | South Korea | 40%
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1917 (1927) | Paulina Luisi | The first country in all of the Americas to grant women fully equal civil rights and universal suffrage (firstly exercised in 1927). | Uruguay | 40%
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1755-1769 | Pasquale Paoli | This country was revoked in 1769 as the French took over. | Corsican Republic | 31%
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1918 (1922) | Louie Benett | In 1918, women at 30 with property or university qualifications could vote. Their rights were equalized after the separation in 1922. | Ireland | 23%
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1919 | Ethel Tawse Jollie | Black males qualified for voting right in 1923, it is unclear when black women qualified for it. | Southern Rhodesia | 11%
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