Womens History Trivia Page - 2

Trivia Questions

Who was the first female Prime Minister of India, serving four terms between 1966 and 1984?

What Shoshone woman was essential to the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter and guide through the Western United States?

What abolitionist and women's rights advocate delivered the powerful 'Ain't I a Woman?' speech at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851?

Who was a prominent female mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher in Alexandria, Egypt, during the Roman Empire, often considered one of the earliest known female scientists?

Who was the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, graduating from Geneva Medical College in 1849?

This American journalist pioneered investigative journalism, famously feigning insanity to expose conditions at a New York mental asylum and completing a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days.

What pioneering martial arts instructor is credited with teaching suffragettes jiu-jitsu, creating a group known as the 'suffragettes' bodyguard' or 'Jiujitsuffragettes'?

In 1967, who became the first woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)?

This German student was a key member of the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, famous for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets at the University of Munich.

What 17th-century queen of Ndongo and Matamba (modern-day Angola) famously resisted Portuguese colonization and demonstrated exceptional political and military prowess?