Women’s History Quiz | Important Information on Women’s History

Q. Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize on which field?

Ans: Physiology or Medicine

Q. Name of a prominent woman figure in the Harlem Renaissance or New Negro movement.

Ans: Regina M. Anderson

Q. What is the author of Birth Control?

Ans: Margaret Sanger

Q. Marija Gimbutas is an_______

Ans: archaeologist

Q. Name of the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress?

Ans: Maxine Waters

Q. During the 1930-1940 the rights of African Americans, youth, and the poor were defended by the first lady of America. Who is she?

Ans: Eleanor Roosevelt

Q. Elizabeth II become queen of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland on______

Ans: 1952

Q. Who was the India’s first woman prime minister?

Ans. Indira Gandhi

Q. Who was the India’s first woman president?

Ans. Prathibha Devisingh Patil

Q. Who was the world’s first woman prime minister?

Ans: Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Q. Name of the first woman to be elected vice president of the United States.

Ans: Kamala Harris

Q. Who was the first woman in New Zealand to hold the office of prime minister?

Ans: Helen Clark

Q. Who is the most prominent woman leader of suffrage movement in Britain?

Ans: Emmeline Pankhurst

Q. Name of Ireland’s first woman president.

Ans: Mary Robinson

Q. “I paint my own reality.” was coined by?

Ans: Frida Kahlo

Q. “The Virgin Queen” title was given to_________

Ans: Elizabeth I

Q. Who was Zenobia?

Ans: Queen of Palmyra empire

Q. What is the name of the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Congress?

Ans: Shirley Chisholm

Q. Marija Gimbutas is an______?

Ans: archaeologist