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1. In 1955 she swam the English Channel, England to France, in 13 hours 55 minutes, a record for women and men. Who is she?
2. When she was nineteen she became the first woman to swim the English Channel. Who is she?
3. She was born in 1894 and died in 1937. She called herself the Empress of Blues - others called her the greatest female blues singer. Who is she?
4. Who was the General Director of the New York City Opera in the 1980's?
5. She wrote about contemporary problems such as women's suffrage, temperance, prison reform and child labor. She is best known for her book, Little Women. Who is she?
6. In 1939 she was to sing at Constitution Hall in Washington. The hall was owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution and they said no black singer could appear there. She was then asked to sing at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday. Over fifteen thousand people gathered on the steps to hear her sing. The incident marked a turning point for black artists. Who is she?
7. She is one of the great originators of modern dance. In her book, My Life, she talks of the conflict between art and life for the woman artist (1877-1927), Who is she?
8. She was the publisher of a magazine that battled for women's right to vote. The first issue was published January 8, 1868, with the motto, "Men, their rights, and nothing more. Women, their rights, and nothing less." The magazine folded in two years. She devoted the rest of her life to a campaign for women's rights, especially the right to vote. In 1892 she became president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. she never lived to see the passage of the 19th amendment. Who is she?
9. Best known as the founder of the American Red Cross, she had a number of other careers in her life. She taught school for eighteen years, then became the first full-time clerk in the US. Patent Office. During the Civil War she became a legend as the "Angel of the Battlefield." Who is she?
10. She was a famous photographer for Life Magazine. She was in Russia when the Germans invaded, taking great risks to shoot pictures and send them back to America. Who is she?
11. In 1902 she established a cooking school. One of her chief contributions to the art of cooking was the standardization of measurements. (no more "a pinch of this" or "a walnut of that.) She is best know for her popular cookbook, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Who is she?
12. In 1928 she published Coming of Age in Samoa. She is best known as an author-anthropologist. Who is she?
13. Who is the first woman to be appointed a Supreme Court Justice?
14. In 1932 she was the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Five years later she disappeared while attempting what was to be an around-the-world flight. Who is she?
15. She was the founder of the American Shaker Society. This became the largest and most important American Utopian community. Who is she?
16. She won the United States Figure Skating Championship from 1964-1968 and the World Championship from 1966-1968. She won an Olympic Gold Medal in 1968. Who is she?
17. She was the first woman to compose and arrange for a large jazz orchestra. Who is she?
18. Who directed an opera company in Boston?
19. Her first novel was Uncle Tom's Cabin. It aroused great feelings against slavery. Who is she?
20. Her "Little House" books are among the most popular children's classics. Who is she?
21. She began painting at the age of 76. By the time of her death in 1962, at 101, her paintings were in demand all over the world. Who is she?
22. In 1943 she and Lucretia Mott organized the first convention for women's rights at Seneca Falls. She was then commissioned to write the Declaration of Principles. In that she included a demand for the right to vote. Who is she?
23. In 1847 she was refused admission to medical school. One school suggested she might attend classes disguised as a man. Finally Geneva Medical School accepted her. She graduated first in her class to become the first woman in America to earn a degree from a medical college. Who is she?
24. She was both blind and deaf and grew up to write several autobiographical books as well as poetry and social criticism. Who is she?
25. The first American woman to keep a lighthouse didn't get her title until 1897, twenty-two years after she became keeper of the Lime Lighthouse in Newport, Rhode Island. Who is she?
26. She was the founder of Christian Science, the first woman to establish a major religion. Who is she?
27. In October 1973, the American Women's Himalayan Expedition succeeded in its bid. It was the first time this summit had been climbed by Americans or by women. What is the summit?
28. Who is the first American woman astronaut to go into space?
29. In 1972 she won the Olympic gold medal in gymnastics. Who is she?
30. Who was the first black woman to win the Wimbledon Singles title?
31. What was the name of the first magazine produced for and about women fliers?
32. She is considered the greatest woman pianist of the 19th century. She performed her own works, her husband's works, as well as those by Chopin and Brahms. Who is she?
33. Born in 1894 she was to create a new style of dance. Her performing career spanned fifty years. Who is she?
34. She was born in 1612 and sailed on the "Arbella" for Massachusetts Bay in 1630. She was the first British-American to have a volume of poetry published and at a time when the Puritan woman's place was in the home. Who is she?
35. She is the author of Frankenstein and is considered, by some, to be the creator of the genre of science fiction. Who is she?
36. She is the most important woman artist of the 19th century (1844-1926). She painted many pictures of women and children. Who is she?
37. On December 1, 1955, a seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, boarded a bus. She refused to move when a white man asked for her seat. Her arrest started a bus boycott by blacks led by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Who is she?
38. She was appointed Secretary of Labor in 1933, the first female cabinet member. Legislation during her time included Unemployment Insurance and Social Security. Who is she?
39. Her book, Silent Spring, sparked controversy when it proved to the public how much harm resulted from the use of pesticides. Who is she?
40. She was considered the first distinguished American astronomer (1818-1889). She became the first woman to be admitted to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Who is she?
41. After she graduated (1882) from Vassar College, she taught. She became fascinated with the works of the geographer Friedrich Ratzel. In 1891 she went to Leipzig to study with Ratzel. Women were not permitted to study at the University of Leipzig, but she was allowed to listen to the lectures from outside the open classroom door. She became a famous American geographer. She was elected president of the American Geographers in 1921, the first female president of that organization.. Who is she?
42. She helped organize coal miners. Who is she?
43. She led the Dallas Cyclones to three AAU National Championships in women's basketball and scored 106 points in one game. She pitched for the House of David touring baseball team and once struck out Joe DiMaggio. She played handball, lacrosse, football, billiards, but her best sports were track and field and golf. In the 1932 Olympics she won the javelin throw with a world record. In golf she won 55 tournaments in 15 years. Who is she?
44. What did Bertha Townsend, second American Woman Champion when tennis was just evolving, discover?
45. She was an American archeologist and she gained fame by climbing the Matterhorn in 1895. She then turned to South America and the Andes. In 1906, at 56, she reached the summit of the north peak of the twin-peaked Huascarin in the Andes (21,812 feet). In 1927 the Lima Geographical Society named the north peak for her. In 1912 at the age of 61, she climbed Mt. Coropu in Peru and planted a VOTES FOR WOMEN sign on the summit. Who is she?
46. Who was the first woman to qualify and drive the entire Indianapolis Speedway 500 race in 1978?
47. She was to explain China to the West in her books. The Good Earth was considered her best book and it won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. In 1938 she received the Nobel Prize. Who is she?
48. She was the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (1983) for literature. Her prize winning book is The Color Purple. Who is she?
49. Who was the first female senator (1948) to be elected without previously having been appointed?
50. She was a militant suffragist in the early women's movement. In 1923 she drafted the Equal Rights Amendment. Who is she?
51. Raised in the U.S. after her Russian parents fled the Czar's persecution, she emigrated to Palestine in 1921. Her political activities contributed to the formation of the State of Israel. She was the first woman member of the legislature and became the fourth premier (1969) of Israel. Who is she?
52. She is considered America's most distinguished First Lady. She was a delegate to the U.N. Assembly and Chairperson of UNESCO's Commission on Human Rights. Who is she?
53. During 1635 and 1636 she held Sunday evening prayer meetings in her home. She said that all people could be saved by discovering the light within themselves. To the male leaders of the Massachusetts Colony she was a criminal, a religious heretic, and a
traitor, who did not conform to her role as a woman. She was imprisoned and tried twice. Finally found guilty she and her family were forced to leave Massachusetts. Her family moved first to Rhode Island and later to Long Island where they were killed by Indians. The Puritans believed the slaughter was a good punishment. Who is she?
54. Her essay, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), discussed a woman's place in society in political terms. Who is she?
55. During the Revolutionary War she carried needed intelligence reports to General George Washington. She rode for two days through enemy territory to safely complete her mission. Who is she?
56. In 1831 she was accepted into membership of the Royal Astronomical Society. She usually worked in the shadow of her brother William although she did receive credit, in her own name, for discovering three nebulae and eight comets and for publication of a catalog of stars. Who is she?
57. Over one hundred years ago she examined the effects of chemicals on air, water and food. She launched the science of ecology. Her writings influenced the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. Who is she?
58. Who won an Olympic Gold Medal in the first Olympic Marathon race for women?
59. Found in her room after her death was a manuscript, in the style of homemade pamphlets, of almost 900 poems. She is thought of as one of our great woman poets. Who is she?
60. She was the first American of either sex to become a professional sculptor. She was able to support herself through her art. No other American woman is known to have made a living from painting or sculpture between 1758 and 1815. Who is she?
61. In 1775 she became the publisher and manager of Baltimore's first newspaper. Her press printed the Declaration of Independence. She was appointed by Ben Franklin as Postmistress of the country. Later she was replaced by a man. They thought the job too strenuous for a woman. Who is she?
62. She was born into slavery, escaped to the north in 1849 and established her "underground railroad." She led over 300 people to freedom during the 1850s. During the Civil War she worked as a spy, a scout, a nurse, and a commander of both black and white troops for the Union Army. Who is she?
63. Along with her husband, Pierre, she discovered the radioactive elements radium and plutonium. Who is she?
64. Who was the first female child born in the colonies?
65. A co-founder of New York Magazine in 1968, this lady joined the women's movement later that year and in 1971 helped organize the National Women's Political Caucus. Among other endeavors is her 1986 biography of Marilyn Monroe. Who is she?
66. The daughter of an Italian immigrant, this woman graduated (1956) from Marymount College in Manhattan and earned (1960) a law degree from Fordham University. She practiced law privately until 1974, when she became an assistant district attorney in Queens, N.Y. She is the first woman candidate nominated by a major political party for vice president of the U.S.
67. First African-American from a southern state to serve in the US Congress as well as the first keynote speaker at a National Convention of the Democratic party.
68. First female to serve as attorney general of the US.
69. She was handicapped with a lame, brace-supported leg as a child but through rehabilitation became a champion sprinter. Her career culminated in the 1960 Olympics, where she was the single most successful track and field competitor, winning both the 100-m and 200-m dashes. She was the first American woman to win three Olympic gold medals in track and field.
70. First woman to serve as chief of a major North American tribe.
71. Second woman in the history of US network TV news to co-anchor an evening broadcast.
72. First African-American woman elected to the US Senate.
73. World record setting Olympic athlete in track and field.
74. First American woman to win FIVE Olympic gold medals.
75. Woman who served in the Revolutionary War disguised as a man.
76. This Episcopalian woman converted to Catholicism and established (1809) a new religious order, the Sisters of Charity of Saint Joseph, which concentrated on education and laid the foundation for the parochial school system in America. She became the first US born person recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
77. Known as "Bird Woman" she interpreted for Lewis and Clark when their expedition reached Shoshone country.
78. Famous magazine editor who persuaded Abraham Lincoln to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday.
79. First African-American female to speak out against slavery.
80. A leading suffragette, writer, lecturer, reformer, who wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
81. First and only reigning queen of Hawaii as well as the last Hawaiian sovereign to govern the islands.
82. The youngest of 17 children of former slaves, this woman became a leading black educator. As a child she attended the local free school and won a scholarship to continue her education, eventually graduating (1895) from Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. In 1904 she founded the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls in Daytona, Fla. She also served as head of several New Deal government agencies, founded (1935) the National Council of Negro Women, and was a vice-president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
83. She played a major role in the 1920 ratification of the 19th amendment giving women the vote and who later founded the National League of Women Voters.
84. Social worker and humanitarian who co-founded the Hull House in Chicago and shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with Nicholas Murray Butler.
85. A talented sculptor who founded the Girl Scouts of America.
86. The first woman to study the pathology of industrial diseases; she pioneered research in the paint, printing, dye-making, explosives, and rubber industries, thus creating a new medical field. Her efforts helped bring about legislation aimed at correcting factory conditions detrimental to the health of workers. She was also the first female faculty member at Harvard University.
87. Best known for her innovative prose style this woman exercised a major influence on American writers of the post-World War I generation, which she was the first to describe as "lost."
88. She attained prominence as a leader of the woman suffrage movement and in 1917 became the first female member of the U.S. House of Representatives, where she served until 1919. She was subsequently active in promoting legislation benefiting women and was also active in the pacifist movement. Serving again in the House, in 1941 she was the only member of Congress to oppose the declaration of war against Japan; she was thus the only House member to vote against both wars. After completing her term of office in 1943, she remained active in civic affairs and the peace movement. Actively opposed to U.S. military action in Indochina, in 1968 she led a protest demonstration of thousands of women in Washington, D.C.
89. More than any other individual, she created the image and substance of the art form called modern dance. She developed a new vocabulary of movement and from it created a body of powerfully expressive dances. Who is she?
90. She was a documentary photographer noted for her ability to make the strangers in her photographs seem like familiar acquaintances. Her photographs for the Farm Security Administration, including Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936), document the erosion of the land and people of rural America during the Great Depression and are her best-known images.
91. She was an American aviatrix who organized the Women's Air Force Service Pilots, WASP, during World War II. She was also the first woman to ferry a bomber to England. Reared in a foster home, she left school after the third grade to work in a cotton mill. She acquired her pilot's license in 1932 after only three weeks of training. She held more speed, distance, and altitude records than any of her contemporaries and was voted the world's leading aviatrix in 1937, 1938, and 1939. She was named to the Aviation Hall of Fame in 1971.
92. This woman is a dancer and choreographer who earned a doctorate in anthropology from the University of Chicago. Her research in Afro-American dance, particularly in the Caribbean, led her to stage colorful theatrical applications of the material.
93. A lawyer long active in liberal causes, particularly the civil rights and peace movements, this woman became nationally prominent in the early 1970s as an articulate advocate of women's rights and as a leader of the House of Representatives' antiwar group. In 1976 she was unsuccessful in a bid for the U.S. Senate, and she was defeated in a 1978 attempt to reenter Congress. Prominent in several women's political organizations, she was co-chairwoman of the President's National Advisory Committee on Women from November 1977 to January 1979.
94. An American writer who was trained as a psychologist, became the "founding mother" of contemporary feminism in the United States after publishing The Feminine Mystique(1963). In this influential work, she isolated the "housewife syndrome" and stated that--contrary to what psychiatrists, sociologists, and advertisers maintained--women must have opportunities for fulfillment beyond those provided by marriage and motherhood.
95. This woman was the first black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. A teacher and educational consultant, she was elected Democratic representative from the 12th district of New York in 1968. She became widely known for her advocacy of minority and women's rights and served 7 terms before retiring in 1983.
96. Who was the first African-American female US Surgeon General?
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