Medical syringe
Woman - Letitia Geer - 1899
True or False. One woman has received more than one Nobel prize.
True. Marie Curie received the award for physics with her husband in 1903 and her second in chemistry in 1911.
Printing press
Man - Johannes Gutenberg - 1450
Radar
Man - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt - 1939
Mobile Phone
Man - Martin Cooper - 1976
True or False. Women outlive men in almost every society.
True. The average life expectancy at birth for women is 79 years for men and 72 years for men.
True or False. As of 2019, there were more women than men in the world.
False. For the first time since 1960, 2019 UN estimates showed there are 101.7 men for every 100 women.
The first Monopoly game
Woman - Elizabeth Magie - 1904
Dishwasher
Woman - Josephine Cochran - 1872
Windshield wiper
Woman - Mary Anderson - 1903
Bullet-proof fiber
Woman - Stephanie Kwolek - 1966
Name 5 Disney Princesses
Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Elsa, Rapunzel, Merida, Moana
Name 5 female scientists
Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin, Ada Lovelace, Dorothy Hodgkin, Katherine Johnson, Rachel Carson, Chien-Shiung Wu, Lise Meitner, Barbara McClintock, etc.
Which of these popular children’s games was invented by a woman?
Jenga
Bingo
Checkers
Uno
Computer algorithm
Woman - Ada Lovelace - 1843
As of 2022, women still cannot legally vote in which of these countries?
Pakistan
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Nigeria
What celebrated female artist painted this?
Frida Kahlo
Name 5 female authors
Beatrix Potter, J.K. Rowling, Sudha Murty, Judy Blume, Lois Lowry, Beverly Cleary, Harper Lee, Meena Harris, Natalie Babbitt, etc.
Name 5 female superheroes
Wonder Woman, Storm, Captain Marvel, Black Widow, Supergirl, Scarlet Witch, Batgirl, She-Hulk, Jessica Jones, Jean Grey, Sailor Moon, Catwoman, Invisible Woman
Who is this? Hint: radioactivity
Marie Curie is celebrated for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her significant contribution to finding treatments for cancer.
What was the first nation/territory to formally allow women to vote in elections in 1893?
Portugal
Russia
New Zealand
USA
Name 5 female singers
Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Sanah, Bletka, Maryla Rodowicz
World Wide Web
Man - Tim Berners-Lee - 1989
Who is this?
Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change.
Word processor
Woman - Evelyn Berezin - 1971
Thermometer
Man - Gabriel Farenheit - 1714
Name 5 famous female athletes
Serena Williams, Simone Biles, Megan Rapinoe, Danica Patrick, Diana Taurasi, Martina Navratilova, Lisa Leslie, Nacy Lopez, Mia Hamm, Nadia Comaneci, etc.
Which country was the first in the world to ELECT a female head of state in 1980?
Iceland
England
Jamaica
Germany
Life raft
Woman - Maria Beasley -1882
Circular saw
Woman - Tabitha Babbitt - 1812
Fire escape
Woman - Anna Connelly - 1887
Telephone
Man - Alexander Graham Bell - 1876