This women in sports trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and runs from the first women's Olympic events in 1900 to Caitlin Clark's rookie season, and it goes wide: tennis, gymnastics, soccer, basketball, golf, track, swimming, skiing, motor racing, marathon running, boxing, MMA, wrestling and even the Iditarod. Expect the famous moments (the Battle of the Sexes, Nadia's 1.00 scoreboard, Brandi Chastain at the Rose Bowl) alongside the details that decide a trivia night: who signed Title IX, which major paid women equally first, who saved China's third penalty in 1999, and which musher won four Iditarods in five years. It works as a stand-alone quiz, a Women's History Month or Title IX anniversary round, or a warm-up for a sports-bar night. About a third of the questions are for casual fans, a third for people who followed these athletes, and the rest for those who know their record books. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedic and primary sources rather than other trivia lists, so the years, scores and names hold up when someone argues.
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Q 01The 1973 Battle of the Sexes match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs was played in which arena?
Houston Astrodome
The crowd of 30,472 was still the largest ever to watch a tennis match in the United States four decades later, and Riggs was paid $50,000 to wear a Sugar Daddy jacket he ditched after three games.
Q 02Which reigning champion did 55-year-old Bobby Riggs rout 6-2, 6-1 in 1973's 'Mother's Day Massacre'?
Margaret Court
Court took a $20,000 guarantee for the match, more than she earned for winning that year’s first two majors combined; her loss is what convinced King to accept Riggs’s challenge.
Q 03After a Billie Jean King boycott threat, which tournament first offered equal prize money in 1973?
US Open
King had won the 1972 title and received $15,000 less than men's champion Ilie Năstase; Wimbledon and the French Open did not follow until 2007.
Q 04Title IX, the 1972 law barring sex discrimination in federally funded education, was signed by which president?
Richard Nixon
At the signing he talked mostly about desegregation busing; the law's 37 opening words were written by Senator Birch Bayh.
Q 05In 2002 Congress renamed Title IX in honor of which congresswoman, one of its authors?
Patsy Mink
Mink, of Hawaii, was the first woman of color elected to Congress; the renaming followed her death that year.
Q 06At which 2017 tournament did Serena Williams win her record 23rd major while roughly eight weeks pregnant?
Australian Open
She revealed the pregnancy that April with a Snapchat photo captioned '20 weeks', which she later said she posted by accident.
Q 07Serena's 23rd major broke whose Open Era record of 22 singles titles?
Steffi Graf
Graf's 22nd and last came at the 1999 French Open, after which she retired at 30; Court's all-time 24 includes titles from before the Open Era.
Q 08When Wimbledon paid equal prize money in 2007, Venus Williams matched which men's champion's cheque?
Roger Federer
Venus had forced the issue with a 2006 essay in The Times accusing Wimbledon of being on the 'wrong side of history'; the French Open matched the change a day after Wimbledon announced it.
Q 09How many Olympic medals did Simone Biles have after the Paris Games?
11
Add her 30 World Championship medals and she has 41 at the two biggest competitions; five skills across vault, beam and floor are named after her.
Q 10Biles withdrew at Tokyo 2020 with 'the twisties', a sudden loss of what?
Air awareness
Gymnasts lose track of where they are mid-twist, which is dangerous on skills that end in a blind landing; she returned to win beam bronze on the final day.
Q 11The vault named the Biles II is a Yurchenko entry into what, a skill no woman had completed before her?
Double pike
It was given a provisional 6.6 difficulty value when she debuted it in 2021, making it the most valuable vault in women's gymnastics.
Q 12Megan Rapinoe knelt during the anthem before a 2016 NWSL match in solidarity with which athlete?
Colin Kaepernick
She said that as a gay American she knew what it meant to look at the flag and not have it protect all her liberties; the Washington Spirit later played the anthem before players took the field to prevent her repeating it.
Q 13How many Women's World Cups had the U.S. women's national team won by the end of 2025?
4
Q 21In March 2024 Caitlin Clark became NCAA Division I's all-time leading scorer, passing which LSU legend?
Pete Maravich
She finished at Iowa with 3,951 points, then went first overall to the Indiana Fever and won Rookie of the Year with 66 of 67 votes.
Q 22In 2025 the WNBA added its first expansion team since 2008. Which was it?
Golden State Valkyries
Owned by the Warriors and paying a reported $50 million fee, the new club set attendance records in its first season; Toronto and Portland followed in 2026.
Q 23Before her golf career, Babe Didrikson won two golds and a silver at the 1932 Olympics in which sport?
Track and field
The titles came in 1991, 1999, 2015 and 2019, and the team added a fifth Olympic gold in Paris in 2024 under coach Emma Hayes.
Q 14How many attended the 1999 Women's World Cup final at the Rose Bowl, then a record crowd?
90,185
The stadium's 90,000 seats sold out; the game went scoreless through extra time before the U.S. beat China 5-4 on penalties.
Q 15In the 1999 final shootout, which U.S. goalkeeper saved China's third kick, from Liu Ying?
Briana Scurry
Replays showed she stepped off her line before the kick, a violation that went uncalled; Brandi Chastain then converted the winner and pulled off her jersey.
Q 16In February 2022 the USWNT settled its equal-pay lawsuit against U.S. Soccer for how much?
$24 million
The deal also required men's and women's players to be paid equally regardless of prize money, the first such arrangement anywhere in the world.
Q 17Whose 159th goal in 2013 broke Mia Hamm's international scoring record?
Abby Wambach
Hamm debuted for the national team at 15, at the 1987 Olympic Festival, and was twice FIFA World Player of the Year.
Q 18The first WNBA game, in June 1997, saw the Los Angeles Sparks host which team?
New York Liberty
The visitors won 67–57; the league had been approved by the NBA Board of Governors on April 24, 1996 and started with eight teams.
Q 19Which franchise won the first four WNBA championships, every title from 1997 to 2000?
Houston Comets
The team folded in 2008; the Minnesota Lynx and Seattle Storm have since matched its four titles.
Q 20Who was the WNBA's first president, serving from its founding until 2005?
Val Ackerman
She later became commissioner of the Big East Conference; the league did not have a 'commissioner' title until Engelbert in 2019.
She won the 80 m hurdles and javelin and took silver in the high jump; earlier that year she won the AAU team title as the only member of her team.
Q 24At which 1945 tournament did Didrikson Zaharias become the only woman to make a regular PGA Tour cut?
Los Angeles Open
She shot 76–76 to qualify; no woman played a PGA Tour event again until Annika Sörenstam at the 2003 Colonial.
Q 25George Zaharias, whom Babe married in 1938, was a professional what?
Wrestler
She kept his name for the rest of a career that included 10 LPGA majors before her death from colon cancer at 45.
Q 26Who holds the record for most LPGA Tour wins, with 88?
Kathy Whitworth
That is more than anyone has won on the men's PGA Tour either; she was also runner-up 93 times and the first LPGA player to earn $1 million.
Q 27Which childhood disease left triple 1960 Olympic champion Wilma Rudolph in a leg brace until age 12?
Polio
She was the 20th of 22 children and made weekly bus trips to Nashville for treatment; in Rome she became the first American woman to win three track golds at one Games.
Q 28Jackie Joyner-Kersee still holds a world record she set at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. In which event?
Heptathlon
Her 7,291 points have not been beaten; she also won long jump gold in Seoul, and did it all with severe asthma.
Q 29Joyner-Kersee, born in East St. Louis in 1962, was named after which First Lady?
Jacqueline Kennedy
Her brother Al Joyner won Olympic triple jump gold in 1984 and married sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner, making the two women sisters-in-law.
Q 30Florence Griffith Joyner died in her sleep in 1998 at 38 from what?
Epileptic seizure
The seizure was caused by a congenital brain abnormality; Flo-Jo was as famous for six-inch nails and one-legged racing suits as for her 10.49 and 21.34.