Q 01/05

Which journalist went undercover as a Playboy Bunny for a 1963 exposé before co-founding Ms. magazine?

A) Helen Gurley Brown

B) Gloria Steinem

C) Joan Didion

D) Betty Friedan

Answer · why

B) Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem took a job at the New York Playboy Club for Show magazine and published 'A Bunny's Tale'. The article detailed how the women working in...

Q 02/05

Which wartime icon's name became attached to the 1943 'We Can Do It!' poster only after a 1980s rediscovery?

A) Rosie the Riveter

B) Wendy the Welder

C) Ronnie the Bren Gun Girl

D) Betty Grable

Answer · why

A) Rosie the Riveter

Rosie the Riveter was a 1942 song and a Norman Rockwell painting, with no wartime link to the poster. J. Howard Miller drew it for Westinghouse to sho...

Q 03/05

In the slogan coined by Australian activist Irina Dunn, a woman needs a man like a fish needs what?

A) An umbrella

B) A passport

C) A bicycle

D) A ladder

Answer · why

C) A bicycle

A bicycle was Irina Dunn's punchline, though a famous American feminist usually gets the credit. That feminist wrote to Time magazine in 2000 to say t...

Q 04/05

Which pop artist was shot in 1968 by Valerie Solanas, author of the radical SCUM Manifesto?

A) Roy Lichtenstein

B) Jasper Johns

C) Claes Oldenburg

D) Andy Warhol

Answer · why

D) Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was shot at the Factory, his Manhattan studio, a year after Solanas had appeared in one of his films. Art critic Mario Amaya was wounded i...

Q 05/05

Which loose trousers worn by 1850s dress reformers were named after Amelia, editor of the temperance paper The Lily?

A) Bloomers

B) Culottes

C) Jodhpurs

D) Pantaloons

Answer · why

A) Bloomers

Bloomers came to Seneca Falls in 1851 with Elizabeth Smith Miller, who arrived on a visit wearing the outfit. Amelia Bloomer championed it in her pape...