Q 01/05

Which fast-food chain turned its logo upside down for International Women's Day in 2018?

A) Burger King

B) McDonald's

C) Subway

D) Taco Bell

Answer · why

B) McDonald's

McDonald's. Flipped, the golden arches read as a W for women; a franchise in Lynwood, California, turned its roadside sign over and the chain did the ...

Q 02/05

The Fearless Girl statue, unveiled for International Women's Day 2017, first stood facing which New York sculpture?

A) Prometheus

B) Charging Bull

C) Atlas

D) Alice in Wonderland

Answer · why

B) Charging Bull

Charging Bull. Its sculptor, who had once dropped the bull outside the Stock Exchange overnight without a permit, called the girl an 'advertising tric...

Q 03/05

Which German socialist proposed an annual Women's Day at a 1910 conference?

A) Sylvia Pankhurst

B) Alexandra Kollontai

C) Clara Zetkin

D) Emma Goldman

Answer · why

C) Clara Zetkin

Clara Zetkin. Inspired by American socialists' Woman's Day the year before, she won over delegates from 17 countries, and a million people turned out ...

Q 04/05

The 1910 socialist women's conference that endorsed a Women's Day met in which city?

A) Stuttgart

B) Vienna

C) Zurich

D) Copenhagen

Answer · why

D) Copenhagen

Copenhagen. The delegates met in a workers' hall that later became Ungdomshuset, the squatted youth house whose clearance and demolition in March 2007...

Q 05/05

The 1910 conference that approved an International Women's Day left which detail of it undecided?

A) Its name

B) Its date

C) Its aim

D) Its frequency

Answer · why

B) Its date

Its date. The first one, in 1911, fell on 19 March, and Americans kept theirs on the last Sunday of February for years.