Q 01/05

Which two-time Best Actress Oscar winner plays suffragist leader Alice Paul in Iron Jawed Angels?

A) Jodie Foster

B) Hilary Swank

C) Sally Field

D) Kate Winslet

Answer · why

B) Hilary Swank

Hilary Swank won her second Best Actress Oscar for Million Dollar Baby, which reached cinemas the same year as her turn as Alice Paul.

Q 02/05

Suffragists picketing the White House in Iron Jawed Angels are arrested on what unlikely charge?

A) Obstructing traffic

B) Disturbing the peace

C) Unlawful assembly

D) Inciting a riot

Answer · why

A) Obstructing traffic

Obstructing traffic was the charge police turned to in June 1917, after tolerating the pickets for months. The first six women convicted chose three d...

Q 03/05

Inez Milholland leads the 1913 suffrage parade through Washington in Iron Jawed Angels riding what?

A) An open motorcar

B) A decorated float

C) A white horse

D) A bicycle

Answer · why

C) A white horse

A white horse named Gray Dawn carried her at the head of the march, and she wore a crown and a long white cape as its herald.

Q 04/05

Harry Burn casts the deciding vote for women's suffrage in Iron Jawed Angels after a plea from whom?

A) His wife

B) His pastor

C) His sister

D) His mother

Answer · why

D) His mother

His mother, Febb Burn, wrote urging him to back ratification, and he kept her message in his coat pocket while the roll was called.

Q 05/05

Which state's lawmakers cast the final ratification needed for women's suffrage in Iron Jawed Angels?

A) Kentucky

B) Tennessee

C) Mississippi

D) Georgia

Answer · why

B) Tennessee

Tennessee became the 36th and deciding state in August 1920, when its House approved the measure with just 50 of 99 members voting yes.