Q 01/05

Which Yale women's team stripped in 1976 with Title IX written on their bodies to demand showers?

A) Swimming

B) Rowing

C) Field hockey

D) Fencing

Answer · why

B) Rowing

Rowing had no women's locker room at Yale's boathouse, so the crew sat waiting on the bus while the men washed. Their protest in the athletic director...

Q 02/05

Which sports body sued the federal government in 1976, calling Title IX's athletics rules illegal?

A) NAIA

B) AAU

C) NCAA

D) USOC

Answer · why

C) NCAA

The NCAA lost when its suit was dismissed in 1978. Within a few years it was staging women's championships itself, which finished off the rival associ...

Q 03/05

Title IX's own text carves out an exemption for college scholarships won in which kind of contest?

A) Rodeo events

B) Spelling bees

C) Debate tournaments

D) Beauty pageants

Answer · why

D) Beauty pageants

Beauty pageants were written in by a 1976 amendment, which also protected father-son and mother-daughter school events as long as the other sex gets s...

Q 04/05

Which president signed Title IX into law in June 1972 as part of a wider education bill?

A) Richard Nixon

B) Lyndon B. Johnson

C) Gerald Ford

D) Jimmy Carter

Answer · why

A) Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon said nothing about women at the signing: his remarks dwelt on the bill's school busing provisions instead.

Q 05/05

In a 2010 Title IX case against Quinnipiac University, a judge ruled which activity was not yet a sport?

A) Figure skating

B) Cheerleading

C) Ballroom dance

D) Baton twirling

Answer · why

B) Cheerleading

Cheerleading was still too underdeveloped and unorganized to count, the judge found, so Quinnipiac could not use it to replace the women's volleyball ...