Q 01/05

Which country, in 1893, became the first self-governing nation to give women the vote in national elections?

A) Australia

B) New Zealand

C) Finland

D) United Kingdom

Answer · why

B) New Zealand

New Zealand passed its Electoral Act on September 19, 1893, the first self-governing country to let all women vote in parliamentary elections.

Q 02/05

Which scientist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

A) Lise Meitner

B) Rosalind Franklin

C) Ada Lovelace

D) Marie Curie

Answer · why

D) Marie Curie

Marie Skłodowska-Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri ...

Q 03/05

Who, in 1960, became the first woman in the world to be elected head of government of a modern nation?

A) Margaret Thatcher

B) Indira Gandhi

C) Sirimavo Bandaranaike

D) Golda Meir

Answer · why

C) Sirimavo Bandaranaike

Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, became prime minister after her Sri Lanka Freedom Party won the July 1960 election, the world's first ...

Q 04/05

Which author wrote the influential feminist work 'A Room of One's Own'?

A) Virginia Woolf

B) Emily Brontë

C) Mary Shelley

D) Jane Austen

Answer · why

A) Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf published the extended essay in 1929; its thesis is that a woman must have money and a room of her own to write fiction.

Q 05/05

In which modern Olympic Games did women first officially compete?

A) 1900 Paris

B) 1908 London

C) 1904 St. Louis

D) 1896 Athens

Answer · why

A) 1900 Paris

1900 Paris saw around 22 women compete; sailor Hélène de Pourtalès, born Helen Barbey in New York, became the first female Olympic champion.