Women’s History Month Jeopardy Questions
Women in History
100: Made famous by a Disney movie, she is one of China’s most famous warriors.
Who is Mulan?
200: The Native American woman who guided Lewis and Clark.
Who is Sacagawea?
300: During the War of 1812, Dolly Madison saved the original drafts of these two famous US
documents from the burning White House.
What are the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?
400: This famous phrase was uttered by Sojourner Truth at a women’s suffrage convention in
Ohio.
What is “Ain’t I a woman”?
Sojourner also has a Mars rover named in her honor.
500: This woman ruled over Egypt longer than any other female pharaoh.
Who is Hatshepsut?
Women Leaders
100: She graduated from Wellesley College and went on to become a first lady and a senator.
Who is Hillary Clinton?
200: She was the first woman to serve as US National Security Advisor.
Who is Condaleeza Rice?
300: Golda Meir was the first Prime Minister of this country.
What is Israel?
400: The first British Prime Minister, she served the longest term in 150 years.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
500: This is the highest position to have been held by a woman in Congress.
What is minority leader of the House?
The woman was Nancy Pelosi.
Women Firsts
100: This first female Supreme Court justice was nominated by President Reagan in 1981.
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?
200: In September 1928, she was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
300: This woman became the first woman medical doctor after graduating from Geneva Medical
College in 1849.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
400: On June 16, 1963 this first woman in space flew aboard the Vostok 6.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
500: Under FDR, this woman was the first to be appointed to a presidential cabinet, serving as
Secretary of Labor.
Who is Frances Perkins?
(She served throughout all 4 of FDR’s terms)
Women in Science
100: These two elements were discovered by Marie Curie.
HINT: atomic numbers 84 and 88
What are radium and polonium?
200: The biologist who formulated the theory of endosymbiosis.
Who is Lynn Margulis?
300: The world’s foremost authority on chimpanzees who redefined the long-held “differences”
between humans and other primates.
Who is Jane Goodall?
400: The geneticist/biologist who studied a new class of mutant genes in corn and discovered the
first transposons.
Who is Barbara McClintock?
500: This famous book written by Rachel Carson influenced President Kennedy to start testing
for chemicals in the water mentioned in her book.
What is Silent Springs?
Rosalind Franklin
100: This is the title of the Watson’s novel in which he described how he and Crick discovered
the structure of DNA.
What is The Double Helix?
200: This is the name of Franklin’s X-ray diffraction photo which Watson and Crick used to
theorize the structure of the double helix.
What is Photo 51?
300: Of the two types of DNA that Franklin discovered, this is the one which she focused on at
her colloquium in November 1951.
What is type A DNA?
400: This is the deputy director of the lab where Franklin worked at Kings College who casually
showed her photo to Watson.
Who is Maurice Wilkins?
500: This is the number of molecular building blocks in each turn of the helixes of DNA, which
Watson and Crick find from Rosalind’s X-ray diffraction photo of DNA.
What is ten?
Final Jeopardy
Category: Nobel Prize
This is the first year a woman won a Nobel Prize.
What is 1903?
The woman was Marie Curie -- she won the award in Physics.