How it works
Running a ladies' lunch, a club night or a Women's History Month quiz? These 100 ladies trivia questions are about women in history: who sailed around the world disguised as a man, and which inventor cut up a shower curtain to make a diaper cover.
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100 female trivia questions in six topics
Science and medicine has 17, from the comet Maria Mitchell found to the first drug that helped organ transplants. Exploration and flight has 15, Sport 15, The vote and the law 19, Writing and the arts 18 and Business and invention 16.
Print a topic for the table
Pick a round under Start from, play it and press Print on the score card, then tick With answer key for yourself. The largest topic has 19 questions, and the last row of the list adds any not yet on it. Every topic mixes levels: an easy question asks which painter's Blue House is now a museum, a hard one asks for the third color of the British suffragettes, after purple and white.
- Ladies' lunch or club night: pick a round under Start from, read each question aloud and take answers by a show of hands before you tap a choice.
- Women's History Month at work or school: run one topic each week of March and an extra one on International Women's Day, March 8.
- Playing in teams: press Scored round for 20 questions in a row, and keep the tally on a printed score sheet.
Questions and answers
Who sailed around the world disguised as a man?
Jeanne Baret. She joined Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition dressed as a man under the name Jean Baret, and is recognized as the first woman to complete a voyage around the globe, from 1766 to 1769. The question sits in Exploration and flight.
Are these trivia questions for women or about women?
Both. They suit a ladies' lunch, a church or club group, or a quiz night, and every question is about something a woman did. It is facts and dates only, with nothing built on looks, marriage or what women are supposed to like.
When is Women's History Month?
March in the United States, where it grew from a national week in 1980 to a month in 1987. Canada observes it in October, to match Persons Day on October 18. International Women's Day falls on March 8.