Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
a) Theresa May
b) Margaret Thatcher
c) Angela Merkel
d) Jacinda Ardern
Answer: b) Margaret Thatcher
Which country was led by the first female President, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, elected in 1980?
a) Norway
b) Finland
c) Iceland
d) Sweden
Answer: c) Iceland
Who is the first female Chancellor of Germany?
a) Angela Merkel
b) Ursula von der Leyen
c) Julia Gillard
d) Theresa May
Answer: a) Angela Merkel
Which organization did Christine Lagarde lead as the first female Managing Director?
a) World Bank
b) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
c) European Central Bank
d) World Trade Organization
Answer: b) International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Who was the first woman to run for President of the United States as a major party candidate?
a) Geraldine Ferraro
b) Hillary Clinton
c) Sarah Palin
d) Kamala Harris
Answer: b) Hillary Clinton
Who is the first female Vice President of the United States?
a) Geraldine Ferraro
b) Condoleezza Rice
c) Kamala Harris
d) Hillary Clinton
Answer: c) Kamala Harris
Who was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives?
a) Nancy Pelosi
b) Jeanette Rankin
c) Eleanor Roosevelt
d) Sandra Day O’Connor
Answer: a) Nancy Pelosi
Who was the first woman to head a major Wall Street bank?
a) Janet Yellen
b) Abigail Johnson
c) Jane Fraser
d) Mary Barra
Answer: c) Jane Fraser
Who was the first female Prime Minister of India?
a) Sonia Gandhi
b) Indira Gandhi
c) Pratibha Patil
d) Sarojini Naidu
Answer: b) Indira Gandhi
Who was the first female President of Brazil?
a) Dilma Rousseff
b) Michelle Bachelet
c) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
d) Laura Chinchilla
Answer: a) Dilma Rousseff
Which American astronaut became the first woman to fly in space?
a) Sally Ride
b) Mae Jemison
c) Valentina Tereshkova
d) Peggy Whitson
Answer: a) Sally Ride
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
a) Mother Teresa
b) Marie Curie
c) Jane Addams
d) Malala Yousafzai
Answer: b) Marie Curie
Who was the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company?
a) Katharine Graham
b) Carly Fiorina
c) Mary Barra
d) Indra Nooyi
Answer: a) Katharine Graham
Who was the first woman to become the President of Harvard University?
a) Drew Gilpin Faust
b) Mary Sue Coleman
c) Shirley Tilghman
d) Judith Rodin
Answer: a) Drew Gilpin Faust
Which country elected the first female head of state in Africa?
a) Liberia
b) South Africa
c) Rwanda
d) Nigeria
Answer: a) Liberia
Who was the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State?
a) Condoleezza Rice
b) Madeleine Albright
c) Hillary Clinton
d) Janet Reno
Answer: b) Madeleine Albright
Who was the first woman to be appointed as the CEO of General Motors?
a) Mary Barra
b) Ginni Rometty
c) Sheryl Sandberg
d) Ursula Burns
Answer: a) Mary Barra
Which country has the highest percentage of women in its national parliament as of 2021?
a) Rwanda
b) Sweden
c) Norway
d) Finland
Answer: a) Rwanda
Who was the first female Prime Minister of Pakistan?
a) Fatima Jinnah
b) Benazir Bhutto
c) Hina Rabbani Khar
d) Asma Jahangir
Answer: b) Benazir Bhutto
Who was the first woman to become the President of the European Commission?
a) Christine Lagarde
b) Angela Merkel
c) Ursula von der Leyen
d) Margrethe Vestager
Answer: c) Ursula von der Leyen
Who was the first woman to serve as the Prime Minister of New Zealand?
a) Jacinda Ardern
b) Helen Clark
c) Jenny Shipley
d) Elizabeth McCombs
Answer: c) Jenny Shipley
Who was the first female Secretary-General of the United Nations?
a) Gro Harlem Brundtland
b) Eleanor Roosevelt
c) Mary Robinson
d) There has never been one
Answer: d) There has never been one
Who was the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director?
a) Sofia Coppola
b) Jane Campion
c) Kathryn Bigelow
d) Greta Gerwig
Answer: c) Kathryn Bigelow
Who was the first female Chief Justice of the United States?
a) Sandra Day O’Connor
b) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
c) Sonia Sotomayor
d) There has never been one
Answer: d) There has never been one
Who was the first female Prime Minister of Australia?
a) Julia Gillard
b) Julie Bishop
c) Quentin Bryce
d) Penny Wong
Answer: a) Julia Gillard
Which woman became the first female President of Ireland?
a) Mary McAleese
b) Mary Robinson
c) Éamon de Valera
d) Micheál Martin
Answer: b) Mary Robinson
Who was the first woman to lead a Muslim-majority country?
a) Megawati Sukarnoputri
b) Benazir Bhutto
c) Khaleda Zia
d) Tansu Çiller
Answer: b) Benazir Bhutto
Who was the first female CEO of PepsiCo?
a) Indra Nooyi
b) Irene Rosenfeld
c) Meg Whitman
d) Ginni Rometty
Answer: a) Indra Nooyi
Who was the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice?
a) Sandra Day O’Connor
b) Ruth Bader Ginsburg
c) Sonia Sotomayor
d) Elena Kagan
Answer: a) Sandra Day O’Connor
Who was the first woman to serve as President of the Philippines?
a) Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
b) Corazon Aquino
c) Imelda Marcos
d) Miriam Defensor Santiago
Answer: b) Corazon Aquino
Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?
a) Bertha von Suttner
b) Mother Teresa
c) Jane Addams
d) Malala Yousafzai
Answer: a) Bertha von Suttner
Who was the first female director to win the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival?
a) Sofia Coppola
b) Jane Campion
c) Kathryn Bigelow
d) Agnès Varda
Answer: b) Jane Campion
Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
a) Amelia Earhart
b) Bessie Coleman
c) Harriet Quimby
d) Jacqueline Cochran
Answer: a) Amelia Earhart
Who was the first woman to serve as the President of the International Olympic Committee?
a) There has never been one
b) Anita DeFrantz
c) Nawal El Moutawakel
d) Danka Bartekova
Answer: a) There has never been one
Who was the first female astronaut to spend the longest time in space?
a) Peggy Whitson
b) Sally Ride
c) Valentina Tereshkova
d) Mae Jemison
Answer: a) Peggy Whitson
Who was the first woman to be elected President of Taiwan?
a) Tsai Ing-wen
b) Annette Lu
c) Hung Hsiu-chu
d) Chen Chu
Answer: a) Tsai Ing-wen
Who was the first female President of Argentina?
a) Isabel Perón
b) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
c) Eva Perón
d) María Estela Martínez
Answer: a) Isabel Perón
Who was the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal?
a) Charlotte Cooper
b) Suzanne Lenglen
c) Fanny Blankers-Koen
d) Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Answer: a) Charlotte Cooper
Who was the first woman to become Prime Minister of Sri Lanka?
a) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
b) Chandrika Kumaratunga
c) Sirimavo Ratwatte
d) Maithripala Sirisena
Answer: a) Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Who was the first woman to become the CEO of IBM?
a) Ginni Rometty
b) Carly Fiorina
c) Meg Whitman
d) Marissa Mayer
Answer: a) Ginni Rometty
Who was the first female President of Chile?
a) Michelle Bachelet
b) Isabel Allende
c) Michelle W. Bachelet
d) Cecilia Pérez
Answer: a) Michelle Bachelet
Who was the first woman to become the Prime Minister of Israel?
a) Golda Meir
b) Tzipi Livni
c) Shulamit Aloni
d) Miri Regev
Answer: a) Golda Meir
Who was the first female Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve?
a) Janet Yellen
b) Alice Rivlin
c) Sarah Bloom Raskin
d) Lael Brainard
Answer: a) Janet Yellen
Who was the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics?
a) Maryam Mirzakhani
b) Emmy Noether
c) Karen Uhlenbeck
d) Ingrid Daubechies
Answer: a) Maryam Mirzakhani
Who was the first female President of Liberia and Africa’s first elected female head of state?
a) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
b) Wangari Maathai
c) Joyce Banda
d) Ameenah Gurib-Fakim
Answer: a) Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Who was the first woman to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations?
a) Jeane Kirkpatrick
b) Madeleine Albright
c) Susan Rice
d) Nikki Haley
Answer: a) Jeane Kirkpatrick
Who was the first female Prime Minister of Norway?
a) Gro Harlem Brundtland
b) Erna Solberg
c) Siv Jensen
d) Kristin Halvorsen
Answer: a) Gro Harlem Brundtland
Who was the first woman to climb Mount Everest?
a) Junko Tabei
b) Wanda Rutkiewicz
c) Lynn Hill
d) Gertrude Bell
Answer: a) Junko Tabei
Who was the first female Secretary-General of Interpol?
a) Mireille Ballestrazzi
b) Ursula von der Leyen
c) Jürgen Stock
d) Christine Lagarde
Answer: a) Mireille Ballestrazzi
Who was the first woman to serve as the President of the European Central Bank?
a) Christine Lagarde
b) Ursula von der Leyen
c) Angela Merkel
d) Janet Yellen
Answer: a) Christine Lagarde