Who was the first woman to serve in a President's cabinet and which President appointed her? March was Women’s History Month, and Boston NOW wants to see what you learned! We’re continuing our appreciation of women, history, and all things feminism into April with our Women’s History Trivia Contest!
Answer a trivia question every day for a chance to win prizes! Links to each day’s question (in SurveyMonkey form) will also be posted on Twitter and Facebook, so it’s easy to play, every day. The players with the most correct answers win, so it pays to play daily.
Prizes
Grand Prize Winner (1) – a whole suite of Boston NOW themed goodies, so you can show your feminist pride. Includes a T-shirt*, water bottle, tote bag, notepad and pen
Runners-Up (2) – T-shirt* and a tote bag
*All winners can request the T-shirt size of their choice.
Here’s How It Works (i.e. The Rules)
- Contest runs from April 4 – April 29, Monday-Friday
- Check our Facebook page, Twitter, and our website for the daily link
- Answer between 8am – 11pm each day. One answer per person, per day.
- Players with the most correct answers at the end of the month win! If multiple players have the same number of correct responses, a random drawing will be conducted among those players to choose the winner(s).
- Winners will be contacted via email for T-shirt size and mailing address where prizes should be sent.
Daily Trivia Question
Today's Question (4/29/2011) is the last question of the contest! To view and answer our last question, please click the most recent survey link on our Twitter page OR click today's survey link on our Boston NOW facebook profile page.
Did you know the right answers to our past questions?
Question from 4/28/2011: Sally Field won her first Oscar for her performance as a union organizer in the film Norma Rae. On what real activist was the character of Norma Rae based? Answer: Crystal Lee Sutton
Question from 4/27/2001: Who was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize? Answer: Gwendolyn Brooks (she won for poetry in 1950)
Question from 4/26: What actress founded (and lends her name to) an Institute on Gender in Media, a leading resource in gender in media research, trends, and education? Answer: Geena Davis
Question from 4/25: Who was the first African American woman to become a physician? Answer: Rebecca Lee Crumpler (in 1864)
Question from 4/22/2011: In what city was Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri born? Answer: London, UK
Question from 4/21/2011: In what year did Goria Steinem found Ms. magazine? Answer: 1972
Question from 4/19/2011: Who was the first woman to be admitted to MIT? Answer: Ellen Swallow Richards, who later went on to be the first professional female chemist in the US (in 1873)!
Question from 4/18/2011: When were women officially allowed to enter the Boston Marathon? Answer: 1972 (Side note: Bobbi Gibb, however, was the first woman to run the entire Boston Marathon in '66!)
Question from 4/15/2011: In what year did the US House of Representatives first name a female Speaker of the House? Answer: 2007 (Nancy Pelosi!)
Question from 4/14/2011: Who was the first woman to serve in both the US Senate and US House of Representatives? Answer: US Senator Margaret Chase Smith
Question from 4/13/2011: Who was the first African American woman appointed the head of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America? Answer: Faye Wattleton 1978-1992
Question from 4/12/2011: There were two Supreme Court decisions that legalized birth control; one legalized it for married couples and one legalized it for unmarried people. Name both of these cases. Answer: Griswold v CT (for married couples); Eisenstadt v Baird (legalized it for unmarried people)
Question from 4/11/2011: Where in the US were women first granted the right to vote and in what year? Answer: Wyoming Territory, 1869
Question from 4/8/2011: What is the name of the woman credited with writing the first computer program? Answer: Ada Lovelace (in 1842/1843!)
Question from 4/7/2011: What was the first country to grand women the right to vote and in what year? Answer: New Zealand in 1893
Question from 4/6/2011: Who was the first woman to serve in a President's cabinet and which President appointed her? Answer: Frances Perkins, appointed by President FDR in 1933
Question from 4/5/2011: In what year did Gloria Steinem found Ms. Magazine? Answer: 1972
Question from 4/4/2011: Marilyn Frye, feminist theorist and author of “Politics of Reality – Essays in Feminist Theory,” earned her PhD from what university? Answer: Cornell University 