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Question 1

What famous Hollywood bombshell was born Norma Jeane Mortenson?

  • A
    Marilyn Monroe
  • B
    Virginia Mortenson
  • C
    Jean Harlow
  • D
    Norma Rae

Question 2

Who is this actress chosen for a cover of Time because of a film she was making adapted from a book about slavery told from the point of view of the slave?

  • A
    Oprah Winfrey
  • B
    Alfre Woodard
  • C
    Angela Bassett
  • D
    Jada Pinkett Smith

Question 3

This tennis superstar won her 7th Wimbledon title in 2016. Who is she?

  • A
    Serena Williams
  • B
    Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • C
    Maria Sharapova
  • D
    Lindsay Davenport

Question 4

What actress and singer signed her first movie contract with MGM at just age 13, and had one of her biggest success in 1939 when she went "Over the Rainbow" at 16?

  • A
    Judy Garland
  • B
    Shirley Temple
  • C
    Ann Margret
  • D
    Brigitte Bardot

Question 5

The first woman in space was from what country?

  • A
    Canada
  • B
    United States
  • C
    Japan
  • D
    Soviet Union

Question 6

This first lady wore an iconic pink pillbox hat and suit on the day her husband was assassinated. The suit is stored at the National Archives and will not be on view to the public until 2103 out of respect for her surviving daughter. Who was this first lady?

  • A
    Pat Nixon
  • B
    Lady Bird Johnson
  • C
    Mamie Eisenhower
  • D
    Jackie Kennedy

Question 7

Famous for being the first solo female aviator to cross the Atlantic, who is this brave pilot?

  • A
    Marie Curie
  • B
    Katharine Hepburn
  • C
    Harriet Quimby
  • D
    Amelia Earhart

Question 8

What prolific actress and quintessential girl-next-door is best known for her role in Pillow Talk opposite the dashing Rock Hudson?

  • A
    Julie Andrews
  • B
    Doris Day
  • C
    Grace Kelly
  • D
    Marilyn Monroe

Question 9

What famous actress left Hollywood after starring in 11 successful films in order to become the Princess of Monaco in 1956?

  • A
    Grace Kelly
  • B
    Brigitte Bardot
  • C
    Bette Davis
  • D
    Vivien Leigh

Question 10

Which sultry, gender-bending megastar of Hollywood's golden era was born in Berlin, Germany on December 27, 1901?

  • A
    Greta Garbo
  • B
    Marilyn Monroe
  • C
    Marlene Dietrich
  • D
    Mae West

Question 11

What actress co-starred with Maureen O'Hara in Miracle on 34th Street when she was just eight years old?

  • A
    Shirley Temple
  • B
    Judy Garland
  • C
    Eva Marie Saint
  • D
    Natalie Wood

Question 12

What actress, nicknamed "sex kitten" starred opposite Elvis Presley in Viva Las Vegas in 1964?

  • A
    Lena Horne
  • B
    Jane Russell
  • C
    Claudette Colbert
  • D
    Ann-Margret

Question 13

Nominated for Academy Awards four different times for her films, Stella Dallas, Ball of Fire, Sorry, Wrong Number, and Double Indemnity, who is this talented and beautiful actress with a hint of Brooklyn in her voice?

  • A
    Barbara Stanwyck
  • B
    Teresa Wright
  • C
    Celeste Holm
  • D
    Judy Holiday

Question 14

Which female tennis player famously beat the former men's champion Bobby Riggs in what is known as the Battle of the Sexes?

  • A
    Monica Seles
  • B
    Margaret Court
  • C
    Billie Jean King
  • D
    Chris Evert

Question 15

Who is this beautiful actress with the pouty lips that played the determined Lucy Muir opposite Rex Harrison in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and the woman you loved to hate in "Leave Her to Heaven" opposite Cornell Wilde?

  • A
    Rozalind Russell
  • B
    Gene Tierney
  • C
    Gloria Grahame
  • D
    Olivia de Havilland

Question 16

What actress starred opposite Rex Harrison in the stage production of My Fair Lady, for which she won a Tony Award?

  • A
    Ava Gardner
  • B
    Julie Andrews
  • C
    Audrey Hepburn
  • D
    Judy Garland

Question 17

What famous actress started her career in vaudeville before becoming on part of a famous dancing duo with Fred Astaire?

  • A
    Grace Kelly
  • B
    Ginger Rogers
  • C
    Debbie Reynolds
  • D
    Julie Andrews

Question 18

What singer and actress starred in many films in the 1940s, including Stormy Weather, and was one of the most famous African-American performers of her time while refusing to only play stereotypes?

  • A
    Nina Mae McKinney
  • B
    Ethel Moses
  • C
    Lena Horne
  • D
    Ethel Waters

Question 19

What actress was born in England but is best known for playing two beloved Southern belles?

  • A
    Mae West
  • B
    Bette Davis
  • C
    Judy Garland
  • D
    Vivien Leigh

Question 20

Which actress was perhaps best known for her starring role in the original all-female, all-star cast film "The Women"?

  • A
    Judy Holliday
  • B
    Joan Fontaine
  • C
    Greer Garson
  • D
    Norma Shearer

Question 21

What actress, activist, and businesswoman won her first Oscar for playing June Carter Cash in 2005's 'Walk the Line'?

  • A
    Jennifer Garner
  • B
    Jessica Alba
  • C
    Katie Holmes
  • D
    Reese Witherspoon

Question 22

What is the name of the cultural icon most closely associated with women factory and naval yard workers during World War II?

  • A
    Mother Goose
  • B
    Wonder Woman
  • C
    Lady Liberty
  • D
    Rosie the Riveter

Question 23

In 1993, who released a song titled "U.N.I.T.Y." to empower women?

  • A
    Regina Hall
  • B
    Jada Pinkett Smith
  • C
    Missy Elliott
  • D
    Queen Latifah

Question 24

What classic Hollywood actress was the first to win a Best Actress Oscar for a performance in a foreign language film?

  • A
    Greta Garbo
  • B
    Marlene Dietrich
  • C
    Brigitte Bardot
  • D
    Sophia Loren

Question 25

This prolific actress made over 80 films throughout her career. She may be best remembered for a more modern part as Baroness Schroeder in "The Sound of Music," but had made many films in the height of her career in the early 1950s including "Detective Story" with Kirk Douglas, "Escape from Fort Bravo" with William Holden and "A Hole in the Head" opposite Frank Sinatra.

  • A
    Eleanor Parker
  • B
    Talulah Bankhead
  • C
    Ida Lupino
  • D
    Joan Fontaine

Question 26

What sex symbol, actress, and early Playboy playmate's career was cut short when she tragically died in a car accident at just 34 years old in 1967?

  • A
    Hedy Lamarr
  • B
    Jayne Mansfield
  • C
    Rita Hayworth
  • D
    Marilyn Monroe

Question 27

Which beautiful actress starred with handsome leading men such as Clark Gable in, Mogambo, Gregory Peck in The Snows of Kilimanjaro, and Tyrone Power in The Sun Also Rises, but was married to boyish actor Mickey Rooney?

  • A
    Ava Gardner
  • B
    Rhonda Fleming
  • C
    Joan Fontaine
  • D
    Mabel Normand

Question 28

This Oscar-winning singer-actress was the fourth woman to play the lead role in a feature film production of 'A Star Is Born'. Who is she?

  • A
    Lady Gaga
  • B
    Janet Gaynor
  • C
    Judy Garland
  • D
    Barbra Streisand

Question 29

What award-winning actress, who starred in almost 100 films in over 50 years in the business, had her first big hit with the 1928 film Our Dancing Daughter?

  • A
    Elizabeth Taylor
  • B
    Joan Crawford
  • C
    Bette Davis
  • D
    Mae West

Question 30

Which of these original SNL cast members starred in Haunted Honeymoon, Movers & Shakers, The Woman in Red and It Came From Hollywood?

  • A
    Chevy Chase
  • B
    Jane Curtin
  • C
    John Belushi
  • D
    Gilda Radner

Question 31

What actress made her film debut in A Bill of Divorcement opposite John Barrymore in 1932?

  • A
    Natalie Wood
  • B
    Ginger Rogers
  • C
    Katharine Hepburn
  • D
    Audrey Hepburn

Question 32

What actress famously starred with John Wayne in five films, the most famous of which was The Quiet Man?

  • A
    Jane Russell
  • B
    Shirley McLaine
  • C
    Hayley Mills
  • D
    Maureen O'Hara

Question 33

This actress was famous for her roles depicting hard-hearted, sardonic or even horrifying characters such as she played in, "Of Human Bondage" and "The Nanny." She was one of Hollywood's most iconic leading ladies. Her most endearing role came later in life when she played Apple Annie opposite Glenn Ford in "Pocketful of Miracles."

  • A
    Betty Grable
  • B
    Betsy Drake
  • C
    Bette Midler
  • D
    Bette Davis

Question 34

What player who holds a record nine Wimbledon women’s singles titles?

  • A
    Maria Sharapova
  • B
    Serena Williams
  • C
    Martina Navratilova
  • D
    Jana Novotná

Question 35

Until 2013, this soccer player held the record for the number of goals in international competition for both men and women.

  • A
    Mia Hamm
  • B
    Carli Lloyd
  • C
    Abby Wambach
  • D
    Hope Solo

Question 36

What actress grew tired of playing the foil for male stars in movies and reinvented herself as a sexy vixen in 'From Here to Eternity'?

  • A
    Deborah Kerr
  • B
    Maureen O'Hara
  • C
    Mae West
  • D
    Joan Crawford

Question 37

The first woman to win a nobel prize, she's also the only one to win in two different fields. Name that discoverer of radioactivity.

  • A
    Donna Strickland
  • B
    Frances Arnold
  • C
    Marie Curie
  • D
    Malala Yousafzai

Question 38

This actress was well-known for her dramatic roles in such films as "Citizen Kane," "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" and "The Magnificent Ambersons" long before taking on perhaps her most memorable role as Endora in the television series "Bewitched."

  • A
    Marilyn Monroe
  • B
    Loretta Young
  • C
    Eva Marie Saint
  • D
    Agnes Moorehead

Question 39

What American tennis legend won the Wimbledon women’s singles title in 1974, 1976, and 1981?

  • A
    Billie Jean King
  • B
    Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • C
    Venus Williams
  • D
    Chris Evert

Question 40

This star of old Hollywood was famous for playing sharp-tongued career women. Can you name her?

  • A
    Audrey Hepburn
  • B
    Myrna Loy
  • C
    Joan Crawford
  • D
    Rosalind Russell

Question 41

Which gymnast was the first American woman to win the all-around gold medal at the Olympics?

  • A
    Mary Lou Retton
  • B
    Nastia Liukin
  • C
    Carly Patterson
  • D
    Gabby Douglas

Question 42

This mom to Dashiell, Roman, Edith and Ignacious has played many warrior women in her career, but the most recent was Hela, Thor's sister.

  • A
    Cate Blanchett
  • B
    Katie Holmes
  • C
    Katy Perry
  • D
    Kate Winslet

Question 43

In the 1949 noir 'Criss Cross', a scheming woman gets her honest ex-husband involved with her criminal husband and a disastrous robbery. Who portrays this devious femme fatale?

  • A
    Donna Reed
  • B
    Ethel Merman
  • C
    Yvonne De Carlo
  • D
    Lena Horne

Question 44

Winning an Academy Award for her role in It Happened one Night, starring opposite Clark Gable, this American actress was known more for her character and acting than for her beauty, although she was attractive enough to place opposite the likes of Jimmy Stewart, Fredric March, and Robert Young. One of her more famous comedic roles was in The Egg and I, a comedy co-starring Fred MacMurray.

  • A
    Marjorie Maine
  • B
    Rhonda Fleming
  • C
    Claudette Colbert
  • D
    Vivien Leigh

Question 45

From her role as Charly in Hitchcock's "Shadow of a Doubt" with Joseph Cotton to Peggy Stephenson in "The Best Years of Our Lives" with Dana Andrews to Carol Belden in "Mrs. Miniver," this actress portrayed good daughters and women with high morals

  • A
    Vivien Leigh
  • B
    Teresa Wright
  • C
    Eva Marie Saint
  • D
    Jane Wyatt

Question 46

This strong, beautiful and sometimes frightening actress got her start as a dancer in a traveling chorus line. From her portrayal of the manipulative Mildred Pierce to the vulnerable and dependent Blanche Hudson in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? she has left her mark on Hollywood.

  • A
    Bette Davis
  • B
    Jane Russell
  • C
    Joan Crawford
  • D
    Hedy Lamarr

Question 47

This actress had a child with actor Clark Gable, whom she worked with in the films "Key to the City" and "Call of the Wild." She was adept at comedic roles as well and "The Farmer's Daughter" is a fan favorite. Who is this high-fashion beauty?

  • A
    Deborah Karr
  • B
    Greer Garson
  • C
    Loretta Young
  • D
    Elizabeth Taylor

Question 48

Often paired with actor Jimmy Stewart, she portrayed his mother as well as the mother or grandmother of many other actors. This actress had a sweet demeanor and quiet wisdom in most of her roles. Because of the character in her face, she would play aging mothers, though she was only in her forties.

  • A
    Beulah Bondi
  • B
    Vanessa Redgrave
  • C
    Maureen O'Hara
  • D
    Jean Simmons

Question 49

What actress was known as the "Most Beautiful Woman in Films" but also developed technology that later would be used in mobile phones and military communications?

  • A
    Hedy Lamarr
  • B
    Kim Novak
  • C
    Joan Collins
  • D
    Claudette Colbert

Question 50

Which soccer goalkeeper holds the most career clean sheets record in the U.S?

  • A
    Emma Byrne
  • B
    Stina Lykke Petersen
  • C
    Melissa Barbieri
  • D
    Hope Solo

Question 51

Who was the actress that played the quintessential role of "Auntie Mame" as well as a sophisticated comedic role of Hildy Johnson in the film "His Girl Friday" opposite Cary Grant?

  • A
    Ida Lupino
  • B
    Lee Remick
  • C
    Ginger Rogers
  • D
    Rosalind Russell

Question 52

From her serious role in the biopic, "Strategic Air Command" with Jimmy Stewart, to her role in the romantic comedy, "My Man Godfrey" with David Niven, this versatile actress's characters always had a good moral compass. She was a personal friend of Ronald and Nancy Reagan and a regular guest at the White House. In her older age, she was a spokesperson for the Depends company and an advocate for incontinence products for senior citizens. Who is this cute blonde actress?

  • A
    Jane Powell
  • B
    Joan Leslie
  • C
    June Allyson
  • D
    June Lockhart

Question 53

What actress and producer won her first Oscar for her supporting role in 2011's 'The Help'?

  • A
    Viola Davis
  • B
    Octavia Spencer
  • C
    Bryce Dallas Howard
  • D
    Sally Hawkins

Question 54

Which triple Olympic gold medalist in track and field also suffered from severe asthma?

  • A
    Lolo Jones
  • B
    Florence Griffith Joyner
  • C
    Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • D
    Allyson Felix

Question 55

What German player took home her very first Wimbledon women’s singles title in 2018?

  • A
    Maret Ani
  • B
    Elena Dementieva
  • C
    Elena Baltacha
  • D
    Angelique Kerber

Question 56

After a long-fought battle, when did women cast their first vote in America?

  • A
    1940
  • B
    1928
  • C
    1900
  • D
    1920

Question 57

Who is the most decorated female athlete in the history of the Winter Olympic games?

  • A
    Bonnie Blair
  • B
    Peggy Fleming
  • C
    Lindsey Vonn
  • D
    Kristi Yamaguchi

Question 58

Short track speed skater Cathy Turner won back-to-back Olympic gold medals in this event.

  • A
    1,500 meters
  • B
    3,000 meters
  • C
    1,000 meters
  • D
    500 meters

Question 59

What American tennis powerhouse won the Wimbledon women’s singles crown in 1999?

  • A
    Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • B
    Chris Evert
  • C
    Lindsay Davenport
  • D
    Billie Jean King

Question 60

This Czech player won Wimbledon singles in 2011 and 2014. Who is she?

  • A
    Martina Navratilova
  • B
    Jana Novotná
  • C
    Petra Kvitová
  • D
    Steffi Graf

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