American Women's 1sts: How Much Do You Know?

Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win first place in an Olympic event in which year?

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League becomes the first professional baseball league for female players in which year?

The All-Woman Supreme Court refers to a special session of the Supreme Court of Texas which sat for five months, and was the first all-female supreme court in the history of the United States in which year?

Louise Blanchard Bethune was the first woman to work as a professional architect in America in which year?

Alice Guy Blaché, the first American woman film director, shoots the first of her more than 300 films, a short feature called La Fee aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy) in which year?

Elizabeth Blackwell receives her M.D. Degree from the Medical Institution of Geneva, N.Y., becoming the first woman in the U.S. With a medical degree in which year?

Hattie Caraway was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in which year?

Genevieve R. Cline was the first woman appointed as a United States federal judge in which year?

Jerrie Cobb is the first woman in the U.S. To undergo astronaut testing in which year?

Eileen Collins was the first female commander of a U.S. Spacecraft with Shuttle mission STS-93 in which year?

Margaret Corbin, the first female soldier in American history to receive a pension, fought in which war?

Carol Doda was the first woman in America to perform as a topless entertainer in which year?

Anna Leah Fox was the first woman to receive the Purple Heart in which year?

Ann Franklin became the first female newspaper editor in America in which year?

Aretha Franklin was the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in which year?

Judy Garland became the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards, winning for "Judy at Carnegie Hall" in which year?

Girl Guides of America (now Girl Scouts of the USA) was established as the first voluntary organization for girls in which year?

Margaret Gorman was the first "Miss America" in which year?

Katharine Graham was the first female Fortune 500 CEO, as CEO of the Washington Post company in which year?

Sarah Hale was the first American woman to be a major women's magazine editor in which year?

Penny Harrington was appointed as Chief of Police, making her the first woman to lead a major-city police department in which year?

Opha May Johnson was the first woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps in which year?

Florence Lawrence was America's first movie star in which year?

Marie Luhring was the first woman in America to become an automotive engineer in which year?

Arabella Mansfield was the first female lawyer in America; she was admitted to the Iowa bar in which year?

Anne McDowell was the first American woman to publish a newspaper completely run by women (titled, "Women's Advocate") in which year?

Esther Hobart Morris was the first woman in America to serve as Justice of the Peace in which year?

Janet Napolitano was the first woman to serve as Secretary of Homeland Security in which year?

Sandra Day O'Connor was appointed to the Supreme Court, making her its first woman justice in which year?

Marie Owens was hired as America's first female police officer, joining the Chicago Police Department in which year?

Anne Parrish establishes, in Philadelphia, the House of Industry, the first charitable organization for women in America in which year?

Nancy Pelosi was the first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives in which year?

Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve as a cabinet member, as well as the first woman to serve as Secretary of Labor, in which year?

Harriet Quimby was the first woman to be licensed as an airplane pilot in America in which year?

Roberta Cooper Ramo was the first female President of the American Bar Association in which year?

Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, was the first woman in America to be elected to Congress in which year?

Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman admitted to MIT (which made her the first accepted to any school of science or technology), and the first American woman to earn a degree in Chemistry in which year?

Sally Ride was the first American woman in space in which year?

Alice Mary Robertson was the first woman to preside over the House of Representatives (despite being opposed to women's suffrage) in which year?

Susanna M. Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas becoming the first woman mayor in the country in which year?

The first birth control clinic was opened by Margaret Sanger in which year?

Muriel Siebert was the first female member of the New York Stock Exchange in which year?

Margaret Chase Smith, of Maine, becomes the first woman nominated for president of the United States by a major political party, at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco in which year?

Kathryn D. Sullivan was the first American woman to conduct a spacewalk in which year?

Lydia Taft was the first woman to vote in American history in which year?

Madam CJ Walker, the first woman millionaire in American history, was born in which year?

Mary Walker was the first woman in America to be a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor in which year?

Edith Wharton was the first woman in America to win the Pulitzer Prize in which year?

Frances Whitcher was the first significant female comic protagonist in America, and the "first best-selling woman humorist" in which year?

Helen Magill White was the first woman in America to earn the Ph.D. Degree in which year?

Lettie Pate Whitehead was the first woman to serve as a director of a major corporation (The Coca-Cola Company) in which year?

Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States in which year?