Feminist Friday Quiz Night
If you’re anything like us, mandatory lockdown will have reduced your social life into screen time. But, one of the best things to come out of the global COVID-19 pandemic must surely be the nation’s newfound love of quizzing!
Whether you’re looking for questions to host a quiz, or just fancy testing your own knowledge, we’ve got your back. Take on our pre-written quiz (and take the credit amongst your pals!)
This Friday night, why not make your quiz female-first?!
Let the Quizzing Commence:
Round 1: Radical Rom-Coms
Q1: Who does Sam Montgomery’s best friend go to the ball dressed as in the iconic 2004 adaptation A Cinderella Story?
Q2: Name as many films featuring Lindsay Lohan as you can in 30 seconds. (It’s harder than you may think!)
Q3: In 10 Things I Hate About You, Heath Ledger (Patrick) serenades Julia Stiles (Kat) via loudspeaker on the stands of the football field. What song does he sing?
Q4: In Love, Actually, Emma Thompson’s character, Karen, has a daughter who gets a role in the school’s nativity play. What is that role?
Q5: What is Maya Rudolph’s character, Lillian, wearing when she does a public poo in Bridesmaids?
Round 2: Guess Who? Female Detectives
Q1: In Silence of the Lambs, where is Clarice Starling originally from?
Q2: In The X-Files, what is Agent Scully’s first name?
Q3: Which actor starred as Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison in Prime Suspect?
Q4: In the Brooklyn 99 episode, ‘Into the Woods’, what product do Amy Santiago and Gina Linetti pitch to the head of NYPD purchasing?
Q5: What is the name of the woman on the end of Special Agent Dale Cooper’s two-way radio in Twin Peaks? (And, for a bonus point, who played her in Twin Peaks The Return?)
Round 3: World’s First Women
Q1: Which woman published the world’s first algorithm that made computers possible?
Q2: Sarah Breedlove, the world’s first female self-made millionaire said “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.”
But in what year did she make her million? (Closest answer wins)
Q3: Which female author was the first female winner of the Pulitzer Prize? (Clue: She won in 1921.)
Q4: Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the first female elected Prime Minister of a sovereign country in 1960. But in which country was she elected?
(Clue: I’ll accept the name of the country as it was then, or how it’s known now.)
Q5: Who was the first woman to be inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
(Clue: This happened in 1987.)
Round 4: Women Who Write
It’s time for some multiple choice:
Q1: Which one of these authors have not used a male pseudonym?
J.K. Rowling
Virginia Woolf
Emily Dickinson
Mary Ann Evans
Q2: Since it began in 1969, how many women have won the Man Booker Prize?
Is it a) 16, b) 25, or c) 31?
Q3: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife…" is the first line of what book, published in 1813?
Q4: Which actress played Virginia Woolf in the film The Hours?
Q5: On Beauty (2005) and Swing Time (2016) are two books written by which author?
Round 5: Female Folklore
Q1: Before Eve, Adam shacked up with Lilith, his infamous first wife and the original femme fatale. But why was Lilith thrown out of the Garden of Eden?
Q2: Name as many goddesses and lady monsters from Greek mythology as you can in 30-seconds. (Characters from Roman mythology won't count, so be careful!)
Q3: In the original Ballad of Mulan, how long does Mulan serve in the army before any of her comrades realise she’s actually a woman?
Is it a) 3 days, b) 3 weeks, c) 9 months, or d) 12 years?
Q4: What clever ruse does Gretel (from Hansel & Gretel) come up with to trick the witch and save her brother from being eaten?
Q5: In Act III of The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Ariel appears in the form of a mythological creature that is part woman. What is the creature?
Bonus Round! Harpy’s Scavenger Hunt
Watch those sad step-counters soar by rounding off your quiz with a scavenger hunt. First person back to the screen with each item gets the most points!
A period product (or other hygiene item).
A picture of your best friend.
A book that passes the Bechdel Test.
Your comfiest, ugliest undies.
The longest hair on your body right now (excluding the hair on your head).
Take on our Feminist Friday Quiz Night with your pals and let us know who comes out on top!
Spoiler Alert: Quiz Answers:
Round 1:
Zorro
Check out Lohan’s entire filmography on IMdB.
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You, by Andy Williams
First Lobster
A Wedding Dress
Round 2:
West Virginia
Dana
Helen Mirren
The Shoulder Nova
Diane (played by Laura Dern)
Round 3:
Ada Lovelace (read more about Ada Lovelace’s history here).
1867
Edith Wharton
Ceylon or Sri Lanka
Aretha Franklin
Round 4:
Emily Dickinson. (Mary Ann Evans used the pseudonym George Eliot, which to this day remains the name by which she is best known. J.K. Rowling has written as Robert Galbraith, Emily Brontë published her work as Ellis Bell and Virginia Woolf used E V Odle.)
16. (It has been won 31 times by male authors!)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Nicole Kidman
Zadie Smith
Round 5:
Lilith refused to be subordinate to Adam and lie beneath him during sex.
Check answers against the complete Wiki list of Greek mythological figures.
12 years. Mulan's comrades don't realise she's a woman until she goes home and puts make-up on!
Gretel pretends not to understand the witch's instructions to check the temperature of the oven. She tricks the witch into climbing into the oven, before closing the door and cooking her to death!
Ariel appears in the shape of a Harpy!
