Girl Power

Miss World (Girls Rule)

1. Besides being the first ever held by a First Lady, what made Eleanor Roosevelt's press conferences different from all others?
   Only female reporters were invited.

2. What was Mother Teresa's real name?
   Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

3. When filling out her application to run for President, her occupation was "housewife" and single mother of five. She had never been involved in politics before. When it began to look like she would win the election, the current President tried to stop the voters by using tanks, which were stopped in the street by nuns kneeling in front of them. Even her country's Defense Minister and Deputy Chief of the Armed Forces broke away from the government to declare her the winner. Who was she and what country and year was this?
   Corazon Aquino. The Phillipines, 1986

4. What playwright and actress was arrested for "Obscenity and Corrupting the Morals of the Youth" after the release of her play "Sex" in 1926?
   Mae West

5. Where did Amelia Earhart take off from and land on her landmark 1932 solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean?
   She left from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, and landed in Culmore, Ireland.

6. Who ran for a seat in the United States Congress on the slogan "This woman belongs in the House"?
   Bella Abzug

7. During the 1980 U.S. Presidential debate, Jimmy Carter mentioned his daughter, Amy Lynn Carter's, opinion on what the most important political issue of the era was, marking the first time the First Daughter's opinion was ever publicly voiced. Carter was soundly mocked and eventually lost the election. What did Amy Carter believe the most important issue of the era was and how old was she?
   Nuclear weapons and disarmament. 13 years old.

8. Who was the first woman in outer space?
   Valentina Tereshkova

9. The first woman to ever run for President of the U.S. did so in 1872 with the nomination of the People's Party. What was her name? Who was her runningmate?
   Victoria Woodhull, running with Frederick Douglass

10. In November, 1872, Susan B. Anthony was arrested in Rochester, NY. Why?
    She voted.

11. In a highly publicized 1973 match in the Houston Astrodome, a female tennis player beat a male tennis player in three straight sets. Who were the two players?
    Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs

12. Who is the only First Lady to have ever appeared on United States currency?
    Martha Washington

Face Up And Sing (Girls Make Music)

13. Goddess on a mountain top
    Burning like a silver flame
    The summit of beauty and love
    And Venus was her name.
    Bananarama, Venus

14. Years go by
    Will I still be waiting
    For somebody else to understand
    Years go by
    I'm stripped of my beauty
    And the orange clouds raining in my head
    Years go by
    Will I choke on my tears
    Till finally there is nothing left
    One more casualty, you know,
    It's too easy, easy, easy
    Tori Amos, Silent All These Years

15. Some boys take a beautiful girl
    And hide her away from the rest of the world.
    I want to be the one to walk in the sun
    'Cause girls, they want to have fun
    That's all they really want.
    Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just Want to Have Fun

16. Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town
    I'm counting on you Lord, please don't let me down
    Prove that you love me, and buy the next round
    Oh Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town
    Everybody!

17. I'm sure she'd make a really excellent mother.
    'Cause the love that you gave
    that we made wasn't able
    to make it enough for you
    to be open wide.
    No.
    And every time you speak her name
    Does she know how you told me
    you'd hold me until you die,
    till you die,
    But you're still alive.
    Alanis Morisette, You Oughta Know

18. I want to talk to you, I want to shampoo you
    I want to renew you again and again
    Applause, applause -- life is our cause
    when I think of your kisses
    my mind seesaws
    Do you see - do you see - do you see
    how you hurt me baby
    so I hurt you too
    then we both get so blue

50 Ft. Queenie (Girls On Film)

19. Courtney Love made her film debut as an extra in what movie?
    Sid and Nancy

20. In Clueless, what song does Tai throw on the fireplace to help get over Elton?
    Rolling With The Homies

21. At the end of Say Anything, what does Diane give her father?
    A pen.

22. What does Veronica Sawyer take from Heather Duke after killing J.D.?
    A red hair ribbon.

23. In Circle of Friends, Benny warns Jack that although she looks like something, she does not have a thick skin. What is it?
    A rhinoceros.

24. What was the original ending of Mermaids, changed at Cher's request?
    Kate dies by drowning

25. How many times does Harry meet Sally before they finally become friends? Where did he meet her each time?
    Three times. Once at college to drive her to New York, once in an airport, and once in a bookstore.

26. What was the one thing Vickie learned in college in the film Reality Bites?
    Her Social Security number

27. What is the advice Ivana Trump gives to the First Wives Club?
    Don't get mad, get everything

Express Yourself (Girls Who Write)

28. The first novel in the Western tradition was Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes. However, the first prose novel in the world was written by a woman. What was it, what was her name, and where did she come from?
    Tale of Genji, Murasaki Shikobu, Japan

29. Who are Nancy Drew's two best friends? Who is the boy she is in love with?
    George Fayne and Bess Marvin. Ned Nickerson.

30. What is Ramona Quimby's older sister's real name and nickname? What is her old yellow cat's name?
    Beatrice. Beezus. Picky-Picky.

31. What was the circumstance surrounding Dawn Shafer becoming Treasurer and Mallory Pike and Jessica Ramsey becoming Junior Officers of the Baby-Sitters' Club?
    Stacey moved to New York City.

32. Who were the Sweet Valley twins? What was the name of their brother?
    Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield. Steven.

33. Identify the book and author of the following opening passages:

34. It was a dark and stormy night in a small village in the United States. In her attic bedroom Margaret Murry, wrapped in an old patchwork quilt, sat on the foot of her bed and watched the trees tossing in the frenzied lashing of the wind.
    A Wrinkle In Time, Madeline L'Engle

35. No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.
    Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen

36. 1801. - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country!
    Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

37. We moved on the Tuesday before Labor Day. I knew what the weather was like the second I got up. I knew because I caught my mother sniffing under her arms. She always does that when it's hot and humid, to make sure her deodorant's working. I don't use deodorant yet. I don't think people start to smell bad until they're at least twelve. So I've still got a few months to go.
    Are You There God, It's Me Margaret, Judy Blume

38. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
    Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

39. I hate my father. I hate my school. I hate being fat. I hate the principal because he wanted to fire Ms. Finney, my English teacher.
    The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Paula Danziger

40. It is so appropriate to color hope yellow, like that sun we seldom saw. And as I begin to copy from the old memorandum journals that I kept for so long, a title comes as if inspired. Open the Window and Stand in the Sunshine. Yet I hesitate to name our story that.
    Flowers in the Attic, V.C. Andrews

41. The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.
    A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin

42. Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away.
    From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg

Girl In A Box (Girls On TV)

43. Which actress successfully sued the creators of Melrose Place for discrimination after being fired from the show for being pregnant?
    Hunter Tylo

44. When Daria turns on the TV, what show is invariably on?
    Sick Sad World

45. What was the longest running NBC sitcom in the 1980s?
    The Facts of Life

46. Name all three actresses who played Catwoman on the original Batman television series.
    Eartha Kitt, Julie Newmar, and Lee Merriweather

47. For every generation there is one Slayer. For a few days, however, there were two. What were their names? What caused the second Slayer to be called?
    Buffy and Kendra. Buffy died for a few seconds (she drowned).

48. What two repeated phrases, interspersed between countless na-na-na's, create the theme song to Clarissa Explains It All?
    "Way cool" and "all right all right".

49. What was Sabrina Spellman's first use of her magical powers?
    She accidentally reanimated a frog in her biology class.

50. Two women in Greece bear a striking physical resemblance to Xena. Who are they?
    Diana and Meg

51. Ally McBeal didn't want to be a lawyer. Why, then, did she go to law school in the first place?
    She went to follow Billy, whom she was dating at the time.

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Girls Buy Stuff)

52. What are Cabbage Patch Kid animals called?
    Koosas

53. Identify the characters below: (pictures not available)
    Kerokero Keroppi, Pekkle, Mimi, My Melody, Kimi Kameleen

54. Only three albums sold more than four million copies in 1997. One was the soundtrack to Titanic. What were the other two?
    Pieces of You by Jewel and Spice by Spice Girls

55. Name the company (or product, where applicable) that uses the following advertising slogans:

    1. Easy Breezy Beautiful
       Cover Girl

    2. Maybe She's Born With It
       Maybelline

    3. Because You're Worth It
       L'Oreal (Hair Care Line)

    4. Strong Enough for a Man, pH Balanced for a Woman
       Secret

    5. It's A Woman Thing
       Virginia Slims

    6. Women Know
       Tampax

56. Name the cosmetic company that employs the following supermodels:

    1. Tyra Banks
       Cover Girl

    2. Niki Taylor
       Cover Girl

    3. Cindy Crawford
       Revlon

    4. Bridget Hall
       Maybelline

    5. Claudia Schiffer
       Revlon

    6. Linda Evangelista
       Clairol

    7. Christy Turlington
       Maybelline

    8. Helena Christensen
       Cover Girl

57. Fill in the bubbles (Picture not available)

Spice Up Your Life (Silence Is Golden, But Shouting Is Fun)

58. Next to each line of lyrics, write the full name of the Spice Girl who sings that line, her Spice moniker, and the letter in which she appears on the cover of the debut album Spice:

    If you want my future, forget my past
    Melanie Chisolm, Sporty, I
    If you wanna get with me, better make it fast
    Emma Bunton, Baby, P
    Now don't go wastin' my precious time
    Melanie Brown, Scary, E
    Get your act together, we could be just fine
    Geri Halliwell, Ginger, C
    Say you can handle my love, are you for real
    Victoria Addams, Posh, S

59. The Spice Girls turned down an offer to perform the title song for what 1997 film?
    Hercules

60. Before they settled on the name Spice Girls, what was their group called?
    Touch.

61. According to most accounts, the Spice Girls were originally a four person outfit, consisting of the current members minus one. This is not true. They originally included a fifth member who quit before they achieved success. Who was she?
    Michelle Stephenson

Essay Section (Girls Girls Girls)

62. You are Irma Kurtz, advice columnist for Cosmopolitan Magazine. You receive the following letter: My boyfriend and I have been dating for six months. I really like him, but my girlfriends are all still single and enjoy going to bars. When I go with them, my boyfriend gets angry. I don't want to abandon my friends, but I hate it when he yells at me. What should I do? How do you respond?

63. A boy you like calls you on the phone and asks you if you want to study for chemistry tomorrow. List all possible motivations and meanings.