Questions

1. Which of the following women did NOT graduate from Barnard College?
   A)  Anna Quindlen, writer
   B)  Martha Stewart, entrepreneur
   C)  Joan Rivers, comedian
   D)  Katharine Hepburn, actress
   E)  Zora Neale Hurston, writer
   
   
2. Which of the following elected officials did NOT graduate from a women's college?
   A)  Barbara Mikulski, U.S. Senator, Maryland
   B)  Barbara Lee, U.S. Representative, California
   C)  Elizabeth Dole, U.S. Senator, North Carolina
   D)  Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Representative, California
   E)  Blanche Lambert Lincoln, U.S. Senator, Arkansas
   
   
3. Cynthia Nixon plays Miranda on HBO's Sex and the City. In real life, Nixon graduated from which women's college?
   A)  Barnard College
   B)  Radcliffe College
   C)  Smith College
   D)  Mount Holyoke
   E)  Mills College
   
   
4. Which of the following women did NOT graduate from Wellesley College?
   A)  Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator
   B)  Julia Child, chef/author
   C)  Madeleine Albright, former Secretary of State
   D)  Diane Sawyer, journalist
   E)  Nora Ephron, screenwriter
   
   
5. Which First Lady did NOT attend a women's college?
   A)  Nancy Davis Reagan
   B)  Hillary Rodham Clinton
   C)  Barbara Pierce Bush
   D)  Elizabeth Bloomer Ford
   E)  Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy
   
   
6. Which of the following women did NOT graduate from a women's college?
   A)  Gloria Steinem, writer/feminist
   B)  Geraldine Ferraro, first woman Vice-Presidential Candidate
   C)  Meryl Streep, actress
   D)  Jeane Kirkpatrick, first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
   E)  Pearl S. Buck, writer
   
   
7. What college, formerly a women's college but now coeducational, graduated actresses Téa Leoni (Bad Boys, Jurassic Park III, The Family Man) and Lisa Kudrow (Friends, Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion)?
   A)  Oberlin College
   B)  Vassar College
   C)  Hunter College
   D)  Radcliffe College
   E)  Goucher College

Answers

1. D. Katharine Hepburn graduated from Bryn Mawr College. Everyone else is a Barnard alumna.
   
   
2. C. Elizabeth Dole is a graduate of Duke University. Barbara Mikulski graduated from Mount Saint Agnes College, Barbara Lee graduated from Mills College, Nancy Pelosi graduated from Trinity College, and Blanche Lambert Lincoln graduated from Randolph-Macon Women's College.
   
   
3. A.
   
   
4. B. Julia Child graduated from Smith College, not Wellesley.
   
   
5. D. Watch the wording on this one. Elizabeth Ford graduated with a degree in Modern Dance from Bennington College. Nancy Reagan graduated from Smith College. Hillary Clinton graduated from Wellesley. Barbara Bush also attended Smith, but she did not graduate. Jacqueline Kennedy attended Vassar College, but graduated from George Washington University.
   
   
6. C, sort of. Okay, we admit it, this is a bit of a trick question. While all of these women attended women's colleges, Vassar College (Meryl Streep's alma mater) began admitting men in 1969. Streep graduated from Vassar in 1971, when the school was coeducational. Gloria Steinem graduated from Smith College, Geraldine Ferraro graduated from Marymount College, Jeane Kirkpatrick graduated from Barnard College, and Pearl S. Buck graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College.
   
   
7. B. Vassar College is the alma mater of both Téa Leoni and Lisa Kudrow. Oberlin College was never a women's college, though it has the distinction of being the first coeducational college in the U.S. Hunter College was founded as a teacher-training school for women, but became fully co-educational in 1964. Radcliffe became part of Harvard University, while Vassar began admitting men in 1969. Goucher College began as the Women's College of Baltimore, but was renamed Goucher College in 1910.