Battle of the Sexes Quiz: 12 Sex Equality Questions (2022)

The Phoenix Act extends the statute of limitations for survivors of domestic violence. In 2019, the bill passed in California with unanimous support. Evan Rachel Wood led the legislation.

What’s Phoenix Rising?

“Phoenix Rising” is a two-part documentary showcasing Evan Rachel Wood’s rise as an activist and her struggles to cope with the abuse she alleges at Marilyn Manson. The first part of the series premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. “Phoenix Rising” will premiere on HBO later in 2022.

US President Joe Biden called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to resign Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, after the New York state attorney general’s office released a new report on allegations of sexual harassment against the governor. The report detailed multiple allegations of sexual harassment, said that the Cuomo administration was a “hostile work environment,” and claimed that Cuomo violated numerous federal and state laws. On Aug. 23, Cuomo finally resigned from office.

Dictionary.com defines allyship as the role of a person who actively works to include a marginalized group in all areas of society, not as a group member but in solidarity. The online dictionary named allyship word of the year 2021.

Wasn’t there a different definition of the word?

The dictionary also keeps the more traditional definition of allyship as the relationship of persons, groups, or nations cooperating.

Norway’s women’s beach handball team was fined by the European Handball Federation on Monday, July 19, 2021, after players wore shorts, instead of the required bikini bottoms, during a game over the weekend.

Handball sportswear fact

The International Handball Federation requires women to wear bikini bottoms “with a close fit and cut on an upward angle toward the top of the leg.” The sides of the bikini bottoms must be no more than four inches. On the other hand, men can wear shorts as long as four inches above their knees as long as they are “not too baggy.”

John Cleese’s 2022 documentary, “Cancel Me,” will explore positive and negative aspects of cancel culture. In the British channel four docuseries, the 82-year-old actor will meet famous people who have found themselves on the receiving end of cancel culture, as well as the activists doing the canceling.

Endometriosis is a disorder in which the tissue lining the uterus or womb exists outside the uterus, usually causing significant pain.

Did Amy Schumer make her endometriosis go away?

Amy Schumer, 40, shared on Instagram on Jan. 18, 2022, how she’s feeling after undergoing surgery for endometriosis (and also liposuction). “I feel good. Finally,” Schumer captioned two beachside images of her. Schumer revealed she had a hysterectomy and her appendix removed in Sept. 2022, after years of pain from endometriosis. At the time, she said, “All my lifelong pain explained and lifted out of my body.”

Xiomara Castro is the president-elect of Honduras. She takes office on 27 January 2022. Castro will be Honduras’s first female president and the first president not to be a member of either the Liberal Party or the National Party since Honduran democracy was restored in 1982.

Who’s Honduras’s first First-Husband?

Manuel Zelaya, Xiomara Castro’s husband, was President of Honduras from 2006 to 2009 until exiled in the 2009 Honduran coup d’état. Castro was a leader of the movement resisting the coup.

In 1975’s “The Secrets of Isis,” Isis was the first female character on television with superpowers. An archaeology teacher by day, Andrea Thomas battled evil when she wore an ancient amulet that transformed her into the Egyptian goddess, Isis. “The Secrets of Isis” premiered in September 1975, two months before Lynda Carter’s first appearance as Wonder Woman. “The Bionic Woman,” starring Lindsay Wagner, began in January 1976.

Is Isis dead?

JoAnna Cameron, who portrayed Isis, died of stroke complications on Oct. 15, 2021, in Oahu, Hawaii. She was 73.

Which Guinness World Record did JoAnna Cameron hold?

The Guinness Book of World Records said in 1979 that Cameron had appeared in more than 100 commercials on network television, more than anyone else in advertising history.

Chicago Sky is the 2021 WNBA Finals champion with an 80-74 win over Pheonix Mercury. It’s Chicago’s first WNBA title and the city’s first professional basketball championship since 1998.

Any other records?

Chicago coach James Wade became the third Black male coach to win a WNBA championship, joining Michael Cooper, who did it with the Los Angeles Sparks and Phoenix’s Corey Gaines.

Frida Kahlo’s oil painting, “Diego and I,” completed five years before her death in 1954, sold for $34.9 million at Sotheby’s on Nov. 16, 2021, making it the most expensive artwork by a Latin American artist.

Who is Diego from Frida Kahlo’s “Diego and I”?

Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who is depicted in “Diego and I” just above Kahlo’s tearful eyes, was the artist’s husband (they married twice) and the previous “most expensive artwork by a Latin American artist” record holder. Kahlo’s “Diego and I” surpassed Rivera’s “The Rivals” 2018 record, when his painting sold at auction for $9.76 million.

Sheikh Hasina, 74, is Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She’s been in the position since January 2009, making her the 7th current longest-serving prime minister worldwide.

What was Sheikh Hasina’s message to the world leaders in COP26?

Sheikh Hasina spoke at COP26 on behalf of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a group of 48 countries most threatened by climate change. Hasina told wealthy world leaders on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021,  they must fulfill both their carbon emission cutting pledges and keep their promises to help developing countries decarbonize.

Michelle Wu, 36, was elected Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, as the 56th mayor of Boston. Boston had only elected white men as mayor before her. Wu, the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, will be sworn in on Nov. 16, 2021.