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American Women quarters quiz
Match text clues to 20 honorees and learn the symbols behind the designs.
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10 random questions per mixed round · 30 questions in the full bank below
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BEHIND THE ROUND
A little more about this quiz
The American Women Quarters program honored twenty women across four issue years. This text-clue quiz describes design details in original wording: a space-shuttle window, a ballet pose, a Girl Scout symbol or tennis equipment. You choose the honoree, then read the explanation and Mint reference.
The first twenty questions cover every honoree once. Ten additional questions explain the shared obverse, program years and selected symbols or inscriptions. Mixed rounds draw ten; focused practice lets you cover all twenty names, one five-honoree year, or the ten context questions.
No coin photographs are needed for this version. Use the year reference to learn the complete set, then print a matching worksheet or return to the names you missed. The page covers historical recognition and excludes coin values, rarity, grading and investment advice.
LEARN THE PATTERN
Recognize the honoree, then explain the clue
Use the twenty-name reference below as a study list, not as an issue-order chart.
All 20 honorees by issue year
Five honorees belong to each year. Rows are grouped for study and do not assert release order within a year.
| Issue year | Honoree |
|---|---|
| 2022 | Maya Angelou |
| 2022 | Dr. Sally Ride |
| 2022 | Wilma Mankiller |
| 2022 | Nina Otero-Warren |
| 2022 | Anna May Wong |
| 2023 | Bessie Coleman |
| 2023 | Jovita Idar |
| 2023 | Edith Kanakaʻole |
| 2023 | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 2023 | Maria Tallchief |
| 2024 | Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray |
| 2024 | Patsy Takemoto Mink |
| 2024 | Dr. Mary Edwards Walker |
| 2024 | Celia Cruz |
| 2024 | Zitkala-Ša |
| 2025 | Ida B. Wells |
| 2025 | Juliette Gordon Low |
| 2025 | Dr. Vera Rubin |
| 2025 | Stacey Park Milbern |
| 2025 | Althea Gibson |
Reference sources: U.S. Mint: 2022 American Women quarter designs · U.S. Mint: 2023 American Women quarter designs · U.S. Mint: 2024 American Women quarter designs · U.S. Mint: 2025 American Women quarter designs
Check what you remember
Look away from the table. Try each question, then open it to check your answer.
How many honorees are in the complete program?Show answer
Twenty: five in each of four years, 2022–2025.
Which side changes for each honoree?Show answer
The reverse; the common obverse depicts Washington.
Start with a design clue
Connect a distinctive object with the person it honors: Ride’s shuttle window, Tallchief’s ballet pose, Low’s Trefoil or Gibson’s tennis equipment. These are verbal clues, so the quiz does not depend on coin-image recognition.
Separate issue year from historical dates
The program ran from 2022 through 2025, with five honorees per year. A historical date within a design can describe the honoree’s life rather than the coin’s issue year. Coleman’s license date is one example.
Keep the two coin faces straight
The shared obverse presents Washington in Fraser’s portrait design. The reverse changes to recognize each honoree. Context practice tests these series facts separately from the twenty name-recognition items.
Put it into practice
Further reading: U.S. Mint: 2022 American Women quarter designs · U.S. Mint: 2023 American Women quarter designs · U.S. Mint: 2024 American Women quarter designs · U.S. Mint: 2025 American Women quarter designs · U.S. Mint: celia design reference · U.S. Mint: althea design reference
QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
American Women quarters quiz: the full question sheet
Identify all 20 American Women quarter honorees from original text clues, then test design symbols and the 2022–2025 series. The bank has 30 questions; mixed rounds draw ten.
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Which honoree’s quarter combines an uplifted figure, a bird and sunrise?
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Maya Angelou. These symbols accompany Maya Angelou on her 2022 reverse design.
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A space-shuttle window and a view of Earth identify which 2022 honoree?
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Dr. Sally Ride. Sally Ride’s quarter places her beside a shuttle window overlooking Earth.
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Whose 2022 design includes a traditional shawl and the Cherokee Nation’s seven-pointed star?
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Wilma Mankiller. The shawl and Cherokee star are identifying details of Wilma Mankiller’s design.
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Yucca flowers and a Spanish suffrage slogan appear on whose quarter?
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Nina Otero-Warren. Nina Otero-Warren’s 2022 design pairs the flowers with a call for women’s votes.
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Which honoree is framed by bright marquee-style lights on her quarter?
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Anna May Wong. The marquee imagery belongs to the design honoring actor Anna May Wong.
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An aviator preparing for flight and the date 6.15.1921 identify whom?
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Bessie Coleman. Bessie Coleman’s 2023 design includes the date of her pilot’s license.
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Whose quarter forms a clasped-hands figure partly from words about her work?
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Jovita Idar. Jovita Idar’s figure incorporates text associated with her accomplishments and newspapers.
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Which honoree’s hair and lei merge into a Hawaiian landscape?
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Edith Kanakaʻole. That transition is a distinctive feature of Edith Kanakaʻole’s 2023 reverse.
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Scales of justice and a globe accompany which honoree?
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Eleanor Roosevelt. The symbols on Eleanor Roosevelt’s design refer to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Which honoree is represented in a ballet pose on a 2023 quarter?
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Maria Tallchief. The ballet pose identifies Maria Tallchief; her Osage name is also included.
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A face within the large word HOPE identifies which 2024 honoree?
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Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. Pauli Murray’s face appears inside the word, with eyeglasses helping distinguish the portrait.
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A TITLE IX document, the Capitol and a lei identify which honoree?
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Patsy Takemoto Mink. These details appear together on Patsy Takemoto Mink’s 2024 design.
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Which honoree is shown in a Medal of Honor uniform with a pocket surgical kit?
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Dr. Mary Edwards Walker. Those historical objects identify Mary Edwards Walker’s quarter; this question concerns the design.
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A performance dress and the inscription ¡AZÚCAR! identify which honoree?
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Celia Cruz. Celia Cruz is portrayed performing in a rumba-style dress on her 2024 quarter.
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A book, sun and cardinal are clues to which 2024 honoree?
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Zitkala-Ša. Zitkala-Ša’s design uses those symbols; the cardinal also evokes her name, Red Bird.
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Which 2025 honoree’s portrait includes descriptors for journalism, suffrage and civil-rights activism?
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Ida B. Wells. The inscriptions identify areas of Ida B. Wells’s work.
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The original Girl Scout Trefoil appears with which honoree?
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Juliette Gordon Low. The Trefoil connects the design to Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl Scouts of the USA.
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Which quarter combines a spiral galaxy with the inscription DARK MATTER?
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Dr. Vera Rubin. The astronomical design honors Vera Rubin.
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A speaking gesture and a Disability Justice inscription identify which honoree?
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Stacey Park Milbern. The 2025 design shows Stacey Park Milbern speaking with an open palm.
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Which honoree holds a tennis racket and ball beside a net?
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Althea Gibson. The tennis imagery identifies Althea Gibson, the final honoree in the program.
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Who appears on the common obverse of American Women quarters?
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George Washington. The changing honorees are on the reverse; the shared obverse depicts George Washington.
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Who created the portrait design used on the series’ common obverse?
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Laura Gardin Fraser. Laura Gardin Fraser composed and sculpted the Washington portrait used for this series.
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Which issue-year span defines the American Women Quarters program?
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2022–2025. The closed program issued five designs in each year from 2022 through 2025.
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With five honorees in each of four years, how many honorees are in the complete program?
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20. Five per year multiplied by four years gives twenty honorees. Thirty is this quiz’s question count.
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The shared Fraser portrait was originally proposed for a quarter in which year?
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1932. Fraser originally submitted the Washington portrait for the 1932 quarter design competition.
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Which side carries the changing honoree designs in this series?
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The reverse, or tails side. American Women quarters keep a common Washington obverse and change the reverse honoree design.
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What does the Spanish suffrage slogan on Otero-Warren’s design mean?
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Votes for Women. The Mint translates the design’s slogan as Votes for Women.
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What does 6.15.1921 commemorate on Bessie Coleman’s quarter?
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Her pilot-license date. The date records Coleman receiving her pilot’s license, rather than the coin’s issue year.
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What does the landscape transition in Kanakaʻole’s design connect?
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Cultural preservation and Hawaii’s natural environment. The Mint links the design to Kanakaʻole’s work preserving Hawaiian culture and the natural landscape.
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What does Maria Tallchief’s Osage-name inscription mean in the Mint’s explanation?
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Two Standards. The Mint gives Two Standards as the meaning of the Osage name on Tallchief’s design.
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Answer key
- Maya Angelou. These symbols accompany Maya Angelou on her 2022 reverse design.
- Dr. Sally Ride. Sally Ride’s quarter places her beside a shuttle window overlooking Earth.
- Wilma Mankiller. The shawl and Cherokee star are identifying details of Wilma Mankiller’s design.
- Nina Otero-Warren. Nina Otero-Warren’s 2022 design pairs the flowers with a call for women’s votes.
- Anna May Wong. The marquee imagery belongs to the design honoring actor Anna May Wong.
- Bessie Coleman. Bessie Coleman’s 2023 design includes the date of her pilot’s license.
- Jovita Idar. Jovita Idar’s figure incorporates text associated with her accomplishments and newspapers.
- Edith Kanakaʻole. That transition is a distinctive feature of Edith Kanakaʻole’s 2023 reverse.
- Eleanor Roosevelt. The symbols on Eleanor Roosevelt’s design refer to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- Maria Tallchief. The ballet pose identifies Maria Tallchief; her Osage name is also included.
- Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. Pauli Murray’s face appears inside the word, with eyeglasses helping distinguish the portrait.
- Patsy Takemoto Mink. These details appear together on Patsy Takemoto Mink’s 2024 design.
- Dr. Mary Edwards Walker. Those historical objects identify Mary Edwards Walker’s quarter; this question concerns the design.
- Celia Cruz. Celia Cruz is portrayed performing in a rumba-style dress on her 2024 quarter.
- Zitkala-Ša. Zitkala-Ša’s design uses those symbols; the cardinal also evokes her name, Red Bird.
- Ida B. Wells. The inscriptions identify areas of Ida B. Wells’s work.
- Juliette Gordon Low. The Trefoil connects the design to Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl Scouts of the USA.
- Dr. Vera Rubin. The astronomical design honors Vera Rubin.
- Stacey Park Milbern. The 2025 design shows Stacey Park Milbern speaking with an open palm.
- Althea Gibson. The tennis imagery identifies Althea Gibson, the final honoree in the program.
- George Washington. The changing honorees are on the reverse; the shared obverse depicts George Washington.
- Laura Gardin Fraser. Laura Gardin Fraser composed and sculpted the Washington portrait used for this series.
- 2022–2025. The closed program issued five designs in each year from 2022 through 2025.
- 20. Five per year multiplied by four years gives twenty honorees. Thirty is this quiz’s question count.
- 1932. Fraser originally submitted the Washington portrait for the 1932 quarter design competition.
- The reverse, or tails side. American Women quarters keep a common Washington obverse and change the reverse honoree design.
- Votes for Women. The Mint translates the design’s slogan as Votes for Women.
- Her pilot-license date. The date records Coleman receiving her pilot’s license, rather than the coin’s issue year.
- Cultural preservation and Hawaii’s natural environment. The Mint links the design to Kanakaʻole’s work preserving Hawaiian culture and the natural landscape.
- Two Standards. The Mint gives Two Standards as the meaning of the Osage name on Tallchief’s design.