Famous Female Firsts - Statistics

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Year	Who was the first woman to...	Answer	% Correct
2005	Serve as Chancellor of Germany?	Angela Merkel	86%
1928	Fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?	Amelia Earhart	85%
1903	Win a Nobel Prize?	Marie Curie	82%
1725	Rule Imperial Russia?	Catherine I	77%
1553	Rule England?	Mary I	69%
2007	Serve as US Speaker of the House?	Nancy Pelosi	50%
1968	Win the Wimbledon Open?	Billie Jean King	42%
2010	Win an Academy Award for Best Director?	Kathryn Bigelow	41%
1987	Be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?	Aretha Franklin	35%
1995	Debut a song at #1 on the Billboard Top 100?	Mariah Carey	28%
1842	Work with computers?	Ada Lovelace	19%
1472 BC	Rule Egypt?	Hatshepsut	17%
1963	Launch into Space?	Valentina Tereshkova	17%
2013	Be inducted into the World Football Hall of Fame?	Mia Hamm	15%
1993	Serve as Prime Minister of Canada?	Kim Campbell	7%
1921	Win the Pulitzer Prize for Best Fiction?	Edith Wharton	5%
1975	Climb Mt. Everest?	Junko Tabei	2%
1900	Win an Olympic Gold Medal?	Charlotte "Chatty" Cooper	1%
1972	Be named CEO of a Fortune 500 company?	Kathrine Graham	1%
1047	Be canonized by the Vatican?	Wiborada of Saint Gall	1%
1650	Publish a book in the Americas?	Anne Bradstreet	0%
1618	Compose an opera?	Francesca Caccini	0%

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