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Interesting Facts on Great Women
Quiz on women who made their name in history
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Last updated: July 24, 2024
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1. First woman to swim the English Channel
Florence Chadwick
Gertrude Ederle
Mercedes Gleitze
Winnie Leuszler
2. First self-governing country to grant all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections
Australia
Finland
Japan
New Zealand
3. First woman to motorcycle solo around the world
Alma Maximiliana Karlin
Anne-France Dautheville
Cassandra De Pecol
Laura Dekker
4. Marie Van Brittan Brown, who along with her husband developed the first home security system in response to the rising crime rates and slow police responses of the 1960s was a ______________ by profession
911 Operator
Firefighter
Nurse
Videographer
5. Only Woman to win two Nobel prize
Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911
Bertha von Suttner
Jane Addams
Marie Curie
Selma Lagerlöf
6. Katharine Graham, the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 Company, was the CEO of
Golden West Financial
Hewlett Packard
The Washington Post
Warnaco Group Inc
7. Who was not married to a president and is still considered the first official first lady of the United States?
The title 'First Lady' was used in Washington D.C. social circles sometime after 1849
Harriet Lane, niece of James Buchanan
Mary Harrison McKee, Daughter of Benjamin Harrison
Mary McElroy, Sister of Chester A. Arthur
Rose Cleveland, Sister of Grover Cleveland
8. First Queen / female ruler of the world
Cleopatra, Egypt
Kubaba, Sumer
Queen Mary I, England
Sobekneferu, Egypt
9. Françoise Bettencourt Meyers is the
chef who invented mayonnaise
first female president of France
first non-English actor to win an Oscar
richest woman in the world
10. First woman in space
Mae Jemison
Sally Ride
Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya
Valentina Tereshkova
11. First woman to be an Elected President of a country
Though Isabel Perón was the first woman to serve as president of a country, she was not elected. She served as President following the death of her husband in office.
Isabel Perón, Argentina
Pratibha Patil, India
Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lanka
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Iceland
12. First woman to be named actress in a film and to lead a movie.
Betty White
Florence Lawrence
Margaret Hughes
Mary Frith
13. Hattie McDaniel was the first woman
of color to go to space
of color to win an Academy Award
to race in NASCAR
to win the Nobel prize in Literature
14. First black woman to reach summit of Mount Everest
Chelsea Griffie
Fanny Bullock Workman
Saray Khumalo
Sophia Danenberg
15. The first woman to be married to a US President and the mother of a US President
Abigail Adams and Barbara Bush are the only two to achieve such a feat
Abigail Adams
Barbara Bush
Edith Roosevelt
Edith Roosevelt
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