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Quiz: Famous female firsts
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Test your knowledge and spot the groundbreaking achievements of inspirational women.
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By Vickie Reichardt
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Women have played an integral part in all facets of history. Test your knowledge about iconic women of the past with this quiz celebrating notable achievements, groundbreaking moments and "famous firsts."
1. This Polish-born physicist and pioneer in the field of radioactivity discovered radium and, in 1903, became the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. Who is she?
a) Emily Noether
b) Marie Curie
c) Maria Goeppert Mayer
d) Irene Curie
2. You may have heard of famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart, but which lesser-known American became the first woman to earn her pilot's licence and the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel?
a) Elsie MacGill
b) Bessie Coleman
c) Blanche Scott
d) Harriet Quimby
3. Sandra Day O'Connor made history by battling sexism in her field and eventually did what in 1981?
a) became the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice
b) led a nation-wide auto-workers' union strike that lasted three months
c) founded Planned Parenthood
d) ran for president of the United States
4. Which famous suffragist, civil-rights activist and Civil War nurse, nicknamed the Angel of the Battlefield, went on to found the American Red Cross in 1881?
a) Florence Nightengale
b) Susan B. Anthony
c) Sojourner Truth
d) Clara Barton
5. Though they now number in the thousands, female Olympic athletes were first allowed to compete in the Games in which year, when 19 women participated?
a) 1900
b) 1904
c) 1920
d) 1924
6. Best known for her silver-screen talents, actress Hedy Lamarr also made history by co-inventing what during the Second World War?
a) bullet-proof vests worn by Allied soldiers
b) a jam-proof radio-transmission system
c) military "meals ready to eat" (MREs)
d) an ointment for treating wounds
7. Which former textile worker became the first woman in space in 1963, and orbited the Earth 48 times on her first and only voyage?
a) Svetlana Savitskaya
b) Geraldine Cobb
c) Valentina Tereshkova
d) Judith Resnick
8. In 1967 and against much opposition, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to do what?
a) run the Boston Marathon
b) run for prime minister of Canada
c) race the Iditarod
d) fly a commercial airliner
9. Which well-known author became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction?
a) Virginia Woolf
b) Lucy Maud Montgomery
c) Harper Lee
d) Edith Wharton
10. Grace Annie Lockhart is famous for being the first Canadian woman to do what?
a) practise medicine in her own clinic
b) become a member of Parliament
c) earn a university degree
d) win an Academy Award
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