Queer History and Culture 2.0

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1. What tennis great came out as a lesbian shortly after being granted US citizenship in 1981? Margaret Smith Court Martina Navratilova Chris Evert Evonne Goolagong

2. On the Kinsey scale, what number represents someone who ONLY has romantic feelings for the same sex? 3 6 0 9

3. What day is the US-originated (but internationally observed) National Coming Out Day? November 14 September 12 October 11 February 2

4. What composer of musicals “West Side Story” and “On the Town” achieved perhaps his greatest fame as one of the outstanding conductors in American history? Andrew Lloyd Webber Arturo Toscanini Leonard Bernstein George List

5. What European city boasts the Homomonument to victims of homophobia? Amsterdam Paris Copenhagen Prague

6. What lifelong cross-dresser was the first woman to win the United States Medal of Honor? Jane Addams Mary Read Martha Jane Cannary Mary Edwards Walker

7. Raised wearing boys' clothing and trained as a sailor in the British Navy, this woman continued to dress as a man in her career as a pirate and privateer alongside Calico Jack Rackham and Anne Bonney. Who was this swashbuckler of the high seas who earned her crew's trust even when her biological gender became known? Mary Read Jane Gray Dorothea Dix Elsa Lanchester

8. What lyricist of "America the Beautiful" also wrote "Yellow Clover", a book of poetry in memory of her companion of 25 years, Katharine Coman? Margaret Smith Court Hester Prynne Katharine Lee Bates Maud Adams

9. Following World War II, General Eisenhower prepared to dishonorably discharge known lesbians from his HQ's Women’s Army Corps (WAC) battalion. What stopped him? His wife, Mamie, persuaded him otherwise A meeting with General George S. Patton, who persuaded him otherwise He was recalled to Washington by President Truman Both his top aide and his secretary said that their names would be at the top of the list

10. What future President and Vice President lived with each other for many years and socialized as a pair, with neither of them ever marrying? Andrew Jackson and John Calhoun James Buchanan and William King George W. Bush and Dan Quayle Franklin Pierce and George M. Dallas