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Introduction:
"A quiz that deals with some extraordinary women who blazed a unique path for themselves. Enjoy!"


1. She is recognized as the first female pilot in history to shoot down an enemy bomber during WW II. Her name?
    Valentina Tereshkova
    Anna Akhmatova
    Svetlana Savitskaya
    Valeria Khomyakova


2. Living in 4th century BC, she pretended to be a man in order to attend the lectures of the Greek physician Herophilus. Her speciality was gyneacology and she achieved some fame due to her expertise.
    Xanthippe
    Iphigenia
    Agnodice
    Cassandra


3. A fiery, violent tempered woman, she burned down her father's plantation in South Carolina in 1715 and fled to the Bahamas where she embarked upon a notorious career as a pirate. It is said that she was first the lover of Calico Jack Rackham and then another notorious female pirate, Mary Read.
    Anne Geddes
    Anne Bronte
    Anne Bonny
    Anne Rice


4. What did teacher Anna Edson Taylor do in October 1901 to ensure lasting fame?
    spent 5 hours in a cage with snakes
    kissed 500 men in one hour
    dragged an automobile 100 feet with her hair
    went over the Niagara Falls in a barrel and lived


5. The first person to knock out heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan in a boxing ring was a woman. True or False?
    Answer: (One Word)


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