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Quiz about Women Through the Ages
Quiz about Women Through the Ages

Women Through the Ages Trivia Quiz


How much do you know about the women who changed the world?

A multiple-choice quiz by boarding_las. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
boarding_las
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
287,110
Updated
Jan 25 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
819
Last 3 plays: Guest 49 (4/10), Guest 2 (8/10), Hayes1953 (6/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. Who am I? I introduced the practice of inoculating well children with a diluted strain of smallpox to bestow immunity from the more potent strains of the sickness. Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Marie Curie received two Nobel awards, but in which two catagories? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Amelia Mary Earhart was declared dead on the 5th January 1939, but what date did she go missing on? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Which of these is NOT a book by Jane Austen? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. In 1955 Rosa Louise McCauley Parks became famous as she refused a bus driver's order to give up her seat to a white person. What date in 1955 did that happen? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Mary Ann (Marian) Evans is better known by a pen name. What was this novelist's male cover name? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. How many years did Queen Victoria reign? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Emmeline Pankhurst was born in 1858, but in which city? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Which actress co-founded United Artists with Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Elizabeth Blackwell is noted as the first female certified MD in the English-speaking countries. She graduated in 1849, but from which college? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Who am I? I introduced the practice of inoculating well children with a diluted strain of smallpox to bestow immunity from the more potent strains of the sickness.

Answer: Mary Wortley Montague

Since its introduction, more and more people were inoculated against smallpox. (This differed from Jenner's vaccation which involved the use of cowpox, not smallpox itself). The UN World Health Organization states that smallpox had been eradicated all over the earth.

The longer-term result of Mary's introduction of smallpox vaccines is the creation of vaccines for a host of deadly and deforming diseases including mumps, measles, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, and polio. Hundreds of millions of individuals owe their lives or their health to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
2. Marie Curie received two Nobel awards, but in which two catagories?

Answer: Chemistry and Physics

Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and was the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes.
3. Amelia Mary Earhart was declared dead on the 5th January 1939, but what date did she go missing on?

Answer: 2nd July 1937

Amelia Mary Earhart was a well known American aviation pioneer, penman and women's rights advocate. She was the first female to receive the "Flying Cross", which she was given as the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
4. Which of these is NOT a book by Jane Austen?

Answer: Wuthering Heights

Jane Austen was an English novelist who wrote such classics as "Sense and Sensibility" (1811), "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), "Mansfield Park" (1814) and "Emma" (1815). "Wuthering Heights" (1847) was the only novel written by Emily Brontė and appeared under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It was also the title of a number 1 hit for Kate Bush in 1978.
5. In 1955 Rosa Louise McCauley Parks became famous as she refused a bus driver's order to give up her seat to a white person. What date in 1955 did that happen?

Answer: December 1st

Rosa Parks was later dubbed "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" by the US Congress.
6. Mary Ann (Marian) Evans is better known by a pen name. What was this novelist's male cover name?

Answer: George Eliot

Mary Ann was born in 1819 and died in 1880 she was one of the leading wrtiers of the Victorian era.
7. How many years did Queen Victoria reign?

Answer: 63

Victoria was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The Victorian Era saw the height of the Industrial Revolution and was an age of major social, economic, and technological progress in the UK.
8. Emmeline Pankhurst was born in 1858, but in which city?

Answer: Manchester

Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the many women who have struggled for the right to vote and was one of the founders of the suffragette movement. The enfranchisement of women in the UK is owed to Pankhurst.
9. Which actress co-founded United Artists with Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith?

Answer: Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford's influence is so great that Jack Nicholson thanked her when accepting his Oscar for "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" in 1976 "I'd like to thank Miss Pickford who, incidentally, I believe was the first actor to get a percentage of her pictures".
10. Elizabeth Blackwell is noted as the first female certified MD in the English-speaking countries. She graduated in 1849, but from which college?

Answer: Geneva Medical College

After being denied entry to almost every college in the USA, the Geneva Medical College at Geneva, New York put the question to the students "do you want to accept this female who has applied?" The students, believing the application to be a prank, agreed - only to find she was a diligent and determined young woman, she graduated at the top of her class!
Source: Author boarding_las

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