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Quiz about Always the Bridesmaid
Quiz about Always the Bridesmaid

Always the Bridesmaid Trivia Quiz


A quiz about women who never married. Most lived in the 20th century, but a few notable women from the more distant past have been included.

A multiple-choice quiz by oberon. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
oberon
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
320,026
Updated
Jul 23 22
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
1443
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. This 12th century German nun was a prolific composer and writer. She travelled and spoke throughout Europe and was consulted by religious and secular leaders at a time when women rarely played a public role. Who was she? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Despite very humble beginnings, this Frenchwoman became one of the most influential people in the history of fashion (and fragrance). What was her name?

Answer: ("No. 5")
Question 3 of 10
3. This primatologist devoted her life to achieving greater understanding of mountain gorillas and preserving them in their natural habitat. Sadly, it seems she was murdered for her efforts. Who was she? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Group of Seven member Lawren Harris told this painter of aboriginal scenes and landscapes, "You are one of us." A university, a library and several public schools in British Columbia, Canada are named for her. Who was she? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Hypatia was the daughter of the Theon, a philosopher associated with the Library of Alexandria in the 4th century. We know of her genius from the letters of one of her students, Synesius of Cyrene. She is primarily noted for her expertise in which subject? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. This monarch found it politically advantageous to stay unmarried. Who ruled over England from 1558-1603?

Answer: (Name and Roman Numeral)
Question 7 of 10
7. Her heroines usually end up at the altar, but this giant of English literature never experienced matrimony firsthand. Which of these writers fits that description? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. She met George W. Bush in high school and liked to call him "Shrub" during his presidency. Beginning in 1970, she covered the Texas Legislature for the Texas Observer. Known for her brash writing style and sharp wit, she also wrote op-ed pieces on politics for the New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly. Who was she? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. One of the 20th century's most influential feminists, the author of "The Second Sex" called her lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre her "greatest achievement", but called marriage "an obscene bourgeois institution." Who was she? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. This marine biologist and nature writer substantially advanced the environmental movement with her seminal work "Silent Spring". Who was she? Hint



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1. This 12th century German nun was a prolific composer and writer. She travelled and spoke throughout Europe and was consulted by religious and secular leaders at a time when women rarely played a public role. Who was she?

Answer: Hildegard of Bingen

Mystic, healer, composer of songs and writer of morality plays, adviser to popes and kings, Hildegard von Bingen's accomplishments are astonishing for a woman of her time. Many of her works survive, including one of the largest collections of musical compositions of the period, 100 letters and 70 poems. She also published nine books, including the first known book of medicine written by a woman and several texts of religious visions and theological interpretation. Although the formal process of canonization was never completed, she is venerated and listed as a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Her feast day is September 17th.

Contemporary and fellow visionary, Elisabeth of Schonau corresponded with Hildegard of Bingen. Catherine of Siena was an accomplished nun of 14th c. Italy. The first saint of the Americas, Rose of Lima was canonized in the 17th c.
2. Despite very humble beginnings, this Frenchwoman became one of the most influential people in the history of fashion (and fragrance). What was her name?

Answer: Coco Chanel

Gabrielle Bonheur 'Coco' Chanel (1883-1971) was literally born in a poorhouse but became a pioneer couturier, creating comfortable, elegant clothes for women ready to abandon turn-of-the-century corset fashions. She had several affairs, most famously with composer Igor Stravinsky, but never married.
3. This primatologist devoted her life to achieving greater understanding of mountain gorillas and preserving them in their natural habitat. Sadly, it seems she was murdered for her efforts. Who was she?

Answer: Dian Fossey

A 1989 biopic called "Gorillas in the Mist" (starring Sigourney Weaver) was based on her book of the same name released shortly before her untimely death in Rwanda in 1985. To date, no one has been charged with her murder, though many suspect local poachers of carrying out the killing. Her work continues through the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International.
4. Group of Seven member Lawren Harris told this painter of aboriginal scenes and landscapes, "You are one of us." A university, a library and several public schools in British Columbia, Canada are named for her. Who was she?

Answer: Emily Carr

Emily Carr (1871-1945) was one of Canada's first post-impressionist painters. Her early work was frequently inspired by aboriginal culture. She is best known for painting the forests and totem poles of northern B.C. She also wrote several books, including "Klee Wyck" for which she won the Governor General's Award for non-fiction in 1942.

Hortense Gordon and Alexandra Luke were members of the abstractionist 'Painters 11' in Toronto in the 1950's. Mary Dignam was the first president of the Women's Art Association of Canada.
5. Hypatia was the daughter of the Theon, a philosopher associated with the Library of Alexandria in the 4th century. We know of her genius from the letters of one of her students, Synesius of Cyrene. She is primarily noted for her expertise in which subject?

Answer: Mathematics

Hypatia was also pagan philosopher at a time of religious turmoil in the Roman Empire. She is believed to have influenced pagan Imperial prefect Orestes against Christian bishop Cyril. Surviving chronicles agree that she was murdered in the streets of Alexandria by a Christian mob.

Her mathematical works are the focus of a short biography by Michael Deakin, "Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr" (2007). Her life is dramatized in the Spanish film "Agora" (2009) starring Rachel Weisz.
6. This monarch found it politically advantageous to stay unmarried. Who ruled over England from 1558-1603?

Answer: Elizabeth I

Elizabeth resisted pressure to marry throughout in her reign. It may be that she was reluctant to do so in part because of her father (King Henry VIII)'s poor matrimonial track record. Also, after suffering the trauma of her mother (Anne Boleyn)'s execution, she lost two subsequent mother-figures (Jane Seymour and Katherine Parr) to death in childbirth.

Historian Alison Weir has speculated that as a result Elizabeth viewed marriage as a volatile and dangerous business, best avoided.
7. Her heroines usually end up at the altar, but this giant of English literature never experienced matrimony firsthand. Which of these writers fits that description?

Answer: Jane Austen

Born in 1775, Jane Austen received little personal recognition for her novels in her lifetime, but has come to be considered one of the greatest English writers of all time. A key theme in her works--which include "Emma", "Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility"--is the necessity for women to marry to ensure their financial security.

Although the situations in her novels are frequently comic and romantic, one senses that she lamented the limitations imposed on women of her time.
8. She met George W. Bush in high school and liked to call him "Shrub" during his presidency. Beginning in 1970, she covered the Texas Legislature for the Texas Observer. Known for her brash writing style and sharp wit, she also wrote op-ed pieces on politics for the New York Times and the Atlantic Monthly. Who was she?

Answer: Molly Ivins

Molly Ivins was an outspoken political commentator and humorist, author of several books including "Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?" (1991); "You Got to Dance With Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years"(1998) and "Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known"(2004). Sadly, she passed away of inflammatory breast cancer in 2007.

Ann Richards was Governor of Texas from 1991-1995. Sandra Day O'Connor was the first female member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Harriet Miers was White House Counsel under George W. Bush.
9. One of the 20th century's most influential feminists, the author of "The Second Sex" called her lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre her "greatest achievement", but called marriage "an obscene bourgeois institution." Who was she?

Answer: Simone de Beauvoir

French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) is best known for "The Second Sex", considered one of the foundational texts of 20th century feminism. In it, she argues that men in society are defined as the norm and women as "the Other"--only understood in terms of how they deviate from a male 'ideal'--and that this flawed assumption must be discarded for the position of women to improve. Though she and Sartre rejected monogamy and marriage, they were lifelong romantic and intellectual partners. They are buried together in Paris.

Daly, Friedan and Dworkin were also prominent "second-wave" feminist writers.
10. This marine biologist and nature writer substantially advanced the environmental movement with her seminal work "Silent Spring". Who was she?

Answer: Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson was hired by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries as a junior aquatic biologist in 1936. Her writings for fisheries brochures led to ongoing work writing articles for magazines (Atlantic Monthly, Nature) and several book deals. Her best-seller "The Sea Around Us" was the basis for the 1953 Oscar winner for Best Documentary Film. "Silent Spring" was published in 1962 and led to the banning of DDT in the U.S. ten years later. Carson did not live to see the results of her best-known work; aged 56, she died of a heart attack while battling cancer in April, 1964.

E.B. White ("Charlotte's Web") is quoted on the opening page of "Silent Spring". He shared her love of nature and concern for the environment.
Marie Rodell was her literary agent.
Carson's call for caution in the use of chemical pesticides drew some to compare her to Frances Oldham Kelsey, the FDA reviewer who had resisted industry pressure and refused to authorize thalidomide for use in the United States in 1960.
Source: Author oberon

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