Who am I? Dorothy, Dorothea or Dot Quiz

Answer: Dorothy Zbornak

Dorothy Zbornak is a fictional character in the television series "The Golden Girls" (1985-1992). The character of Dorothy Zbornak was played by Beatrice Arthur (1922-2009). Beatrice was an American actress and comedian.

Answer: Dorothea Binz

Dorothea Binz (1920-1947) started work at the Ravensbruck concentration camp as a kitchen worker in 1939. She was promoted and became a supervisor and was often seen carrying a whip in hand and being accompanied by a leashed German Shepherd. As the Allies closed in, she fled Ravensbruck but was captured by the British in Hamburg in May 1945. She was convicted of war crimes and was executed by hanging in May 1947.

Answer: Dorothy Hamill

Dorothy Hamill is a former American figure skater. She won gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympics (Innsbruck) and World Championships (Gothenburg). She was also the World Professional Champion from 1983-87.

Answer: Dot Cotton

Dorothy "Dot" Cotton (also Branning) was a fictional character in the British television series "Eastenders". In 2002 she became Dot Branning when on the series she married Jim Branning. The English actress June Brown played this character on the BBC soup opera from 1985-1993 and 1997-2020. In February 2020 June Brown left the series at the age of 93.

Answer: Dorothy Hodgkin

Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) was a British chemist known for the development of protein crystallography and also for determining the structure of insulin. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964.

Answer: Dorothea Mackeller

Dorothea Mackeller (1885-1968) was an Australian poet and writer of fiction. Her poem "My Country" is about Australia and she wrote the poem as a 19 year old in the United Kingdom as she was homesick. The poem was first published in 1908. The poem was widely taught nationwide to Australian schools students for many years.

Answer: Dot Wilkinson

Dorothea "Dot" Elise Wilkinson (b. 1921) is an American and former softball player and bowler. She played softball for the Phoenix Ramblers from 1933-1965 helping them win the national title in 1940, 1948 and 1949. As a professional bowler she won the Women's International Bowling Queen's Tournament in 1962 and the WIBC in 1963. In 1970 she was inducted into the National Softball Hall of Fame and in 1990 into the International Bowling Hall of Fame.

Answer: Dorothy Vaughan

Dorothy Vaughan (1910-2008) was an American mathematician and worked at NASA at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, USA. She was the first African-American woman to supervise a group of staff at the centre. In 2019 a lunar crater was named after her and also in 2019 she was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously.

Answer: Dorothea Lambert Chambers

Dorothea Lambert Chambers (1878-1960) was a British tennis player who won seven Wimbledon Women's Singles titles in 1903-4, 1906, 1910-11 and 1913-14. She was also runner-up for the title on four occasions. In 1908 at the London Olympics she won the gold medal in the Woman's Singles.

Answer: Dot Lemon

Dot Lemon (1907-1986) was an aviator and barnstormer. Barnstorming was popular in the 1920s and was a form of entertainment where stunt pilots performed tricks either as individuals or in a group. Charles Lindbergh began his flying career as a barnstormer. Dot Lemon flew her first solo flight as a 16 year old. In 1961 she became the first woman to serve as president of the scientific Institute of Navigation (ION).