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I c o n i c Wo m e n i n H i s t o r y Tr i v i a

1. Who was the first woman appointed no relation to Arlo.) O Bertha von Suttner
to the United States Supreme Court? O Lyn St. James O Emily Greene Balch
O Elena Kagan O Simona Silvestro O Jane Addams
O Ruth Bader Ginsburg O Danica Patrick O Betty Williams
O Sandra Day O’Connor O Janet Guthrie
O Sonia Sotomayor 8. Who was the first woman to swim
5. Which woman is credited with being the English Channel?
2. Who was the first woman to fly solo the first to win the Pulitzer Prize in O Amelia Corson (USA)
across the Atlantic Ocean? Poetry? O Gertrude Ederle (USA)
O Amy Johnson O Leonora Speyer O Florence Chadwick (USA)
O Therese Peltier O Edna St. Vincent Millay O Yvetta Hlavacova (Czech Republic)
O Amelia Earhart O Sara Teasdale
O Blanche Stuart Scott O Amy Lowell B O N U S R O U N D

3. Who was the first woman to win a 6. Who was the first woman to fly into
Nobel Prize? space? (Cupid might know.)
O Marie Curie O Valentina Tereshkova
O Gerty Theresa Cori O Svetlana Savitskaya
O Selma Lagerlof O Sally Ride
O Elinor Ostrom O Liu Yang

4. The Indianapolis 500 Auto Race, 7. Never before had a woman won a
which was first held in 1911, was an all- Nobel Peace Prize until this woman was
male event until which woman was the honored in 1905. Who was she? Italian film actress and Womens Sufferage
first to qualify and compete in it? (She is singer - 1950’s Movement

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