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Extraordinary women quiz questions and answers (10,15,20 facts)

Extraordinary women quiz questions and answers (10,15,20 facts)

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Can you name the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

Answer: Amelia Earhart

Can you name the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK)?

Answer: Margaret Thatcher

Can you name the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

Answer: Marie Curie

Can you name the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Congress?

Answer: Shirley Chisholm

Can you name the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes in different sciences?

Answer: Marie Curie

Can you name the first female Chancellor of Germany?

Answer: Angela Merkel

Can you name the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal for Nigeria?

Answer: Chioma Ajunwa

Can you name the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State?

Answer: Madeleine Albright

Can you name the first woman to win the Booker Prize?

Answer: Bernice Rubens

Can you name the first woman to win the Fields Medal in mathematics?

Answer: Maryam Mirzakhani

Can you name the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

Answer: Edith Wharton

Can you name the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director?

Answer: Kathryn Bigelow

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Bertha von Suttner

Can you name the first woman to win the Wimbledon tennis championship?

Answer: Maud Watson

Can you name the first woman to win the U.S. presidential nomination from a major party?

Answer: Hillary Clinton

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Selma Lagerlöf

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

Answer: Elinor Ostrom

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine?

Answer: Gerty Cori

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

Answer: Marie Curie

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics?

Answer: Marie Curie

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize twice?

Answer: Marie Curie

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Peace?

Answer: Bertha von Suttner

Can you name the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Nadine Gordimer

Can you name the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Pearl S. Buck

Can you name the first Canadian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Alice Munro

Can you name the first Italian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Grazia Deledda

Can you name the first Polish woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Wisława Szymborska

Can you name the first German woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Nelly Sachs

Can you name the first U.K woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Doris Lessing

Can you name the first woman from Latin America to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Gabriela Mistral

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature from Africa?

Answer: Nadine Gordimer

Can you name the first Swedish woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Selma Lagerlöf

Can you name the first Norwegian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Sigrid Undset

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature from the Republic of South Africa?

Answer: Nadine Gordimer


Can you name the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Wangari Maathai

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize from the Middle East?

Answer: Shirin Ebadi

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize from Myanmar?

Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi

Can you name the first Liberian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Can you name the first Yemeni woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Tawakkol Karman

Can you name the first Northern Irish woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Mairead Corrigan

Can you name the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Jane Addams

Can you name the first Swedish woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Alva Myrdal

Can you name the first Austrian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Bertha von Suttner

Can you name the first Iranian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Shirin Ebadi

Can you name the first Kenyan woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Wangari Maathai

Can you name the first Liberian woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Can you name the first Yemeni woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Answer: Tawakkol Karman

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize from Myanmar?

Answer: Aung San Suu Kyi

Can you name the first Belarusian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Svetlana Alexievich

Can you name the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Pearl S. Buck

Can you name the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Annie Ernaux

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine?

Answer: Gerty Cori

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics?

Answer: Elinor Ostrom


Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

Answer: Marie Curie

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Peace?

Answer: Bertha von Suttner

Can you name the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Selma Lagerlöf

Can you name the first Russian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

Answer: Svetlana Alexievich