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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Economics, awarded in 2009? (Hint: her work related to the 'tragedy of the commons'.)

• Elinor Ostrom

• Hannah Arendt

• Janet Yellen

• Christina Romer

Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry?

• Mae Jemison

• Rosalind Franklin

• Marie Curie

• Ada Lovelace

Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?

• Isabella Bird

• Gertrude Bell

• Alexandra David-Néel

• Amelia Earhart

Who invented the biology class system?

• Gregor Mendel

• Carl Linnaeus

• E. O. Wilson

• Charles Darwin

Who is the person to successfully sail from Europe to India in 1497.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Vasco da Gama

Who was the first woman to be inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

• Joan Jett

• Janis Joplin

• 1. Aretha Franklin

• Stevie Nicks

In 1975, Junko Tabei (Japanese) was the first woman to achieve what?

• Reach the seven summits (summit the highest peak in 7 continents)

• Summit Everest

• Both answers are correct

True of false, salmon can reverse their gender?

• True

• Fasle

Which woman published the world’s first algorithm that made computers possible?

• Ada Lovelace

• Steve Jobs

• Mark Zuckerberg

• AI

What does the 'c' in UNESCO stands for?

• culture

• convention

• commission

• community