Women in History Quiz

Who is recognized as the world's first computer programmer?

• Ada Lovelace

• Florence Nightingale

• Marie Curie

• Rosa Parks

Which woman led British military nurses during the Crimean War?

• Florence Nightingale

• Betsy Ross

• Clara Barton

• Harriet Tubman

Who was known as the 'Moses of her people' for her role in the Underground Railroad?

• Rosa Parks

• Harriet Tubman

• Emmeline Pankhurst

• Amelia Earhart

Which pioneering aviator disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937?

• Helen Keller

• Amelia Earhart

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Anne Frank

Who wrote a diary that became a classic of war literature?

• Anne Frank

• Toni Morrison

• Maya Angelou

• Jane Austen

Who discovered radium and polonium and won Nobel Prizes in two sciences?

• Marie Curie

• Josephine Butler

• Ada Lovelace

• Susan B. Anthony

Who co-founded the National Woman's Suffrage Association?

• Mary Cle

• Susan B. Anthony

• Margaret Thatcher

• Sakagawa

Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Maria Montessori

• Florence Nightingale

• Margaret Thatcher

Who was the first American woman to travel into outer space?

• Mary Shelley

• Sojourner Truth

• Sakagawa

• Sally Ride

Who founded the Missionaries of Charity and worked in Kolkata, India?

• Harriet Tubman

• Queen Elizabeth

• Mother Teresa

• Joan of Arc