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WorksheetsFamous Women
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 12mins
refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and was arrested because of it
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rosa Parks
Oprah Winfrey
Helen Keller
first woman to hold the office of Vice President of the United States
Eleanor Roosevelt
Wilma Rudolph
Nancy Reagan
Kamala Harris
a Jewish girl who hid in a secret Annex for two years during the Holocaust
Marie Curie
Anne Frank
Florence Nightingale
Simone Biles
first woman to serve on the Supreme Court
Sandra Day O'Connor
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Judith Heumann
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Clara Barton
Marie Curie
Mother Teresa
Dolly Parton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Diana, Princess of Wales
an American author, poet and civil rights activist, rose to prominence with the publication of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” in 1969
Maya Angelou
J.K. Rowling
Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Sally Ride
one of the first computer programmers to work on the Harvard Mark I
Dolly Parton
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Serena Williams
Grace Hopper
an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad
Rosa Parks
Jane Goodall
Mary Shelley
Harriet Tubman
is a British author and philanthropist, she wrote a seven-volume children's fantasy series, Harry Potter, published from 1997 to 2007.
Kamala Harris
Sally Ride
J. K. Rowling
Maria Beasley
honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, she was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.
Mother Teresa
Indira Gandhi
Anne Frank
Becky Hammon
Which of the following was NOT a First Lady of the United States?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Nancy Reagan
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
was the author of the book Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Maria Beasley
J.K. Rowling
Jane Austen
became the first American woman in space
Indira Gandhi
Clara Barton
Sally Ride
Jane Goodall
a primatologist most known for her long-term study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania
Wilma Rudolph
Simone Biles
Jane Goodall
Pat Summitt
Pakistani woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for the right of every child to receive an education
Malala Yousafzai
Coretta Scott King
Louisa May Alcott
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Which of the following is NOT an author?
Louisa May Alcott
J.K. Rowling
Mary Shelley
Sojourner Truth
the inventor of the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher, which she designed in the shed behind her home
Josephine Cochrane
Maria Beasley
Marie Curie
Venus Williams
married into the British royal family, best known for her charitable work
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
Mary Shelley
Diana, Princess of Wales
a British actress and humanitarian, recognized as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the Classical Hollywood cinema and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame
Sandra Day O'Connor
Audrey Hepburn
Maya Angelou
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
an American women's college basketball head coach who accrued 1,098 career wins, the most in college basketball history at the time of her retirement. She served as the head coach of the University of Tennessee Lady Vols basketball team from 1974 to 2012
Sally Ride
Pat Summitt
Maria Beasley
Tina Lucas
as a child, was told she would never walk again due to polio;
won three Olympic gold medals in track and field events;
broke at least three world records
Indira Gandhi
Serena Williams
Venus Williams
Wilma Rudolph
an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees
Helen Keller
Sojourner Truth
Maya Angelou
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Who was a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic?
Ella Fitzgerald
Michelle Obama
Lana Turner
Eva Hart
