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Famous Women

Total questions: 24

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama and was arrested because of it

a)

Eleanor Roosevelt

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Oprah Winfrey

d)

Helen Keller

2.

first woman to hold the office of Vice President of the United States

a)

Eleanor Roosevelt

b)

Wilma Rudolph

c)

Nancy Reagan

d)

Kamala Harris

3.

a Jewish girl who hid in a secret Annex for two years during the Holocaust

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Anne Frank

c)

Florence Nightingale

d)

Simone Biles

4.

first woman to serve on the Supreme Court

a)

Sandra Day O'Connor

b)

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

c)

Judith Heumann

d)

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

5.

remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.

a)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Clara Barton

d)

Marie Curie

6.
a)

Mother Teresa

b)

Dolly Parton

c)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

d)

Diana, Princess of Wales

7.

an American author, poet and civil rights activist, rose to prominence with the publication of “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” in 1969

a)

Maya Angelou

b)

J.K. Rowling

c)

Jaqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

d)

Sally Ride

8.

one of the first computer programmers to work on the Harvard Mark I

a)

Dolly Parton

b)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

c)

Serena Williams

d)

Grace Hopper

9.

an escaped enslaved woman who became a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Jane Goodall

c)

Mary Shelley

d)

Harriet Tubman

10.

is a British author and philanthropist, she wrote a seven-volume children's fantasy series, Harry Potter, published from 1997 to 2007.

a)

Kamala Harris

b)

Sally Ride

c)

J. K. Rowling

d)

Maria Beasley

11.

honored in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, she was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary.

a)

Mother Teresa

b)

Indira Gandhi

c)

Anne Frank

d)

Becky Hammon

12.

Which of the following was NOT a First Lady of the United States?

a)

Eleanor Roosevelt

b)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

c)

Nancy Reagan

d)

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis

13.

was the author of the book Frankenstein

a)

Mary Shelley

b)

Maria Beasley

c)

J.K. Rowling

d)

Jane Austen

14.

became the first American woman in space

a)

Indira Gandhi

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Sally Ride

d)

Jane Goodall

15.

a primatologist most known for her long-term study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania

a)

Wilma Rudolph

b)

Simone Biles

c)

Jane Goodall

d)

Pat Summitt

16.

Pakistani woman awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for the right of every child to receive an education

a)

Malala Yousafzai

b)

Coretta Scott King

c)

Louisa May Alcott

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

17.

Which of the following is NOT an author?

a)

Louisa May Alcott

b)

J.K. Rowling

c)

Mary Shelley

d)

Sojourner Truth

18.

the inventor of the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher, which she designed in the shed behind her home

a)

Josephine Cochrane

b)

Maria Beasley

c)

Marie Curie

d)

Venus Williams

19.

married into the British royal family, best known for her charitable work

a)

Serena Williams

b)

Venus Williams

c)

Mary Shelley

d)

Diana, Princess of Wales

20.

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

a)

Sandra Day O'Connor

b)

Audrey Hepburn

c)

Maya Angelou

d)

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

21.

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

a)

Sally Ride

b)

Pat Summitt

c)

Maria Beasley

d)

Tina Lucas

22.

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

a)

Indira Gandhi

b)

Serena Williams

c)

Venus Williams

d)

Wilma Rudolph

23.

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

a)

Helen Keller

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Maya Angelou

d)

Ruth Bader Ginsberg

24.

Who was a survivor of the sinking of the Titanic?

a)

Ella Fitzgerald

b)

Michelle Obama

c)

Lana Turner

d)

Eva Hart