Women Through the Ages Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mary Wortley Montague

Since its introduction, more and more people were inoculated against smallpox. (This differed from Jenner's vaccation which involved the use of cowpox, not smallpox itself). The UN World Health Organization states that smallpox had been eradicated all over the earth.

The longer-term result of Mary's introduction of smallpox vaccines is the creation of vaccines for a host of deadly and deforming diseases including mumps, measles, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, and polio. Hundreds of millions of individuals owe their lives or their health to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Answer: Chemistry and Physics

Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and was the first person to win or share two Nobel Prizes.

Answer: 2nd July 1937

Amelia Mary Earhart was a well known American aviation pioneer, penman and women's rights advocate. She was the first female to receive the "Flying Cross", which she was given as the first female to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer: Wuthering Heights

Jane Austen was an English novelist who wrote such classics as "Sense and Sensibility" (1811), "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), "Mansfield Park" (1814) and "Emma" (1815). "Wuthering Heights" (1847) was the only novel written by Emily Brontė and appeared under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It was also the title of a number 1 hit for Kate Bush in 1978.

Answer: December 1st

Rosa Parks was later dubbed "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement" by the US Congress.

Answer: George Eliot

Mary Ann was born in 1819 and died in 1880 she was one of the leading wrtiers of the Victorian era.

Answer: 63

Victoria was the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The Victorian Era saw the height of the Industrial Revolution and was an age of major social, economic, and technological progress in the UK.

Answer: Manchester

Emmeline Pankhurst was one of the many women who have struggled for the right to vote and was one of the founders of the suffragette movement. The enfranchisement of women in the UK is owed to Pankhurst.

Answer: Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford's influence is so great that Jack Nicholson thanked her when accepting his Oscar for "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" in 1976 "I'd like to thank Miss Pickford who, incidentally, I believe was the first actor to get a percentage of her pictures".

Answer: Geneva Medical College

After being denied entry to almost every college in the USA, the Geneva Medical College at Geneva, New York put the question to the students "do you want to accept this female who has applied?" The students, believing the application to be a prank, agreed - only to find she was a diligent and determined young woman, she graduated at the top of her class!