Stamp It Out Trivia Quiz

Answer: Sojourner Truth

Isabella Baumfreem, known as Sojourner Truth, had a long life marred by the ravages of slavery. She spoke out during the U.S. Civil War against slavery, even meeting President Abraham Lincoln.
Her most famous speech entitled, "Ain't I a Woman?" includes the exerpt: "I have plowed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me -- and ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man (when I could get it), and bear the lash as well -- and ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me -- and ain't I woman?"
She fell ill in the summer of 1883 developing ulcers on her legs. It is rumored that she visited the famous Battle Creek Sanitarium where founder John Harvey Kellogg allegedly grafted his own skin onto her ailing legs. Her illness did not improve and she died in the fall of the same year.

Answer: Ethel Waters

All four women are blues singers who were commemorated on stamps. In 1994, several other musicians were honored on stamps including Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman and Mildred Bailey.

Answer: 1995

Michael J Deas created the art for the Monroe stamp. Other stamps he created include Cary Grant, James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, Thomas Wolfe and Ronald Reagan.

Answer: 1974

Elizabeth Blackwell was not only the first woman to practice medicine in the United States with a college degree, but was also an abolitionist and women's rights activist. It was an 18 cent stamp.

Answer: 6 cents

The stamp was released in a ceremony in Washington on 1 May 1969, marking the beginning of Senior Citizens Month. It depicts her famous "July Fourth" painting.

Answer: Greta Garbo

All three other women were commemorated, just not in 2005. Lucille was featured in 2001. Audrey Hepburn was depicted in 2003. Grace was the first of the choices to grace a stamp in 1993.

Answer: Isabella of Castile

The Molly Pitcher stamp is one of great debate since it didn't depict the actual person (Mary Hays McCauly) but rather it was a two cent stamp picturing George Washington with the name "Molly Pitcher" printed over the face of Washington in black ink. Fifty years later, the Postal Service issued a ten-cent commemorative postcard with an artist's drawing of Molly Pitcher in the act of loading a cannon and firing it as she had done.

The stamp honors not only the woman Mary Hays McCauly who fought in the Battle of Monmouth.

It was also meant to honor all women who had fought during the Revolution.

Answer: Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson's famous work, "Silent Spring" catapulted her to the forefront of the contemporary environmental movement. She is famous for having stated: "The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction." She lived from 1907 to 1964.

Answer: Wilma Rudolph

Listed as number 8 on the "Sports Illustrated" list of top 100 female athletes, Wilma Rudolph had a troubled start. As a child, she had polio, double pneumonia and scarlet fever. On September 7th, 1960, in Rome, Wilma showed how much she had overcome those obstacles by becoming the first American woman to win 3 gold medals in the Olympics.

She participated in and won the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter dash. She was also the featured anchor on the 400-meter relay team.

Answer: Journalism

Nellie Bly gained international fame by circling the globe in 72 days and writing for "The World" Ida M. Tarbell wrote an expose as well as serialized biographies for McClure's Magazine. Marguerite Higgins of the New York Herald Tribune was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. Ethel L. Payne, called "first lady of the black press," covered the civil rights movement for the Chicago Defender.