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100
She and her husband Pierre discovered both radium and polonium
Who is Marie Curie?
100
Cleopatra VII was a legendary ruler of this ancient civilization
What is ancient Egypt?
100
Heathcliff and Catherine are characters from this novel by Emily Bronte
What is Wuthering Heights?
100
She was the first female pilot to operate a transatlantic flight in 1932
Who is Amelia Earhart?
100
Indira Gandhi was the first and, to date, only female Prime Minister of this Asian country
What is India?
200
This primatologist/anthropologist spent 60 years studying the social behavior of chimpanzees
Who is Jane Goodall?
200
This founder of modern nursing was known as the "Lady with the Lamp"
Who is Florence Nightingale?
200
This Canadian author is known for her feminist works, including "The Penelopiad" and "The Handmaid's Tale"
Who is Margaret Atwood?
200
This is the home country of Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space
What is Russia?
200
This country was the first to give its women the right to vote, in 1893
What is New Zealand?
300
Alice Augusta Ball was one of the first to develop an effective treatment for Hanson's Disease, an illness more commonly known by this name
What is leprosy?
300
This French teenager led an army when she was only 16 years old
Who is Joan of Arc?
300
This English writer was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882 and is considered one of the most important 20th century modernist writers
Who is Virginia Woolf?
300
She is the first and only tennis player to achieve a Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles
Who is Serena Williams?
300
The first National Women's Day was celebrated in this major American city in 1909. This was later adopted as International Women's Day worldwide
Where is New York, NY?
400
The work of chemist and x-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin was essential in determining the structure of this biological molecule
What is DNA?
400
This ancient Greek poet wrote prolific works on her love for nature and women
Who is Sappho of Lesbos?
400
Louisa May Alcott wrote this famous novel, which has inspired 6 different movie remakes between 1917 and 2019
What is Little Women?
400
She was the first woman to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony)
Who is Helen Hayes?
400
This Nordic country has had a female head of state for 25 of the past 50 years, and currently has a female prime minister
What is Iceland?
500
Elizabeth H. Blackburn and Carol Greider were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering these genetic "caps" that prevent damage to chromosomes during cell division
What are telomeres
500
This Alexandrian woman is the earliest recorded female mathematician and philosopher
Who is Hypatia of Alexandria?
500
This author received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1921 for her novel 'The Age of Innocence'.
Who is Edith Wharton?
500
In 1966, Bobbi Gibb became the first woman to run in (and complete) this Bostonian athletic event
What is the Boston Marathon?
500
This small, Caribbean country is the only in the world that is named for a (real) woman
Hint: She was a Saint
What is Saint Lucia?