Women’s the Word
A deer, a female deer.
What is a doe?
This civil rights activist took on segregation laws on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This woman is known to history for the miraculous circumstances behind her son’s birth.
Who is the Virgin Mary?
This woman’s 1818 novel, began during a friendly writing contest, is credited as the first science fiction novel.
Who is Mary Shelly?
Daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria, this cake eating monarch became the most infamous Queen of France.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
A musical Disney princess.
Who is Belle?
Roberta Bondar, Julie Payette and Sally Ride all became celebrities of science and are examples of this job.
What is an astronaut?
This Celtic Queen attained fame from 60-61 AD for leading a Celtic mass-revolt against encroaching Roman rule.
Who is Boudica?
She discovered the elements polonium and radium.
Who is Marie Curie?
Shajar al-Durr became the ruler of this country by taking over for her dead husband, preventing a succession-dispute during invasion by the Crusaders.
What is Egypt?
A structure that inhibits the flow of water, or old timey slang for a lady.
What is a dam/dame?
This is the real name of George Eliot, author of Middlemarch, was one of the Victorian Period’s leading authors.
Who is Mary Ann Evans?
Throughout its Republican and early-Imperial periods, groups of Roman women managed the upkeep the temple of the goddess Vesta, but as long as they maintained this trait.
What is virginity?
They contributed to discovering the double helix structure of DNA.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Good as a ruler and good with a ruler, this math-savvy Queen of Sweden became known as “Minerva of the North”.
Who is Christina?
An endearing, diminutive term for the Bluenose.
What is "she"?
Sirimavo Bandaranaike became the world’s first ever female prime minister in 1970 as the leader of this South Asian island nation.
What is Sri Lanka?
Who is Fatima?
This eponymous invention, now most commonly used for cooking and baking, was originally invented by a female alchemist.
What is a Bain-Marie?
This woman was the only ever ruling Empress of China. She also financed Buddhist rock-face carvings, and is featured in the video game "Civilization 5".
Who is Wu Zeitan?
The Old English designation for woman, derived separately from "man".
What is a wifman?
When the American women’s hockey team stomped on the Canadian flag before losing the Olympic gold medal match, Canada's all-time scoring leader asked the Americans if she wanted her to sign it.
Who is Hayley Wickenheiser?
Roxanne, or Roxana, is a much older name that you’d think; Roxana of Bactria was married to this historical king.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The inventor of the first patented self-wringing mop.
Who is Joy Mogano?
First Lady Edith screened all US national issues to during her "Stewardship" for this gravely-ill president.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?