Famous Women in History
Instructions: How well do you know the women who changed the world?
- 1.
Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932?
AJacqueline CochranBBessie ColemanCAmelia EarhartDHarriet Quimby - 2.
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. In which field did she win her first?
APeaceBPhysicsCChemistryDMedicine - 3.
Which woman refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955?
AFannie Lou HamerBRosa ParksCCoretta Scott KingDSojourner Truth - 4.
Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?
AMargaret ThatcherBQueen VictoriaCTheresa MayDEmmeline Pankhurst - 5.
Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of which profession?
ATeachingBSocial workCPsychologyDModern nursing - 6.
Which ancient Egyptian queen was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom?
ANefertitiBCleopatra VIICHatshepsutDAnkhesenamun - 7.
Who wrote 'The Diary of a Young Girl,' a firsthand account of hiding during World War II?
ACorrie ten BoomBAnne FrankCHannah ArendtDMiep Gies - 8.
Which woman led French troops to several important victories during the Hundred Years' War?
AJoan of ArcBMarie AntoinetteCEleanor of AquitaineDCatherine de' Medici - 9.
Who was the first woman in space, flying aboard Vostok 6 in 1963?
ASvetlana SavitskayaBMae JemisonCSally RideDValentina Tereshkova - 10.
Which suffragette leader co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in the United States?
ALucretia MottBSusan B. AnthonyCAlice PaulDElizabeth Cady Stanton - 11.
Which woman became the first self-made female millionaire in the United States?
AMadam C.J. WalkerBHelena RubinsteinCMary Kay AshDHetty Green - 12.
Who was the first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, in 2014?
AMaryam MirzakhaniBEmmy NoetherCSophie GermainDKaren Uhlenbeck - 13.
Which woman served as the pharaoh of Egypt for about 20 years during the 18th Dynasty?
ANefertitiBCleopatra VIICSobekneferuDHatshepsut - 14.
Ada Lovelace is often credited as the world's first what?
AComputer programmerBFemale doctorCFemale astronomerDElectrical engineer - 15.
Which woman won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work in India?
AWangari MaathaiBRigoberta MenchúCMother TeresaDAung San Suu Kyi
Answer Key
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean on May 20-21, 1932, departing from Newfoundland and landing in Northern Ireland.
Marie Curie won her first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for her research on radioactivity, shared with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel.
Rosa Parks' act of civil disobedience on December 1, 1955, sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and became a pivotal moment in the American Civil Rights Movement.
Margaret Thatcher became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979, serving until 1990 — the longest-serving British PM of the 20th century.
Florence Nightingale is widely regarded as the founder of modern nursing. Her work during the Crimean War in the 1850s transformed the field of healthcare.
Cleopatra VII was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, ruling from 51 BC until her death in 30 BC, after which Egypt became a Roman province.
Anne Frank wrote her famous diary while hiding with her family in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation. Published posthumously in 1947, it became one of the most widely read books in the world.
Joan of Arc, a peasant girl who claimed divine guidance, led French forces to a pivotal victory at the Siege of Orléans in 1429 during the Hundred Years' War.
Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963, orbiting the Earth 48 times over nearly three days aboard Vostok 6.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 with Susan B. Anthony and was a leading figure in the early women's rights movement.
Madam C.J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove) is widely recognized as the first female self-made millionaire in America, building her fortune through a line of hair care products for Black women in the early 1900s.
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the Fields Medal in 2014 for her work on the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces.
Hatshepsut ruled as pharaoh of Egypt for roughly 20 years (c. 1478-1458 BC) during the 18th Dynasty, one of the most successful pharaohs in Egyptian history.
Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, wrote the first algorithm intended for a machine — Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine — in the 1840s, making her the world's first computer programmer.
Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her decades of work helping the poorest of the poor in Calcutta, India.