Q 01/05

Which amendment, ratified in 1920, gave American women the vote?

A) 15th Amendment

B) 19th Amendment

C) 21st Amendment

D) 26th Amendment

Answer · why

B) 19th Amendment

The 19th Amendment. Tennessee became the decisive 36th state on 18 August 1920 when Harry Burn, its youngest legislator, voted yes after a letter from...

Q 02/05

Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

A) Marie Curie

B) Ada Lovelace

C) Rosalind Franklin

D) Lise Meitner

Answer · why

A) Marie Curie

Marie Curie shared the 1903 physics prize only after her husband Pierre objected: the nomination had named just him and Henri Becquerel until a Swedis...

Q 03/05

Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

A) Theresa May

B) Margaret Thatcher

C) Barbara Castle

D) Liz Truss

Answer · why

B) Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher took office in 1979. Three years earlier the Soviet army paper Red Star had dubbed her the 'Iron Lady' as a jibe, and within days sh...

Q 04/05

Which American poet and author wrote the acclaimed autobiography 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'?

A) Toni Morrison

B) Maya Angelou

C) Alice Walker

D) Zora Neale Hurston

Answer · why

B) Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou began the book while grieving Martin Luther King's assassination, urged on by her friend James Baldwin; its title comes from Paul Laurenc...

Q 05/05

Who co-founded Hull House in Chicago in 1889, one of America's first settlement houses?

A) Clara Barton

B) Susan B. Anthony

C) Harriet Tubman

D) Jane Addams

Answer · why

D) Jane Addams

Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr modelled Hull House on London's Toynbee Hall, which they had visited, and opened it among Chicago's immigrant poor; ...