ANSWERS to: Women’s History Month Quiz (© NWHP 2014)
Created by Margaret Zierdt (National Women’s History Project Board member)
These Are Women of Great Vision and Achievement Whose History Is Our Strength:
1.Madeleine Albright (b. 1937)
2.Gertrude Boyle (b. 1925)
3.Wilma Mankiller (1945 – 2010)
4.Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672)
5.Olympia Brown (1835 – 1926)
6.Patsy Mink (1927-2002)
7.Rachel Carson (1907 – 1964)
8.Rita Dove (b. 1952)
9.Mary Dyer (c. 1611 – 1660)
10.Crystal Eastman (1881 – 1928)
11.Ida Wells-Barnett (1862 – 1931)
12.Drew Gilpin Faust (b. 1947)
13.Geraldine Ferraro (b. 1935)
14.Mary Bickerdyke (1817 – 1901)
15.Eleanor Roosevelt Oct. 11, 1984- Nov. 7, 1962
16.Mary Church Terrell (1863 – 1954)
17.Betty Friedan (1921 – 2006)
18.Major General Jeanne Holm (1921 – 2010)
19.Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper (1906 – 1992)
20.May Chinn (1896 – 1980)
21.Anne Hutchinson (1591 – c. 1643)
22.Maya Lin (b. 1959)
23.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926 – 2004)
24.Ann Lee (1736 – 1784)
25.Belva Lockwood (1830 – 1917)
26.Barbara McClintock (1902 – 1992)
27.Mabel Staupers (1890 – 1989)
28.Dolley Madison (1768 – 1849)
29.Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906 – 1972)
30.Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) (b. 1936)
31.Maria Mitchell (1818 – 1889)
32.Charlotte Ray (1850 – 1911)
33.Lucretia Mott (1793 – 1880)
34.Mary White Ovington (1865 – 1951)
35.Charlotte Woodward Pierce (1831 – c. 1921)
36.Elizabeth Lucas Pinckney (1722 – 1793)
37.Leontyne Price (b. 1927)
38.Sally J. Priesand (b. 1946)
39.Vinnie Ream (1847 – 1914)
40.Florence Smith Price (1887 – 1953)
41.Henrietta Szold (1860 – 1945)
42.Brigadier General Wilma Vaught, USAF retired (b. 1930)
43.Susan Warner (1819 – 1885)
44.Mercy Otis Warren (1728 – 1814)
45.Anne Dodge Wauneha (1910 – 1997)
46.Harriet Wilson (c. 1825 – c. 1900)
47.Fanny Workman (1859 – 1925)
48.Marion Alsop (b. 1956)
49.Julia Child (1912 – 2004)
50.Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)