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• Marie Curie received the Nobel Prize in what for the first time in 1903?

  • Radiation

  • Teleportation

  • Conservation

  • Purification

• In 1955, civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks carried out what incredible act of bravery?

  • University of Alabama protested

  • A speech at the Lincoln Memorial

  • Set up the March on Washington

  • Defiantly refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger.

• Who was it that was known as "the Lady with the Lamp" since she was the pioneer of contemporary nursing?

  • Lady Dynamite

  • Florence Nightingale

  • Annie Nightingale

  • Mother Teresa

• Who was the brilliant mathematician and pioneering computer programmer who lived from 1815 to 1852?

  • Anita Borg

  • Hedy Lamarr

  • Ada Lovelace

  • Elizabeth Feinler

• Who is the author of the classic novel "Frankenstein"?

  • Mary Tyler Moore

  • Mary Pickford

  • Mary J. Blige

  • Mary Shelley

• Which beautiful and astute political leader put an end to Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty?

  • Sumatra

  • Cleopatra

  • Frankie Sinatra

  • Cominatcha

• Which French military strategist took command of an army at the age of 16?

  • Joan of Sark

  • Joan of Thorpe Park

  • Joan of Versailles

  • Joan of Arc

• Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist, founded what organization?

  • Green Belt Movement

  • Green Sock Movement

  • Green Scarf Movement

  • Green Shoe Movement

• Which well-known writer wrote the classic novel Pride and Prejudice?

  • Agatha Christie

  • J.K. Rowling

  • Jane Austen

  • Virginia Woolf

• Name the novelist who has a deep influence in the formation of the Bloomsbury Group?

  • Anne Brontë

  • Virginia Woolf

  • Helen Fielding

  • Katie Price

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