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Women in History by Picture

Can you identify these notable historical women?
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Last updated: March 22, 2018
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First submittedMarch 18, 2018
Times taken20,748
Average score62.5%
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+6
Level 62
Mar 18, 2018
This one was tough for me! I think this is the first time I have seen pictures of a couple of these women. This is definitely not an easy 100%.
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Level 82
Sep 20, 2018
I got them all but Grace Kelly was just a guess.
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2024
How did you know Cixi?
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Level 91
Mar 18, 2018
Marie is allowed for Queen Marie Antoinette, Elizabeth and Victoria allowed for the English Queens so perhaps Grace could be accepted Princess Grace?
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Level 84
Mar 19, 2018
Agreed!
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Level 67
Mar 19, 2018
Fair point, especially since she was wellknown by her first name as "princess Grace".
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Level ∞
Mar 22, 2018
Okay
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Level 77
Mar 23, 2018
I never knew how gorgeous Grace Kelly was. Wow!
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Level 31
Mar 20, 2018
A good quiz! Who supports a sequel?
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Level 72
Mar 21, 2018
Good quiz. The four in the column on the right got me. I recognised two of the faces but couldn't remember the names.
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Level 69
Mar 22, 2018
Yikes. This would be a very different quiz if a woman wrote it. … I should probably shut up, put up, and write such quiz :-)
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Level 82
Mar 23, 2018
10 at least known for their state functions...
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Level 66
Sep 20, 2018
Different how, out of curiosity?
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Level 71
Apr 2, 2021
Agreed, how? I am female as well, and found it extremely balanced
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Level 71
Mar 25, 2018
I once read that Frida Kahlo spent more time looking at herself than any other artist........ I'd heard that but still didn't get her on this quiz.
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Level 86
Sep 20, 2018
I think most artists spend more time looking at themselves than at other artists ;)

But seriously, how would you even measure something like that?

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Level 66
Sep 20, 2018
She has a LOT of self-portraits.
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2024
Definitely a That's exactly what narcissus did, stare at himself all day in a river; kinda like everyone who takes selfies all day. I modelled from a young age but got out of that industry because all of the other models were narcissists who enjoyed standing there getting photographed. I hated It. I was bored to death. Definitely a brain-dead person's exercise.
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2024
From 2022 to 2924 she's weirdly been a fashion icon. Her husband was the better painter. Diego Rivera.
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Level 63
Aug 2, 2018
I keep forgetting the English name for the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten whose name I also keep forgetting. I can only seem to remember their names in my native language...
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Level 37
Sep 20, 2018
Great quiz! Definitely support a sequel.
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Level 53
Sep 20, 2018
Maria Curie was born and also recognized as Maria Sklodowska - please add it to the quiz
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Level 78
Sep 20, 2018
If you want to be pedantic it's Skłodowska.
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Level 70
Sep 21, 2018
It's abundantly clear s/he wants to be pedantic
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Level 65
Sep 27, 2018
How do you pronounce that L with the teeny line through it? My grandfather is from a town with one of those in the name. He died long before I was born, so I never could ask him.
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Level 84
Dec 25, 2019
Ł in Polish is pronounced like an English "w" sound. So the city of Łodz, Poland is pronounced WOODJ or WOOCH.
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2024
That language is very poorly translated, like Irish. None of the letters make sense when translated into English. Travel in Poland is hilarious.
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Level 66
May 12, 2020
That's true, but quizzes here can't require Polish characters, as not everybody has that setting on their keyboard/knows how to use it. However, Maria Sklodowska should be accepted as an answer, since she is commonly known as such in her native country and herself would sign with that surname also after her marriage.
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Level 74
Sep 20, 2018
Thank you QM for featuring these women. I made that "Influential Women in history. part II" quiz but I understand it was sadly too difficult to be featured.
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Level 45
Sep 26, 2018
I don't really get why "Marie" is accepted for Marie-Antoinette. I was trying to type Marie Curie, hadn't even scrolled yet, and "Marie" just went away so I had to scroll to see where it went... So yeah that robbed me of the satisfaction of knowing another answer :(
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Level 65
Jul 9, 2019
I'm in the select few that know Cixi but not Grace Kelly or Eleanor Roosevelt
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2024
How do you know Cixi, I took Chinese History and the professor neglected to mention her. That's something I wouldn't forget; I remember all the dynasties.
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Level 61
Jul 29, 2019
I'm confused. Is Cixi more well known than Wu Zetian??
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Level 89
Oct 7, 2021
Whu?
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2024
No. I took an elective in Chinese History and the professor neglected to mention her. Oh and he didn't mention Whu either. Maybe he was a misogynist? I have no idea but I remember every dynasty so it's not my memory.
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Level 60
Mar 25, 2021
I don't know how I got Queen Nefertiti.
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2024
She's pretty famous in the West.
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Level 89
Oct 7, 2021
It's good to see for the most part women who made their own impact and not only those who were just married to a more famous man or the first woman to do such and such. Sometimes that has a significance, but often it's just a footnote honor.
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2024
Grace Kelly was just an actress who married "royalty."
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Level 76
Dec 20, 2021
Good quiz. I would have preferred an image similar to Nefertiti for Cleopatra than an actress portraying her.
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Level 35
Dec 22, 2022
Bravooo!!! I agree!!!
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Level 71
Jan 28, 2022
I'm surprised that missing one still allowed me to get 5/5 stars. I missed Cixi, of course, pretty typical for a Westerner. I did think that she was the one I saw portrayed at the beginning of the ca 1987 film "The Last Emperor". Her being "only" a regent, and her being on this quiz, I'm guessing there was never an empress of much efficacy or renown (if ever) throughout all of China's history? Shows how much I know.
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2024
I took a Chinese History course and she wasn't mentioned. Do you mean the character played by Joan? The opiate addict lol!
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Level 35
Dec 22, 2022
We have so many depictions of Cleopatra by the ancient Egyptians. Why are you using a picture from a whitewashed movie to represent her?

If you don't want to use one of those depictions at least use a painting not an image of an actress.

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Level 67
Aug 17, 2023
It's Elizabeth Taylor. I don't think the ancient Egyptians did too many drawings of her.
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2024
Cleopatra was Greek Not Egyptian.
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Level 27
Jan 1, 2023
As a Chinese, I didn't get Rosa Parks, and I surprisedly find so many people didn't get CIxi.
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Level 46
Mar 23, 2024
I was born in the seventies and I got 15/16. I am surprised that I received 5 points for the score. I honestly never heard of Cixi and I took a history of China course at University. The professor never even mentioned her. How odd.