Statistics for Influential Women in History II

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	Answer	% Correct
The "Iron Lady".	Margaret Thatcher	93%
Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama.	Rosa Parks	91%
Daughter of the above. Author of "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus"	Mary Shelley	80%
Long serving prime minister of India.	Indira Gandhi	79%
First lady of America. As head of UN human rights commission she helped to draft the 1948 UN declaration of human rights.	Eleanor Roosevelt	78%
Born into slavery in the 19th century America. She escaped and made many missions to rescue enslaved people, using the "Underground Railroad".	Harriet Tubman	64%
Her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a bestseller and helped to popularise the anti-slavery campaign.	Harriet Beecher Stowe	57%
The first female prime minister of a Muslim country.	Benazir Bhutto	52%
The interpreter for Lewis and Clark during the U.S. government’s first exploration of the Northwest.	Sacagawea	45%
One of America’s greatest poets. Her poems were published posthumously and received widespread literary praise for their bold and unconventional style.	Emily Dickinson	44%
Plato referred to her as one of the great ten poets.	Sappho	40%
Duchess who was also queen mother in England and queen consort in France	Eleanor of Aquitaine	28%
Known for her pamphlet “A Vindication of the Rights of Women”.	Mary Wollstonecraft	26%
Founder of the American Red Cross.	Clara Barton	24%
Ruler of Egypt around 1500BC.	Hatshepsut	24%
African-American abolitionist and women’s rights campaigner. "Ain't I a woman?"	Sojourner Truth	23%
It is said she brought modern dance to the world. Her untimely death was caused by her scarf.	Isadora Duncan	20%
She controlled the Qing Dynasty from 1861 to her death in 1908 for 47 years.	Dowager Cixi	16%
Mystic, author and composer in the 11th and 12th century. Her writings and music have influenced people to this day.	Hildegard of Bingen	14%
One of the greatest athletes of all time, she won track and field gold medals at the 1932 Olympics, before turning to professional golf and winning 10 LPGA major championships.	Babe Didrikson Zaharias	13%
Mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer of the ancient Alexandria. She was a pagan martyr, torn apart by a mob of Christian monks.	Hypatia	13%
The only empress in the history of China.	Wu Zetian	12%
American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. Her work lead to the developement of COBOL programming language.	Grace Hopper	7%
The lead software engineer for the Apollo Project.	Margaret Hamilton	5%
Her work "Genji Monogatari" is often regarded as the world's first novel.	Murasaki Shikibu	5%