Statistics for Ladies Firsts

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
first woman to win the popular vote in a United States presidential election.	Hillary Clinton	88%
first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane	Amelia Earhart	82%
first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry	Marie Curie	71%
the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.	Aretha Franklin	47%
first female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives	Nancy Pelosi	47%
first American woman to run an underground railroad to help slaves escape.	Harriet Tubman	41%
first American woman in space.	Sally Ride	35%
first woman on the Supreme Court	Sandra Day OConnor	35%
first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director	Kathryn Bigelow	24%
first female Secretary of State	Madeleine Albright	24%
first woman to win Album of the Year twice.	Taylor Swift	24%
first female artist in history to have five consecutive number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 from one album	Katy Perry	18%
first woman in America depicted on a coin.	Susan B. Anthony	18%
first woman to lead the Indianapolis 500	Danica Patrick	6%
first female member of a Presidential cabinet	Frances Perkins	6%
first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature	Pearl S. Buck	6%
first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for fiction	Edith Wharton	0%
first female publisher of a major American newspaper.	Katharine Graham	0%
first woman to run a successful presidential campaign.	Kellyanne Conway	0%