Statistics for Influential Women Throughout History

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Polish physicist and chemist	Marie Curie	99%
First female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean	Amelia Earhart	96%
One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust	Anne Frank	94%
Instructor and Companion of Above	Anne Sullivan	94%
Under her rule, England and Scotland were united as a single sovereign nation	Queen Anne	94%
Queen consort of France and wife to Henry II of France	Catherine de Medici	93%
Christian Saint who was martyred in the early 4th century	Catherine of Alexandria	93%
Most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia	Catherine the Great	93%
First woman to earn a medical degree in the United States	Elizabeth Blackwell	91%
English prison reformer	Elizabeth Gurney Fry	91%
Prime Minister of the UK	Margaret Thatcher	91%
Last Monarch of the Tudor dynasty	Queen Elizabeth I	91%
Third Prime Minister of India	Indira Gandhi	90%
British Queen and Empress of India	Queen Victoria	90%
Indian diplomat and politician	Vijaya Lakshimi Pandit	90%
First deaf and blind person to earn a BA	Helen Keller	88%
Nicknamed "The maid of Orleans" and is a Roman Catholic Saint	Joan of Arc	88%
Longest serving first lady of the United States	Eleanor Roosevelt	87%
Founder of modern nursing	Florence Nightingale	87%
English novelist who wrote Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen	87%
Dauphine of France who was beheaded by guillotine in 1793	Marie Antoinette	85%
Queen of Castille	Queen Isabella	84%
Ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great	Cleopatra	82%
First lady of Argentina and an Actress	Eva Peron	81%
Indian Roman Catholic Nun who also won the Nobel Peace Prize	Mother Theresa	81%
"First lady of Civil Rights" and African American civil rights activist	Rosa Parks	76%
French/Belgian Dancer	Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo	65%
Greek lyric poet born 625 BC	Sappho	60%
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	54%
Powerful woman in Western Europe during High Middle Ages	Eleanor of Aquitaine	53%
American Poet	Emily Dickinson	49%
Union spy during the American Civil War	Harriet Tubman	43%
Empress consort to the last Emperor of Russian Empire	Alexandra Romanov	35%
Guide and interpreter for Lewis and Clark expedition	Sacagawea	35%
Founder of the American Red Cross	Clara Barton	31%
American Civil Rights Leader	Susan B. Anthony	31%
Also known as Rebecca Rolfe	Pocahontas	29%
British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer	Rosalind Elsie Franklin	29%
African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist	Sojourner Truth	26%
First woman to have flown in space	Valentina Vladimirovna Mikolayeva Tereshkova	26%
Women's Rights advocate and journalist	Margaret Fuller	22%
First woman hired by the United States Geological Survey	Florence Bascom	21%
First woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons	Vicountess Nancy Astor	13%
First European woman to attempt to cross the Sahara	Alexandrine Pieternella Francoise Tinne	10%
Physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics	Lise Meitner	9%
First female Chief of the Cherokee Nation	Wilma Mankiller	9%
Famous for her involvement with the Athenian statesman Pericles	Aspasia of Miletus	7%
The modern world's first female head of government	Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike	7%
First woman in U.S. Congress	Jeannette Rankin	6%
German-British Astronomer	Caroline Lucretia Herschel	4%
American explorer of Greenland and the Arctic. Also first woman to fly over the north pole	Louise Arner Boyd	4%
Italian French late medieval author for dukes and French royal court	Christine de Pizan	3%
Won the nobel prize for development of the radioimmunoassay technique	Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	3%
Unofficially controlled the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China	Tz'u Hsi	1%
Self taught scholar, poet, and nun of New Spain	Juana Ines de la Cruz	0%