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What is the name of the Empress of the Byzantine Empire who was the wife and co-regent of Justinian I and who is now considered a Saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church?
Ariadne
Dorothea
Theodora
Rebecca
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What is the name of the First Lady of the U.S.A. who was the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and who was known for her fervent dedication to charitable works?
Eleanor Roosevelt
Olivia Roosevelt
Jennifer Roosevelt
Beatrice Roosevelt
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What is the name of the prosperous Queen of England who ruled her namesake era lasting from the 1830s to the 1900s?
Queen Isadora
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Regina III
Queen Victoria
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What is the name of the Underground Railroad conductor nicknamed "Black Moses" because of how many people she led to freedom?
Sojourner Truth
Harriet Tubman
Angelina Ford
Dominique McHale
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What is the name of the English chemist who helped to discover the structures of D.N.A. and R.N.A.?
Rosalind Franklin
Beverly Dawes
Wendy Gable
Alexandra Costas
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What is the name of the famous English novelist behind such influential works as Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility?
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth Kipling
Simone de Beauvoir
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What is the name of the First Lady of the U.S.A. who was married to James Madison and was famed for her diplomacy, skills as a hostess, and courage in serving historical artifacts during the War of 1812?
Abigail Madison
Jessica Madison
Dolly Madison
Amber Madison
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What is the name of the woman who was considered the first Queen of Spain as she ruled alongside her husband King Ferdinand II?
Queen Margaret
Queen Ruth
Queen Isabella
Queen Elizabeth of Spain
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What is the name of the woman who was a famous battlefield nurse and who founded the American Red Cross?
Dorothea Dix
Clara Barton
Rebecca Titor
Julia Pierce-Wilde
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What is the name of the final Queen of Hawaii who surrendered control of the islands to the U.S.?
Ali'kalai
Lili'uokalani
Uil'omaki
Kal'il'alai
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What is the name of the Greek poet from the island of Lesbos who was known for her often tongue-in-cheek love songs and poems such as "Ode to Aphrodite"?
Sappho
Regina
Casta
Helen
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What is the name of the woman who was the first and only Prime Minister of India and was known for helping grant independence to Bangladesh?
Zaili Singh
Indira Gandhi
Bansi Lal
Morarji Desai
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What is the name of the woman who was the last Pharaoh of Egypt before the nation was conquered by the Roman Empire?
Hatshepsut
Cleopatra
Hirines
Alatesse
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What is the name of the American suffragette who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded multiple American civil rights associations to the point that the 19th Amendment was colloquially named after her?
Margaret D. Saint-John
Tilly G. Underhill
Marybeth C. Wakefield
Susan B. Anthony
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What is the name of the French woman known "The Maiden of Orleans" who helped France win the Hundred Years' War by taking to the battlefield personally?
Effie of Aragon
Katherine of Aragon
Rowena of Arc
Joan of Arc
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What is the common last name of the three sisters who wrote the classics Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall?
Hall
Manchester
DuPont
Bronte
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What is the name of the Russian Empress who ruled throughout the Late-1700s and drastically modernized Russia to become a political power?
Alexandra the Great
Catherine the Great
Dahlia the Great
Ophelia the Great
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In 1955, this woman started a major civil rights movement by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a White person. What is the name of this woman who began the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Rosa Parks
Beatrice Sykes
Lucy Goodman
Christine Howard
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What is the name of the Prime Minister of the U.K. called "The Iron Lady" who led her nation throughout the 1980s and was also a known conservative voice in global politics?
Margaret Thatcher
Hilde Martonette
Allison Brighton
Elise Mainway
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What is the name of this noblewoman and scholar known for her work with Charles Babbage on producing an early computer called The Analytical Engine.
Sarah Goodwin
Emma Illian
Stephanie Garret
Ada Lovelace
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What is the name of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes for her work discovering and analyzing radioactivity in certain substances?
Marie Curie
Antonia Viet
Patricia O'Neil
Eleanor Handel
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What is the name of the young lady whose diary's publication helped provide a firsthand account of the tragedy of the oppression of Nazi Germany?
Gella Heidel
Anne Frank
Lisa Shiorda
Frita Eisner
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What is the name of the Dowager Empress who ruled China during the Late-19th Century and brought about the Tongzhi Restoration in an attempt to modernize China?
Elgin
Daiga
Cixi
Xila
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What is the name of the "Lady with the Lamp" who is regarded as the founder of modern nursing practices?
Florence Nightingale
Robin McSouthers
Andrea Templeton-Rowe
Elisa Rembrandt
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What is the name of the author and social critic who won a Pulitzer Prize for her influential text The Color Purple?
MacKenzie DuPrie
Toni Morrison
Bell Hooks
Alice Walker
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What is the name of the famous American pilot who founded the Ninety-Nines organization that supported women entering the field of aviation?
Lady Bird Johnson
Angelina Lindbergh
Amelia Earhart
Wendy Franklin
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What is the name of the Austrian-born actress who starred in Samson and Delilah and also was a renowned inventor who helped pioneer radio technology that would eventually develop into WiFi?
Katherine Hepburn
Hedy Lamarr
Bette Davis
Vivien Leigh
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What is the name of the early feminist philosopher who wrote The Second Sex and The Mandarins as early explorations of the psychology behind gender roles?
Rowena Gottlieb
Simone de Beauvoir
Cecilia Ravanga
Allison Hudson
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What is the name of the English Queen from 1558-1603 who was the last English monarch from the House of Tudor and who famously patronized the arts in her nation?
Ju8dith I
Gertrude I
Renee I
Elizabeth I
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What is the name of the author and anthropologist of the Mid-20th Century who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God and the famous essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me"?
Victory Nichole Westrich
Michelle-Lindsay Unger
Georgina Darby Ott
Zora Neale Hurston
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Andrew Nicholas is a passionate reader and writer on the subjects of history and mankind. He is a published author, critic, and poet who grew up in the friendly scenery of rural Ohio. He is a graduate of Wright State University and a regular student of historical curiosities.