Great Women Quiz

Tự kiểm tra và tìm hiểu một chút về 30 phụ nữ truyền cảm hứng này

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal" - 1848 by ???????

Discover who said this, and a load of other quotes and facts of 30 of the world's most inspiring women, both contemporary and historical.

'Famous People Quiz - Inspiring Women' - contains profiles and wiki-links of each of the 30 featured women.

After a little reading you can test yourself in the muti-choice 'Quick 10' Quizzes:

- Match the name to a face

- Who said it?

- What is her nationality?

If feeling really confident, you could summon the courage to take on 'THE BIG QUIZ' matching a brief profile to all 30 faces!

Some are easy ("I am author of the Harry Potter series.")

Some not so much ("I was credited with making the first American flag.")

How many can you get?

Featured women include:

Althea Gibson – first black athlete to cross color line of international tennis

Ann Bancroft – acrtic explorer

Anne Frank – one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust

Audrey Hepburn – actress, humanitarian

Aung San Suu Kyi – Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Betsy Ross - credited with making the first American flag

Billie Jean King – tennis player, advocate for gender equality

Clara Barton - pioneering nurse, founded the American Red Cross

Elizabeth Cady Stanton - suffragist, abolitionist

Florence Nightingale – founder of modern nursing

Frida Kahlo - Mexican painter best known for her self-portraits

Hillary Clinton - American politician, Secretary of State

Indira Gandhi - fourth Prime Minister of India

Jackie Joyner-Kersee – athlete, Olympic gold-medalist

Jane Goodall - primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist

J.K. Rowling – author of the Harry Potter series

Joan of Arc - heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint

Katharine Hepburn – actress

Laura Ingalls Wilder - author of Little House on the Prairie

Louisa May Alcott - author of the novel Little Women

Mae Jemison – astronaut, first African American woman to travel in space

Margaret Thatcher - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Marie Curie - physicist and chemist who conducted research on radioactivity

Maya Angelou - author, poet

Mother Teresa - religious sister and missionary

Oprah Winfrey - media proprietor, talk show host, actress, philanthropist

Queen Elizabeth II

Sandra Day O’Conner - first woman appointed to the Supreme Court

Sonia Sotomayor - first Supreme Court justice of Latino heritage

Whoopi Goldberg – comedienne, actress, political activist

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