Answers to History’s Women Trivia Questions

 

May 28

 

1.   What two women were responsible for

  passing down their godly heritage to Timothy. (2 Timothy 1:5)

 

  Lois and Eunice, Timothy’s grandmother and mother

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2.   Who was commissioned to make the first Flag of the United States in June,   1776 .

 

  Betsy Ross. For more information on Betsy visit:

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3.   What Indian princess saved the life of John Smith and married

  John Rolfe in April, 1613?   

Pocahontas. For more information on Pocahontas visit:

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May 22


HISTORY'S WOMEN TRIVIA


1. Who spent her life working for the betterment of the
imprisoned and the mentally ill?

(Dorothea Dix)

2. What novelist was born at Steventon, Hampshire, England in
1775?
(Jane Austen)


3. Who was the first woman in America to be ordained as a
pastor?

(In 1853, Antoinette Brown Blackwell was ordained to the
ministry by the Reverend Luther Lee, a prominent
Congregationalist from Syracuse, thus becoming the first
regularly ordained woman of a recognized denomination.)

 

 

03/05/03


1. Who was the woman who published the first paper to connect the number of chromosomes to the sex of the organism in 1935?

Nettie Marie Stevens; 1861-1912

2. Who was the first black woman to receive cabinet rank?

Patricia Roberts Harris was appointed to the position of
secretary of housing and urban development by President
Carter.

3. What woman won Olympic gold medals for speed skating in 1988 and 1992?
Bonnie Blair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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