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Who was the youngest British monarch at the start of her reign?
Mary, Queen of Scots
Lady Jane Grey
Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth II
In 1542, Mary, Queen of Scots became queen at 6 days old.
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Who was the Empress of China during the Zhou Dynasty from 690 to 705?
Wu Zetian
Jiang Qing
Tsai Ing-wen
Xiao Hunian
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Which French heroine was burned at the stake for heresy when she was 19 years old?
Joan of Arc
Théroigne de Méricourt
Olympe de Gouges
Suzanne Voilquin
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Which country elected President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as Africa's first female head of state?
Liberia
South Africa
Ethiopia
Mozambique
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Who was the first female Nobel Prize winner?
Marie Curie
Bertha von Suttner
Selma Lagerlöf
Jane Addams
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Who was the last active Pharoah of Ptolemaic Egypt, from 51 B.C. to 30 B.C.?
Cleopatra VII
Tausret
Nefertiti
Ashotep
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Where did Catherine the Great die?
Catherine the Great died at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Where was Elizabeth II when her father passed away, making her queen of England?
Kenya
England
New Zealand
Scotland
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Who was the first woman to be democratically elected as prime minister of a country?
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Indira Gandhi
Golda Meir
Margaret Thatcher
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected prime minister of Ceylon present-day Sri Lanka) in 1960.
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Who was the first woman elected president of a country?
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Violeta Chamorro
Chandrika Kumaratunga
Mary McAleese
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir won the election in Iceland in 1980.