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1
Who was the youngest British monarch at the start of her reign?
Mary, Queen of Scots
Elizabeth I
Lady Jane Grey
Queen Elizabeth II
10% got this right
In 1542, Mary, Queen of Scots became queen at 6 days old.
2
Who was the Empress of China during the Zhou Dynasty from 690 to 705?
Wu Zetian
Jiang Qing
Tsai Ing-wen
Xiao Hunian
21% got this right
3
Which French heroine was burned at the stake for heresy when she was 19 years old?
Joan of Arc
Olympe de Gouges
Suzanne Voilquin
Théroigne de Méricourt
59% got this right
4
Which country elected President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as Africa's first female head of state?
Liberia
Ethiopia
Mozambique
South Africa
15% got this right
5
Who was the first female Nobel Prize winner?
Marie Curie
Bertha von Suttner
Jane Addams
Selma Lagerlöf
68% got this right
6
Who was the last active Pharoah of Ptolemaic Egypt, from 51 B.C. to 30 B.C.?
Cleopatra VII
Ashotep
Nefertiti
Tausret
73% got this right
7
Where did Catherine the Great die?
6% got this right
Catherine the Great died at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia.
8
Where was Elizabeth II when her father passed away, making her queen of England?
Kenya
England
New Zealand
Scotland
29% got this right
9
Who was the first woman to be democratically elected as prime minister of a country?
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Golda Meir
Indira Gandhi
Margaret Thatcher
6% got this right
Sirimavo Bandaranaike was elected prime minister of Ceylon present-day Sri Lanka) in 1960.
10
Who was the first woman elected president of a country?
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir
Chandrika Kumaratunga
Mary McAleese
Violeta Chamorro
34% got this right
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir won the election in Iceland in 1980.
