Red Ajah IWW2015: Famous Females Quiz

[Sooh]

 

1. What is the name of the author who claimed the reason there were so few female authors was that they had no room of their own?

Virginia Woolf

 

2. What is the name of this young heroine?

 

Tris (Beatrice) Prior Divergent franchise.

 

3. Can you name a goddess of love and the religion or mythology she belongs to?

Venus - Roman mythology, Aphrodite - Greek mythology, Freyja - norse mythology

 

4. Who has been called the «Iron Lady»?

Margaret Thatcher

 

5. Who was the first female head of government?

Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Ceylon/Sri Lanka

 

6. What is the name of the artist who painted this self portrait?

Frida Kahlo

 

7. Name at least four European royal houses in which descendants of Queen Victoria still reigns.

United Kingdom, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

 

8. She is the youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize ever. What is her name?

1. 

Malala Yousafzai

 

9. She travelled around the world like Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. Who was she?

Elizabeth Cochrane, aka Nellie Bly

 

10. What is the name of the artist whose music you hear?

 

Beyonce of course   

 

 

Well done everyone, and thanks for playing!

[Elgee]

OMW I totally got 5 wrong! I never knew about that Sri Lankan head of government ... I love it when I learn new things!

 

Thank you very much for running this quiz, Sooh - it was fun AND informative!

[Ryrin]

Sooh did a great job!!'

[Sooh]

Glad you liked it I had fun trying to make it as diverse as I could. It'll always be easier for me to choose European/American people in quizzes, so I tried avoiding doing that for ALL the questions at least.