Famous People Quiz - Inspiring Women

"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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