Pop Quiz Spotlight on women

Today's quiz honors Women's History Month. To learn more about the women mentioned below and many others, visit www.nwhm.org.

1. This Philadelphia Quaker woman became a spy for the rebels after the British took over her home during the Revolutionary War.

a. Martha Bratton.

b. Lydia Barrington Darragh.

c. Elizabeth Burgin.

d. Nancy Morgan Hart.

2. This woman wanted to be a medical doctor but was steered toward dentistry because there was less stress involved. So she became the first woman to receive a dentistry degree.

a. Julia Tuttle.

b. Anna Howard Shaw.

c. Lucy Hobbs Taylor.

d. Victoria Woodhull.

3. She was one of the first women stockbrokers and later was the first woman to run for president, representing the Equal Rights Party.

a. Victoria Woodhull.

b. Ellen Swallow Richards.

c. Anna Howard Shaw.

d. Margaret E. Knight.

4. This woman is credited with founding Miami.

a. Martha Matilda Harper.

b. Dorothy Eustis.

c. Sophonisba Breckinridge.

d. Julia Tuttle.

5. In 1924, she was elected the first woman governor in the United States. Name her and her state.

a. Anne Henrietta Martin, Nevada.

b. Nellie Tayloe Ross, Wyoming.

c. Jeanette Rankin, Montana.

d. Bertha Knight Landes, Washington.

6. This longtime congresswoman from Maine, first elected in 1925, sponsored and helped draft the 1944 GI Bill of Rights.

a. Corrine "Lindy" Boggs.

b. Hattie Wyatt Caraway.

c. Edith Nourse Rogers.

d. Virginia Hall.

7. This woman would later become director of civil rights

and urban

affairs at the Environmental Protection Agency, but in 1963, Gov. George Wallace stood in the doorway to keep her from entering the University of Alabama, from which she became the first African American to graduate.

a. Vivian Malone Jones.

b. Ella Baker.

c. Dorothy Height.

d. Daisy Bates.

8. She was the first Asian American congresswoman, serving from 1965 to 1977 and again from 1991 to 2002, and, in 1972, she ran for president.

a. Ming W. Chin.

b. Elaine L. Chao.

c. Patsy Takemoto Mink.

d. Anna Chan Chennault.

9. She was a sharecropper who was beaten and jailed in 1963 for civil rights activities. She also cofounded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and spoke at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

a. Mary McLeod Bethune.

b. Linda Brown.

c. Ruby Bridges.

d. Fannie Lou Hamer.

10. She was the first woman and the first Hispanic to serve as U.S. surgeon general.

a. Antonia C. Novello.

b. Dolores Huerta.

c. Linda Chavez.

d. Aida Alvarez.

11. This native of Bellefonte, Pa., was an architect, inventor, suffragist, and World War I special agent.

a. Eliza Pinckney.

b. Anne Swainson.

c. Ellen Manderfield.

d. Anna Wagner Keichline.

12. During World War II, this movie star helped invent an anti-jamming device for use in radio-controlled torpedoes.

a. Carole Lombard.

b. Hedy Lamarr.

c. Betty Grable.

d. Katharine Hepburn

Answers: C3.