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Here are the answers to this month's Trivia Quiz:
(Click on her name to learn more about each woman)
1. c. Julia Ward Howe, (1819 – 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet.
2. c. Nelly Bly, (1864 - 1922) American journalist, author, industrialist, and charity worker. She is most famous for an undercover exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within.
3. a. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, (1831 – 1895) When she graduated in 1864, Crumpler was the first African American woman in the United States to become a physician, and the only African American woman to graduate from the New England Female Medical College, which closed in 1873.
4. b. Mary Edwards Walker, (1832 – 1919) was an American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war, surgeon, and the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor. Although Congress revoked her medal in 1917 and ordered her to give it back, she refused to do so and continued to wear it until her death. President Jimmy Carter restored her medal posthumously in 1977.
5. b. Lou Henry Hoover, (1874 – 1944) was the wife of Herbert Hoover and First Lady of the United States.
6. a. Anne Dudley Bradstreet, (1612 - 1672) was a writer and the first notable American poet and the first woman to have her works published in Colonial America.
7. b. Annie Oakley, (1860 - 1926) was arguably the best sharpshooter in American history. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar. Using a .22 caliber rifle at 90 feet, Oakley reputedly could split a playing card edge-on and put five or six more holes in it before it touched the ground. Oakley corresponded with President William McKinley to promote the service of women in combat situations with the United States military.
8. a. Jeannette Rankin, (1880 - 1973) helped secure the right of women in Montana to vote in 1914, six years before the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. Rankin, a Republican, was the only member of Congress to vote against United States entry into World War II and one of fifty to vote against World War I. To date, she is the only woman to be elected to Congress from Montana.
9. a. Grace Murray Hopper, (1906 - 1992) was the first woman to program the first computer in the world. Her accomplishments include the implementation of standards for testing computers, their components and their programming languages. She is one of only a handful of women to have a U.S. Navy ship named after her.
10. c. Martha Griffiths, (1912 - 2003) was the first woman to serve on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means. She was also the person most responsible for including the prohibition of sex discrimination under Title VII in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Griffiths was also the first female elected as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan.
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