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Trailblazers and Pioneers: Multiple Choice
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- 01For her discovery of Artemisinin, a critical anti-malarial drug, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine. From what source did she originally extract the compound?
- 02Zaha Hadid was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize. In which country was she born?
- 03In 1972, what event did organizers of the Boston Marathon officially open to female competitors for the first time?
- 04Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei was the first woman to summit Mount Everest. What was the second 8,000-meter peak she scaled?
- 05The highest peak in the Ruwenzori Mountains, on the border of Uganda and the DRC, is named for what 19th-century female Italian explorer and aristocrat?
- 06Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi is known for her dramatic and violent scenes. Who was her primary teacher and father, also a renowned painter?
- 07Rosalind Franklin's "Photo 51" was a critical piece of evidence for the structure of DNA. What specific technique did she use to create it?
- 08What was the primary profession of Annabella Milbanke, the mother of computer science visionary Ada Lovelace?
- 09The Baret Peninsula on the island of New Ireland in Papua New Guinea is named for Jeanne Baret. What was her historic "first" as an explorer?
- 10The first known letters written in Latin by a woman were found at Vindolanda fort in Britain. Who was the author?
- 11Lise Meitner was part of the team that discovered the element protactinium. What specific physical process did she and Otto Frisch later name, providing the theoretical explanation for Otto Hahn's experimental results?
- 12Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka became the world's first female prime minister in 1960. What political office did her husband hold before his assassination?
- 13In 1916, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress. She was a representative from which state?
- 14Eugénie Brazier, known as "La Mère Brazier," was the first person to be awarded six Michelin stars. Her two famed restaurants were located in and near what French city?
- 15What was the title of the 1929 essay by Virginia Woolf that famously argues a woman must have money and a room of her own to write fiction?
- 16American linguist and computer scientist Karen Spärck Jones is credited with introducing the concept of Inverse Document Frequency (IDF). What common application is this concept fundamental to?
- 17Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was an active member of which political party for much of her life?
- 18The pioneering video artist and cellist Charlotte Moorman was famously arrested for indecent exposure during a 1967 performance of which composer's "Opera Sextronique"?
- 19Before becoming a celebrated chef and author, Julia Child worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to the CIA. What was her role there?
- 20Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu conducted the experiment that disproved the law of conservation of parity. In which university's labs was this work performed?