TRIVIA!
See how you do answering these trivia questions about women of the 20th century!
No prize if you get all the answers right, but hey, at least you're more informed than the rest of the world!
1. The associated press named her 'woman athlete of the year' six times between 1932 and 1954.
"Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Sonia Heine
Mia Hamm
2. Standard Oil Company was broken up in 1911 when this journalist exposed its unfair practices.
Nellie Bly
Barbara Walters
Ida Tarbell
3. Challenging segregation, she drew 75,000 people for an Easter Sunday concert at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939.
Beverly Sills
Kiri Te Kanawa
Marian Anderson
4. The careful negotiations of this United Nations delegate won adoption of the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
Shirley Temple Black
Eleanor Roosevelt
Indira Ghandi
5. This woman owns her own production comapny, Egg Pictures, and acts, produces, and directs many of the films she appears in.
Emma Thompson
Susan Sarandon
Jodie Foster
How did you do? The answers are:
1. "Babe" Didrikson Zaharais 2. Ida Tarbell 3. Marian Anderson
4. Eleanor Roosevelt 5. Jodie Foster