IWD 2024

Who is known as the first computer programmer, who worked on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine?

• Marie Curie

• Ada Lovelace

• Grace Hopper

• Hedy Lamarr

Which of the following women is known as the founder of modern nursing?

• Elizabeth Blackwell

• Clara Barton

• Florence Nightingale

• Mary Seacole

Who wrote the novel "Pride and Prejudice"?

• Mary Shelley

• Emily Brontë

• Virginia Woolf

• Jane Austen

Which of these women was a pioneering paleontologist and fossil collector known for her discoveries in the Jurassic marine fossil beds at Lyme Regis?

• Marie Stopes

• Mary Anning

• Rachel Carson

• Barbara McClintock

Who was a leading figure in the UK suffragette movement, known for her role in the fight for women's right to vote?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Sojourner Truth

• Emmeline Pankhurst

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Which suffragette became a martyr for the cause after stepping in front of King George V's horse at the Epsom Derby?

• Emily Wilding Davison

• Millicent Fawcett

• Harriet Tubman

• Alice Paul

Who was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

• Indira Gandhi

• Golda Meir

• Margaret Thatcher

• Angela Merkel

Which British-Jamaican nurse is celebrated for her care of British soldiers during the Crimean War, alongside Florence Nightingale?

• Mary Seacole

• Harriet Tubman

• Sojourner Truth

• Clara Barton

Who contributed to the discovery of the DNA double helix structure but was not initially recognized for her work?

• Marie Curie

• Dorothy Hodgkin

• Rosalind Franklin

• Lise Meitner

Which British singer and actress broke racial barriers in the UK and became the first black British artist to sing on BBC Radio?

• Josephine Baker

• Billie Holiday

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Evelyn Dove