The quiz: women of influence
Fashion, science, politics, sport, publishing, cinema ... which women did what, and when?
Scroll to the end of the page for the answers.
1. Of which magazine was Ita Buttrose founding editor in 1972?
2. Which Pakistani in 2014 became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize?
3. The book and film Hidden Figures highlight the unheralded work of women mathematicians in which organisation?
4. Who in 2000 became the first woman president of the Australian Medical Association?
5. Which two singers teamed up in 1985 to sing Sisters Are Doin’ It For Themselves?
6. Who was the first woman to be appointed as both national security advisor and secretary of state in the United States?
7. Who is the only athlete to light the cauldron and win a gold medal at the same Olympics?
8. Which Italian-born fashion designer founded her own eponymous label in Sydney in 1972?
9. Susan B. Anthony was associated with which movement in the United States?
10. Who is the only Australian woman to serve as a premier and federal government minister?
11. Which British scientist is considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees?
12.Who in 2010 became the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director?
13. Who has hosted A Current Affair, Dateline, Witness and Sunday?
14. Which actress won an Oscar in 2005 for portraying another Oscar winner?
15. Which Celtic tribal leader led a rebellion against the Romans in AD60?
16. Which classic Australian novel features Sybylla Melvyn?
17. Which woman has an Australian university named after her?
18. Which daughter of Lord Byron is considered to be the world’s first computer programmer?
19. Which Australian-born singer reached No.1 in the United States with I Am Woman?
20. With which commission of inquiry would you associate Rowena Orr, QC?
21. Of which major investment bank is Shemara Wikramanayake managing director and CEO?
22. Who was the Gestapo’s most wanted member of the French Resistance in 1943?
23. Who was the first person to win Nobel prizes for physics and chemistry?
24. Who bowled the final over at the 2009 T20 Cricket World Cup and scored at the 2011 soccer World Cup?
25. Who in 2017 became the 13th Chief Justice of Australia’s High Court?
1. Cleo 2. Malala Yousafzai 3. NASA 4. Kerryn Phelps 5. Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox (as part of the Eurythmics) 6. Condoleezza Rice 7. Cathy Freeman (Sydney 2000) 8. Carla Zampatti 9. Suffragettes 10. Carmen Lawrence 11. Jane Goodall 12. Kathryn Bigelow (for The Hurt Locker) 13. Jana Wendt 14. Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn in The Aviator 15. Boudicca 16. My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin 17. Edith Cowan 18. Ada Lovelace 19. Helen Reddy 20. Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry 21. Macquarie Group 22. Nancy Wake 23. Marie Curie 24. Ellyse Perry 25. Susan Kiefel
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