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      Which woman won the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match?
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      • Martina Navratilova

      • Chris Evert

      • Billie Jean King

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      1. Which woman won the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match?
        1. Margaret Court
        2. Martina Navratilova
        3. Chris Evert
        4. Billie Jean King

        1. In addition to being one of the greatest tennis players the world has ever known, Billie Jean King is a tireless promoter of women's sports and for gender equity in all athletic competitions.

      2. T or F? Clara Barton, the "Angel of the Battlefield", founded the International Red Cross.
        1. True
        2. False

        1. False. Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross in 1821 and served as its president until she retired at the ripe young age of eighty-two.

      3. Which famous American helped bring Helen Keller and teacher Anne Sullivan together?
        1. Thomas Edison
        2. William Jennings Bryan
        3. Alexander Graham Bell
        4. Grover Cleveland

        1. It was Alexander Graham Bell who advised Helen's parents to get her a teacher. And with Anne Sullivan's guidance, Keller learned to communicate and truly flourished.

      4. T or F? Helen Keller was born blind and deaf.
        1. True
        2. False

        1. False. Helen Keller was born a healthy child on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. In 1882, Helen was left deaf, blind, and mute by an illness diagnosed as brain fever that may have been scarlet fever.

      5. T or F? Amelia Earhart was the only person in the plane that went down over the Pacific.
        1. True
        2. False

        1. False. Amelia wasn't planning on flying the plane around the world alone. Her navigator, a man by the name of Fred Noonan, was also in the plane when it mysteriously disappeared.

      6. Where was Rosa Parks sitting when she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus?
        1. In the front of the bus
        2. In the back of the bus
        3. In the middle of the bus

        1. On Montgomery city buses, the front rows were for Whites, while the middle and back rows were for Blacks. But Whites could demand the middle seats when needed. And that is what happened on that day in 1955. It was a defining moment in the civil rights movement.

      7. Which civil rights-minded woman, 71 years before, refused to give up her seat on a train?
        1. Mary McLeod Bethune
        2. Mary Ann Shadd Cary
        3. Madame C.J. Walker
        4. Ida B. Wells-Barnett

        1. Though all of the African-American women below are heroines in their own right, the correct answer is Ida B. Wells-Barnett. She also became the part owner of an anti-segregationist newspaper and was one of the founders of the NAACP.

      8. Who was the founder of Mothers Against Drunk Driving?
        1. Candy Lightner
        2. Jennifer Harbury
        3. Julia Quinlan
        4. Rebecca Pruslin

        1. When Candy Lightner discovered that the man who killed her 13-year-old daughter Cari while driving under the influence of alcoholhad been accused of three other drunk-driving incidents, she quit her job as a real estate agent and organized the first chapter of MADD.

      9. What was the name of the space shuttle on which Sally Ride made her historic voyage?
        1. Voyager
        2. Challenger
        3. Apollo
        4. Discovery

        1. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space when she climbed on board the Challenger on June 18, 1983.

      10. Who was the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer prize for her work, Annie Allen?
        1. Gwendolyn Brooks
        2. Maya Angelou
        3. Alice Walker
        4. Toni Morrison

        1. Gwendolyn Brooks was an African-American poet and children's-book author who grew up on the gritty south side of Chicago. Annie Allen, is a series of poems following the life of a Black girl from childhood to adulthood. Brooks won the Pulitzer prize in 1950.

      11. What is the name of the first woman to found a lasting, American-based religion?
        1. Dorothea Dix
        2. Ellen White
        3. Mary Baker Eddy
        4. Lucretia Mott

        1. Mary Baker Eddy founded the First Church of Christ, Scientist (commonly called Christian Scientists), in 1879. She also founded the Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Monitor.

      12. Which noble woman established the Special Olympics?
        1. Lady Bird Johnson
        2. Eleanor Roosevelt
        3. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
        4. Mamie Eisenhower

        1. In 1984 Ronald Reagan awarded Eunice Kennedy Shriver the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her unceasing work on behalf of the mentally handicapped.

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