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Rosalind Franklin
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Made famous by a Disney movie, she is one of China’s most
famous warriors.
The Native American woman who guided
Lewis and Clark
During the War of 1812, Dolly Madison saved the original drafts of these two
famous US documents from the
burning White House.
This famous phrase was uttered by
Sojourner Truth at a women’s suffrage
convention in Ohio.
This woman ruled over Egypt longer
than any other female pharaoh.
She graduated from Wellesley College and went on to become a
first lady and a senator.
She was the first woman to serve as
US National Security Advisor.
Golda Meir was the first Prime Minister of
this country.
The first woman British Prime Minister,
she served the longest term in 150
years.
This is the highest position to have been held by a woman in
Congress.
This first female Supreme Court
justice was nominated by
President Reagan in 1981.
In September 1928, she was the first woman to fly solo
across the Atlantic.
This woman became the first woman
medical doctor after graduating from Geneva Medical College in 1849.
On June 16, 1963 this first woman in space
flew aboard the Vostok 6.
Under FDR, this woman was the first to be appointed to a presidential cabinet, serving as Secretary
of Labor.
These two elements were discovered by
Marie Curie.HINT: atomic
numbers 84 and 88
The biologist who formulated the theory
of endosymbiosis.
The world’s foremost authority on
chimpanzees who redefined the long-held “differences”
between humans and other primates.
The geneticist/biologist who studied a new
class of mutant genes in corn and
discovered the first transposons.
This famous book written by Rachel Carson influenced
President Kennedy to start testing for chemicals in the
water mentioned in her book.
This is the title of the Watson’s novel in
which he described how he and Crick discovered the
structure of DNA.
This is the name of Franklin’s X-ray diffraction photo
which Watson and Crick used to theorize the structure of the
double helix.
Of the two types of DNA that Franklin
discovered, this is the one which she
focused on at her colloquium in
November 1951.
This is the deputy director of the lab
where Franklin worked at Kings
College who casually showed her photo to
Watson.
This is the number of molecular building
blocks in each turn of the helixes of DNA, which Watson and
Crick find from Rosalind’s X-ray
diffraction photo of DNA.
Who is Sacagawea?
What are the US Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence?
What is “Ain’t I a woman”?
[Sojourner also has a Mars rover named in
her honor.]
Who is Hatshepsut?
Who is Hillary Clinton?
Who is Condaleeza Rice?
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
What is minority leader of the House?
[The woman was Nancy Pelosi.]
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?
Who is Amelia Earhart?
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
Who is Frances Perkins?
(She served throughout all 4 of
FDR’s terms)
What are Radium and Polonium?
Who is Lynn Margulis?
Who is Jane Goodall?
Who is Barbara McClintock?
What is Silent Springs?
What is The Double Helix?
What is Photo 51?
What is type A DNA?
Who is Maurice Wilkins?
This is the first year a women was awarded
a Nobel Prize.
What is 1903?
The woman was Marie Curie -- she won the award in
Physics.