QUIZ ANSWERS!!

Question 1 – UNISON is made up of around 80% women in membership

Question 2 – Physics , Together with her husband, she was awarded half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903, for their study into the spontaneous radiation discovered by Becquerel, who was awarded the other half of the Prize. In 1911 she received a second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, in recognition of her work in radioactivity.

Question 3 – Dina Asher Smith is the fastest British women in history. At just 19 years old, Asher-Smith became the first ever British woman to run 100m in under 11 seconds at the London Anniversary Games. Later that year, she broke the women’s British record for running 200m in 22.07 seconds.

Question 4 – Around only approx 10% of CEOs at UK FTSE 350 companies are female, according to a new study on the scale of gender disparity in business.

Question 5 – With estimated sales of as high as 4 billion copies, Agatha Christie is the best-selling female author of all time.

PICTURE ROUND

6. Rosalind Franklin – Rosalind was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.

7. Rosa Parks – “The mother of the civil rights movement,” Rosa invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks’ arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens.

8. Frida Kahlo – The work of Frida Kahlo is significant because it questions conventional gender roles and depictions of women in art.

9. Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman to travel into space

10. Marie Curie – Her discovery of radium and polonium and her huge contributions to finding treatments for cancer.