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Question 1

First female best director
Bonus what oscars

Answer 1

Bigelow for hurt locker
83rd in 2010

Question 2

3 women on circulating us coins

Answer 2

Helen Keller
Susan b Anthony
Sack uh guh why uh

Question 3

Nicknamed lady magic who became the first woman to coach a men’s professional basketball team
Bonus in what state

Answer 3

Nancy Liberman in Texas

Question 4

First female inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame
1987

Answer 4

Aretha Franklin
Soul singer

Question 5

The most famous female scientist of all time

Answer 5

Marie curie
First woman to win a Nobel prize
Physics 1903
Chemistry 1911

Question 6

In 2014 first female to pitch a winning shutout in little league ws history

Answer 6

Mo nay Davis

Question 7

First woman to win the Pulitzer Prize
1921 for this book later adapted into an award winning film of the same title
Bonus director

Answer 7

Edith Wharton wrote age of innocence
Scorsese

Question 8

The Iron Lady

Answer 8

Margaret thatcher
Also gold uh mir a decade earlier held the position of prime minister of isreal

Question 9

2nd woman to win a Nobel prize

Answer 9

Irene curie
24 years after Marie

Question 10

Famous ships

It’s wreck was discovered in 89 48 years after it had been sunk and 91 years after the man it was named for had died

Answer 10

Bismarck
41
German Battleship sunk by the British

Question 11

Who was the mother of castor and pollox thr twin bros transformed into this constellation

Answer 11

Helen of Troy
Gemini - 2 personalities

Question 12

In Greek myth who was the first woman and what was in her legendary box

Answer 12

Pandora who really has an urn or jar

Misery evil - released
Hope left

Question 13

What Irish actor starred in the 2010 Greek mythology inspired film clash of the Titans as the character Zeus
Loin enemas

Answer 13

Liam knee son

Question 14

Who was responsible for firing the arrow that hit achielles only known vulnerable spot

Answer 14

Paris aka Alexander

Hit him in the Heel

Question 15

Although still associated with a mythological figure what is the only planet not directly named after a Roman god or goddess

Answer 15

Earth

Question 16

Creature Front part of an eagle and hind legs and tail of a horse

Answer 16

Hip o griff

Question 17

2 of the oldest surviving sources of info on Greek gods are these 2 epic poems by the this blind poet

Answer 17

Homer wrote
Illiad
Oddessy

Question 18

What did the Greeks construct out of wood to gain access to Troy in order to destroy it and end the war

Answer 18

Cleverly constructed Trojan horse
Opened gates Horse rolled in and guys popped out and ended war and destroyed city

Question 19

Only films to have won 3 acting awards

Answer 19

Network
Streetcar named desire

Question 20

G7 countries

Answer 20

UK
US
France
Italy
Germany
Japan
Canada

Question 21

10 smallest US states by area

Answer 21

Rhode Island
Delaware
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maryland
Massachusetts
Hawaii

West Virginia

Question 22

4 prewar states that permitted slavery but did not secede
Bonus largest

Answer 22

Delaware
Maryland
Kentucky
Missouri - largest and latest to join the union

Question 23

Of the 3 Classical Greek architectural orders this one named for a city is the most decorative

Answer 23

Corinthian

Question 24

The name of this uppermost part of an entablature is from the Latin for crow for its resemblance to a crow beak

Answer 24

Cornice

Question 25

The swia one southwest of Cairo has about 200 natural springs

Answer 25

200

Question 26

College newspapers
The rebel yell - out west

Answer 26

UNLV
Nevada Las Vegas

Question 27

In 1541 this Spanish explorer headed west across the Mississippi River into what now Arkansas

Answer 27

De Soto

Question 28

While in California in 1579 this circumnavigator held the first Protestant religious service in the new world

Answer 28

Sir Francis drake

Question 29

Hundreds of years before the marines got there this South Carolina island was settled by French Huguenots in 1562

Answer 29

Paris island

Question 30

In 1513 he led an expedition Puerto Rico and found what he thought was an island which he named la Florida

Answer 30

Ponce de Leon