NOTABLE WOMEN

(e.g., The first woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice. Answer: Sandra Day O’Connor.)

Freshman level

1. The first woman aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic. She disappeared in 1937.

2. She served as prime minister of the U.K. from 1979 to 1990.

3. She was known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott.

Graduate level

4. This member of the temperance movement was referred to as “Hatchet Granny.”

5. She studied mountain gorillas until her murder in 1985.

6. Her network of safe houses was known as the Underground Railroad.

Ph.D. level

7. She founded the American Red Cross.

8. This English writer created Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.

9. This princess died in a car crash in Paris in 1997.

Answers: 1. Amelia Earhart. 2. Margaret Thatcher. 3. Rosa Parks. 4. Carrie Nation. 5. Dian Fossey. 6. Harriet Tubman. 7. Clara Barton. 8. Agatha Christie. 9. Diana, Princess of Wales.

— North America Syndicate