Trivia Today - Monday, March 10, 2014

Greetings Infomaniacs,

March is Women's History Month, and to celebrate, I am featuring some fun facts about some great women who have made a lasting impact on history. Let's hear it for the ladies!

Enjoy!
Melissa

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WHO SAID IT?

QUOTE: "I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."

HINT: (1897-1937), American aviation pioneer and author.


RANDOM TIDBITS
In 1921, American novelist Edith Wharton was the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She won the award for her novel The Age of Innocence.

Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. She won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

Ruth Graves Wakefield was the inventor of the Toll House Cookie, which was the first chocolate-chip cookie? Her original recipe is still printed on the back of all Nestlé chocolate bars today.

Sandra Day O'Connor was the first female Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served until her retirement in 2006.

Edith Cummings, a golfer, was the first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine, in 1924.

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in the U.S. to receive a medical degree. She received her MD from the Medical Institution of Geneva, New York, in 1849.

(www.womansday.com)


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WHO SAID IT?
QUOTE: "I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."

ANSWER: Amelia Earhart.

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