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WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY AND MAKING HISTORY --- A QUIZ (Answer Key)

 

Woman ThinkingLUPEC PRESENTS: WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY AND MAKING HISTORY --- A QUIZ

ANSWER KEY

a. Florence Harding

____C______ first American woman to wear pants in public, 1840s

b. Catherine de Medici

____E______ blonde bombshell, actress, and playwright jailed on obscenity charges in 1927

c. Elizabeth Smith Miller

____I______ talented art forger whose fakes of Utrillo paintings fooled even the artist

d. Jean Harlow

____A______First Lady rumored to have poisoned her husband after the FBI reported to her that he had fathered a child with a mistress

e. Mae West

____B______ first woman to use tobacco (mixed with snuff)

f. Phoolan Devi

____K______WWI German spy who posed as an exotic dancer and slept with the enemy to obtain information

g. Annie Sprinkle

____M______ Transylvanian countess who bathed in the blood of 600,000 virgins to stay young

h. Emma Goldman

____O______ wife of Emperor Claudius who wore disguises in order to work in brothels behind her husband's back

i. Madame Claude Latour

____R______ convicted of complicity in the assassination of President Lincoln; first woman hanged by the US government

j. Valerie Solanas

____S______ 1930s bank robber whose crime spree with her husband Clyde spanned two years and 4 states

k. Mata Hari

____H______ anarchist who worked (unsuccessfully) as a prostitute to raise money for a gun to as sassinate Henry Clay Frick

l. Janet Jackson

____N______female pirate who ruled the seas with Mary Read, Calico Jack, and Pierre the Pirate

m. Elizabeth Bathory

____P______ standard Bearer of the Dead Rabbit Gang who battled the Bowery Boys in the gang fights of New York with brass claws and teeth filed into points

n. Anne Bonney

____F______ India's bandit queen, whose four year spree of robbery, murder, and kidnapping resulted in 11 years in prison; after which she became a member of the Indian Parliament

o. Messalina

____Q______60s activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party, the American Communist Party, and was on the FBI's most wanted list for allegedly smuggling a gun into prison

p. Hell Cat Maggie

____J______ author of the SCUM Manifesto whose attempted assassination of Andy Warhol landed her in an institution

q. Angela Davis

____G______ porn star turned sex activist and educator; invited audience members onstage to look at her cervix through a speculum

r. Mary Surratt

____L______ pop singer who exposed her breast during a half time performance at the Superbowl, resulting in what many believe to be a modern-day witch hunt by the FCC.

s. Bonnie Parker

____D______ first actress to appear braless onscreen, 1930s

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