FACTUAL RIDDLES XXXVIII

1. Who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize?

 

2. Who was the first woman to fly non-stop across the Atlantic? 

3. Who was the first woman to hold federal office?

4. Why is zero called Love in tennis?

5. Whose picture is on the $2 bill?

6. What were the names of Cinderella's two step-sisters?

7. Why are the Canary Islands so named?

Answers:

 

1. Marie Curie - in 1903 for physics, and again in 1911 for chemistry

 

2. Amelia Earhart

 

3. Jeannette Rankin - in 1916 to the House of Representatives - from Montana for one term and again in 1940 for one term. She remains the only woman ever elected to Congress from Montana.

 

4. In the early days of tennis in France, the zero on the chalkboard scoresheet looked like an egg. L'ouef is French for egg - which gradually came to be Love.

 

5. Thomas Jefferson's

 

6. Anastasia and Drizella

 

7. The Canary Islands are named after the wild dogs the first Europeans found when they  arrived there. The name comes from the Latin word for dog - Canaria.