March 7, 2026
International Women's Day
Today we're celebratingInternational Women's Day: trailblazing women who changed history. Test your knowledge with five engaging trivia questions, then stick around for the answers and fascinating explanations. Perfect for your morning commute, lunch...
Today we're celebratingInternational Women's Day: trailblazing women who changed history.
Test your knowledge with five engaging trivia questions, then stick around for the answers and fascinating explanations. Perfect for your morning commute, lunch break, or anytime you want to learn something new!
You may also like ODD ONE OUT. a new podcast with Mark Ellison! Mark gives you 4 words, you decide which word does not belong. Three rounds daily, quick and fun,
Portions of today's trivia podcast were made with the help of AI.
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Kalaroga Shark Media. Hi. I'm Mark Ellison. In today's theme
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is International Women's Day Trailblazing women who changed history. Question one.
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Which pioneering scientist became the first person ever to win
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Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields and in which
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disciplines did she earn them? Question two? In nineteen sixty
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who became the world's first female prime minister when she
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assumed leadership of Salon and what is that country known
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as today? Question three? On June sixteenth, nineteen sixty three,
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which Soviet cosmonaut became the first woman in space and
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what was the name of her mission? Question four? Which
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Kenyan environmental activist founded the Green Belt movement to combat
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deforestation and empower women and later became the first African
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woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in two thousand
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and four. Question five. Which experimental physicists nineteen fifty six
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cobalt sixty beta decay study now known as the WU experiment,
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demonstrated that parody is not conserved in weak nuclear interactions.
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We'll be right back with these answers after this break.
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Welcome back. Question one, who first won Nobels in two
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different sciences and which fields? Answer Marie Curie, Physics and chemistry.
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Curi shared the nineteen oh three Nobel Prize in Physics
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for research on radioactivity and won the nineteen eleven Nobel
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Prize in Chemistry for discovering radium and polonium. She remains
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the only person to have won Nobels in two distinct sciences.
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Question two, Who was the world's first female prime minister
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nineteen six and of which country? Answer Sirimavo Bandaranaiki, Ceylon
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now Sri Lanka. Bandaran Aika broke a global political barrier
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when she took office in nineteen sixty. She served three
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terms and is a central figure in Sri Lanka's modern
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political history. Question three. Who was the first woman in
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space and what was her nineteen sixty three mission? Answer
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Valentina Tereshkova Vostok six. Tereshkova orbited Earth forty eight times
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over nearly three days, proving women could meet the demands
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of human spaceflight. Her flight marked a major milestone in
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the space race. Question four. Who founded Kenya's Green Belt
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movement and won the two thousand and four Nobel Peace
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Prize Answer Wangari Mathai. Mathai's Green Belt movement founded in
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nineteen seventy seven, has helped communities plant tens of millions
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of trees in Kenya. Her work linked environmental restoration with
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women's rights, democracy, and sustainable development. Question five, which physicists
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nineteen fifty six experiments showed parody violation in weak interactions
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answer Chin Chyung Wu. Wu's low temperature cobalt sixty experiment
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confirmed a bold prediction by Sungdow Lie and chen Ning Yang,
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reshaping particle physics. While Lie and Yang received the nineteen
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fifty seven Nobel Prize, Wu's crucial contribution is celebrated as
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a landmark in experimental physics. That concludes today's five daily
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Trivia questions. I'm Mark Ellison, and today's questions were crafted
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with the help of AI technology. See you tomorrow.
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