Intenrational Women's Day Quiz.

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1.Name the mathematician who wrote a popular mathematical account of Pierre Simon Laplace's Mecanique Celeste which remained a classic for about a century?

2. Name the first woman in space.

3. Who was the first lady to conquer Mt. Everest?

4. Who was the first lady President of a nation?

5. Who was the first lady to be the Prime Minister of a country?

6. A writer of several mathematical texts, including one classic on calculus, she is more renowned today for a cubic curve known after her. Who is she?

7. The partial differentiation equation for the vibration of a uniform curved elastic plate is of fundamental importance and is known after her name. Who is she?

8. In 1903, she shared the Nobel Prize for Physics with two persons and iin 1911, she was again awarded the Nobel prize for Chemistry. Name the scientist.

9. She completed the Grand Slam (winning the Austrlian Open, French Open, Wimbledon and US Open in the same calendar year), only the third woman in tennis history to do so, and won the Olympic Gold medal too in the same year. Who is the sportsperson?

10. She founded a Roman Catholic congregation of sisters, the Missionaries of Charity, in 1950. She won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.
Her name at birth was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Who is she?