50 Teatime Teasers ???  Test your wit and knowledge about Women...
What is the fastest vegetable? (A Runner Bean).	50 Teatime Teasers to test your skill and knowledge... Split into sections (Herstory, Entertainment, Literature & Art, Sport, Music, Explorers & Travel). Each section will start with easy questions to wet your appetite then gradually get harder... You may like to print out these pages to do the quiz at your leisure!  (The answers are at the bottom of this page). Herstory 1) What were Mary Read and Anne Bonney known as? 2) What year was the Outback Newsletter first produced? 3) After whom were the first trousers for Women named? 4) Which British Peace Camp holds its 20th anniversary on 5th September 2001? 5) The statue of which First World War heroine faces London's National Portrait Gallery? 6) What sparked the revolution overthrowing the Russian Empire's Monarchy? 7) Which Goddess is honered in Rome each year on 1st March with the feast of Matronalia? 8) On what Day is International Women's Day held each year?   Mystery Person 1 With her first performance at the age of 11, this lesbian singer (and now mum) with the sexy voice is one of the few to achieve stardom in the boys' club of mainstream rock... Yes, she is... But who is she? Entertainment 10) Who was pictured on the front cover of Vanity Fair in 1993 with K D Lang? 11) What was the documentary "Women Like Us" about? 12) Who stared as V.I. Warshawski in Radio 4's adaption of "Killing Orders" by Sara Paretsky? 13) What film in 1994 starred Whoopi Goldberg as Lesbian Jane De Luca? 14) Who became the first Black Woman Radio 1 DJ (in 1970)? 15) Which soap opera did Joanna Lumley appear in (as Elaine Perkins) in July 1973? 16) Which Theatre in Manchester was founded by Annie Horniman? 17) What is the name of the Japanese Theatrical troup of women, whose cross-dressing shows travel the world on tour? 18) Who plays Ellen DeGeneres's Lesbian lover in the TV Movie and romantic comedy "If These Walls Could Talk 2"? Mystery Person 2 Born in Prague in 1956, she began to play tennis at the age of 5. She defected to the US, where she took the Women's Tennis world by storm. This amazon with a racket became an idol for Women world-wide! Who reached the Total Zone? Art & Literature 20) Who wrote "Orlando" in 1928? 21) What kind of Tomatoes were sold at the Whistle Stop Cafe? 22) Who is the detective in Claire McNabs Murder Mystery Novels? 23) Who wrote "The Color Purple"? 24) Which British Writer and Illustrator of childrens books lived at Hill Top Farm, Sawery, Cumbria (Lake District)? 25) During the 1870s and 1880s, of which Art Movement was Marie Spartalia (1843-1927) an adherent? 26) Which 20th century American Artist lived at Ghost Ranch, near Abiquiu? 27) Who wrote "The Vindication of the Rights of Women" in 1792? Mystery Person 3 She was born in 1886 and died in 1943. A Writer who influenced others throughout the Lesbian world. Known to her friends as "John". Her most famous novel when published in 1928, caused public outcry and was banned for obscenity... Who called herself John? Sport 29) What were Britains' Oldham Blues and Lancaster Belles? 30) Why was polo player Eleanor Sears sent off the field in 1909? 31) When Fay Taylour (1908-1983) won the Australian Speedway Championship in 1929, (being the first British person to do so), was she competing against Men or Women? 32) In 18th century England, Elizabeth Stokes excelled at which sport? 33) Who won Britains first Women's Golf Championship in 1893? 34) Who became the first woman to swim 100 metres in less than one minute, in 1962? Mystery Person 4 Born in 1892 and died in 1962. One of the greatest influences on British Lesbians. This woman inherited Knole in Kent and became known for her gardening abilities, her writing and her affairs... the most famous being with Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf. Who was this woman with green fingers? Music 36) What do the initials K.D in K.D.Lang stand for? 37) What was the title of the suffragettes' unofficial theme tune, compised by Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) in 1911? 38) Who is reported to have been paid $5 million to "feel like a woman" by Revlon? 39) Which british singer was born Mary O'Brien? 40) Who wrote the song "Clouds", sung by Judy Collins? 41) At the beginning of the 20th century, who was britains highest paid music hall star? 42) How many "kinds of loneliness" did singer Tanita Tikaram produce in 1992? 43) Who was the first woman to set up and run an all-woman dance band (World War 2)? Mystery Person 5 She was born on St Louis, Missouri in 1928. She became a waitress, singer, actor, dancer, editor, poet and writer. After touring Europe & Africa in Porgy and Bess, she became involved in the Black Struggles of the 1960s. Most popularly known for her 5 Volume series of Autobiographies on her roller-coaster life, beginning with her childhood of loss, poverty and abuse. What makes this woman's caged bird sing? Explorers & Travellers. 45) What form of transport did Bettina Selby use when travelling through India (at age 47)? 46) What did Sarah Hobson disguise herself as when she travelled through Iran in 1970? 47) How old was Isabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904), when she set out on her last journey, to Morocco? 48) Who was the first woman to fly to Australia? 49) Who succeeded in becoming the first amateur to get to the top of Vignemale in the French Pyrenees, beating the Prince of Moscow by few days (1838)? 50) Which famous aviator (1st to fly the Atlantic) disappeared on July 2nd 1937. Answers Herstory 1) Pirates (in male disguise). 2) Started in 1995, but the first publication (Newsletter) was released at Cornwall Gay Pride festival in 1996. 3) American Amelia Bloomer. 4) Greenham Common 5) Edith Cavell 6) The 1917 Women's Day March in Petersburg. 7) Juno. 8) 8th March Mystery Person 1 - Question 9) Melissa Etheridge Entertainment 10) Cindy Crawford 11) Older Lesbians 12) Kathleen Turner 13) Boys on the Side 14) The Rankin' Miss P 15) Coronation Street 16) The Gaiety Theatre 17) Takarazuka 18) Sharon Stone Mystery Person 2 - Question 19) Martina Navratilova Art & Literature 20) Virginia Woolf. 21) Fried Green ones... Book (also Film) "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe" by Fannie Flagg. 22) Detective Inspector Carol Ashton. 23) Alice Walker 24) Beatrix Potter 25) Pre-Raphaelite Movement 26) Georgia O'Keeffe 27) Mary Wollstonecraft Mystery Person 3 - Question 28) Radclyffe Hall Sport 29) Women's Soccer Teams. 30) For wearing trousers. 31) Men. 32) Boxing 33) Lady Margaret Scott. 34) Dawn Fraser Mystery Person 4 - Question 35) Vita Sackville-West Music 36) Kathy Dawn 37) "March of the Women" 38) Shania Twain 39) Dusty Springfield 40) Joni Mitchell 41) Vesta Tilley (1864-1952). 42) Eleven kinds of loneliness - album. 43) Ivy Benson - Played and Trained women on the saxophone, clarinet, trumpet and trombone. Mystery Person 5 - Question 44) Maya Angelou Explorers & Travellers 45) A Bicycle 46) A Man 47) 70 years old 48) Amy Johnson (1903-1941) 49) Anne Lister 50) Amelia Earhart.