Round 2 of WHM Quiz Bowl 2021

First female Speaker of the United States House of Representatives; National Women's Hall of Fame

Actress/Inventor. Created technology adapted and used in Bluetooth and early versions of Wi-Fi

Pulitzer Prize Novelist, 1st Black Female Editor at a Publishing House; Presidential Medal of Freedom

First Latina to win an Oscar and all 4 awards categories, Presidential Medal of Freedom and National Medal of Arts

First African-Born, American-enslaved author, to publish a book of poetry in 1773.

First Female and Black-Asian to hold the office of Vice President of the United States.

Laverne Cox was not the first openly transgender person to win a Daytime Emmy Award

Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-born woman in space/earned Congressional Space Medal of Honor

Chemist/ X-ray crystallographer; reason why we understand how DNA and RNA are structured