FREE QUIZ COMPETITIONS, QUIZ QUESTIONS AND TRIVIA

1. Having begun her life in Nova Scotia in 1861, this Mary set out for Genoa in November 1872 and was deserted halfway between the Azores and the coast of Portugal.
   Mary or Marie Celeste
   
   
2. First British female Olympic gold medallist (for the long jump in 1964).
   Mary Rand
   
   
3. Raised from the mud of the Solent - an appropriate name, perhaps.
   Mary Rose
   
   
4. Created both Frankenstein and F's monster.
   Mary (Wollstonecraft) Shelley
   
   
5. Supposedly said 'Let them eat cake'.
   Marie Antoinette
   
   
6. Twice won a Nobel Prize, jointly in 1903 and singly in 1911.
   Marie Curie (Physics, Chemistry)
   
   
7. Set up The Mothers' Clinic in Holloway in 1921, the first British birth control clinic.
   Marie Stopes
   
   
8. Practised her trade in Paris as a prisoner of the Revolution, being obliged to make death masks of celebrated victims including her own acquaintances, before coming to London where she set up a permanent exhibition of her work in 1835.
   Marie Tussaud
   
   
9. Developed a method of teaching young children stressing initiative and self-reliance in doing things of interest to them - but within disciplined limits. Schools bearing her name and using her method are found worldwide.
   Maria Montessori (Italian)
   
   
10. Became President of Ireland in 1990.
    Mary Robinson
    
    
11. 1960s US folk-pop trio (disbanded 1971) with hits on both sides of the Atlantic was called Peter, Paul and Mary who?
    Mary Travers (others were Yarrow and Stookey)