SI Richmond & Dales held their December “Zoom Get-Together” this week, in place of our usual Christmas dinner. We raised a glass and gave a round of applause for the presentation of long service awards to a number of our members: 2 for 20 years, 1 for 25 years, 1 for 30 years, and 2 for 35 years. Congratulations to all, and thank you for your exemplary service to Soroptimism. We shared cards received from our Swiss Friendship link, and one of our charities, and enjoyed a quiz presented by our joint presidents, Faye Doorbar and Jane Priestley. Fittingly, the winner of the quiz was one of our longest long service award winners. For anyone who wishes to try it, here is the Quiz (the answers are below). Faye and Jane have also shared the e-Christmas card which we are sending to our Regional and Friendship clubs. We hope all our readers have a Happy Christmas despite the difficult circumstances, and the prospect of a better time in 2021.
SI Richmond & Dales Christmas Quiz
Questions 1 – 12 Soroptimist questions, 13 – 22 General Women’s History
1) Where was Soroptimism founded?
2) In what year? Was it a) 1902 b) 1921 c) 1937
3) Who is SIR&D’s longest serving member?
4) When was our Club chartered? Was it a) 1940 b) 1957 c) 1960
5) What’s the Club’s connection with the Richmondshire Museum?
6) What’s the name of the London Hotel part owned by SIGBI?
7) Where’s the 2021 Conference going to be (if it’s permitted) Is it:
a) Bristol b) Aberystwyth or c) Llandudno?
8) Give three words beginning with E that encompass the Soroptimist Vision
9) Name our Friendship Links?
10) Apart from Great Britain and Ireland, what other areas of the world are a part of SIGBI?
11) What does the word Soroptimism mean?
12) Who is our Club’s famous Patron?
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13) Who was the first British woman in space?
14) In 1918 some women in Britain were allowed the vote but not all. How old did you have to be to vote?
Was it a) 18 b) 21 c) 30
15) Marie Curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in 1903. What for? Was it:
a) Chemistry b) Physics c) Biology
16) In 2013 Brenda Chapman became the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
Was it for: a) Frozen b) Brave c) Tangled
17) In 1955, Rosa Parks became famous for refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white passenger. In which city in Alabama did this happen?
Was it: a) Montgomery b) Mobile c) Birmingham
18) Which American state is named after an English-born queen?
19) Who was India`s first, and to date only, female prime minister?
20) Which sovereign state was the first to give women the right to vote and, for a bonus point, in which year?
21) Which 18th century feminist has recently had a statue unveiled to her in Newington Green, London?
22) Who said “I married beneath me. All women do. Was it:
a) Princess Margaret b) Joan Rivers c) Lady Nancy Astor?
ANSWERS (1 point per question, except Nos 8 & 20)
- USA
- b) 1921
- Shirley Thubron
- b) 1957
- Founded in 1974 by the Richmond and Dales Soroptimists and opened in 1978.
- Number 63
- Landudno
- Educate Empower Enable (3 points)
- Easter Ross, Durham, Basle, Harare
- Caribbean, Asia, Malta
- SOROR OPTIMA ‘BEST FOR WOMEN’
- Baroness Hale
- Helen Sharman 1981
- c. 30
- Physics (She won it for chemistry in 1911)
- b. Brave
- (a) Montgomery
- Virginia
- Indira Ghandi
- New Zealand 1893 (Women property owners could vote in the Isle of Man from 1881, but this is a Crown Dependency not an independent country) (2 points)
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- c. Lady Nancy Astor