1 Mildred ‘Babe’ Didrikson was an acclaimed basketball and baseball player who also won Olympic golds in the 80m hurdles and javelin throw in the 1932 Olympics, and came second in high jump. She turned professional in yet another sport and won a record 10 major titles. Which other sport did she dominate?

2 Which acclaimed sportswoman was nicknamed ‘The Flying Housewife’ after winning four gold medals in the 1948 London Olympics as a 30-year-old mother of two?

3 Which legendary tennis star’s decision to not play the US Open if the prize money for men and women was not equal resulted in the tournament becoming the first to have prize parity in 1973?

4 Still on tennis. The Williams sisters have won a total of 14 Grand Slam doubles titles together, the third most by a pair. If Natasha Zvereva and Gigi Fernandez are second on the list, which legendary doubles pair lead with 20 Grand Slam titles together?

5 Which Olympic first did German Liselott Linsenhoff achieve in the 1972 Munich games?

6 If Mithali Raj is the first Indian and the first woman to hit a Test double century, achieving it against New Zealand, who got India’s first Test century in women’s cricket, coincidentally against the same opponents?

7 PT Usha, the Payyoli Express, was at her peak in the 1986 Asian Games, winning three golds and one silver medal. Her silver was achieved in the 100m, where she lost to Filipino Lydia De Vega. In which events did she win her three gold medals?

8 Which chess phenomenon eclipsed Bobby Fischer’s record of being the youngest player to become a grandmaster by achieving that feat at 15 years and four months in 1991?

9 Forbes magazine’s list of highest-earning sportswomen of 2017 featured Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova on top with $28.9 million and $21.9 million respectively. Mixed martial arts star Ronda Rousey came next with $14 million. At number four is Danica Patrick with $13.9 million. In which sport is Patrick the highest-ever paid sportswoman?

10 The list of successful people to achieve this feat features Yamilet Pena, Fadwa Mahmoud and Oksana Chusovitina. Only two names are missing, the first and the last. Name both.

Answers

1. Golf. She won 10 LPGA majors

2. Francina ‘Fanny’ Blankers-Koen of the Netherlands

3. Billie Jean King, who was also the first woman to win more that $100,00 in prize money in a single year

4. Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver

5. She was the first woman to win a gold medal in the dressage, one of the few Olympic sports where men and women compete together

6. Shantha Rangaswamy, 108 at Dunedin in 1977

7. The 200m, 400m and the 4x400m relay

8. Judit Polgar, she was also the youngest to reach the top 100 in the FIDE ranking, being ranked 55 at the age of 12

9. Stock car racing. She is in the only woman to finish in the top three in the Indy 500

10. Yelena Produnova and Dipa Karmakar. These are the only people to have successfully performed the Produnova vault in competition

Joy Bhattacharjya is a quizmaster and Project Director, FIFA U-17 World Cup; Follow Joy on Twitter @joybhattacharj

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