Saturday, June 15, 2019

THE PUZZLE CORNER: JUNE 15, 2019

😎FUN FACT
♫We were suffering until suffrage. Not a woman here could vote no matter what age.♫ —Schoolhouse Rock. Video courtesy of YouTube. Schoolhouse Rock, a fondly remembered and very missed series (C) whoever does own it now.

CONTINUING OUR THEME FROM LAST WEEKEND...

NUMBER PLEASE
How many states were needed to ratify the amendment for women to gain the right to vote in America?

TRIVIA TIME⌚
What unique distinction did America give women that the rest of the world did later?

We’ll reveal all next weekend, but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the June 8, 2019 Puzzle Corner.

FAMOUS FIRSTS🥇
While test animals of both genders were used before, who was the first female person in outer space?
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova aboard Vostok 6 in June, 1963.
For those who said Sally Ride, while she was the first American female astronaut, Ride didn’t fly until 1983.

NUMBER PLEASE
Get ready! We ask the question, but the answer is just a number.
Which amendment to the United States Constitution bans denying anyone the right to vote based on gender?
The 19th, which passed Congress on June 4, 1919 and was sent to the individual states for approval, which leads us to today’s Puzzle Corner.

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