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Over the next few months, This Week will test our readers' knowledge of women's history in New Brunswick with questions from 'Celebrating Achievers: A Quiz on New Brunswick Women's History", published by the New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women in 2002.

31) Who was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from a university in New Brunswick, and for what achievement?

32) In 1889, women first petitioned the N.B. Legislative Assembly to get the right to vote. In what year were women successful in winning the right to vote in provincial elections? In what year did women get the right to run as candidates?

33) In 1998, N.B. women who worked full-time or part-time earned 82% of what men earned, when earnings were compared as hourly pay. What percentage do women earn now?

34) Women who have a university degree and work full time earn what percentage of what men with a university degree earn?

35) Who won the first Olympic medal while representing New Brunswick and in what year?

Answers to these five questions can be found on page 4. The complete 45-question quiz can be viewed on the Council's website at www.acswcccf.nb.ca.