1. The author of the Cormoran Strike, a crime fiction series written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith, this person graduated with a BA in French, but is probably the most well-read English author today. Name her.

2. March 8 is celebrated as International Women’s Day. The person who is recognised as the one who came up with the idea of an annual “special women’s day” was a Marxist theorist, a women’s rights activist, a communist and a peacenik who was opposed to the 1st World War. For her opinions against war, she was arrested several times in her native country, Germany. Name this person.

3. This person pioneered a method of teaching/learning which emphasised, among other things, a phonics approach towards reading, a sensorial foundation for mathematics, etc. It has been in vogue for 100 years and recent research shows that it is quite effective. Name this physician who inspired, among others, Rabindranath Tagore to launch schools that focused on her teaching methods.

4. This sports superstar recently created a venture fund named after herself, that raised $111 million quickly. She had earned $94 million in prize money and was among the winningest players in her sport with a career 84.9%-win percentage. Only Margaret Court surpassed her in winning the major events of her sport (by one event!). Name her.

5. Portrayed by the actress Taraji P. Henson in the film Hidden Figures, this mathematician who recently passed away, aged 101 in February 2020, was crucial to the success of NASA’s first space missions. Her calculations of orbital mechanics paved the way for NASA’s shuttle programme. Name her.