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Martha Jane Cannary Burke
Who is Calamity Jane
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She refused to give up her seat on a Bus
Who is Rosa Parks
100
She made "Muggles" a real word in the dictionary
Who is J.K.Rowling
100
She's a TV Host & started a school in Africa for underprivilaged teenagers
Who is Oprah
100
The first woman to be inducted in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Who is Aretha Franklin
200
The Color Purple, a novel was published in 1982, won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, making this lady the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Who is Alice Walker
200
A Book by Zora Neale Hurston that deals with a woman's struggle to find herself
What is Their Eyes are watching God
200
A female actress who has received the most academy award nominations
Who is Meryl Streep
200
She was the first woman to be both First Lady & mother of a president
What is Abigail Adams
300
In 1992 , a female astronaut, became the first African American woman in space
Who is Mae Jemison
300
Her book "Little Women," sold millions of copies."
Who is Louisa May Alcott
300
This movie is based in the 1950s at Wellesley Colelge & tackles the controversial issue of birth control & women going to college
What is The Mona Lisa Smile
300
She was the first woman to solo across the Atlantic and from Hawaii to California
Who was Amelia Earhart
400
In 1911 in Europe, March 8 this was first celebrated
What is International Women's Day
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After being refused admission to a white school, this black woman moved from Salem to Newport, protested against segregation of churches, theaters & ocean liners. She started lecturing for the Anti-Slavery Society when she was 30. She later practiced medicine in Florence, Italy
Who is Sarah Parker Raymond
400
The Queen of Romance is the world's top-selling romance novelist; step-grandmother of Princess Diana.
Who is Barbara Cartland
400
Who quoted "I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house"
Who is Zsa Zsa Gabor
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She created the first birth control clinic in the U.S.in 1920
Who was Margaret Sanger
500
US "military leader, mathematician, educator". "She was co- inventor of the computer language COBOL and coined the term "bug.""
Who is Grace Murray Hopper
500
Sworn in as navy ensign, the first black nurse to achieve that office
Who was Phyliss M Daley
500
She wrote "Wuthering Heights," and her sisters are Charlotte & Anne
Who is Emily Bronte
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She once quoted "Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home"
Who is Phyllis Diller
500
first woman in the Air Force." She enlisted on the first minute of the first hour of the first day regular United States Air Force duty was authorized for women on 8 July 1948.
Who was Esther McGowin Blake
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