Name that Tune
Sports
Authors/Poets/TV Personalities
Actresses/Singers
Activists
Science/Tech
100
Tune 1
I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross
100
She has more Grand Slam victories than any other player, man or woman, and won the Australian Open while pregnant.
Serena Williams
100
This comedian, writer, producer, and actress is best known for her work on SNL. She starred in and created a sitcom where she plays Liz Lemon, the head writer of a fictional sketch comedy series. You may be familiar with her memoir, Bossy Pants.
Tina Fey
100
This Barbadian singer has earned 9 Grammys, 13 AMAs, and 12 Billboard Music Awards. Forbes ranked her as the wealthiest female musician with an estimated net worth of $600million. Her eighth and most recent album, Anti, dropped in 2016.
Rihanna
100
She was an American abolitionist and political activist. Born into slavery, she escaped and subsequently made 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people through the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman
100
This founder and CEO became the world's youngest female self-made billionaire after taking Bumble public earlier this year. She also became the youngest woman to take a company public, at age 31.
Whitney Wolfe
200
Tune 2
Level Up- Ciara
200
Captain of the 'Fierce Five,' this athlete led the US team to win two gold medals for team and floor exercise in the 2012 London Games as well as a gold medal for team and two silver medals for all-around and floor exercise in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
Aly Raisman
200
Her TV show was the number one talk show for 24 consecutive seasons, winning every sweep since it's debut in 1986.
Oprah Winfrey
200
Known as the "Queen of Soul", all she wanted was a little "R.E.S.P.E.C.T".
Aretha Franklin
200
An icon in the early Women's Rights Movement, she was arrested for attempting to vote. Her trial led her to present the 19th Amendment to Congress.
Susan B. Anthony
200
This famous physicist and chemist was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize, in 1903, for her monumental research on radioactivity, resulting in the discovery of radium and polonium. She won again in 1911 for her continued investigation of the elements' properties, making her the first person (and only woman!) to win the prize twice
Marie Curie
300
Tune 3
Water Me - Lizzo
300
Know as Flo-Jo, she was an African American track and field athlete. She is considered the fastest woman of all time because of the world records she set in 1988.
Florence Griffith Joyner
300
According to Guinness World Records, this author has the title of "The World's Best-Selling Fiction Author" with estimated sales of over 2 billion. She is well-known for her 66 detective/mystery novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those with Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
Agatha Christie
300
She attained international stardom as an actress both in musical and dramatic roles but was best known for her role as Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz."
Judy Garland
300
This civil rights activist co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement and authored When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. She teaches at Otis College of Art and Design and Prescott College, having earned her BA at UCLA and MFA at University of Southern California.
Patrisse Cullors
300
The first female self-made millionaire in the United States, she developed her own brand of hair care products specifically designed for African American hair.
Madam CJ Walker
400
Tune 4
Now I'm In It - HAIM
400
She is a striker for the Orlando Pride and US women's national team. She co-captained the national team with Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe from 2018-2020 and won the Silver Boot in 2019.
Alex Morgan
400
One of this author, poet, actress' famous quotes is: I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel."
Maya Angelou
400
With Emmy, Tony and Academy Award wins, she is the first African-American actress to earn the “Triple Crown of Acting.” She’s most known for her roles in How to Get Away with Murder, Fences, and The Help.
Viola Davis
400
She was appointed to the US Supreme Court in 1993 and was the lead counsel for the ACLU Women's Rights Project.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
400
An astronaut and physician, she was the first African American woman to travel into space when she served as a Mission Specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992.
Mae Jemison
500
Tune 5
Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
500
She was one of seven gymnasts who dazzled the world at the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta, winning gold in a dramatic fashion. She was the first African- American woman to win an individual Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics.
Dominique Dawes
500
With her history-making film Selma, this filmmaker became the first African American woman to be nominated for Best Director at both the Golden Globe Awards and the Academy Awards. Since then, she has produced Netflix's When They See Us, exploring racial oppression in America through the lens of the Central Park Five.
Ava DuVarney
500
This actress and fashion model, who recently died, had a career spanning more than seven decades. She became known for her portrayal of strong, African-American women, and appeared in many films, including Roots, The Autobiography of Jane Pittman, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, and The Help.
Cicely Tyson
500
She was a journalist, educator and early Civil Rights leader. She was one of the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Ida B. Wells
500
She discovered the density of DNA and, more importantly, established that the molecule existed in a helical conformation. She provided the foundation for Watson and Crick's work on DNA.
Rosalind Franklin