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100

This woman born in 1815 was the first female computer programmer.

Who is Ada Lovelace?

100

She is the first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Actress

Who is Halle Berry?

100

She is a fictional character and the playable protagonist of the video game series Metroid by Nintendo.

Who is Samus Aran?

100

Born into poverty in rural Mississippi in 1954, this woman later became the first African American woman to own her own production company.

Who is Oprah Winfrey?

100

This woman was arrested in 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white passenger

Who is Rosa Parks?

200

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin found in her 1925 PhD thesis that these are primarily composed of hydrogen and helium.

What are stars?

200

Music sensation, Taylor Swift, has released this many albums (including her official live albums).

What is 14?

200

This videogame released in 2000 and developed by Gamefreak was the first in the series to provide the option of playing as a female character.

What is Pokemon Crystal?

200

This business woman is the ultimate source of “how-to” information covering topics such as cooking, entertaining, gardening, home renovating and more. She’s also BFFs with rapper, Snoop Dogg.

Who is Martha Stewart?

200

Former slave, Harriet Tubman, used this network of antislavery activists and safe houses to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people in America during the 1800s.

What is the Underground Railroad?

300

In 1939, biochemist Kamala Sohonie became the first Indian woman to receive this in a scientific discipline.

What is a PHD?

300

Japanese Contemporary artist, Yayoi Kusama, often depicts this object in her work because they were a major part of her family's diet during WWII

What are pumpkins?

300

In 1981, Dona Bailey co-created this golden-age fixed shooter arcade game published by Atari

What is Centipede?

300

This public figure was president or patron of over 100 charities and became instrumental in trying to end the stigma against HIV/AIDS by being photographed shaking hands with patients with HIV/AIDS.

Who is Princess Diana?

300

This Pakistani female education activist was a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize laureate at the age of 17

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

400

She wrote the first compiler in 1952 for the A-0 programming language and helped to popularize the idea of machine-independent programming languages.

Who is Grace Hopper?

400

This British fashion designer who brought modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream was also an outspoken activist for climate change and civil rights.

Who is Vivian Westwood?

400

Known by her alias Phoenix Carpenter, she is a fictional character and protagonist of the 2008 action video game, Mirror's Edge.

Who is Faith Connors?

400

Right now there are this many female heads of state in the world

What is 29?

400

This French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist studied mathematics at Sorbonne University before becoming the first woman to be accepted into the prestigious French Academy of Philosophy in 1980.

Who is Simone de Beauvoir?

500

This silver-screen actress co-invented a radio guidance system during WWII, which was the progenitor to modern Wifi and Bluetooth technology.

Who is Hedy Lamar?

500

In 1928, this Canadian author won 5 lawsuits against her publisher for the rights and entitled pay for her beloved "Anne" series

Who is L.M. (Lucy Maude) Montgomery?

500

In 1964, this teacher created The Sumerian Game, a text-based economic simulator, making her the first video game writer.

Who is Mabel Addis?

500

She was the first woman to run for President of the United States

Who is Victoria Woodhull? She ran in 1872.

500

Canadian suffragists Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene Parlby are collectively refered to by this name for their involvement in the Persons Case.

Who are The Famous Five? Also known as the Valiant Five

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