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100

Who did the United States Congress name "the first lady of civil rights"?

Rosa Parks

100

In 1843, the hand-cranked ice-cream maker was created by?

Nancy Johnson

100

Who broke the women's altitude record when she rose to 14,000 feet and in 1932 became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic?

Amelia Earhart

100

Who was the first female artist in musical history to have two opening weeks with over one million album sales for the album "Red" in 2012?

Taylor Swift

100

Who was the final ruler of Egypt's Ptolemaic dynasty that was directly involved in the running of a kingdom that faced challenges on many fronts?

Cleopatra

200

Who helped hundreds of slaves reach freedom through a network of safe houses known as the Underground Railroad?

Harriet Tubman

200

Who was the creator of a family game called Monopoly?

Elizabeth Magie

200

Who founded the new science of radioactivity which helped launch effective cures for cancer?

Marie Curie

200

Who was the director of the films Frozen and Frozen 2?

Jennifer Lee

300

Who was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960?

Ruby Bridges

300

The delicious treat we all love: Chocolate chip cookies. But who created the first chocolate chip cookie for the Toll House?

Ruth Graves Wakefield

300

Who provided the crucial piece of evidence that led to the mapping of the human genome?

Rosalind Franklin

300

Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, which American actress, model, and major cultural icon, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s?

Marilyn Monroe

300

Who was Russia's longest-ruling female leader who was head of the country as it modernized, expanded, and strengthened?

Catherine the Great

400

Who founded the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee?

Ella Baker

400

Who was the inventor of the Laserphaco probe for the cataract treatment in 1986?

Patricia Bath

400

Gospel singer known as the Queen of Soul, famous for songs such a "Respect" and "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman"?

Aretha Franklin

500

Who was the first Hispanic woman in the world to go into space?

Ellen Ochoa

500

Which hollywood actress was the inventor behind the advances in communication technology in the 1940s that led to today's Wi-Fi, GPS, and bluetooth?

Hedy Lamarr

500

Who was the first female singer ever?

Ella Fitzgerald