Inventions
Award Winners
Quotable Women
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100

Who invented scissors?

Leonardo da Vinci

100

The only American nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for 1983 he won it for Tender Mercies

Robert Duvall

100

Freed from prison in 2005 she said The experience of the last five months....has been life altering and life affirming

Martha Stewart

100

Prey's proverbial foe

Predator
100

Easing of anxiety or what a late-inning pitcher provides to ease a manager's anxiety

Relief
200

Which country was the Caesar salad invented in?

Mexico

200

These 2 creators of Yogi Bear & The Flintstones received the TV Governors award in 1988

(William) Hanna & (Joseph) Barbera

200

People said women couldn't swim the Channel....I proved they could; & so she did in 1926

Gertrude Ederle

200

Pennyworth or E. Neuman

Alfred

200

A boat dock that is built out over the water

Wharf

300

Mary Anderson is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for crating this car device; intermittent ones would come later

Windshield Wipers

300

She won a 1986 Tony for her performance in the The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Lily Tomlin

300

In the New Testament Elizabeth told her Blessed are thou among woman

Mary
300

To remove earth from the bottom of a pond

Dredge

300

Title adjective for Three Billy Goats in a folktale

Gruff

400

In 1950 Zenith introduced the first one of these gadgets; it was called the Lazy Bones

(TV) Remote Control

400

She became the 1st woman to win an Emmy for hosting a game show for her Just Men series in 1983

Betty White

400

Lead me not into this says Rita Mae Brown; I can find the way myself

Temptation

400

Do you have the proper these evidence of rights or authority?

credentials

400

The nape of the neck

Scruff

500

In 1986 ophthalmologist Patricia Bath invented the Laserphaco Probe to remove this eye impairment

Cataracts

500

Well....God Bless America; Reagan awarded this singer the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982

Kate Smith

500

This talk show host said in 1988; If there had never been a Phil there never would have been a me

Oprah Winfrey

500

Life can be a bowl of this fruit seen here

Cherries

500

A recurring theme in a musical or literary work

A Motif