Women in History
Women in Sports
Women in Film
It's Time for a Word
3-letter animals
2-syllable words
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She famously refused to give up her seat on the bus which sparked the civil rights movement in 1955
Rosa Parks
100
Geena Davis, Tom Hanks and Madonna starred in this 1992 film about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
League of their own
100
This Georgia peach won our hearts in 1987 satire "Raising Arizona" later won the best actress Oscar for the Piano
Holly Hunter
100
This period of time is a homophone for a word meaning lacking strength
week
100
58 million years ago, a thankfully extinct relative of this constrictor could reach 2,500 pounds & 40 feet in length
boa
100
That place where the Flintstones live, or the layer of stone underneath surface soil
Bedrock
200
in 1937 she became the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Amelia Earhart
200
This female tennis player has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, the most by any player in the Open Era
Serena Williams
200
This actress has won the most Oscars
Katharine Hepburn
200
Pronounced one way, it's a unit of time; another, a very small amount
minute
200
This species of deer crossed into North America about 12,000 years ago using the Bering land bridge
elk
200
This type of canoe was originally made of sealskin stretched over a wood frame
kayak
300
She was both wife and mother of a U.S. President
Abigail Adams
300
At 22 years old she has won the most gold medals of any female swimmer in history
Katie ledecky
300
This Penny Marshall film was the first movie directed by a woman to gross over $100 Million at the box office
Big
300
In parliamentary procedure, to endorse a nomination another person has just made
to second
300
Related to sharks, thiscartilaginous fish has more than 500 species, including the blue-spotted ribbontail
a ray
300
The shoes seen here are named for this feature on the toe
wingtip
400
She wrote the book Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
400
She was voted as the greatest female athlete of the 20th century by "Sports Illustrated" in 2000
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
400
This West Side Story actress has earned an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony
Rita Moreno
400
"Back in a" this 5-letter word! here's a flash--it's how long light takes to go 1 femtometer, a millionth of a millionth of a mm
a jiffy
400
As a source of food & as a pack animal, this bovine has long been essential to the people of the Tibetan Plateau
yak
400
This word for a relish that accompanies Indian food comes from the Hindi language
chutney
500
in 1903 Marie Curie was the first woman awarded a Nobel Prize for her incredible work in this
Radiation
500
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to complete this famous U.S. distance race, despite women not being eligible to enter that time and after receiving physical harassment from officials during the race.
The Boston Marathon
500
She was the first female director to win an Oscar
Kathryn Bigelow
500
It's not a special pet accessory, it's naval duty from 4 to 6 or 6 to 8
dogwatch
500
Native to the southern U.S., the "alligator" this can grow 10' long, making it one of the largest freshwater fish
gar
500
In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare used this word before "thee to a summer's day"
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