Music
This pop star is the youngest female artist to have five of her albums reach #1. She sold an estimated 37 million records worldwide before turning 20, making her the "all-time best-selling teenage artist"
Britney Spears
I provided the voice of Dory in the Disney-Pixar animated film Finding Nemo. I love to dance and I launched my daytime TV talk show in 2003
Ellen DeGeneres
I was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Ireland in approximately 15 hours.
Amelia Earhart
Known as a “human computer,” and was part of a team that did mathematical calculations to help launch satellites—and later humans—into space. Her accomplishments were the focus of the book and movie Hidden Figures.
Dorothy Johnson Vaughan
Made famous by a Disney movie, she is one of China’s most famous warriors.
Mulan
This female artist is referred to as “the woman who pulled herself up by her bra straps”
Madonna
This three-time Oscar-winning actress is known for her roles in Mamma Mia and The Devil Wears Prada
Meryl Streep
A former slave that became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Honored with an invitation to the White House and became involved with the Freedmen’s Bureau, helping freed slaves find jobs and build new lives.
Sojourner Truth
First African-American woman to earn a doctorate in nuclear physics at MIT.
Dr. Shirley Jackson
Who is recognized as "the first lady of the United States civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement?"
Rosa Parks
She is the only artist to have seven consecutive #1 hits on the Billboard’s Hot 100 Hits
Whitney Houston
At the end of the 20th century Life Magazine listed her as both the most influential woman and the most influential black person of her generation, and in a cover story profile the magazine called her "America's Most Powerful Woman”. Who am I?
Who is the youngest Nobel Prize winner?
What is Malala Yousafzai
African American chemist who developed an injectable herbal extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.
Alice Ball
What war did Joan of Arc fight in?
What is the Hundred Year's war
This singer/actress in the only artist to earn an Oscar, a Tony, an Emmy, a Grammy, a Golden Globe, a Cable Ace Award, a Peabody Award, and the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Honor. Notably for her roles in Funny Girl and 1976 A Star is Born
Barbara Streisand
This famous actress is famous for her role as a nun. She now is one of the hosts of The View
Whoopi Goldberg
The ninetieth Amendment, granting American women the right to vote, was passed in this year.
1920
This woman became the pillar for modern nursing by significantly reducing death rates by improving hygiene and living standards.
Florence Nightingale
Who is the only woman to ever win two Nobel Prizes?
Marie Curie
In 1994, this singer refused to play a part in Les Miserables because she was "too busy"
Celine Dion
As a child, this actress began her career performing as one of the Gumm Sisters
Judy Garland
This woman was known as the "Angel of the Battlefield" as a result of her work as a nurse during the American Civil War
Clara Barton
She is the author of the Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP) and best known as the Mother of the Internet?
Radia Perlman
This woman ruled over Egypt longer than any other female pharaoh
Hatshepsut