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In November 2020, she was elected Vice President of the United States, becoming the first woman, the first woman of color, the first Black woman, and the first South Asian woman elected to this office.
Who was Kamala Harris ?
100
This Rapper and actress debuted in Spike Lee's film “Jungle Fever” before pursuing a successful acting career, with notable films including Hairspray, Chicago, Set it Off, and the romantic comedy “Bringing Down the House” and is starring as the new The Equalizer.
Who is Queen Latifah ?
100
Originally named Eleanora Fagan, this famous singer was an American jazz and swing music singer with a career spanning 26 years. A couple of her popular works include: My Funny Valentine and Strange Fruit
Who is Billie Holiday?
100
She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history
Who is J. K. Rowling?
100
As the first woman in history to win a Nobel Prize — and the only person to win two Nobel Prizes in two different disciplines (chemistry and physics) — Polish-French physicist and chemist.
Marie Curie?
200
In June 2016, she became the first woman to be a major party's nominee for president.
Who is Hillary Rodham Clinton ?
200
This legendary actress refused to play roles she thought demeaning to Black people. She starred in many films and TV shows, including the Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and “Odds Against Tomorrow.”
Who is Cicely Tyson?
200
Dubbed "The First Lady of Song," she was the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. Some of her popular songs include Summer Time, Someone to Watch Over me and Mack the Knife
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
200
With the publication of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer
Who is Jane Austen?
200
This British primatologist is considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees after her 55-year-long study on the wild chimpanzees in Gomber Stream National Park in Tanzania.
Who is Jane Goodall ?
300
She became the first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, serving from 1997-2001.
Whos is Madeleine K. Albright?
300
A publicist early in her career, this director gained traction with her film “Middle of Nowhere,” winning a directing award at Sundance in 2012. Her film “Selma,” was nominated for the best picture Oscar and won for song. She also directed “13th,” her 2016 documentary about racial inequities in the criminal justice system, and was nominated for an Oscar.
Who is Ava DuVernay?
300
After suiting up for the US national team at age 15 and winning four NCAA titles, she was part of the 1999 World Cup team, the first and only women's team to win it all on home soil, and in 2013 became the first woman inducted into the World Football Hall of Fame.
Who is Mia Hamm?
300
She was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist and is best known for I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Who is Maya Angelou?
300
Tu Youyou, a Chinese scientist won the Nobel Prize in in Physiology or Medicine in 2015 for developing a medicine that fights this infectious disease caused by insects that produces severe fever.
What is malaria?
400
This representative (D-CA) became the first woman to serve as Speaker of the U.S. House.
Who is Representative Nancy Pelosi?
400
This Academy Award-winner gained notice for her role as Storm in 200's “X-Men.”
Who is Halle Berry?
400
The first name of Didrikson Zaharias, known as the greatest multi-sport athlete of all time. She won medals in all three Olympic events that permitted women in 1932, excelling in basketball, track and field, and golf.
Who is Babe?
400
She was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818).
Who is Mary Shelley?
400
Mexican-American Ynez Mexia was this type of scientist who discovered two new plant genera and 500 new plant species.
What is botanist?
500
She became the first woman to hold the post of National Security Advisor (formally known as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs) when she was appointed by President George W. Bush
Who is Condoleezza Rice ?
500
In 1895, this 22-year-old secretary at a French camera company rises through the ranks to become the first female director and probably the first director ever of a narrative film in 1896 for The Fairy Cabbage.
Who is Alice Guy-Blaché?
500
She is the first woman to officiate a Super Bowl.
Who is Sarah Thomas?
500
She is a New York Times-bestselling author of speculative fiction short stories and novels, including The Broken Earth Trilogy, who lives and writes in Brooklyn, NY. In 2018, she became the first author to win three Best Novel Hugos in a row.
Who is N. K. Jemison?
500
She was known as one of NASA's "human computers," Her work was instrumental in sending the first American, Alan Shepard, into space in 1961. NASA also counted on her calculations to send John Glenn into orbit in 1962 and Apollo 11 to the moon in 1969.
Who is Katherine Johnson ?
