Women Flashcards
1
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Four Square Gospel founder
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Aimee Semple McPherson
2
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“Queen of the West”
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Dale Evans
3
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U.S. Ambassador to Italy - 1953
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Clare Booth Luce
4
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First Woman: Secretary of Transportation
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Elizabeth Dole
5
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First Woman: Winner of two Nobel prizes
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Marie Curie
6
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Hull House founder
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Jane Addams
7
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Abe Lincoln’s young love
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Ann Ruttledge
8
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“Sweater Girl”
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Lana Turner
9
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Miss America 1971
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Phyllis George
10
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First test tube baby
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Louise Brown
11
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First Woman: Secretary of State
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Madelaine Albright
12
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“First Lady of the Silent Screen”
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Lillian Gish
13
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Emily Dickinson’s advisor
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Helent Hunt Jackson
14
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Burlesque queen who lived in France
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Josephine Baker
15
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Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1979
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Mother Teresa
16
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First Woman: Major party V.P. Candidate
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Geralidine Ferraro
17
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Maryland senator and congressperson
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Barbara Mikulski
18
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Washington governor - 1995-
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Dixie Lee Ray
19
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President of the Philippines - 1986-92
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Corazon Aquino
20
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She replaced Vanessa Williams as Miss America
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Suzette Charles
21
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First Woman: Citadel cadet
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Shannon Faulkner
22
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“First Lady of the American Stage”
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Helen Hayes
23
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Wild West show sharp-shooter
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Annie Oakley
24
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Poetess from the island of Lesbos
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Sappho
25
First Woman: In the Indianapolis 500
Janet Guthrie
26
Founder of Bryn Mawr school for girls
Edith Hamilton
27
She testified against Clarence Thomas
Anita Hill
28
Prime Minister of Israel - 1969-74
Golda Meir (raised in Milwaukee)
29
"Queen of Soul"
Aretha Franklin
30
"Queen of the Swashbucklers"
Maureen O'Hara
31
First Woman: To receive the Congressional Medal of Honor
Mary Walker
32
Supreme Court Justice appointed in 1993
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
33
"Queen of Disco"
Donna Summer
34
1990s etiquette advisor
Martha Stewart
35
CNN's British-Iranian reporter
Christiane Amanpour
36
Friend of the James Gang
Belle Starr
37
"The Poor Little Rich Girl"
Barbara Hutton
38
First Woman: Presidential cabinet member
Frances Perkins (FDR Administration)
39
First Woman: To break sound barrier
Jacqueline Cochran
40
"Peekaboo Girl"
Veronica Lake
41
Bob Fosse's "Red-Headed" wife
Gwen Verdon
42
President of Argentina - 1975-76
Isabel Peron
43
First Woman: To swim the English channel
Gertrude Ederle
44
First Woman: Attorney General
Janet Reno
45
"Girl in the Red Velvet Swing"
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
46
First Woman: in congress
Jeannette Rankin (1916)
47
Helen Keller's teacher
Anne Sullivan
48
Prime Minister of India - 1966-77 - 1980-84
Indira Gandhi
49
First Woman: Presidential candidate
Victoria Woodhull (1872)
50
Andre Sacarao'vs disident wife
Elana Bonner
51
She went around the world in 72 days - 1890
Nelly Bly
52
American Impressionist Painter
Mary Cassatt
53
The Nun of Amherst of the Bell of Amherst
Emily Dickinson
54
"Queen of the Surf"
Esther Williams
55
First Woman: to co-anchor major nework news
Barbara Walters
56
U.S. Ambassador to Ghana
Shirley Temple Black
57
First Woman: American doctor
Elizabeth Blackwell
58
Miss America 1945
Bess Myerson
59
Titanic survivor from Leadville - CO
(Unsinkable) Molly Brown
60
First Woman: American Astronomer
Maria Mitchell
61
First Woman: Miss America
Margaret Gorman (1921)
62
Heiress kidnapped on February 5 - 1974
Patty Hearst
63
Algonquin Hotel "round table wit"
Dorothy Parker
64
1920s etiquette advisor
Emily Post
65
Chicago Mayor - 1979
Jane Burn
66
Italian teaching method innovator
Maria Montessori
67
She studied mountain gorillas
Dian Fossey
68
Paleoanthropologist who died in 1996
Mary Leaky
69
"America's Sweetheart"
Mary Pickford
70
She studied chimpanzees
Jane Goodall
71
Amsterdam diarist
Anne Frank
72
"It Girl"
Clara Bow
73
President of Nicaragua - 1990-
Violetta Chamorro
74
First Woman: senator
Hattie Caraway (1932)
75
Franco-Prussian war nurse - Red Cross founder
Clara Barton
76
Prime Minister of Pakistan - 1988-90
Benazir Bhutto
77
Time-Life Korean War photographer
Margaret Bourke-White
78
Child - pulled from a Texas well - 1984
Baby Jessica (McClure)
79
"The last of the red hot mamas"
Sophie Tucker
80
Deaf Radcliffe graduate - 1904
Helen Keller
81
"The Lady with the Lamp"
Florence Nightingale
82
She said "Call me madam"
Ethel Merman
83
First Woman: U.S. balance beam gold medalist
Shannon Miller
84
First Woman: Stewardess
Ellen Church
85
First Woman: Born in an American Colony
Virginia Dare
86
Connecticut governor - 1975-80
Ella Grasso
87
First Woman: Supreme Court Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor
88
First president - Nat'l Women's Suffrage Assn.
Susan B. Anthony
89
Teacher who perished in the Challenger Disaster
Christa McAuliffe
90
Miss America 1955
Lee Meriwether
91
"Sarong Girl"
Dorothy Lamour
92
Dante's love
Beatrice
93
Austrian born pioneer of child psychoanalysis
Anna Freud
94
Red-headed country music star
Reba McIntyre
95
Frederic Chopin's lover
George Sand
96
Women's rights leadr from Seneca Falls - NY
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
97
First Woman: To fly nonstop around the world
Jeanna Yeager
98
Connecticut representative - 1943-47
Clare Booth Luce
99
"First Lady of Song"
Ella Fitzgerald
100
Miss America 1984
Vanessa Williams
101
Prime Minister of Canada - 1993
Kim Cambell
102
Minsky's and Ziegfeld Follies burlesque dancer
Gypsy Rose Lee
103
Original Platinum Blond
Jean Harlow
104
Lord Nelson's lover
Emma (Lady) Hamilton
105
Dshiell Hammet's lover
Lillian Helman
106
First Woman: To win 100K on Star Search
Jenny Jones
107
New Jersey governor
Christie Todd Whitman
108
First Woman: In Gymnastics Hall of Fame
Mary Lou Retton
109
First Woman: Time Woman of the Year
Wallis Simpson
110
"The Pinup Girl"
Betty Grable
111
Frontier woman from Deadwood - SD
Calamity Jane
112
White House corrispondant who retired after 40 years
Helen Thomas
113
First Woman: Surgeon General
Jocelyn Elders
114
Pilot lost over the Pacific - 1937
Amelia Earhart
115
Slain Tejano singer
Selena
116
Prime Minister of Great Britain - 1979-90
Margaret Thatcher
117
First Woman: Elected in both houses of congress
Margaret Chase Smith
118
"The Blond Bombshell"
Jayne Mansfield
119
Lady from Coventry - England
Lady Godiva
120
"The Bird Woman"
Sacajawea
121
Texas governor - 1991-95
Ann Richards
122
Southwestern painter of flowers and skyscapes
Georgia O'Keefe
