Stats: QRUs Most Important Women in History

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Rang	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1	Pioneered radioactivity	Marie Skłodowska Curie	99%
3	Virgin Queen who oversaw a British Golden Age	Elizabeth I	98%
29	Pharaoh and lover of Caesar and Mark Antony	Cleopatra VII	93%
22	Discovered artificial radioactivity	Irène Joliot-Curie	90%
25	Queen of the British Empire and Empress of India	Victoria I	90%
9	Empress of Russia, presided over the age of Russian Enlightenment	Catherine the Great	86%
37	Iron Lady of the United Kingdom	Margaret Thatcher	82%
12	Prime Minister of India	Indira Gandhi	81%
4	Founder of modern nursing	Florence Nightingale	78%
10	Vital in the unification of Spain	Isabella I	78%
49	American civil rights activist, sat in a bus	Rosa Parks	78%
82	Soldier and cultural hero of France	Jeanne d'Arc	69%
26	Preeminent author of the 18th century	Jane Austen	67%
51	Deaf-blind author and activist	Helen Keller	63%
94	Mexican painter	Frida Kahlo	58%
89	Argentine First Lady and cultural icon	Eva Perón	57%
52	Notable primatologist and anthropologist, famous for her work with chimpanzees	Jane Goodall	54%
2	Regarded as the first computer programmer	Ada Lovelace	49%
68	Abolitionist and women's rights activist, furthered the Underground Railroad	Harriet Tubman	49%
84	Icon of American Pop culture	Marilyn Monroe	47%
85	Prime Minister of Israel	Golda Meir	46%
90	Prime Minister of Pakistan	Benazir Bhutto	42%
17	Sometimes called the inventor of modern science fiction	Mary Shelley	41%
8	Influential philosopher of feminism and existentialism	Simone de Beauvoir	38%
7	Notable chemist, codiscovered the structure of DNA	Rosalind Franklin	34%
31	Empress of the Habsburg Empire	Maria Theresa	33%
20	Birth control activist, founder of Planned Parenthood	Margaret Sanger	31%
73	Mathematician and logician, notable for her contribution to color vision	Christine Ladd-Franklin	30%
91	Risqué painter of flowers	Georgia O'Keeffe	29%
86	Innovative English modernist writer, pioneered the stream of consciousness	Virginia Woolf	28%
98	Chinese rebel leader, inspired the Red Eyebrow rebellion	Mother Lü	27%
46	Controversial British suffragette	Emmeline Pankhurst	26%
16	Powerful pharaoh	Hatshepsut	24%
87	Polish-German marxist and revolutionist	Rosa Luxemburg	23%
83	American author and abolitionist	Harriet Beecher Stowe	21%
93	Forerunner of feminism and anarchism	Mary Wollstonecraft	20%
54	Marine biologist and conservationist, her "Silent Spring" influenced the environmental movement	Rachel Carson	20%
11	Philosopher and political theorist, known for the "banality of evil"	Hannah Arendt	17%
74	President of the Philippines	Corazon Aquino	15%
48	Contributed to nuclear physics, called the "Chinese Madame Curie"	Chien-Shiung Wu	14%
50	Abolitionist and suffragist, wrote the Declaration of Sentiments	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	14%
32	Dowager and regent of the Qing dynasty	Cixi	12%
30	Acclaimed musician of the Romantic era	Clara Schumann	12%
43	Pioneer of social work and the settlement movement	Jane Addams	12%
69	Accomplished baroque painter	Artemisia Gentileschi	10%
100	Powerfull duchess of the Middle Ages, leader of the Second Crusade	Eleanor of Aquitaine	10%
5	Made major contributions to mathematics, especially abstract algebra and theoretical physics	Emmy Noether	10%
13	Codiscovered nuclear fission	Lise Meitner	9%
39	Expanded China and presided over a Golden Age	Wu Zetian	9%
96	Figure of the Cultural Revolution and part of the Gang of Four	Jiang Qing	8%
61	Theologian and esotericist, founder of Christian Science	Mary Baker Eddy	8%
57	Queen of the Palmyrene Empire, conquered much of the Roman East	Zenobia	8%
81	Psychiatrist, known for her theory on the stages of grief	Elisabeth Kübler-Ross	7%
28	German author, mystic, musician and founder of scientific natural history	Hildegard von Bingen	7%
60	Queen of England and first female ambassador in European history	Catharine of Aragon	5%
14	Originator of Theosophy, strongly influenced modern esotericism	Helena Blavatsky	5%
97	Queen of England, important figure in the Wars of the Roses	Margaret of Anjou	5%
19	Inventor of the nuclear shell model	Maria Goeppert Mayer	5%
71	Praised African-American poet and slave	Phills Wheatley	5%
76	Mexican nun, poet and composer, known as the "Mexican Phoenix"	Juana Inés de la Cruz	4%
92	Accomplished author of 17th century Britain	Aphra Behn	3%
15	Notable genetic scientist, discovered transposition	Barbara McClintock	3%
47	German astronomer, discovered several comets	Caroline Herschel	3%
6	Pioneered investigative journalism	Ida Tarbell	3%
67	One of the greats of classic Japanese literature	Murasaki Shikibu	3%
41	Developer of protein crystallography	Dorothy Hodgkin	2%
34	Nobel laureate, discovered glycogen metabolism	Gerty Cori	2%
36	Discovered a way to measure distances to other galaxies	Henrietta Swan Leavitt	2%
62	Jewish author and nobel laureate	Nelly Sachs	2%
24	Discovered sex chromosomes	Nettie Stevens	2%
53	Transitional figure in anthropology	Ruth Benedict	2%
59	Mathematician, pioneered Elasticity and Number theory	Sophie Germain	2%
72	Botanist and photography pioneer	Anna Atkins	1%
77	Journalist and lesbian activist	Anna Rüling	1%
66	Activist for women's rights, Indian and Irish self rule and theosophy	Annie Besant	1%
80	Foundational figure of home economics	Ellen Swallow Richards	1%
58	Conceptualized kinetic energy	Émilie du Châtelet	1%
64	Nigerian women's rights activist and "Mother of Africa"	Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti	1%
38	Pioneered the use of aquaria in science	Jeanne Villepreux-Power	1%
65	Scheming roman regent, sister, aunt or grandmother of five Roman emperors	Julia Maesa	1%
40	Foundational contributor to American abolitionism and women's rights	Lucy Stone	1%
44	Accomplished silesian astronomer and polymath	Maria Cunitz	1%
88	Leading figure of entomology and scientific illustrator	Maria Sibylla Merian	1%
55	Italian neurobiologist and senator	Rita Levi-Montalcini	1%
75	Famous painter of the 19th century	Rosa Bonheur	1%
95	Pioneer of women's liberation in South Asia	Begum Rokeya	0%
42	Notable programmer, invented breakpoints in debugging	Betty Holberton	0%
63	Chinese empress and regent, adopted paper and patronized arts and science	Deng Sui	0%
18	Discovered catalysis and photoreduction	Elizabeth Fulhame	0%
79	Pathologist, notable researcher of cancerous cells	Elizabeth Stern	0%
33	First to define the greenhouse effect	Eunice Newton Foote	0%
35	Contributed to the foundations of quantum mechanics	Grete Hermann	0%
78	Cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy	Jigonhsasee	0%
23	Conducted research on the blood-brain barrier that saved thousands of lives	Lina Stern	0%
27	Influencial director, pioneered split screen and sound in movies	Lois Weber	0%
21	Developed midwifery notably	Louise Bourgeois Boursier	0%
70	Indian poet, first female poet to have a diwan	Mah Laqa Bai	0%
45	Contributed heavily to analysis and mechanics	Sofia Kovalevskaya	0%
56	Founder of academical social work	Sophonisba Breckingridge	0%
99	Controversial author, feminist and pacifist of post-classical japan	Yosano Akiko	0%

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