Stats: Women who Changed the World

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
69 - 30 BC, The last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt, she tried to defend Egypt from the Roman Empire through personal relations with Marc Anthony and Julius Caesar	Cleopatra	92%
1412 - 1431, Patron saint of France, Inspired the French to revolt against the English occupation. Later burned at the stake.	Joan of Arc	87%
1867 - 1934, Polish scientist in Paris, she won Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.	Marie Curie	85%
1929 - 1945 Her dairy as a 13 year old Jewish girl hiding in Amsterdam is one of the most widely read books.	Anne Frank	83%
1883 - 1971, French fashion designer who defined femimine style and dress in the 20th century	Coco Chanel	83%
1910 - 1997, Albanian nun who spent most of her life in Kolkata, soon to be a saint.	Mother Teresa	81%
1913 - 2005, American civil rights leader who refused to change seats in Montgomery, Alabama	Rosa Parks	80%
1819 - 1901, Long ruling monarch of the British Empire	Victoria	80%
1925 - 2013 First female Prime Minister of the UK, known as the Iron Lady by some and the Milk Snatcher by her detractors	Margaret Thatcher	78%
1533 - 1603, Queen of England who ensured England would be Protestant and free of Spanish control	Elizabeth I	77%
1965 - , One of the most successful writers of all time, her Harry Potter series revived reading among young people.	JK Rowling	77%
1926 - 1962, American actress and model. Happy Birthday to the President	Marilyn Monroe	77%
1729 - 1796, A minor German princess who became the Queen of Russia after her husband was assasinated	Catherine the Great	76%
1961 - 1997, British royal princess and humanitarian worker. Died in a car accident in Paris.	Diana Princess of Wales	76%
1775 - 1817, Popular English author known for novels such as Pride and Prejudice and Emma	Jane Austen	75%
1519 - 1589, Born to a famous Florence family, she married the King of France at the age of 14 and was involved in the St. Bartholomew's massacre.	Catherine de Medici	73%
1919 - 1952, First Lady of Argentina, she concisely supported the women and workers' rights. Madonna later portrayed her in a biopic.	Eva Peron	72%
1880 - 1968, Blind and deaf, she campaigned for human rights and social justics	Helen Keller	72%
1929 - 1993, British actress who defined feminine glamor and dignity. After her film career ended in the mid-60s, she worked for UNICEF	Audrey Hepburn	71%
1926 - Longest serving British monarch	Elizabeth II	70%
1954 - , African-American talk show host, book club, and television network.	Oprah Winfrey	68%
1907 - 2003, American actress and winner of four Oscars and twelve nominations	Katharine Hepburn	65%
1884 - 1962, Head of the UN Human Rights Committee she drafted the 1948 UN Declaration of Human Rights. She was also spouse to a US president	Eleanor Roosevelt	64%
1820 - 1910, Nurse during the Crimean War. Helped change the treatment of wounded soldiers	Florence Nightingale	62%
4BC - 40AD, One of Jesus' most devoted followers, she was the first to see Jesus after the resurrection	Mary Magdalene	60%
Circa 630 - 570 BC, One of the more famous poets of Ancient Greece, referred by Plato as one of the top 10 poets. She spent her entire life on the island of Lesbos	Sappho	60%
1997 - , Pakistani school girl shot by the Taliban for campaigning for education rights. Known by her first name.	Malala Yousafzai	57%
1958 - , American singer, songwriter, actress. Most successful female musician.	Madonna	49%
1917 - 1984, First female of Prime Minister of India. She was assassinated by her Sikh guards	Indira Gandhi	45%
1953 - 2007, First female prime minister of a Muslim country. Moved Pakistan from a dictatorship to a democracy. Assassinated in 2007.	Benazir Bhutto	41%
1811 - 1896, An anti-slavery campaigner and writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	41%
1908 - 1986, French existentialist philosopher best know for the Second Sex and her friendship with Sartre	Simone de Beauvoir	39%
1915 - 1959, American jazz singer or First Lady of the Blues	Billie Holiday	35%
1943 - , American tennis player who campaigned for equal treatment and pay for female athletes. She won 20 Wimbledon titles.	Billie Jean King	35%
1122 - 1204, First Queen of France. Her sons, John and Richard, became kings of England.	Eleanor of Aquitaine	35%
1st Century AD, Led the Britons against the German invasion.	Boudicca	32%
1830 - 1886, American poet	Emily Dickinson	27%
1858 - 1928, British suffragette, she advocated any form of protest including violence and hunger strikes	Emmeline Pankhurst	27%
1820 - 1906, Campaigned against slavery and for temperance and women and workers' rights	Susan B. Anthony	27%
1939 - , Australian feminist who wrote the Female Eunuch	Germaine Greer	22%
1870 - 1919, Polish-Jewish Marxist revolutionary who founded the German Communist Party and was killed by right wing militia suppressing the Spartacist revolution.	Rosa Luxemburg	21%
1759 - 1797, An early feminist best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Mary Wollstonecraft	18%
1921 - 2006 American social activist and writer of The Feminine Mystique.	Betty Friedan	12%
1098 - 1179, Mystic, author and composer. Popes, kings, and other important individuals consulted her for advice.	Hildegarde of Bingen	11%
1815 - 1902, American social activist, suffragist and temperance movement leader	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	8%
1940 - 2011, Kenyan born environmentalist, democracy activist, and women's right campaigner. Awarded a Nobel Peace Prize	Wangari Maathai	8%
1512 - 1585, Spanish mystic, poetic, and Carmelite reformer	St. Teresa of Avila	7%
1821 - 1910, Born in Britain, she became the first licensed female doctor in the US.	Elizabeth Blackwell	6%
1947 - , Iranian human rights advocate and lawyer. Given the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003	Shirin Ebadi	5%
1943 - , Campaigned to bring an end to sectarian violence in northern Ireland, she was given the Nobel Peace Prize with Mairead Corrigan in 1977	Betty Williams	3%
1498 - 1565, Indian mystic and poet. A devotee of Krishna and yoga.	Mirabai	3%
1910 - 1994, British chemist who won a Nobel Prize for her work on the structure of penicillin and insulin. She also devoted a large part of her life to the peace movement and nuclear disarmament	Dorothy Hodgkin	2%
1868 - 1933, A Canadian magistrate, she challenged the law which did not recognize women as persons.	Emily Murphy	2%
1810 - 1850, An American women's right advocate wrote Women in the Nineteenth Century	Margaret Fuller	2%

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