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"The Virgin Queen" of England
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Elizabeth I
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First deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree
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Helen Keller
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Founder of modern nursing
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Florence Nightingale
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French fashion designer who liberated women from the "corseted silhouette"
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Coco Chanel
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Child actress who later in her life worked as a United States Ambassador
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Shirley Temple
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The second longest reigning British monarch
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Queen Victoria
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Last active pharaoh of the Ptolemaic Egypt
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Cleopatra
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Aviation pioneer who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
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Amelia Earhart
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Diarist who is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust
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Anne Frank
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Actress who later became the Princess of Monaco
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Grace Kelly
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Celtic queen who lead an uprising against the Roman Emipre
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Boudica
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Empress who revitalized Russia under her reign, making it one of Europe's great powers
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Catherine the Great
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Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata
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Mother Teresa
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Austrian-born Queen of France who met her end by guillotine in 1793
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Marie Antoinette
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She was awarded the title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress
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Eva Peron
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Actress who won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony award. Later on, she won the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
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Audrey Hepburn
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Spanish queen who reorganized the governmental system, lowered the crime rate, and supported the financing of Christopher Columbus' voyage in 1492
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Isabella I of Castile
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"Lovable" actress who was the first woman to run a major television studio
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Lucille Ball
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An actress and an inventor who came up with the frequency hopping technology which is the basis for GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth.
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Hedy Lamarr
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Widely regarded as the first computer programmer
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Ada Lovelace
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"The Maid of Orléans"
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Joan of Arc
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Chinese first lady who rallied her people against the Japanese invasion and conducted a 1942 speaking tour of the United States
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Soong Mei-Ling
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First woman to have flown in space
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Valentina Tereshkova
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First woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win it twice
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Marie Curie
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Powerful Byzantine empress 527-548
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Theodora
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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
She was born Ada Byron and later married William King. So her name was Ada King. Later, William King became the Earl of Lovelace, making their titles the Earl and Countess of Lovelace, called Lord and Lady Lovelace, but that was just a title. The surname of the family does not change with the acquisition of a title. That would be like saying that Mr Obama's last name is United States of America.
Common usage lets her be Ada Lovelace, but please accept Ada King or Ada Byron because at least the kids that went to school with me remember her as Ada Byron.
Sanger (often doesn't get the recognition she deserves, i.e. with Pincus showing up on the important people in history quiz while she got snubbed), Hatshepsut (so much more important than Cleopatra), CiXi, Tubman, Parks, Bhutto, Gandhi, Thatcher, Clinton, Merkel, Potter, Austen, Nefertiti, Aisha (wife of Muhammad), Fatima, Khadija, Helena (mother of Constantine), Norsigian, Pocahontas, Sacajewea, Marcos, Rowling, Madonna, etc.
Great quiz!
And she was Lord Byron's daughter. There you go.
Maybe accept last name instead.
ad an uprising against the Roman Emipre"