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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Married then divorced to Prince Charles. Died in a car accident in Paris.	Princess Diana	97%
Queen of England during the 16th century. Made England Protestant.	Queen Elizabeth I	91%
British monarch since 1953.	Queen Elizabeth II	91%
Last Pharaoh of Egypt. Personally involved with Mark Anthony and Julius Caesar.	Cleopatra	87%
Teenage author of a dairy. Died in Bergen concentration camp.	Anne Frank	86%
Actress, model and icon of the 50s and 60s. Sang happy birthday to the husband of #7	Marilyn Monroe	86%
Queen of the British Empire in the 19th century	Queen Victoria	86%
"Iron Lady" British Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher	81%
Young woman who inspired the French in their fight against the English. Burnt at the stake as a witch.	Joan of Arc	80%
Albanian nun who worked mostly in Kolkata	Mother Teresa	80%
Author of the Harry Potter series	JK Rowling	79%
African American talk show host, book club, magazine and television station owner	Oprah Winfrey	79%
American singer, songwriter, and actress. Best selling female artist of all time. Uses one name	Madonna	78%
American singer, actress and dancer. Lead singer of Destiny's Child. Known by her first name	Beyonce Knowles	77%
Born in Austria, Queen of France and guillotined during the Revolution	Marie Antoinette	77%
Civil rights figure who refused to change her seat	Rosa Parks	75%
Polish physicist and chemist. Winner of two Nobel prizes	Marie Curie	74%
First Lady, US Senator, US Secretary of State and possible candidate for 2016 presidential election	Hillary Rodham Clinton	71%
German chancellor since 2005 and Time 2015 Person of the Year	Angela Merkel	70%
Married Prince William	Catherine Middleton	70%
French fashion designer and founder of a fashion label using her own name. Gained influence first in the 1920s.	Coco Chanel	70%
US First Lady, cultural and fashion icon of the 60's.	Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis	70%
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma	Jane Austen	70%
American aviation pioneer. Flew across the Atlantic solo. Disappeared across the Pacific	Amelia Earhart	69%
American singer, songwriter, activist, fashion designer and actress. Meat dress and Twitter	Lady Gaga	68%
Barbados actress, singer and fashion designer. Uses only one name	Rihanna	67%
African American tennis player and one of the most successful of all times.	Serena Williams	67%
US actress, producer and humanitarian. Lara Croft:Tomb Raider	Angelina Jolie	66%
Minor German princess who became Queen of Russia after her husband was assisinated	Catherine the Great	66%
American actress who married the Prince of Monaco	Grace Kelly	66%
US artist and musician. Broke up the Beatles.	Yoko Ono	65%
Mystery writer, Poirot and Miss Marple	Agatha Christie	64%
English author. Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte	64%
Actress in the 50s and 60s who later went to work for UNICEF	Audrey Hepburn	63%
British American actress. AIDS activist. Married Richard Burton twice.	Elizabeth Taylor	62%
British nurse during the Crimean War. Improved hospital standards	Florence Nightingale	61%
Blind and deaf advocate for human rights and social justice	Helen Keller	61%
Colombian singer, model, dancer, and producer. Uses one name.	Shakira	60%
Argentinian First Lady. Advocated for the poor. Portrayed in a biopic by #4	Eva Peron	59%
Third Prime Minister of India 1966 - 1977, 1980 - 1984, killed by her Sikh bodyguards	Indira Gandhi	59%
British actress, dancer and singer. Mary Poppins. The Sound of Music	Julie Andrews	57%
American actress. On Golden Pond. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner	Katherine Hepburn	56%
American comedian, actress, and TV talk show host. TV show went by her first name	Ellen DeGeneres	55%
Devoted follower of Jesus. First witness to the resurrection	Mary Magdalene	55%
American actress, model and singer. The Avengers, Lost in Translation, Girl with a Pearl Earring	Scarlett Johansson	54%
Spanish saint, mystic and writer	St. Teresa of Avila	54%
Swedish actress featured in Casablanca	Ingrid Bergman	49%
African American actress. The Color Purple. Ghost. The View. Known by her first name.	Whoopi Goldberg	49%
1970s era tennis player who advocated for gender equality in sports	Billie Jean King	48%
First Lady, human rights campaigner, diplomat, UN Human Rights committee	Eleanor Roosevelt	48%
Dutch exotic dancer executed in WWI as a spy	Mata Hari	46%
France's national diva. La Vie en rose. Non je ne regrette rien.	Edith Piaf	45%
First female leader of a Muslim state, Prime Minister of Pakistan	Benazir Bhutto	42%
French actress, dancer, singer and animal rights activist.	Brigitte Bardot	40%
Uncle Tom's Cabin. Anti-slavery campaigner	Harriet Beecher Stowe	37%
Czech and American tennis player. Dominated the 1970s	Martina Navratilova	36%
Modern American poet and writer. Civil Rights leader. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Recited "On the Pulse of the Morning" at Bill Clinton's inauguration	Maya Angelou	36%
Wife of the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War. Works for Russian humanitaran causes	Raisa Gorbachev	36%
Hungarian born American actress and socialite	Zsa Zsa Gabor	36%
Russian tennis player, model, and businesswoman. Won the Grand Slam in 2012	Maria Sharapova	35%
English modernist writer. Member of the Bloomsbury group. Orlando. A Room of One's Own. Killed herself by drawing.	Virginia Woolf	35%
English conservationist and author of the Tales of Peter Rabbit	Beatrix Potter	34%
Born in Kiev, grew up in Milwaukee, she became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel	Golda Meir	33%
Environmentalist and chimpanzee ethusiast	Jane Goodall	33%
American actress of the 40s and 50s. Married to Humphrey Bogart. How to Marry a Millionaire.	Lauren Bacall	33%
Campaigned against slavery and in favour of women and workers' rights. On the US dollar	Susan B. Anthony	32%
American actress in movies, TV, and theatre. All About Eve	Bette Davis	31%
German American actress. Started in the silent film era.	Marlene Dietrich	31%
Ancient Greek Poet. One of the first female published writers.	Sappho	31%
British children's author. The Famous Five. Secret Seven	Enid Blyton	30%
American jazz singer. First Lady of the Blues	Billie Holiday	29%
Queen of France who made her sons, John and Richard, kings of England	Eleanor of Aquitaine	28%
French actress, artist and dancer. The English Patient. Chocolat	Juliette Binoche	28%
French existentialist philosopher. Second Sex	Simone de Beauvoir	28%
Born into a famous Florence family she became the Queen of France at the age of 14	Catherine de Medici	27%
Yugoslavian-American tennis player. Won the French Open at 16. Career suffered after she was stabbed on the court.	Monica Seles	27%
Burmese democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner	Aung San Suu Kyi	26%
American 19th century female poet	Emily Dickinson	26%
US tennis player. Dominated women's tennis in the 70s and early 80s.	Chris Evert	25%
British militant suffragette who used radical and violent tactics	Emmeline Pankhurst	25%
Romanian gymnast who was perfect at the Montreal Olympics.	Nadia Comaneci	23%
British writer of romance novels. Using a standard formula she could produce a book a month producing over 700 books and was one of the top selling novelist of all time.	Barbara Cartland	21%
American cosmetics executive. The firm bears her name.	Estee Lauder	21%
Australian feminist icon. Female Eunuch.	Germaine Greer	20%
British romantic novelist and playwright with a slightly moody or macabre touch. Rebecca. Don't Look Now. The Birds. Her last name is also a brand of Canadian cigarettes.	Daphne duMaurier	19%
Pakistani schoolgirl and education advocate. Shot by the Taliban but survived and now campaigns worldwide. Known by her first name.	Malala Yousafzai	19%
Russian ballet dancer. Toured the world with her own company. Famous for The Dying Swan	Anna Pavlova	17%
British feminist and writer. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Mary Wollstonecraft	15%
American actress, singer, playwright and comedian. Subject to censorship. Klondike Annie, Go West Young Man	Mae West	14%
Polish Jew who helped found the German Communist party and died during the Spartacist revolt	Rosa Luxemburg	11%
American feminist and civil rights advocate. Fought for women's right to vote and the temperance movement	Elizabeth Cady Stanton	10%
UK businesswoman and environmentalist. Founded the Body Shop	Anita Roddick	8%
Latin American poet. Won the Nobel Prize in 1945. Taught at Colombia, Vassar, and Middlebury	Gabriela Mistral	5%
Kenyan environmentalist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.	Wangari Maathai	4%
Irish activist. Together with Mairead Corrigan, she campaigned for end to sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.	Betty Williams	3%
Iranian lawyer and human rights advocate. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize	Shirin Ebadi	3%
Canadian. First magistrate in British Empire. Had women declared legal persons	Emily Murphy	2%
Indian mystic and poet. Devoted to Krishna and spirtual yoga	Mirabai	2%