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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
J	French heroine of the Hundred Years' War	Jeanne d'Arc	95%
F	British nurse in the Crimean War, 'Lady with the Lamp'	Florence Nightingale	83%
N	Queen in 18th dynasty Egypt, possibly herself a Pharaoh	Nefertiti	70%
G	Israeli prime minister, signatory of the declaration of independence	Golda Meir	59%
Y	Russian empress, couped husband, expanded borders	Yekaterina II	27%
R	Marxist, killed in the Spartacist uprising of 1919	Rosa Luxembourg	24%
S	Norwegian figure skater, holder of the most titles among women	Sonja Henie	19%
M	Founder of the Kalmar Union	Margrete	12%
Z	Queen of Palmyra, fought against Rome, conquered Egypt	Zenobia of Palmyra	10%
W	Zhou dynasty ruler	Wu Zetian	7%
A	10th century ruler of Mercia, only female-to-female succession in Britain until the Tudors	Aethelflaed	6%
D	Spanish Republican, famous for the slogan ¡No Pasarán!	Dolores Ibárruri Gómez	6%
I	American journalist, influenced Standard Oil break-down	Ida Tarbell	6%
U	Queen of 12th century León	Urraca	6%
B	Italian queen consort of Poland-Lithuania, her acquisition of land was a complaint in the Chicken War	Bona Sforza	5%
O	French playwright and pamphleteer, 'Three Urns'	Olympe de Gouges	5%
C	Chinese pirate in the period of the Qing dynasty	Ching Shih	3%
H	Roman orator, argued for a reduction in tax on wealthy women	Hortensia	3%
P	Ancient Greek courtesan put on trial, possibly disrobed	Phryne	3%
T	Vietnamese sisters led rebellion against Han Chinese	Trưng Trắc	3%
E	Earliest known poet whose name is recorded	Enheduanna	2%
K	Sumerian queen listed in the Sumerian King List	Kubaba	2%
L	Renaissance Italy: first woman with science doctorate, salaried female lecturer	Laura Bassi	2%
Q	Phrygian prophet in the Montanist movement. Shares a name with a poetic form	Quintilla	2%
V	Narodnaya Volya, co-planned assassination of Alexander II	Vera Figner	2%
X	Nun 'Martha', mother of Mikhail, first Romanov tsar	Xenia Shestova	2%