Statistics for People on Time Covers 1976

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. Woman of the Year 1975.	Betty Ford	100%
American actor. He received two Academy Awards for Best Actor for Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man. His other Oscar-nominated roles are for The Graduate (1967), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Lenny (1975), Tootsie (1982), and Wag the Dog (1997). In 1976 he starred in Marathon Man and All the President's Men.	Dustin Hoffman	100%
American actress. She rose to fame when she played a starring role in the first season of the television series Charlie's Angels.	Farrah Fawcett	100%
American politician who served as the US president from 1974 to 1977.	Gerald Ford	100%
American politician and humanitarian who served as the US president from 1977 to 1981.	Jimmy Carter	100%
English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties	Paul McCartney	100%
American politician and actor who served as the US president from 1981 to 1989.	Ronald Reagan	100%
American actress. She is best known for her role as Kelly Garrett in the television series Charlie's Angels and was the only original female lead to remain with the series for its complete run.	Jaclyn Smith	90%
American actor and filmmaker. He gained success starring in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Candidate. He received a nomination for Best Actor for The Sting. He continued to star in such films as The Way We Were, All the President's Men, and The Electric Horseman. He made his directorial film debut with Ordinary People winning four Academy Awards.	Robert Redford	90%
American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.	Thomas Jefferson	90%
American professional baseball player whose career in the MLB spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. He began his career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees.	Babe Ruth	80%
American world No. 1 tennis player. She won 39 Grand Slam titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. Woman of the Year 1975	Billie Jean King	80%
Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 1964 to 1979. He led the predominantly white government that unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom in November 1965 in opposition to the UK's demands for majority rule.	Ian Smith	80%
American actress and television producer, known for her television roles as Sabrina Duncan in the series Charlie's Angels.	Kate Jackson	80%
Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.	Mao Zedong	80%
Romanian gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist. In 1976, at the age of 14, she was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games.	Nadia Comăneci	80%
American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was also the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 election and the vice presidential nominee in the 1976 election.	Bob Dole	70%
American politician who served as the governor of Alabama for four terms. He is remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views.	George Wallace	70%
American lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. representative (1941–1953) and U.S. senator (1953–1983) from the state of Washington. A Cold War liberal and anti-Communist member of the Democratic Party, he supported military spending and a hard line against the Soviet Union, while supporting social welfare programs, civil rights, and labor unions.	Henry M. Jackson	70%
American lawyer and politician who served as the US vice president from 1977 to 1981. A U.S. senator from Minnesota from 1964 to 1976, he was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1984 presidential election, but lost to Reagan.	Walter Mondale	70%
American aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, investor, philanthropist, and pilot. He was best known during his lifetime as one of the richest and most influential people in the world. He became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).	Howard Hughes	60%
American actress. She made her professional film debut in the remake King Kong. She went on to receive two Academy Awards due to her work in Tootsie and Blue Sky. She received nominations for Frances, Country, Sweet Dreams and Music Box. Her other film roles include The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cape Fear, and Rob Roy.	Jessica Lange	60%
Chinese revolutionary and politician who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989.	Deng Xiaoping	50%
American figure skater. She is the 1976 Olympic champion and 1976 World champion in ladies' singles.	Dorothy Hamill	40%
American writer and public intellectual. His novels and essays interrogated the social and sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Best known for books; Myra Breckinridge, Burr and Lincoln.	Gore Vidal	40%
American politician and statesman who served as the US vice president from 1965 to 1969. He served in the US Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He lost to Nixon in the 1968 presidential election.	Hubert Humphrey	40%
American lawyer, educator, and politician. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern African-American woman elected to the US House of Representatives and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House from the former Confederacy since 1901. Woman of the Year 1975.	Barbara Jordan	30%
American politician and diplomat. He represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 after serving as the US ambassador to India and the United Nations.	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	30%
American criminal defense attorney. Known for his involvement in famous criminal cases including Sam Sheppard; a surgeon accused of murdering his wife. He was the attorney for Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler" and heiress Patty Hearst for bank robberies committed during her involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army, and US Army Captain Ernest Medina for the My Lai Massacre. He also help defend O. J. Simpson.	F Lee Bailey	30%
American politician who served as Chief of Staff to President of the United States Jimmy Carter.	Hamilton Jordan	30%
American attorney and politician who served as a U.S. representative from Arizona from May 2, 1961, to May 4, 1991. He was a leading contender for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination.	Mo Udall	30%
American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement.	Robert Rauschenberg	20%
Leader in the US Labor movement and a civil rights activist. She is known for being the first African-American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. Woman of the Year 1975.	Addie L. Wyatt	10%
Australian-born American religious leader. She was one of the first women ordained in the Episcopal Church in the United States and the first woman to publicly celebrate the Eucharist in that denomination. Woman of the Year 1975.	Alison Cheek	10%
American lawyer and a public figure. She served as the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1975 to 1977 and as the US Trade Representative from 1989 to 1993. Woman of the Year 1975.	Carla Anderson Hills	10%
American journalist. She got her journalism degree from the University of Missouri. In 1974 she became the first female managing editor of a major U.S. daily newspaper. Woman of the Year 1975.	Carol Sutton	10%
American politician who served as the Governor of Connecticut from January 8, 1975, to December 31, 1980. Woman of the Year 1975.	Ella Grasso	10%
Italian politician. Considered the most popular leader of the Italian Communist Party. Known for developing Eurocommunism.	Enrico Berlinguer	10%
Australian-American scholar and author. Well known for her first memoir, The Road from Coorain, she also was Smith College's first woman president. Woman of the Year 1975	Jill Ker Conway	10%
Captain in the United States Navy. In May 1975, she became the first female officer in the Navy to serve as the flag secretary to an admiral commanding an operational staff. Woman of the Year 1975.	Kathleen Byerly	10%
American journalist, author and feminist activist best known for her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. Woman of the Year 1975	Susan Brownmiller	10%
American jurist who served as the first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Woman of the Year 1975.	Susie Sharp	10%