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1. In 2010 Lady Gaga, a popular singer, wore for the first time a dress made of what material?
2. Sophie Friederike Auguste was born in Prussia in 1729. She later changed her name to Yekaterina II Velikaya. By what name is she known today?
3. Wrestling icon "The Fabulous Moolah" was a force in women's wrestling for decades. Who added 'fabulous' to her wrestling persona?
4. She wore military garb, carried a sword, heard voices, dismayed the Church, and died a fiery death. Of course, it was Joan of Arc. Who played Joan in the 1928 "Passion of Joan of Arc"?
5. Although she filled the screen with her voluptousness, biographers state that she was a hair over five feet tall and weighed about 121 pounds at the height of her fame. Mae West was the uncrowned queen of sexual jokes, ranging from innuendo to bawdiness. To what young actor did she say "I always did like a man in a uniform. That one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening."?
6. Sappho was a female poet who was born on the Isle of Lesbos. Historians have gathered a number of facts about her life through references of her from contemporaries and from the fragments of her poetry that have survived. Because she was contoversial, she was exiled to Sicily. Why?
7. What flamboyant woman is suggested by this series of words: Argentina, dancer, singer, virgin, "Breathless"?
8. Why was Mary I of England called "Bloody Mary"?
9. If you were an artistic expatriate in Paris in the 1920s, you might have been invited to 27 rue de Fleurus where you would have met the intellectual elite of the time. Who would be your hostess along with her life partner Alice?
10. In each profession there is often the 'break through' personality. Although recognition came late in life, she paved the way for black commediennes in particular and female comedians in general. She appeared often on the Smother's Brothers Show and Ed Sullivan as a toothless, bedraggled woman in a house dress and floppy hat. What was her name?
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