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1. Who was the fourth wife of Mao Zedong, one of the key figures during the Cultural Revolution and a member of an infamous 'Gang of Four'?
2. Which German socialist put forward an idea of International Women's Day in 1910?
3. Who became first ever elected female president in the Western Hemisphere in 1990?
4. Which women were the first to occupy both the highest posts of the state - that of the president and the prime minister - at the same time?
5. Who was not only first ever female prime minister of her country, but also the first female head of a major UN agency?
6. Who was the first female prime minister of an African country?
7. Who was the first U.S.-born woman to be elected president of any country in the world?
8. Which two women made history as the first female politicians from rival political parties to succeed each other as prime ministers?
9. Which woman was a People's Commissar (Minister) for Social Welfare in Soviet Government in 1917-1918, led an opposition fraction within the Communist Party in 1921, and was sent to Norway in 1922 as the first female ambassador ever?
10. Which woman led her country to a victory in a major war, oversaw its first nuclear tests and was voted 'the greatest woman of the millennium' by the BBC poll in 1999?
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