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1. This remarkable woman wrote the foreword, and is credited with having successfully interviewed more famous people than any journalist in history, man or woman. Over the years, this woman has talked with every single U.S. president, since Johnson (Lyndon, that is). Who is this woman I will be honored to be interviewed by?
2. In 1979, this woman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This woman has received countless honors, but always discounted her own importance by saying, 'I am nothing. God is all.' Who is this gracious woman, more commonly referred to as?
3. Of the four U.S. presidential First Ladies listed, which one was named, 'Queen Deb of the Year' at her 1947 coming-out party.
4. She disappeared and her car was found abandoned not too far from the home she shared with her husband. Police searched everywhere, but she was nowhere to be found. The disappearance made its way into the papers and a national search was launched! This woman turned up in a hotel in northern England, confused and unable to remember how she had gotten there, later on. The mystery was never fully resolved, but it was the sort of loose end that she would never have allowed into one of her books. Who is this mysterious woman?
5. 'I thought my singing was pretty much hollering, but a bandleader named Chick Webb didn't.' quoth this woman. Who was this woman who had the amazing ability to 'scat'?
6. This long-time conservationist and animal rights activist has used her celebrity status, to publicize such causes as poaching, and the abusive treatment received by medical research animals. More amazing, is her ability to write. Her most significant work is her 1971 bestseller, "In the Shadow of Man". Who is this woman who can literally talk with the animals?
7. She will always be known as the one who founded "Ms.", the world's first mass-market feminist magazine. She and five partners conceived of the idea as a 'how-to' magazine -- not 'how to make jelly, but how to seize control of your life,' said she. Who is this humanist that believes that the liberation of women will, in the end, liberate men as well?
8. Before you hum, 'Happy Birthday, Mr President' be sure to answer this. Who is this, the most enduring sex goddess of all time, born a plain-looking brunette named Norma Jean Baker?
9. After her husband's death, this First Lady was appointed a delegate to the newly formed United Nations, where she pursued her long-held dream. She drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. When it passed the General Assembly in 1948 (an accomplishment many historians consider to be her finest), the delegates gave her a standing ovation. She always remained politically engaged throughout her life, and her last official appointment was to John F. Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women, which she chaired until 6 months before her death. What is the name of this politically active woman, who was almost as political as her husband?
10. This person has made a career-as a professor, women's right advocate, apellate court judge, and finally becoming the second woman ever appointed to the nation's highest judicial body. When President Clinton tapped her for the job, in 1993, the Senate approved her nomination 93 to 3. She graduated from Columbia University Law School, where she made Law Review and tied for number one in the class. But that didn't help much. She received not a single offer, while she watched her male classmates being gobbled up by top firms. She noted, 'I had three strikes against me. I was Jewish and the firms were just opening up to Jewish students. I was a woman. And I was a mother.' Please, bow before the honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Does that name correctly comply with the previous description?
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