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1. Her degree from Dartmouth College in environmental policy somehow led her to stand-up comedy and acting. She's had recurring roles in "Friends" and "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", starred as Agent Lana Kane in FX Network's animated series "Archer", and has been a host of CBS's "The Talk". If all this doesn't intimidate you, she has played on the World Poker Tour. Who is this busy lady?
2. Danica McKellar was the heartthrob of every adolescent American boy in the '90s. She graduated summa cum laude in mathematics from UCLA. While a student, she co-authored a paper whose resulting theorem was named for her and her partners. She has written several books on mathematics for young readers, three of them "New York Times" bestsellers. What was her name in her role as Fred Savage's girlfriend in "The Wonder Years"?
3. This Dutch actress briefly studied economics at the University of Amsterdam, but then moved to creative writing and literature at Columbia University. She was Jean Grey/Phoenix in five "X-Men" films and Lenore Mills, wife of Liam Neeson's character in the "Taken" movies. Which brainy beauty crushed victims to death with her thighs as Xenia Onatopp in "Goldeneye"?
4. Elisabeth Shue left Harvard with one semester remaining for her degree but went back twelve years later to complete her education. This blond actress played parts in "Back To The Future II and III", "Cocktail" and opposite Nicolas Cage in "Leaving Las Vegas". What part in a long-running crime drama did Shue begin in 2012?
5. Natalie Portman told a reporter, "I'd rather be smart than a movie star." Well, she's been quite successful at both. While in high school she played Queen Padmé Amidala in "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace". She graduated from Harvard with a degree in neuroscience, publishing two scientific papers while she was there. In 2011, her role as Nina Sayers in _____ ____ won her the Best Actress Oscar.
6. This brown-haired high school valedictorian received a full scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University. After a short stay she quit to pursue a modeling career which turned out to be a very successful career choice. One of the premiere supermodels of the 1980s and '90s, she also built a collection of business holdings, making her one of the wealthiest models in the world. Who is this lovely college dropout who changed the All-American Girl image from blond to brunette?
7. Although Lucille Ball's greatest fame came as a comic actress, she was a stunning beauty during her years as Hollywood's "Queen of the B Movies". She didn't graduate from Harvard, Oxford or MIT, attending the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts in New York. But in 1960, upon her divorce from Desi Arnaz, she bought him out of his share and became the first woman to operate an American television production company. She thrived as a businesswoman and the company became one of Hollywood's major players, producing hits like "Mission: Impossible", "Star Trek", "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Andy Griffith Show". What was the name of the company Lucy turned into a TV production powerhouse?
8. This beautiful actress studied French and Russian literature for three years at Oxford before dropping out to concentrate on her acting career. She comes by her talent honestly as the daughter and half-sister of well-known English TV actors. Who is this actress who starred in "Pearl Harbor", played Ava Gardner in "The Aviator" and fought monsters in "Van Helsing"?
9. When Emma Watson began her movie career at age nine, "cute" was probably a more accurate description than "beautiful", but she's grown into her beauty onscreen right in front of us. She postponed her education to film "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows", but eventually took a degree in English Literature from Brown University. Complete the name of her character in the Harry Potter films. "Hermione _______".
10. This Austrian-born actress was one of the most beautiful women appearing on screen during the 1930s and '40s. In 1942 she and her neighbor, a composer, developed a system of remote control for musical instruments which she proposed as a means of controlling torpedoes which could not be "jammed" by enemy interference. Her "spread spectrum" system wasn't utilized by the Navy, but was kept secret until the war was over. Little used until the 1980s, the spread spectrum concept was then incorporated into several Wi-Fi systems and wireless telephones. Who was this beautiful, inventive lady?
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