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Pioneering Minds

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  • 01Who was the first known female pharaoh of Egypt to rule with the full authority of the title, doing so during the Eighteenth Dynasty?
  • 02Physicist Lise Meitner, along with Otto Robert Frisch, first provided the theoretical explanation for which nuclear process discovered by Otto Hahn?
  • 03Which author wrote the 1818 novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," initially published anonymously?
  • 04In 1988, who became the first woman to be elected as the head of government of a Muslim-majority country?
  • 05Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction image known as "Photo 51" was a critical piece of evidence for determining the helical structure of what molecule?
  • 06Which Italian Baroque painter is known for her powerful and dramatic depictions of historical and biblical women, as seen in her work "Judith Slaying Holofernes"?
  • 07Who was the first woman to successfully swim across the English Channel, completing the feat in 1926?
  • 08The 'Night Witches' were an all-female Soviet bomber regiment that conducted harassment bombing missions against German forces during which conflict?
  • 09Which 19th-century English explorer and writer provided some of the first detailed ethnographic accounts of West and Central Africa?
  • 10Dorothy Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using X-ray crystallography to determine the complex structure of which essential nutrient?
  • 11Considered by many scholars to be the world's first novel, "The Tale of Genji" was written in the 11th century by which Japanese noblewoman?
  • 12In 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike made history by becoming the world's first non-hereditary female head of government, serving as Prime Minister of which country?
  • 13Ada Lovelace is credited with writing the world's first computer algorithm for Charles Babbage's proposed, but never built, mechanical general-purpose computer known as what?
  • 14Which queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe led a major, albeit ultimately unsuccessful, uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire in Britain in AD 60–61?
  • 15The highest peak in the Bolkar range of Turkey's Taurus Mountains is named for which Anatolian mother goddess associated with mountains, wild animals, and fertility?
  • 16Nawal El Moutawakel became the first African woman and first woman from a Muslim-majority nation to win an Olympic gold medal in 1984, competing in which event?
  • 17Emmy Noether's groundbreaking 1918 theorem, fundamental to modern physics, establishes a direct connection between conservation laws and what property of a physical system?
  • 18In 1911, Marie Curie was awarded her second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, for the isolation of which two elements?
  • 19Who became the first woman to win the Palme d'Or, the highest prize at the Cannes Film Festival, for directing the 1993 film "The Piano"?
  • 20Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, was the first elected female head of state in Africa, serving as president of which nation from 2006 to 2018?
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