01·Who was the first known female pharaoh of Egypt to rule with the full authority of the title, doing so during the Eighteenth Dynasty?
02·Physicist Lise Meitner, along with Otto Robert Frisch, first provided the theoretical explanation for which nuclear process discovered by Otto Hahn?
03·Which author wrote the 1818 novel "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus," initially published anonymously?
04·In 1988, who became the first woman to be elected as the head of government of a Muslim-majority country?
05·Rosalind Franklin's X-ray diffraction image known as "Photo 51" was a critical piece of evidence for determining the helical structure of what molecule?
06·Which Italian Baroque painter is known for her powerful and dramatic depictions of historical and biblical women, as seen in her work "Judith Slaying Holofernes"?
07·Who was the first woman to successfully swim across the English Channel, completing the feat in 1926?
08·The 'Night Witches' were an all-female Soviet bomber regiment that conducted harassment bombing missions against German forces during which conflict?
09·Which 19th-century English explorer and writer provided some of the first detailed ethnographic accounts of West and Central Africa?
10·Dorothy Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using X-ray crystallography to determine the complex structure of which essential nutrient?
11·Considered by many scholars to be the world's first novel, "The Tale of Genji" was written in the 11th century by which Japanese noblewoman?
12·In 1960, Sirimavo Bandaranaike made history by becoming the world's first non-hereditary female head of government, serving as Prime Minister of which country?
13·Ada 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?
14·Which 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?
15·The 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?
16·Nawal 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?
17·Emmy Noether's groundbreaking 1918 theorem, fundamental to modern physics, establishes a direct connection between conservation laws and what property of a physical system?
18·In 1911, Marie Curie was awarded her second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, for the isolation of which two elements?
19·Who 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"?
20·Ellen 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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