Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (144 results returned)

#9075, aired 2024-04-0520th CENTURY LASTS $1600: Stamped out by the Communists, the last case of this practice done to Chinese women was in 1957 foot binding
#8899, aired 2023-06-2220th CENTURY HAPPENINGS $600: If you had 2 hours & 25 minutes in 1984, you could watch "Paris, Texas" or see Joan Benoit win the first women's Olympic one of these a marathon
#8870, aired 2023-05-12THIS 20th CENTURY WORLD LEADER... $1200: ...was one of the 12 women in the first Knesset in 1949 Meir
#8850, aired 2023-04-1420th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Runner Kathrine Switzer broke the gender barrier in 1967 when she became the first woman to officially enter this race the Boston Marathon
#8850, aired 2023-04-1420th CENTURY WOMEN $800: As chair of a new commission, this former first lady helped draft the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights Eleanor Roosevelt
#8850, aired 2023-04-1420th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: She took up painting in her 70s after arthritis made it difficult to do her needlework & at 80 she had her first one-woman show Grandma Moses
#8850, aired 2023-04-1420th CENTURY WOMEN $1600: Maggie Kuhn's anti-ageism group had a long, dignified name but this moniker from a TV newsman is the one that stuck the Gray Panthers
#8850, aired 2023-04-1420th CENTURY WOMEN $2000: Rigoberta MenchĂș of this country won the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of Central American indigenous people Guatemala
#8509, aired 2021-11-11WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: To write, a woman needs "money and a room of her own", declared this 20th century author (Virginia) Woolf
#8420, aired 2021-06-11NOTABLE WOMEN $400: In 1939 she became the first 20th century Mexican artist to have a painting bought by the Louvre Frida Kahlo
#8405, aired 2021-05-2120th CENTURY TV $200: The title of this 1970s series refers to a wealthy guy on speakerphone & the 3 women who work as detectives for him Charlie's Angels
#7998, aired 2019-05-22LONG AGO, IN THE 20th CENTURY $600: The 4 murdered daughters of Russia's last czar were Olga, Tatiana, Maria & this one whom many women later claimed to be Anastasia
#7854, aired 2018-11-01THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS FOR WOMEN $600: The declaration makes the same case as the 20th century slogan "equal" this "for equal work" pay
#6999, aired 2015-02-0520th CENTURY EUROPE $800: In the 1950s Basel became the first city in this country to allow women to vote in local elections Switzerland
#6400, aired 2012-06-1520th CENTURY WRITERS $2000: 3's the charm for this playwright whose "Three Tall Women" earned him his third Pulitzer Edward Albee
#6247, aired 2011-11-1520th CENTURY AMERICANS $800: In 1966 she helped found the National Organization for Women & became its first president (Betty) Friedan
#6003, aired 2010-10-2020th CENTURY WOMEN $200: At a June 2008 auction, candid footage of her on the set of "The Misfits" sold for $60,000 Marilyn Monroe
#6003, aired 2010-10-2020th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Before she was Secretary of State, she was a professor of international affairs at Georgetown Univ. Madeline Albright
#6003, aired 2010-10-2020th CENTURY WOMEN $600: She's one tough bunny--she ran daddy's Playboy Enterprises as CEO for over 20 years Christie Hefner
#6003, aired 2010-10-2020th CENTURY WOMEN $800: She's the author & poet heard here reading from her memoir "A Song Flung Up to Heaven" The times were so solemn, and the daily news so somber that we snatched mirth from unlikely places. Maya Angelou
#6003, aired 2010-10-2020th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: Both of these Supreme Court justices were inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame O'Connor and Ginsburg
#5512, aired 2008-07-22DEPARTMENT "S" $800: Term for an early 20th century female agitator for women's voting rights a suffragist
#5450, aired 2008-04-25WOMEN IN SPORTS $600: On ESPN's list of the 50 top athletes of the 20th century, this woman is the highest-ranked female (Babe Didrikson) Zaharias
#5217, aired 2007-04-24WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT $800: She was the longest-serving Attorney General in the 20th century (Janet) Reno
#5183, aired 2007-03-0720th CENTURY WOMEN $400: In April 2006 she was given a 41-gun royal salute in Hyde Park to celebrate her 80th birthday Queen Elizabeth (II)
#5183, aired 2007-03-0720th CENTURY WOMEN $800: Her work with mountain gorillas inspired the 1988 movie "Gorillas in the Mist" (Dian) Fossey
#5183, aired 2007-03-0720th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: Surrounded by family, this expatriate baroness & musical matriarch died in Vermont in 1987 Maria von Trapp
#5183, aired 2007-03-0720th CENTURY WOMEN $1600: (Hi, I'm Dana Delany.) As a pro-choice advocate, I was happy with the title "Choices of the Heart", in which I played this pioneering birth control advocate Margaret Sanger
#5183, aired 2007-03-0720th CENTURY WOMEN $2000: In 1977 this Danish queen, an artist & a Tolkien fan, illustrated an edition of "The Lord of the Rings" Queen Margrethe
#5090, aired 2006-10-2720th CENTURY SPORTS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Ping Hdqtrs in Phoenix, AZ.) In 1990, Karsten Solheim, founder of Ping Golf, created the Solheim Cup for women; as in the Ryder Cup, these are the 2 teams the U.S. & the Europeans
#5030, aired 2006-06-23PROMINENT 20th CENTURY WOMEN $400: In the late 1970s she joined the Rose law firm in Little Rock & soon became the firm's first woman partner Hillary Rodham Clinton
#5030, aired 2006-06-23PROMINENT 20th CENTURY WOMEN $800: In 1979 she became the first woman in European history to be elected prime minister Thatcher
#5030, aired 2006-06-23PROMINENT 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: The entries in her diary were addressed to "Kitty" Anne Frank
#5030, aired 2006-06-23PROMINENT 20th CENTURY WOMEN $1600: In 1978 she established the Digit Fund, later renamed for her, to raise money to protect gorillas from poaching Dian Fossey
#5030, aired 2006-06-23PROMINENT 20th CENTURY WOMEN $2000: She was not only the first woman to exceed Mach 1 & Mach 2 but also the first to land a jet on an aircraft carrier Jacqueline Cochran
#5000, aired 2006-05-1220th CENTURY FOREIGNERS $2000: This Frenchman was known for his Art Nouveau jewelry designs featuring nude women with butterfly wings René Lalique
#4857, aired 2005-10-25AMERICAN WOMEN $1200: (Hi, I'm Bob Woodward,) One of the most influential women of the 20th century, she was publisher of the Washington Post from 1969 to 1979 & CEO until 1991 (Katharine) Graham
#4544, aired 2004-05-1320th CENTURY WOMEN $200 (Daily Double): "Brooklyn Bridge" was one of the last of her NYC paintings before she moved permanently to New Mexico Georgia O'Keeffe
#4544, aired 2004-05-1320th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Before taking her seat in the Senate, Dianne Feinstein was Mayor of this California city San Francisco
#4544, aired 2004-05-1320th CENTURY WOMEN $800: Uta Pippig had a "run" of good luck winning this race in 1994, 1995 & 1996; Fatuma Roba won in 1997, '98 & '99 the Boston Marathon
#4544, aired 2004-05-1320th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: New York's Ithaca College awards a scholarship named for this NBC News anchor who died in a tragic auto accident in 1983 Jessica Savitch
#4281, aired 2003-03-2420th CENTURY WOMEN $400: When she gave up Prince Charles, she also had to give up her "Royal Highness" title Princess Diana
#4281, aired 2003-03-2420th CENTURY WOMEN $800: As the world figure skating champion from 1927 to 1936, she must have put on quite an act Sonja Henie
#4281, aired 2003-03-2420th CENTURY WOMEN $1200: For some 40 years after her husband Alfred Stieglitz' death, she lived at her ghost ranch in New Mexico Georgia O'Keeffe
#4281, aired 2003-03-2420th CENTURY WOMEN $1600: A plaque in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales marks the birthplace of this designer famous for her Victorian flowers & lace Laura Ashley
#4281, aired 2003-03-2420th CENTURY WOMEN $2000: This Maine senator was reportedly proud that Khrushchev called her "The devil in the disguise of a woman" Margaret Chase Smith
#4224, aired 2003-01-0220th CENTURY WOMEN $200: In August 1977 she opened her first cookie store in Palo Alto, California Debbi Fields
#4224, aired 2003-01-0220th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Her childhood in Red Cloud, Nebraska influenced her "O Pioneers!" & other works Willa Cather
#4224, aired 2003-01-0220th CENTURY WOMEN $600: This future first lady was born Anne Frances Robbins & her stepfather Loyal Davis adopted her when she was 14 Nancy Reagan
#4224, aired 2003-01-0220th CENTURY WOMEN $800: In the 1960s she was credited with making the first recorded observations that chimps eat meat & make & use tools Jane Goodall
#4224, aired 2003-01-0220th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: In 1996 this "Heidi Chronicles" playwright wrote a children's book, "Pamela's First Musical" Wendy Wasserstein
#3821, aired 2001-03-2620th CENTURY WOMEN $200: In 1929 she placed third in the first Powder Puff Derby, a cross-country air race for women Amelia Earhart
#3821, aired 2001-03-2620th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Former wife of Nelson, she was South Africa's first black medical social worker Winnie Mandela
#3821, aired 2001-03-2620th CENTURY WOMEN $600: Actress Melina Mercouri twice served as this country's minister of culture Greece
#3821, aired 2001-03-2620th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: This photographer known for her pictures of the fantastic & the freakish was the sister of poet Howard Nemerov Diane Arbus
#3821, aired 2001-03-2620th CENTURY WOMEN $1,500 (Daily Double): During the 1920s she was a government inspector of schools in Italy Maria Montessori
#3791, aired 2001-02-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $200: In 1968 this widow of a U.S. president married Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
#3791, aired 2001-02-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Less than a week after Princess Diana died, the world mourned the death of this beloved nun in India Mother Teresa
#3791, aired 2001-02-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $600: Previous jobs on her resume would include research chemist, lawyer & prime minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher
#3791, aired 2001-02-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $800: Italian lawmaker Alessandra Mussolini is the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini & the niece of this famous actress Sophia Loren
#3791, aired 2001-02-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: In 1988 this Karachi-born woman became the first female to head a modern Islamic country Benazir Bhutto
#3658, aired 2000-06-2820th CENTURY SPORTS $300: When Suzanne Lenglen played this sport in 1919 without her corset, she loosened things up for women Tennis
#3625, aired 2000-05-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $200: Her nicknames include "Queen of the West" & "Queen of the Cowgirls" Dale Evans
#3625, aired 2000-05-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $400: The 90-word title of her 1999 album is a poem that she wrote in response to an unflattering magazine article about her Fiona Apple
#3625, aired 2000-05-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $600: Her books include "I Lost It At The Movies" & "5001 Nights At The Movies" Pauline Kael
#3625, aired 2000-05-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $800: Fruity first name of acclaimed Japanese author Yoshimoto, whose books include "N.P.", "Amrita" & "Kitchen" Banana
#3625, aired 2000-05-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $1,500 (Daily Double): She published her first book "Contemporary Women Artists", to raise money for the Carmelite order Sister Wendy
#3538, aired 2000-01-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $200: Lindsay Davenport said, "It really felt awesome" to win a 1996 Olympic gold medal in this sport Tennis
#3538, aired 2000-01-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Sadly, this studio fired Judy Garland after "Summer Stock" in 1950, & she never made another film there MGM
#3538, aired 2000-01-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $600: When some folks ask "How's Trix?", they mean this current Dutch queen (her nickname is Trix) Beatrix
#3538, aired 2000-01-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $800: In 1988 she was an indomitable 82 when she choreographed the ballet "The Informer" from her wheelchair Agnes de Mille
#3538, aired 2000-01-1220th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: In 1974 this publisher of the Washington Post became the 1st woman elected to the board of the Associated Press Katharine Graham
#3423, aired 1999-06-2320th CENTURY WOMEN $200: In 1997 pilot Linda Finch recreated & finished the round-the-world flight begun by this woman Amelia Earhart
#3423, aired 1999-06-2320th CENTURY WOMEN $400: From 1952 to 1955 the Argentine city of La Plata was named temporarily for this woman Eva Peron
#3423, aired 1999-06-2320th CENTURY WOMEN $800: (Hi, I'm Kristi Yamaguchi) In 1992 I became the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in figure skating since this woman in 1976 Dorothy Hamill
#3423, aired 1999-06-2320th CENTURY WOMEN $900 (Daily Double): In 1989 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of this state became the first Cuban-American elected to Congress Florida
#3423, aired 1999-06-2320th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: In a 1920 poetry collection, she wrote, "My candle burns at both ends, it will not last the night" Edna St. Vincent Millay
#3356, aired 1999-03-22POP MUSIC $100: Ladies' Home Journal named this "Like A Virgin" singer one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century Madonna
#3246, aired 1998-10-1920th CENTURY WOMEN $200: This big name in women's fashion launched her DKNY Menswear collection in 1993 Donna Karan
#3246, aired 1998-10-1920th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Her gold medal vault at the 1984 Olympics was a perfect "10" Mary Lou Retton
#3246, aired 1998-10-1920th CENTURY WOMEN $600: Born in Tarlac province in 1933, her original name was Maria Corazon Cojuangco Corazon Aquino
#3246, aired 1998-10-1920th CENTURY WOMEN $800 (Daily Double): In the 1920s she wrote, "In soloing....it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it" Amelia Earhart
#3246, aired 1998-10-1920th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: Hanna Suchocka became this eastern European country's first female prime minister in 1992 Poland
#3226, aired 1998-09-2120th CENTURY WOMEN $100: As Hollywood's highest paid actress, her assets include a $12.5 million salary for "Striptease" Demi Moore
#3226, aired 1998-09-2120th CENTURY WOMEN $200: Michelle Triola's suit against Lee Marvin popularized this term for payment to a former live-in lover Palimony
#3226, aired 1998-09-2120th CENTURY WOMEN $300: The first woman nominated for a Grammy as Best Producer, she sings "I Don't Want To Wait" Paula Cole
#3226, aired 1998-09-2120th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Elton John's song "Philadelphia Freedom" was a tribute to this tennis star & her team Billie Jean King
#3226, aired 1998-09-2120th CENTURY WOMEN $500: In March 1998 NASA selected her as the first female commander for a space shuttle mission Eileen Collins
#3199, aired 1998-06-2520th CENTURY WOMEN $100: She practiced tax law after giving up chemistry & in 1979 became prime minister of Great Britain Margaret Thatcher
#3199, aired 1998-06-2520th CENTURY WOMEN $200: 20th century "fox" seen here: (David Copperfield's fiance) Claudia Schiffer
#3199, aired 1998-06-2520th CENTURY WOMEN $300: In 1997 Pope John Paul II called this late nun "The unforgettable mother of the poor" Mother Teresa
#3199, aired 1998-06-2520th CENTURY WOMEN $400: In 1996 she married fellow speed skater David Cruikshank Bonnie Blair
#3199, aired 1998-06-2520th CENTURY WOMEN $500: In 1982 this former First Lady founded the National Wildflower Research Center in Austin, Texas Lady Bird Johnson
#3168, aired 1998-05-1320th CENTURY WOMEN $100: She's the first woman to hold the post of Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
#3168, aired 1998-05-1320th CENTURY WOMEN $200: In 1992 this former British prime minister was made a baroness Margaret Thatcher
#3168, aired 1998-05-1320th CENTURY WOMEN $300: India's national peace prize is named for this leader who was slain in 1984 Indira Gandhi
#3168, aired 1998-05-1320th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Her long work with chimps taught her "There is no sharp line dividing human from nonhuman" Jane Goodall
#3168, aired 1998-05-1320th CENTURY WOMEN $500: This South African author & winner of a 1991 Nobel Prize once taught writing at Harvard Nadine Gordimer
#2931, aired 1997-05-0520th CENTURY WOMEN $200: On July 8, 1993 this British princess' stepmother, Raine Spencer, married a French count Princess Diana
#2931, aired 1997-05-0520th CENTURY WOMEN $300: She was sworn in as Pakistan's first female prime minister on December 2, 1988 in Islamabad Benazir Bhutto
#2866, aired 1997-02-0320th CENTURY WOMEN $100: Once a ball girl for the Oakland A's, in 1997 she opened her first chocolate chippery Mrs. (Debbi) Fields
#2866, aired 1997-02-0320th CENTURY WOMEN $200: As U.S. Attorney General, she heads the Department of Justice Janet Reno
#2866, aired 1997-02-0320th CENTURY WOMEN $300: She helped found the Nat'l Women's Political Caucus in 1971 & a year later launched "Ms." magazine Gloria Steinem
#2866, aired 1997-02-0320th CENTURY WOMEN $400: In 1984 she married fellow TV journalist Maury Povich Connie Chung
#2866, aired 1997-02-0320th CENTURY WOMEN $500: Accused of corruption, this Pakistani prime minister was dismissed in 1990 & again in 1996 Benazir Bhutto
#2803, aired 1996-11-0620th CENTURY LITERARY CHARACTERS $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1989 bestselling novel, Suyuan Woo is the founder of this title women's group The Joy Luck Club
#2617, aired 1996-01-0920th CENTURY WOMEN $100: She served as a truck driver & mechanic during WWII, before becoming queen of the U.K. Queen Elizabeth II
#2617, aired 1996-01-0920th CENTURY WOMEN $200: This Pakistani PM was the first foreign woman president of the Oxford Union Benazir Bhutto
#2617, aired 1996-01-0920th CENTURY WOMEN $300: Her third husband, Gregory Bateson, was also an anthropologist Margaret Mead
#2617, aired 1996-01-0920th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Shannon Miller won 5 Olympic medals in this sport in 1992 gymnastics
#2617, aired 1996-01-0920th CENTURY WOMEN $500: In 1995 this first woman elected to both houses of Congress died in Skowhegan, Maine Margaret Chase Smith
#2413, aired 1995-02-1520th CENTURY WOMEN $200: In 1992 this former British prime minister became a baroness Margaret Thatcher
#2413, aired 1995-02-1520th CENTURY WOMEN $400: In 1976 this future Texas governor was elected a Travis County commissioner Ann Richards
#2413, aired 1995-02-1520th CENTURY WOMEN $600: On March 12,1993 she was sworn in as the 78th U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno
#2413, aired 1995-02-1520th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: Working in Olduvai Gorge, she made many of the fossil discoveries credited to her husband Louis (Mary) Leakey
#2413, aired 1995-02-1520th CENTURY WOMEN $2,000 (Daily Double): Nadezhda Krupskaya briefly opposed Stalin's takeover after the death of this man, her husband Lenin
#2357, aired 1994-11-2920th CENTURY WOMEN $200: She was elected president of India's Congress Party in 1959, while her father was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
#2357, aired 1994-11-2920th CENTURY WOMEN $400: For work on the biochemistry of cell growth, Rita Levi-Montalcini won this medicine prize in 1986 the Nobel Prize
#2357, aired 1994-11-2920th CENTURY WOMEN $600: After her husband's impeachment, Miriam "Ma" Ferguson was elected gov. of this state in 1924 Texas
#2357, aired 1994-11-2920th CENTURY WOMEN $800: This folk singer & anti-war activist is nicknamed "The Queen of Protest" Joan Baez
#2357, aired 1994-11-2920th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: The financial dealings of her husband, John Zaccaro, caused controversy during her run for V.P. Geraldine Ferraro
#2347, aired 1994-11-1520th CENTURY WOMEN $200: The entries in her famous diary were addressed to an imaginary friend named Kitty Anne Frank
#2347, aired 1994-11-1520th CENTURY WOMEN $400: In 1942 she published "And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America" Margaret Mead
#2347, aired 1994-11-1520th CENTURY WOMEN $800: In 1986 Kerr-McGee Corporation agreed to pay her estate $1.38 million while admitting no blame Karen Silkwood
#2347, aired 1994-11-1520th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: Running under the slogan "Unbought and Unbossed", she became the first black woman in the U.S. Congress Shirley Chisholm
#2347, aired 1994-11-1520th CENTURY WOMEN $4,000 (Daily Double): Founder Candy Lightner partly funded this organization with insurance money from her daughter Cari's death MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving)
#2311, aired 1994-09-2620th CENTURY WOMEN $200: This First Lady called her mother-in-law, the former Sara Delano, "Cousin Sally" Eleanor Roosevelt
#2311, aired 1994-09-2620th CENTURY WOMEN $400: Her father was the founder of psychoanalysis, & she was one of the founders of child psychoanalysis Anna Freud
#2311, aired 1994-09-2620th CENTURY WOMEN $600: Her 1926 work "Black Iris" is one of her most famous floral paintings (Georgia) O'Keeffe
#2311, aired 1994-09-2620th CENTURY WOMEN $1000: She won 1 gold medal & 2 bronzes at the 1924 Olympics; 2 years later she swam the English Channel Gertrude Ederle
#2311, aired 1994-09-2620th CENTURY WOMEN $3,000 (Daily Double): This late culture minister was the 1st woman to hold a senior cabinet post in Greece Melina Mercouri
#2300, aired 1994-09-0920th CENTURY WOMEN $100: This former first lady won the first annual Franklin D. Roosevelt Brotherhood award in 1946 Eleanor Roosevelt
#2300, aired 1994-09-0920th CENTURY WOMEN $200: She became secretary- general of Israel's Mapai Party in 1966 Golda Meir
#2300, aired 1994-09-0920th CENTURY WOMEN $300: She attended the Duchess of Windsor's burial 8 days after her own gala 60th birthday celebration Queen Elizabeth II
#2300, aired 1994-09-0920th CENTURY WOMEN $400: In 1971 this anthropologist co-wrote "A Rap On Race" with James Baldwin Margaret Mead
#2300, aired 1994-09-0920th CENTURY WOMEN $500: This woman was voted the world's leading aviatrix in 1937, the year Amelia Earhart disappeared Jacqueline Cochran
#2108, aired 1993-11-03THE 20TH CENTURY $800: This author of "The Feminine Mystique" led the "Women's Strike for Equality" in 1970 Betty Friedan
#1973, aired 1993-03-17"C" IN FASHION $400: Early 20th century women wore boned ones which threw their hips back & their chests forward corsets
#1836, aired 1992-09-0720th CENTURY AMERICA $500 (Daily Double): In 1920, the same year this number amendment was ratified, the National League of Women Voters was organized the 19th Amendment
#1714, aired 1992-01-30THE 20th CENTURY $800: In 1924 U.S. states elected 2 women governors: Miriam Ferguson in Texas & Nellie Tayloe Ross here Wyoming
#1645, aired 1991-10-25WOMEN $200: In 1950 she was named AP Woman Athlete of the 1st Half of the 20th Century "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
#1641, aired 1991-10-21THE 20th CENTURY $400: 1 of the 2 first ladies who were the women Americans most admired in a 1966 Gallup poll Jacqueline Kennedy (or Lady Bird Johnson)
#518, aired 1986-12-0320TH CENTURY AMERICA $800: 1924 saw election of 2 women governors, Nellie Ross of Wyoming & Miriam Ferguson of this SW state Texas
#345, aired 1986-01-0320th CENTURY AMERICA $100: Since 1904, when a woman was arrested in NYC for doing this, women have "come a long way" smoking cigarettes

Final Jeopardy! Round clues (13 results returned)

#8072, aired 2019-10-1520th CENTURY AMERICAN WOMEN: In her only kids' book, she says, "There was Rose. Rose was her name & would she have been Rose if her name had not been Rose" Gertrude Stein
#6767, aired 2014-02-0420th CENTURY WOMEN AUTHORS: Readers' letters to this author about her 1948 short story asked where the title event was held & if they could go & watch Shirley Jackson
#5748, aired 2009-09-1620th CENTURY WOMEN: She won gold at the 1928, 1932 & 1936 Winter Olympics & also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Sonja Henie
#5536, aired 2008-10-0620th CENTURY WOMEN: The state building that houses Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection is named in her honor Rachel Carson
#5010, aired 2006-05-2620th CENTURY WOMEN: In 1964, in a rare interview, she said, "All I want to be is the Jane Austen of South Alabama..." Harper Lee
#4830, aired 2005-09-1620th CENTURY WOMEN: A group chaired by her produced a system that President Bush says now needs "wise and effective reform" Frances Perkins
#3930, aired 2001-10-0520th CENTURY WOMEN: Ushers at her 2001 funeral included Bill Gates, Barbara Walters, Jim Lehrer & Bob Woodward Katharine Graham (publisher of The Washington Post)
#3367, aired 1999-04-0620th CENTURY WOMEN: She titled her Ph.D. thesis "An Inquiry into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia" Margaret Mead
#3257, aired 1998-11-0320th CENTURY WOMEN: At this woman's April 1998 funeral, Gloria Steinem called her "The woman we want to be after the revolution" Bella Abzug
#2289, aired 1994-07-1420th CENTURY WOMEN: C.B. Luce said of her, "No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or so distressed the comfortable" Eleanor Roosevelt
#2139, aired 1993-12-1620th CENTURY WOMEN: She was Time magazine's Woman of the Year for 1953 Queen Elizabeth II
#1830, aired 1992-07-1020th CENTURY WOMEN: This legendary 71-year-old performer, the widow of a diplomat, died in Panama in 1991 Margot Fonteyn
#1583, aired 1991-06-19FIRST LADIES: The two 20th century women who were "Second Lady" for 8 years before becoming "First" Barbara Bush & Pat Nixon

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