ABC Game

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Amelia Earhart. Queens Elizabeth I & II, Eartha Kitt, Emily Dickinson, Elena Kagan

miriandra

Frida Kahlo (artist)

Betty Ford (activist)

Rosalind Franklin (chemist, discovered molecular structure of DNA)

Allyson Felix (Olympic athlete)

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Gabby Giffords, Gloria Vanderbilt, Golda Meir, Greta Garbo, Gertrude Stein

miriandra

Kamala Harris (American Vice President)

Hypatia of Alexandria (ancient philosopher)

Hildegard von Bingen (composer)

Helen Mirren (actress)

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Isabella d'Este (Marchioness)

Ingrid Bergman (actress)

Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister)

ruthbru

Janis Joplin, Judge Judy. Jacqueline Kennedy, Janet Yellen

miriandra

Helen Keller (activist)

Kate McKinnon (actress)

Katherine Johnson (mathematician)

Billie Jean King (tennis champion)

ruthbru

Irène Joliot-Curie- French scientist (daughter of Marie & Pierre Curie)
Queen Isabella of Spain
Indira Gandhi- 3rd Prime Minister of India
Elsie Inglis- Scottish doctor, suffragist, founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals
Ingrid Bergman- actress
Isadora Duncan- dancer

miriandra

Oops, Ruth, your letter was L. But if we want to carry on....

Joan Jett (rocker)

Jane Austin (author)

Josephine Baker (dancer, activist)

ruthbru

Opps! Caroline Kennedy, Miss Kitty (Gunsmoke), Grace Kelly, Coretta Scott King, Carole King, Stephanie Kwolek (American chemist)

miriandra

Lena Horne (singer, activist)

Audre Lorde (poet)

Lady Gaga (singer)

Lysistrata (activist)

ruthbru

Marie Curie-scientist
Maria Shriver- journalist
Marilyn Monroe-actress
Melinda French Gates- philanthropist
Margaret Thatcher- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Dolley Madison-First Lady of the United States

miriandra

Lupita Nyong'o (actress)

Emmy Noether (mathematician)

Martina Navratilova (athlete)

ruthbru

Orpah- influencer/media
Olivia Newton-John-singer, actress
Olga Korbut- gymnast
Olympia Snowe- businesswoman & politician, former Senator from Maine
Ops- ancient Roman fertility deity and earth goddess
Yoko Ono-performance artist
Georgia O'Keeffe- artist, the "Mother of American modernism"

miriandra

Ayanna Pressley (politician)

Patty Duke (actor, mental health advocate)

Patricia Bath (ophthalmologist, inventor)

Rosa Parks (activist)

ruthbru

Julia Quinn-author

Queen Latifah- singer, actor

Queens Victoria, Elizabeth I & II- British monarchs

Sally Quinn- author and journalist

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Rosa Parks

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Sonia Sotomayor & Sandra Day O'Conner- Supreme Court Justices
Sophia Loren & Sally Fields-actors
Simone Biles-Greatest Gymnast of All Time
Sally Ride-astronaut
Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm the first African-American woman elected to Congress, ran for President in 1972.
Margaret Chase Smith-1st woman to win election to both houses of Congress, 1s to be nominated as a presidential candidate at a national political convention in 1964.
Margaret Sanger- founded the birth control movement and life-long advocate for women's reproductive rights.
Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton- leaders of the women's suffrage movement.

miriandra

Rashida Tlaib (politician)

Theodora (Empress of Byzantium)

Harriet Tubman (activist)

Sojourner Truth (activist)

ruthbru

Liv Ullmann, Uma Thurman-actors

Ursula von der Leyen- President of the European Commission

Carrie Underwood- singer & songwriter

miriandra

Venus Williams (athlete)

Diana Vreeland (fashion editor)

Virginia Woolf (author)

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Wilma Rudolph-athlete

Amy Winehouse- singer

Betty White-iconic actress

Barbara Walters-journalist

Winnie Mandela-activist

Willa Cather-author

miriandra

Xiaozhuang Wen (Empress)

Xue Susu (artist, poet)

ruthbru

Yoko Ono-performance artist, activist

Yara Shahidi- actress

Yvonne Barr- virologist, co-discovered the Epstein-Barr virus

Lyubov Yegorova- champion Russian cross-country skier

miriandra

Zendaya (actress)

Zenobia (Syrian ruler)

Next subject - words that have a verb, noun, and adjective form

accept, acceptance, acceptable

advance, advance, advanced

average, average, average

janett2014

batter, batter, battered

bread, bread, breaded

ruthbru

clear, clear, clear

close, close, close

miriandra

dread, dread, dreadful

dry, dryer, dry

dismiss, dismissal, dismissive

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egg, egg (as in 'egg on'), eggy (an eggy souffle)

end, end, endless

miriandra

favor, favor, favorite

face, face, facial

fantasize, fantasy, fantastic