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How would you fare????
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Timer starts...now!
List
- Venus Williams
- Serena Williams
- Naomi Osaka
- Maria Sharapova
- Michelle Wie
- Tara Lipinski
- Michelle Kwan
- Kim Yuna
- Mary Lou Retton
- Simone Biles
- Aly Raisman
- Shawn Johnson
- Mia Hamm
- Abby Wambach
- Brittany Griner (edit: should be Brittney)
- Nastia Liukin
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Patricia Nixon
- Jackie Kennedy
- Nancy Reagan
- Hillary Clinton
- Madeline Albright
- Margaret Thatcher
- Liz Truss
- Angela Merkel
- Laura Bush (not counting Michelle Obama because she's in the prompt)
- Melania Trump
- Ivanka Trump (edit: Tiffany forever forgotten lmao)
- Jill Biden
- Elizabeth Warren
- Amy Klobuchar
- Marianne Williamson
- Kyrsten Sinema
- Marjorie Taylor-Green (edit: should be Taylor Greene)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
- Tammy Duckworth
- Nancy Pelosi
- Dianne Feinstein (rest in piss)
- Rashida Tlaib
- Rashida Jones
- Ilhan Omar
- Barbara Boxer
- Barbra Streisand
- Barbara Bush
- Emma Watson
- Charlotte Brontë
- Emily Brontë (sorry other Brontë sister I forgot your name WH OMEGALUL)
- Jane Austen
- Ursula K. Le Guin
- J.K. Rowling (ugh)
- Maggie Gyllenhall (edit: should be Gyllenhaal)
- Cate Blanchett
- Kiera Knightley (I definitely misspelled her name) (edit: FUCK I HAD IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME AND THEN CHANGED IT)
- Mila Kunis
- Sandra Bullock
- Monica Lewinsky
- Meryl Streep
- Amy Adams
- Lindsay Lohan
- Britney Spears
- Paris Hilton
- Christina Aguilera
- Mariah Carey
- Whitney Houston
- Aretha Franklin
- Diana Ross
- Patti LaBelle
- Donna Summer
- Gloria Gaynor
- Chaka Khan
- Jennifer Hudson
- Ariana Grande
- Etta James
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Diana Krall
- Doris Day
- Ginger Rogers
- Judy Garland
- Audrey Hepburn
- Coco Chanel
- Elizabeth Hurley (I was trying to remember Elizabeth Taylor but blanked on the last name) (not counting Marilyn Monroe because she's in the prompt)
- Rosemary Clooney
- Bette Davis
- Betsy Ross
- Harriet Tubman
- Rosa Parks
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Angelina Jolie
- Park Geun-hye (disgraced South Korean president)
- Jennifer Lopez
- Beyoncé Knowles
- Kelly Rowland
- Taylor Swift (just squeaked in there!)
- Stevie Nicks
- Courtney Love
- Celine Dion
- Avril Lavigne
- Miranda Cosgrove
- Oprah Winfrey
- Jennifer Aniston
...time! Took me almost exactly 22 minutes. I got a little stuck after the small run of politicians because I was frustrated that I couldn't remember more (there were probably a half dozen that I could only remember last names of, for example), and then I went after meandering through a few actors and authors I went on an absolute tear of singers (I swear I did like 20 in the span of two or three minutes). My favorite parts were when I took wild turns because I pivoted on a similar name.
Haphazard category breakdown
1 through 16 are athletes:
- 1-4: tennis
- 5: golf
- 6-8: figure skating
- 9-12 + 16: gymnastics
- 13-14: football/soccer
- 15: basketball
17-21, 26, 27, 29, 44 are First Ladies of the United States (28 (Ivanka) is a daughter of a president)
22-25, 30-39, 41-42, 89 are various politicians (nearly all Americans with a few Br*ts, a German, and a South Korean)
40, 45, 51-55, 57-59, 77, 79, 81, 83, 88, 98, and 100 are actors (I'm not double counting people like Doris Day or Judy Garland)
46-50 are authors (couldn't remember Shelley's first name)
56 is Monica Lewinsky...not really sure what made me think of her at this point tbh
61 (Paris Hilton) is the lone "pure celebrity" on the list I think
43, 60, 62-76, 78, 82, 90-97 are singers (with some double- and triple-threats in there), going from 00s pop to divas to jazz to midcentury Hollywood and then a jumble at the very end
80 (Coco Chanel) is a fashion designer
84-87 are various historical figures
99 (Oprah Winfrey) is a TV host/billionaire mogul
Numbers by category:
27 singers
17 politicians
17 actors
16 athletes
9 FLOTUSes
5 authors
2 civil rights icons
1 
flagmaker
1 president's daughter
1 doomed socialist
1 reality star
1 woman who was treated horrifically by the media (not that others on this list weren't, but that's what she's known for)
1 fashion designer
1 TV host/billionaire
edit 2: I found it pretty funny that two other people listed
spoiler
Courtney Love
which was kind of an asspull for me. Guess it just means we're of a certain age...
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