• AernaLingus [any]
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    9 months ago

    Timer starts...now!

    List
    1. Venus Williams
    2. Serena Williams
    3. Naomi Osaka
    4. Maria Sharapova
    5. Michelle Wie
    6. Tara Lipinski
    7. Michelle Kwan
    8. Kim Yuna
    9. Mary Lou Retton
    10. Simone Biles
    11. Aly Raisman
    12. Shawn Johnson
    13. Mia Hamm
    14. Abby Wambach
    15. Brittany Griner (edit: should be Brittney)
    16. Nastia Liukin
    17. Eleanor Roosevelt
    18. Patricia Nixon
    19. Jackie Kennedy
    20. Nancy Reagan
    21. Hillary Clinton
    22. Madeline Albright
    23. Margaret Thatcher
    24. Liz Truss
    25. Angela Merkel
    26. Laura Bush (not counting Michelle Obama because she's in the prompt)
    27. Melania Trump
    28. Ivanka Trump (edit: Tiffany forever forgotten lmao)
    29. Jill Biden
    30. Elizabeth Warren
    31. Amy Klobuchar
    32. Marianne Williamson
    33. Kyrsten Sinema
    34. Marjorie Taylor-Green (edit: should be Taylor Greene)
    35. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
    36. Tammy Duckworth
    37. Nancy Pelosi
    38. Dianne Feinstein (rest in piss)
    39. Rashida Tlaib
    40. Rashida Jones
    41. Ilhan Omar
    42. Barbara Boxer
    43. Barbra Streisand
    44. Barbara Bush
    45. Emma Watson
    46. Charlotte Brontë
    47. Emily Brontë (sorry other Brontë sister I forgot your name WH OMEGALUL)
    48. Jane Austen
    49. Ursula K. Le Guin
    50. J.K. Rowling (ugh)
    51. Maggie Gyllenhall (edit: should be Gyllenhaal)
    52. Cate Blanchett
    53. Kiera Knightley (I definitely misspelled her name) (edit: FUCK I HAD IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME AND THEN CHANGED IT)
    54. Mila Kunis
    55. Sandra Bullock
    56. Monica Lewinsky
    57. Meryl Streep
    58. Amy Adams
    59. Lindsay Lohan
    60. Britney Spears
    61. Paris Hilton
    62. Christina Aguilera
    63. Mariah Carey
    64. Whitney Houston
    65. Aretha Franklin
    66. Diana Ross
    67. Patti LaBelle
    68. Donna Summer
    69. Gloria Gaynor
    70. Chaka Khan
    71. Jennifer Hudson
    72. Ariana Grande
    73. Etta James
    74. Ella Fitzgerald
    75. Diana Krall
    76. Doris Day
    77. Ginger Rogers
    78. Judy Garland
    79. Audrey Hepburn
    80. Coco Chanel
    81. 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)
    82. Rosemary Clooney
    83. Bette Davis
    84. Betsy Ross
    85. Harriet Tubman
    86. Rosa Parks
    87. Rosa Luxemburg
    88. Angelina Jolie
    89. Park Geun-hye (disgraced South Korean president)
    90. Jennifer Lopez
    91. Beyoncé Knowles
    92. Kelly Rowland
    93. Taylor Swift (just squeaked in there!)
    94. Stevie Nicks
    95. Courtney Love
    96. Celine Dion
    97. Avril Lavigne
    98. Miranda Cosgrove
    99. Oprah Winfrey
    100. 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 amerikkka 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...