Hint: You can find the answers to these questions by reading the Profiles for the honorees in the "Meet the Women" section.
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Which honoree’s admiration for Barbara Walters led her to become a television journalist?
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Who was the first woman president of a television production company?
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Milton Cross was the voice of the Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Opera broadcasts for forty years. To which honoree did he owe his career?
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Who persuaded Bill Cosby to play a doctor on The Cosby Show instead of a limo driver as he originally intended?
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What television chef worked for the Secret Service during World War II?
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What honoree helped to pave the street for Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, and Cookie Monster?
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Who was the first female comic to be invited to Carson's couch for a post-act chat on a first appearance?
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What honoree discovered the Jackson 5 AND revived the TV western?
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Which honoree learned to write for television by watching episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show at The Paley Center for Media in New York City?
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What female journalist—who went on to a wildly successful and distinguished career—did Edward R. Murrow turn down for a job?
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Who was the first African-American woman to own a publicly traded company?
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Which honoree was inspired at a young age by the glamorous comic strip reporter Brenda Starr to pursue a career in journalism?
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Who, in her role as the only female writer in the fabled Your Show of Shows writers room, inspired the Sally Rogers character on The Dick Van Dyke Show?
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Which television executive provided “green slime” for staffers to play with during meetings?
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What television director did Steven Spielberg seek out because of her work on ER?
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Who was the only person to appear in, and direct an episode of, The Twilight Zone?
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Which honoree do Beavis and Butt-Head have in common with The Osbournes?
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What honoree’s father manufactured burial shrouds for a living?
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How did Cokie Roberts get her first name?
Her older brother could not pronouce her given name, Corinne.
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Who got her journalistic start working for Mike Wallace in the 1950s?
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Who is married to a former bassist of the Miami Sound Machine?
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Who began her radio career as a weather girl?
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Jimi Hendrix reportedly wrote a song as a tribute to which honoree?
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Who worked with William Safire at the public relations firm Tex McCrary, Inc., during the 1950s?
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Who was the first woman to become a vice president at a television network?
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Who was the first African-American woman to be added to the Forbes annual compendium of billionaires?
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Who once worked as a ghostwriter for the fabled Broadway playwright and director George Abbott?
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What dancer made her mark as a director when she took charge of Hillman College?
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Who began her radio career reading a Christmas cookie recipe in Yiddish?
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Whose versatility was such that she was able to belt out a torch song and then adapt the personality of a four-year-old child within the same program?
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What honoree balked at MGM’s suggestion that Ann-Margaret and Raquel Welch play the “buddy cops” in the project that ultimately became Cagney & Lacey?
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Which TV newsperson spent part of her honeymoon studying Jane’s Fighting Ships, in preparation for covering the Pentagon?
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Who achieved success as an Olympic athlete and then went on to become one of the first female sportscasters while still a teenager?
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Who said this about her maternity leave status: “I had to get back to work. NBC has me under contract; the baby and I only have a verbal agreement”?
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Which prominent sportscaster has served terms as Miss America and the First Lady of the state of Kentucky?
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Which honoree, in an effort to preserve the mystery inherent in being a radio personality, refused to have her photograph taken early on in her career?
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Which sitcom writer tackled the divisive issue of a woman’s right to choose before Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in all fifty states?
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Who once ran the East Coast office of Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute?
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What Harvard Law School graduate would go on to publish the first health and fitness magazine for African-American women?
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Who brought the Cold War into our homes before rising to the top of the public television field?
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What future television superstar started out in a series in which her face was never seen by the audience?
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Which honoree, today highly regarded as a network executive and producer of documentary films, grew up in a home without a television?
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Which honoree played the leading role in a television production of The Little Match Girl?
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In the mid-1940s, which honoree was earning approximately $300,000 a year for her radio scripts?
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Who began her television career as a weather girl?
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Who rose from an ABC Studios page to Disney-ABC Television president in the course of two decades?
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Who rose from the secretarial pool at CBS to become the only woman directing dramas during television’s live era?
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Which television executive spent a summer working as a Capitol Hill intern for a California congressman?
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Who was a California delegate at the 1972 Democratic Convention?
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Which radio commentator was married to author Sinclair Lewis?
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Which She Made It honoree spent months in a New York police precinct interviewing accused prostitutes to research her 1975 television movie?
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What children’s show creator and performer also wrote an episode of the original Star Trek series?
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What woman created the soap opera parodies made famous by Carol Burnett and Norman Lear?
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Which sportscaster commented that the men’s doubles luge is “like a bar bet gone bad”?
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What actor/producer portrayed sixty-three different characters in her first two seasons on television?
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What executive producer introduced Michael Douglas to television audiences?
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Which honoree directed the classic Mary Tyler Moore episode “Chuckles Bites the Dust”?
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What award-winning producer of dramas helped to bring All in the Family to television?
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What honoree worked with Paul McCartney early in her career?
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Who had a hospital bed installed in her SNL office to facilitate all-night writing sessions?
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Which honoree gave her pet cat, Bonkers, a continuing role on the long-running soap opera All My Children?
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Which honoree became a Mississippi State Bowling Champion at the age of ten?
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Which honoree created and produced a comedy series that was canceled early on, but became a long-running hit after viewer protests convinced the network to bring it back?
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
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Who was the first person to bring major league baseball, basketball, and hockey to cable television?
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What female director helped to establish teen heartthrobs Nicolas Cage and Val Kilmer?
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What former network president began her career answering phones at ABC Sports?
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What network president was named one of People magazine’s “Most Beautiful People?”
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Who was the first person to “test” Lucille Ball’s (SMI, 2005) stunts—stomping on grapes, teetering on a unicycle, and the like—before adding them to the scripts of I Love Lucy?
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Who tugged on her left ear at the end of each episode of her television program?
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Who was the first “femcee” on television?
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What honoree appeared in animated form on a Saturday morning children’s show while concurrently starring in her own prime-time series?
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Who named her beloved yacht “Mike”—in honor of a microphone?
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Which honoree drove the Fox network to first place in the ratings for the first time in its history?
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Which honoree has directed films about Jay Leno, David Letterman, and Howard Stern?
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Which honoree made the unusual move of starting her career as a television writer in the 1950s, after getting married and having a family?
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Which honoree performed Argentine tango for the emperor of Japan, at the Hollywood Bowl, on Broadway, for the opening of World Cup Soccer, and in the movie Evita?
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Which honoree landed a job on one of her favorite soaps, Search for Tomorrow, while still a college student?
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Which honoree invented the Vulcan death grip on the original Star Trek series?
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What honoree first attained fame on television because of her expertise in the field of boxing?
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What honoree chose to broadcast naked from her Iraqi hotel room in hopes to buy time to dress—and maybe hide her satellite phone—in case she was discovered?
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What She Made It honoree was known as the Fairy Godmother of Radio?
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Which honoree managed to get the Kremlin, the Louvre, Scotland Yard, and Peking’s Forbidden City to open their doors to cameras for the first time?
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Who was one of only two women (the other being Gertrude Berg [SMI, 2005]) to wield creative control both in front of and behind the camera during the early days of television?
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What prolific TV writer inspired Barbra Streisand’s character in The Way We Were?
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Which pioneering DJ who helped invent freeform radio also secretly programmed the playlist heard on WKRP in Cincinnati’s fictional radio station?
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Which honoree was the inaugural program director of NPR’s All Things Considered?
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Which honoree was a high school debating rival of Cheers’s Shelley Long?
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Which honoree was so popular with her listeners that repeats of her radio programming continued to air for three years after her death?
Martha Jean “The Queen” Steinberg
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Which president and CEO of a major cable network provided a seventeen-week job guaranteed leave (with nine weeks paid) for new mothers…and fitness club reimbursements?
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Which She Made It honoree dropped out of her zoological graduate program at Columbia University because she couldn’t make it through the dissections?
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Which honoree was the first female sportscaster chosen to carry the Olympic torch?
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Which former premed student disguised herself in a Red Cross uniform and served coffee and donuts to those waiting in line to see her one-woman Broadway show?
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What television journalist got her start reading cosmetics advertisements on the radio?
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What writer and producer of radio serials refused to fire blacklisted writers who worked on her shows?
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Which honoree is related to one of the creators of Superman?
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Which She Made It honoree helped pay for her Columbia University education by selling used cars?
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Which honoree preceded Barbara Walters (SMI, 2005) as the host of a lively 1960s talk show known for its frank discussions of controversial issues?
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Which Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award–winning writer-director-producer credits her unique worldview to her early ability to read type upside down?
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Who had a featured role in one of the campiest low-budget films of all time, Plan 9 from Outer Space?
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What former beauty pageant winner and one-time weather girl was later named one of the most powerful women in Washington?
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Who gave her Academy Award–winning performance the very same year she debuted in her own situation comedy for NBC?
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What do most people not realize about the famous “Westinghouse commercial where the door doesn’t open for Betty Furness?”
It’s not Betty Furness! It’s another actress. But Furness was so strongly associated with the company, that many people think it was her.
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Before landing her big break as the first full-time female sports anchor on CNN, who had to drive through cow pastures in Corpus Christi, Texas, just to rock out as a heavy metal DJ at a local radio station?
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Which cable programming executive is also an accomplished photographer whose work has appeared in Time, the Boston Herald, and the Los Angeles Times?
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Which She Made It honoree is only the second woman to have won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host?
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Who spent time contributing stories to the Today show more than a decade before she became one of television’s most famous fictitious news reporters?
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Who is the only radio journalist to ever receive the coveted Broadcaster of the Year Award from the National Press Foundation?
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Which marketing maven took a library of old cartoons, sprinkled it with the likes of The Powerpuff Girls and Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and turned it into one of cable television’s biggest brands?
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Who was responsible for the script of the Oscar-winning musical Cabaret as well as creating ABC’s popular series Family?
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Which honoree began her broadcasting career with a college radio show called Musica da Camera, featuring chamber music?
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What TV journalist cut her political teeth while a newspaper reporter covering presidential candidates Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson?
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Who was awarded the Legion of Honor at the Élysée Palace by French president Jacques Chirac?
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Which honoree helped develop and produce the long-running PBS history series American Experience?
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Which former high school teacher went on to launch such programs as Biography, History’s Mysteries, and Dog the Bounty Hunter?
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Which She Made It honoree often read two books a night and had a photographic memory?
Mary Margaret McBride, who would frequently quote long passages from the books of her author-guests from memory, to the guests’ great surprise.
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Who, not long out of college, worked as a tree cutter and lived in her Ford van?
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Which radio performer campaigned for president of the United States in 1940 as a member of the Surprise Party?
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What children’s programming doyenne is credited with coining the phrase “the coarsening of America?”
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Which honoree appeared on the cover of LIFE Magazine’s tenth anniversary edition in 1946 as “the typical American child”?
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Which She Made It honoree got her first taste of acting portraying a prostitute in a college play?
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Which honoree was the first moderator of Meet the Press?
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Which SMI honoree once went against the wishes of her bosses and insisted that an anchorman disfigured during an accident be put back on the air?
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Which She Made It honoree replied to an offer from a friend to “run a radio station” in 1922 with, “But Walter, I don’t know what a radio station is”?
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Which honoree is the only female documentary filmmaker to have won two Oscars?
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Which SMI honoree helped to organize New York City's first observance of Earth Day?
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Which She Made It honoree modeled for Nina Ricci in Paris?
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Which honoree took over the mantle of directing Saturday Night Live in her thirties?
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Whose mother was a Broadway actress who also appeared in the movie Isle of the Dead with Boris Karloff?
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Which honoree won first prize on the Original Amateur Hour by doing a scene from the 1936 Oscar-winning movie The Great Ziegfeld?
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What future talk show host landed her first acting gig as a cast regular on the eighties sitcom Gimme a Break!?
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As a teenager, what SMI honoree worked as a candy striper at a local hospital?
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What highly honored journalist once worked as a DJ under the pseudonym “Hushpuppy?”
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What high-profile news anchor has played the cello at Carnegie Hall?
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Which She Made It honoree was offered a job as a writer for Captain Kangaroo right after she and her children had just watched an episode of that series on television?
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Which SMI honoree was the first female news anchor in France?
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Which journalist began her career in radio as a deejay playing political Latin music on the New York airwaves?
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Which honoree was a former actress and part-time receptionist who went on to direct the world’s first commercial color broadcast?
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Which She Made It honoree landed her first job out of college as a typist and was promoted after her bosses discovered that she wasn’t very good at it?
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Which She Made It honoree once refused an award as a matter of journalistic principle?
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Which beloved British comedian is purported to be the subject of the Eurythmics’s song “Jennifer” from the album Sweet Dreams?
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What powerhouse producer of classy comedy series got her start shooting roller derbies and wrestling matches?
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Which She Made It honoree as a child was able to hobnob with the literati of the day, including Somerset Maugham and Edna Ferber?
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What producer of a current hit series once had the title role in the Mexican telenovela Teresa?
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Which She Made It honoree’s first job in television was cohosting a variety show seen by more than two hundred million people every week?
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Whose decision to restore the house she bought with her husband would ultimately lead to a career that would place her value at $1 billion?
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Which honoree inspired the character of Rita Marshall in the 1982 Dustin Hoffman movie Tootsie?
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What internationally famous sex therapist was trained as a sniper by Jewish freedom fighters?
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Which SMI writer/producer started out as an actor and once portrayed a ghost who was allergic to flowers on a British children’s TV show?
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Which television executive who oversaw the launches of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager went on to spearhead a company involved in artificial human intelligence?
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Which She Made It honoree broke into show business after cold-calling James L. Brooks to tell him she was a huge fan of The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
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