I don’t think I could name 100 people under these rules.
Edit: Especially if we consider rule 7b (must be someone with real ass blood in their veins) to indicate that these people need to still exist today. So I can’t just rattle off 40 historical figures to pad it out.
No it specifically says dead people are allowed despite the real ass blood comment. Thats just specifically that they cant be fiction. You can pad it out with historical figures for sure.
Ah, you’re right. Ok, if dead people count I reckon I can probably name 100 people. 100 women is not happening though.
The idea is not to name women directly. You can do this but its hard for people. Try to do this instead. I want you to imagine a movie or tv series. Now who is a woman actor in it. Then think of a movie with them in it and name woman actor in that. Do this with other subjects as well. The idea is to build a web inside your head of things relating to women.
I don’t watch movies or TV series, I only vaguely know of a handful hollywood actors by cultural osmosis. I could probably walk into a room populated exclusively by the top 100 most popular celebrities and not have the faintest clue there was anything unusual going on.
But it does not have to be movies or TV. It can be any subject
Such as? What I’m saying is, I simply do not have these lists of popular people existing in my head.
For men, it’s easy. You just need to list all the 16 Louis (Louis I, Louis II, Louis III), all the 8 Henry (Henry I, Henry II, Henry III), and so on.
- Can be Streamers
I now know the audience of this and refuse to participate.
can’t be your mother but can be a streamer
yea pass
I think its a completly reasonable rule to say it can’t be a person you personally know lmao. Point is for it to be googleable. Specifically mentioning that streamers are a valid option is obviously geared towards the audience (which is literally an on stream challenge lol) but anyone you can verify exists as a public figure should count.
Yes i stole it from a streamer challenge lol I just thought it was funny and also posted it because I wanted to talk about how much my special interest makes it easy for me.
I prefer the superior challenge: name a woman
Interesting, I will give it a try (cause I’m bored and why not)
Biblical: 1 Eve (Genesis) 2 Rebecca (Genesis) 3 Leah (Genesis) 4 Sara/Sarai (Genesis) 5 Rachel (Joshua) 6 Ruth (Ruth) 7 Naomi (Ruth) 8 Esther (Esther) 9 Bathsheeba (Samuel) 10 Tamar (Samuel) 11 Jezabel (Kings) 12 Mary (Matthew) 13 Mary Magdeline (Matthew)
Music 14 Taylor Swift 15 Lana Del Rey 16 Bille Eilish 17 Selina Gomez 18 Demi Lovato 19 Halsey 20 Doja Cat 21 Nikki Minaj 22 Megan Thee Stalion 23 Cardi B 24 Ice Spice (Isis G?) 25 Laura Brehm 26 Veela (Victoria) 27 Tori Kelly 28 Anvril Lavigne 29 Katy Perry 30 Carrie Underwood 31 Kelly Clarkson 32 Nelly Furtado 33 Dolly Parton 34 Shannon (let the music play) 35 Paula Abdul 36 Meg Myers 37 Olivia Newton John 38 Seline Dion 39 Janet Jackson 40 Latoya Jackson 41 Natasha Beddingfield 42 Olivia Rodrigo 43 Sara Ross 44 Kylie Montigue 45 Lily Alen 46 Ellie Goulding 47 Mariah Carey 48 Tinashe 49 Samantha Fox 50 Shakira
TV/Movies/Pop Culture 51 Terry Ferell 52 Marina Sirtis 53 Nana Visitor 54 Nichelle Nicols 55 Carrie Fisher 56 Billie Piper 57 Jenna Coleman 58 Alex Kingston 59 Catherine Tate 60 Karen Gillian 61 Scarlet Johansen 62 Gal Gadot 63 Marina Cosgrove 64 Janette Mcurty 65 Belle Delphine 66 Rachel Ray 67 Jojo Siwa 68 sssniperwolf 69 your mom
History/Authors 70 Cleopatra 71 Hatshepsut 72 Marie Curie 73 Marie Antoinette 74 Jane Austen 75 Louisa May Alcott 76 Laura Ingals Wilder 77 Mary Shelly 78 Emily Dickinson 79 Queen Victoria I 80 Queen Elizabeth II 81 Margaret Thatcher 82 Princess Diana 83 JK Rowling 84 Emily Rodda 85 Pokahontas (prob buchered spelling) 86 Sakejawia (also buchered spelling) 87 Jean de Arc 88 Kamala Harris 89 Rosa Parks 90 Hariet Tubman 91 Betsy Ross 92 Mulan 93 Helen of Troy 94 Penelope (Ithica) 95 Hypatia 96 Sappho 97 Mona Lisa? 98 Aileen Wuornos 99 Anne Frank 100 Mother Tereisa
It actually took me longer than I thought, about 35 min, and it did get pretty hard towards the end
87 Jeanne d’Arc
88 Kamala Harris
89 Rosa Parks
90 Hariet Tubmanone of these is not like the others lmao
It’s fine, I think most people generally have tentatively reaccepted the French into the human race.
While of course weighed down hugely by being Fr*nch, we must remember that d’Arc did meritoriously contribute to killing a lot of Anglos.
My mom is not Googleable!!! lol
I’m not sure I could name 100 people tbh
The only woman I know, both in my personal life and the history, is Ada Lovelace because she was a programmer and that makes her a human being.
As far as I’m concerned, she was the only woman and there hasn’t been another woman since.
i’ll just write maria 100 times and get it done in record time.
Ok Shadow
look its the same strategy i used in the ‘name cities in europe’ game. santa maria lighted up the whole map.
Me and my eight hundred thousand best friends, all named Kayleigh (no two use the same spelling)
like I’d even be able to name 100 men
what’s the point of knowing about people if people you know don’t count
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
flagmaker1 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…
I don’t think I could name 100 real public figure men that aren’t dead
Not gonna do it cuz I am tired and all but I think I would fare pretty well. Just based on authors, actresses, politicians, and revolutionaries alone.
Can be streamers
No. No. No. No. No.
Hmm…
- Marylin Monroe, 2. Kamala Harris, 3. Hillary Clinton, 4. Cleopatra, 5. Michelle Obama, 6. Lauren Southern, 7. Candace Owens, 8. Nikki Haley, 9. Sigourney Weaver, 10. Eve, 11. Rashida Tlaib, 12. Ilhan Omar, 13. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, 14. Drew Barrymore, 15. Kristin Stewart, 16. Margaret Thatcher, 17. Golda Meier, 18. Marie Antoinette, 19. Queen Latifah, 20. Monica Louinsky, 21. Gina Carrano, 22. Harriet Tubman, 23. Rosa Parks, 24. Noomi Rappace, 25. Gal Gadot, 26. Anita Sarkeesian, 27. Sarah Silverman, 28. Ursula Le Guin, 29. JK Rowling (you never said we had to know what the initials stood for), 30. Taylor Swift, 31. Brianna Wu, 32. Naomi Klein, 33. Victoria Secret, 34. Rumiko Takahashi, 35. Indira Ghandi, 36. Queen Elizabeth, 37. Mary Queen of Scots, 38. Queen Victoria, 39. Ayn Rand, 40. Patricia Routledge, 41. Michelle Pfeiffer, 42. Breonna Taylor, 43. Amber Heard, 44. Eva Braun, 45. Sinead O’Conor, 46. Pokimane, 47. Marisa Tomei, 48. Kathy Griffin, 49. Mother Theresa, 50. Jane Goodall, 51. Anna Kournikova, 52. Sarah Michelle Geller, 53. Greta Thunberg, 54. the Virgin Mary, 55. Joan of Arc, 56…uh…
So I know lots of women, but I haven’t the faintest idea of their names; for example I know of Henry the VIII’s multiple wives, I know of the woman who discovered something to do with radiation and had to be buried in a lead lined coffin, I recall the girl who used to kill Nazis and then killed her interrogator with his own gun, etc.
Amber.
Come on, you can do better than 1
Tracy Chapman x 100
