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• Exhibit Shows Women Weren't Just Pretty Faces in Early Days of Broadcasting

1. Known as Washington's "First Lady of Television," this woman was photographed every day for five years -- wearing a different hat every day -- for her fashion column in the Washington Times-Herald.

Fran Norris
Mildred Funnell
Inga Rundvold
Barbara Walters

MTV
CBS
NBC
FOX

3. She played the role of Helen Trent in the radio soap "The Romance of Helen Trent," about a woman who wants to prove that just "because a woman is 35, or older, romance in life need not be over ... that the romance of youth can be extended into middle life and even beyond."

Betty Garde
Julie Andrews
Julie Stevens
Audrey Hepburn

4. The first successful radio broadcast was made in San Jose, Calif., in this year:

1877
1909
1911
1930

5. A composer, singer and radio personality, this woman was known as "the long, tall gal from Dixie."

Inga Rundvold
Anne Hummert
Fran Norris
Irene Beasley

6.  Fran Harris-Tuchman owes the start of her television career partly to this event:

World War II
The end of prohibition
The death of Edward R. Murrow
The civil rights march on Washington

7. This radio and TV executive was born in Baltimore and attended Goucher College:

Fran Harris-Tuchman
Helen Sioussat
Betty Ramey
Connie Chung

8. This woman and her husband started their own AM radio station -- in two trailers in a New York swamp -- in 1964. The station was later firebombed after they produced a show on racial tensions:

Helen Sioussat
Helen Faith-Keane
Betty Ramey
Mildred Funnell

9. In 1926, Edythe Meserand started her rise through the ranks of NBC by doing what?

Ghost writing press releases for her boss
Suing her boss for gender discrimination
Flirting with Edward R. Murrow
Baking cookies for network higher-ups

10. This radio personality was known for both her voice and her love of animals, especially cats:

Mona Kent
Inga Rundvold
Pegeen Fitzgerald
Helen Faith-Keane