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Where was the first West Virginia Girls' Basketball Tournament played?
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1950s TV star Virginia Ruth Egnor from Lincoln County and Huntington was known to the public by this nickname.
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About what percentage of West Virginia women have jobs in the labor force?
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Which one of these organizations taught and encouraged women to can food in the early 1900s?
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The mother of which president was supposedly born in present-day Mineral County?
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Which university's art gallery is named for Della Brown Taylor Hardman?
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She was the first woman licensed to practice medicine in West Virginia.
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Where was the first Mother's Day in the United States held?
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Ruth Boggs taught and helped perpetuate this type of singing in Beckley.
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Who had a hit with the 1947 country song "Beyond the Sunset?"
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