Solution to Thank Heaven for Little Girls
Authors: Erin Rhode and Anand Sarwate
Each group is represented by a set of ladies all born in the same decade. Each set of prepositional logic about the women can be uniquely solved if you assume that each of the five women in the logic statements are a bijection with the integers 1 through 5. Using the first names of the women, these are the top five female baby names as given by the Social Security Adminstration baby names database. A sixth woman is included in each set and solvers must determine her value by looking at the list and seeing where her first name falls in the ranking for the associated decade.
Taking the sixth woman's value for each group and sorting by decade (1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s) gives 2-1-2-25-23-9-16-5. Converting to alphanumerics gives the answer, BABY WIPE.
1980s: |
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| AMANDA Seyfried (3) |
ASHLEY Tisdale (4) |
JENNIFER Hudson (2) |
JESSICA Simpson (1) |
SARAH Lancaster (5) |
SARAH Hughes (5) |
1970s:
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| AMY Poehler (2) |
JENNIFER Capriati (1) |
KIMBERLY Rhode [no relation] (5) |
MELISSA McCarthy (3) |
MICHELLE Monaghan (4) |
CHRISTINA Applegate (16) |
1930s:
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| BARBARA Jordan (3) |
BETTY Everett (2) |
MARY Tyler Moore (1) |
PATRICIA Goldman-Rakic (5) |
SHIRLEY Jones (4) |
BETTY Shabazz (2) |
1940s:
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| BARBARA Boxer (3) |
CAROL Moseley Braun (5) |
LINDA Ronstadt (2) |
MARY Wilson (1) |
PATRICIA Cox (Nixon) (4) |
ELIZABETH Edwards (25) |
1920s:
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| BETTY White (4) |
DOROTHY Dandridge (2) |
HELEN Thomas (3) |
MARGARET Whiting (5) |
MARY Grace Canfield (1) |
MARY Higgins Clark (1) |
1950s:
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| DEBORAH Stabenow (5) |
LINDA Hamilton (2) |
MARY Badham (1) |
PATRICIA Richardson (3) |
SUSAN Hockfield (4) |
MARGARET Noonan (23) |
1910s:
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| DOROTHY McGuire (3) |
HELEN Mack (2) |
MARGARET Walker (4) |
MARY Martin (1) |
RUTH Hussey (5) |
HELEN Wagner (2) |
1960s:
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| KAREN Duffy (4) |
KIMBERLY Elise (5) |
LISA Kudrow (1) |
MARY Stuart Masterson (2) |
SUSAN Olsen (3) |
MICHELLE Obama (9) |