The Wombat File Is Yours to Keep: The Pre-Thanksgiving Quasi-Friday Quiz: Early Edition

Here in our glorious amalgamation of various -inas, -idas, -otas, and -onts, this Wednesday is not unlike a Friday, coming as it does before our patriotic orgy of poultry, root vegetables, team sports and frenzied consumerism. So, why not a pre-Thanksgiving Wednesday quiz? (and yes, I know it's still technically Tuesday. But I've got to get to bed.)

In deference to our ~~many~~ two readers outside of the U.S., and because it's just too much work to do it otherwise, this week's nix to the neural network has nothing whatsoever to do with Thanksgiving.

Born Bessie Wallis Warfield in 1895 (or 1896 according to her own account), she became the first woman to receive this honor, in 1936. The following year, Soong May-ling became the second -- although in her case she was honored jointly with her husband.

What was the honor, and under what names are these two women better known?

The first correct answer to every bit of the above question wins a slice of the heavenly custard-in-a-pastry-shell that goes by the misleading name of "pumpkin pie." No Googling or Soong-May-ling. One guess per comment, but comment as often as you like.

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The Nobel Peace Prize?

Posted by: gavinedwards | November 22, 2006 12:57 AM

Nope.

Posted by: BT | November 22, 2006 07:26 AM

Face on a stamp?

Posted by: shananan | November 22, 2006 10:36 AM

On a coin?

Mrs. Butterworth and the Land-o-Lakes girl?

Posted by: shananan | November 22, 2006 10:42 AM

No...though I really should do a Mrs. Butterworth-related Quiz.

In both cases, the result was that their faces were widely disseminated...

Posted by: BT | November 22, 2006 10:49 AM

Cover of Time Magazine?

Bessie Smith and, um, dunno.

Posted by: hackly_fracture | November 22, 2006 11:51 AM

Hackly is getting close with part one.

Posted by: BT | November 22, 2006 12:32 PM

Okay then, cover of Life Magazine?

Posted by: bootsy3000 | November 23, 2006 01:46 PM

Was Bess the Mrs. Wallis of Ye Olde Abdication Fame? And did Mr. and Mrs. Soong May-ling abdicate and move to Taiwan from China?

Posted by: bootsy3000 | November 23, 2006 01:48 PM

Time's Man of the Year.

Bessie is better known as Betty Grable.

Posted by: boxjam | November 24, 2006 08:04 AM

Bootsy correctly ID's "Wallis Simpson" -- the one who took a perfectly good king and ruined him -- and while I don't think that Chiang Kai-Shek and his wife (who were "Couple of the Year") -- exactly abdicated, that's who we were thinking of.

Boxjam, of course, gets part one with the Man of the Year....congrats to you both!

Posted by: lewombat | November 24, 2006 01:07 PM

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