Why did Shirley shift from Park View Elementary school to Barnard School and back as a young girl?
What is SEGREGATION, DESEGREGATION, RESEGREGATION
100
From 1991-1995, Jackson was a professor at what New Jersey university?
What is RUTGERS
100
Jackson was named ______________ of her 1964 graduating class at Roosevelt High School, where she attended accelerated programs in both math and science.
What is VALEDICTORIAN
100
Jackson used her knowledge of theoretical physics to make progress in telecommunications research while working at what well-known telephone company?
What is AT&T Bell Laboratories.
200
In what year was Shirley born?
What is 1946
200
What famous anti-segregation trial led Shirley to transfer to a newly integrated Barnard School in 1954?
What is BROWN vs. BOARD OF EDUCATION (Topeka)
200
In 1973, Jackson became the first African-American women to obtain a ______________ in theoretical physics from MIT.
What is DOCTORAT
200
In 1998, Shirley became a member of what organisation for "her significant contributions as a distinguished scientist and advocate for education, science, and public policy".
What is the National Women's Hall of Fame
200
Her research led to the evolution of the fax machine, touch-tone phone, solar cell, and ____________________ cables, which are used to ensure call clarity for long-distance phone calls.
What are FIBER OPTIC
300
Fill in the blanks: Shirley is the __________ child in a family of ___________ children.
What is SECOND child, FOUR children
300
Where did Shirley attend college?
What is MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
300
In 1976, Jackson joined the Theoretical Physics Research Department to examine the fundamental properties of various sub-atomic particles and materials at which well-known telecommunications company?
What is AT&T Bell Laboratories
300
On July 1, 1999, Jackson became the 18th president of ______________________ Polytechnic Institute. She was the first woman and first African American to hold this position.
What is Rensselaer
300
Jackson made possible the invention of a device which allows us to see the name of the person who is calling, better known as ____________________ .
What is CALLER ID (Identification)
400
When she was little, Shirley participated in many science fairs. For example, she studied the movement and behavior of these insects.
What are BEES.
400
Shirley went to college in 1964, at the height of the Civil Right's Movement. Of 900 undergraduates in her class, 43 were women, and only __________ were African-American.
What is TWENTY
(Shirley was the only African-American female in her class)
400
In 1974 she became visiting scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in this most neutral of European countries.
What is SWITZERLAND
400
In 1995, President Bill Clinton appointed Jackson to serve as Chairman of the U.S. ___________ Regulatory Commission (NRC), becoming the first woman and first African American to hold that position.
At the NRC, she had "ultimate authority for all NRC functions pertaining to an emergency involving an NRC licensee." What does the letter "n" stand for in NRC?
What is NUCLEAR
400
Because of Jackson, we can have two conversations at once with her invention better known as __________________.
What is CALL WAITING
500
What was the occupation of her father, George?
What is UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE SUPERVISOR.
500
In her last year of college, Shirley became the president of her all African-American female ___________?
What is SORORITY
500
Jackson's first position was as research associate at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois where she studied sub-atomic paticles called ___________.
What is HADRONS
500
In 2009, who appointed Jackson to serve on the his Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, a 20-member advisory group dedicated to public policy?
Who is PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
500
Shirley Jackson's inventions sparked the modern technologies we have today, like ...
What are SMARTPHONES, 3-WAY PHONE CALL, TOUCH SCREENS, CALLER PHOTO IDENTIFICATION