Real Hidden Figures
This space agency employed the three women featured in Hidden Figures.
Answer: What is NASA?
Richard Montañez worked at this company when he came up with his famous idea.
Answer: What is Frito-Lay?
The women in Hidden Figures had to overcome both racial and this type of discrimination.
Answer: What is gender discrimination?
This value was shown in Flamin’ Hot when Richard's wife motivated him not to give up.
Answer: What is family?
Hidden Figures helped bring recognition to these overlooked contributors of the space race.
Answer: Who are African-American women mathematicians?
She was the math genius whose calculations were essential to John Glenn’s orbital flight.
Answer: Who is Katherine Johnson?
This spicy snack was Montañez’s claim to fame.
Answer: What are Flamin’ Hot Cheetos?
Richard Montañez struggled in school partly because of this barrier.
Answer: What is a language barrier / not being able to read well?
In Hidden Figures, Dorothy took the initiative to learn how to program the IBM ultimately leading to promotion. This was an example of which value?
Answer: What is ENTERPRISE
In Flamin' Hot Richard's understanding of the Mexian demographic coupled with the Rico's business savvy is an example of this.
Hint: C-CC
What is: Cross-Cultural Collaboration?
This Hidden Figures character learned how to program the IBM mainframe, becoming a computer pioneer.
Answer: Who is Dorothy Vaughan?
Before pitching his idea, Montañez worked in this role at the company.
Answer: What is a janitor?
In both movies, characters used this trait to persist despite being underestimated.
Answer: What is determination?
Richard Montañez frequently refers to this belief system as a source of strength.
Answer: What is faith / Christianity?
In FH, Frito-Lay recognized the buying power of this often-underrepresented ethnic community.
What is: The Mexican Community
This woman fought for her right to attend classes at an all-white school to become an engineer.
Answer: Who is Mary Jackson?
Montañez drew inspiration from this part of his identity to create the Flamin’ Hot flavor.
Answer: What is his Mexican-American heritage?
Katherine Johnson was finally allowed into mission briefings after this astronaut demanded her presence.
Answer: Who is John Glenn?
At the end of HF Katherine was finally able to put her name on the mission report alongside her male counterpart. This was an example of which value
Answer: What is equality.
How did NASA honor Katherine's contributions to the space program?
What is: They named a building after her
This type of segregation was still legal in Virginia at the time of Hidden Figures.
Hint: J Crow
Answer: What is Jim Crow segregation?
Montañez’s pitch was successful because he understood this crucial aspect of business strategy.
Answer: What is cultural marketing / underserved markets?
Montañez broke corporate norms by doing this without permission, a risky move that paid off.
Answer: What is pitching his idea directly to executives?
Inclusion of various genders and races at NASA was in example of
What is DIVERSITY
What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino?
What is: ElephIno