Women in Physics
Physics Movies
Cal Poly Physics Department
Where are they From?
Wildcard
100
This was the first woman to attain a Ph.D. in Physics in France. She is also the only woman to have 2 Nobel Prizes.
Who is Marie Curie?
100
This film, based on a physicist, won best picture in 2024.
What is Oppenheimer?
100
This nuclear physicist is the chair of the physics department.
Who is Dr. Jennifer Klay?
100
Richard Feynman
What are the United States of America?
100
Shrimps have this many legs.
What is 10?
shrimps is bugs
200
This was the first American woman in space.
Bonus points if you can name the first woman in space.
Who is Sally Ride?
Who is Valentina Tereshkova (USSR)
200
This 1968 film was so impressive that it made people believe the moon landing was fake.
What is 2001: a Space Odyssey?
200
This person is the department's administrative support assistant.
Who is Michelle Wardrop?
200
Neils Bohr
What is Denmark?
200
A majority of adults have this many permanent teeth
what is 32?
300
This woman invented chirped pulse amplification at the University of Rochester. This process revolutionized ultrafast laser technology.
Who is Donna Strickland?
300
This is the first movie to be filmed in zero gravity.
what is Apollo 13?
300
This Cal Poly graduate studies the solid-state structures of carbon nanotubes.
Who is Dr. Colleen Marlow?
300
Erwin Schrödinger
What is Austria?
300
This U.S. state is home to Acadia National Park.
What is Maine?
400
This woman discovered Pulsars as a graduate student.
Who is Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell?
400
This Disney movie was filmed at a lab that is now the National Ignition Facility for Inertial Confinement Fusion.
What is TRON (1982)?
400
This former chair of the physics department used to study liquid crystals but now loves physics education.
Who is Dr. Matt Moelter?
400
Satyendra Nath Bose
What is India?
400
This is Taylor Swift's first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100?
Tim McGraw
500
This Chinese-American physicist experimentally proved that parity is not conserved for beta decay. She is also celebrated for her work on the Manhattan Project, developing the process for separating uranium metal into U-235 and U-238.
Who is Chien-Shiung Wu?
500
This was the first film to take place in space.
What is A Trip to the Moon (1902)?
500
This Geologist loves to bike, paint, and raise wolf hybrids.
Who is Dr. Antonio Garcia?
500
Gustav Kirchhoff
What is Germany?
500
Citi Field is the home to this sports team.
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