Women in STEM
This scientist discovered the elements of radium and polonium.
Who is Marie Curie?
This Canadian soccer player has the most international goals in the history of the sport.
This woman's advocacy challenged the sexist terms in the Indian Act.
Who is Mary Two Axe Earley?
The most-streamed artist of all time on Spotify.
Who is Taylor Swift?
This small-town girl led French armies into battle 13 times against the invading English forces.
Who is Joan of Arc?
Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr developed a code that helped to create this network technology.
What is Wi-Fi?
This team is the first in CFL history to have a female coach.
Who are the BC Lions?
This ancient royal served as the last pharaoh of Egypt.
Who is Cleopatra?
The world's first recorded author.
Who is Enhedunna?
What is the Canadian Auxiliary Air Force?
This doctor became the first Chinese-Canadian to earn a medical degree.
Who is Victoria Chung?
Canadian basketball team that won tournaments across Canada, the US, and Europe.
Who are the Edmonton Grads?
Canada's first Black female MPP (member of provincial parliament).
Who is Rosemary Brown?
The first declaration for women's political rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen written in 1791?
This elite unit of fighter pilots who fought in World War II.
Who were the Night Witches?
This movie is based on the contributions of significant NASA mathematicians.
What is Hidden Figures?
This athlete set a record for high-jump at the 1948 Olympics.
Who is Alice Coachman? Also the first Black woman to win a gold medal in Olympic history.
This activist won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work for Indigenous rights in Guatemala.
Who is Rigoberta Menchú?
The author of the first (and only) Byzantine perspective of the First Crusade.
Who is Anna Komnene?
What is a museum?
This everyday piece of technology was first developed by a mathematician in the 19th century.
What is the computer?
This marathon only allowed women to participate in 1972.
What is the Boston Marathon?
This is the first country that allowed women to vote in elections.
What is New Zealand in 1893?
This oldest artifact of prehistoric art that is from about 24,000 BCE.
What is the Venus (or Woman) of Willendorf?
This Syrian ruler nearly destroyed the Roman Empire in the third century AD.
Who is Zenobia of Palmyra?