Early Life
Education
Career
The world around her
Late in Life
Final Jeopardy
100

As a young child, Katherine Johnson was always asking questions.  It didn't stop when she got older.  I guess that's why they called her THIS.

Inquisitive

100

Katherine Johnson started high school at THIS AGE due to her unsurpassed maturity, curiosity, and talent.

10 Years of age.

100

In 1953, years after Roosevelt made it possible for African-Americans to hold Federal jobs, Johnson joined NASA in THIS POSITION.  Yes, it was actually her job title.

Computer

100

In the Early 1900's, women were generally restricted to THESE CAREERS.

Teaching and Nursing

100

Johnson worked for NASA up until THIS YEAR.

1986

100

DOUBLE YOUR SCORE: It's the major conflict that just ended when Katherine Johnson was born.

World War I

200

Katherine Johnson never went to Kindergarten. She actually started in THIS GRADE at the age of 5.

Second Grade.

200

Although she achieved a degree in Mathematics, she was curious about the world and also studied and achieved a degree in THIS.

French.

200

Katherine Johnson DID THIS at NASA after learning there was no law preventing her from doing so.

Attended Engineer's Meetings

200

NASA means National Aeronautics and Space Administration, but they were once called NACA, which MEANS THIS...

National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics

200

Although her work on the Apollo missions were hidden away, she still earned three of these awards from NASA.

NASA Special Achievement Award

200

Katherine Johnson's accomplishments were documented in this major Motion Picture.

Hidden Figures

300

Katherine Johnson was so smart, she started college at THIS AGE.

15 years old.

300

This was the mentor at West Virginia State University that created a "geometry of space" class because of and for Katherine Johnson.

Professor W.W. Schiefflin Claytor

300

After Alan Shepard's May 1961 flight into space put the first American into space, Katherine Johnson was able to reverse engineer the results using THESE CURVES, which eventually allowed Americans to achieve orbit around Earth.

Parabola

300

In 1935, NACA began hiring white women to measure, calculate, and plot results of flight tests by hand.  They held THIS JOB TITLE.

Computer

300

Johnson received THIS TITLE in 1997.

1997 Mathematician of the Year

300

DOUBLE YOUR SCORE: Katherine Johnson described herself, saying she always DID THIS activity as a child.

Counted Everything

400

Katherine Johnson's family moved away from her hometown at the age of 10.  They moved 125 miles away because the laws for African American people at the time stated they couldn't do THIS.

Go to High School.

400

Johnson was not able to pursue a career with her Mathematics degree because she was a woman.  She settled for this career instead.

Teaching

400

In 1962, John Glenn made THIS SPECIAL REQUEST after being told the machines had completed calculations on his path.  

He wanted Katherine Johnson herself to double check the results.

400

Women were better able to enter the workforce after men were enlisted to serve in THIS MAJOR CONFLICT.

World War II

400

In 2015, President Obama awarded Katherine Johnson the nation's highest honor given to a civilian. It was called THIS.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom

400

It's the name of Katherine Johnson's hometown.

White Sulphur Springs

500

These are the college degrees Katherine Johnson received at West Virginia State University.

Mathematics and French

500

Her mentor created THIS COURSE for her at West Virginia State University.

Geometry of Space

500

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," were the words uttered by Neil Armstrong on THIS MISSION.  If not for Katherine Johnson's work, the moment would not have been possible.

Apollo 11 / Moon Landing

500

It was the Executive Order made by President Roosevelt that eliminated discrimination based on race, creed, color, or national origin for government and defense workers.  It opened the door for Johnson to join NASA.

Executive Order 8802

500

Johnson has encouraged students to join STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), but said some things will DO THIS.  Yet, there will always, always be science.

Drop out of the public eye

500

This President signed this act in 1958, which created this Administration.

NASA

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