Women in Tech History
Who was the first programmer in history
A) Barbara Streisand
B) Ada Lovelace
C) Carol Shaw
D) Margot Robbie
B) Ada Lovelace
She became known as the "Grandmother of Europe"
A: Queen Elizabeth II
B: Queen Victoria
C: Queen Anne
D: Queen Elizabeth I
B) Queen Victoria
She was the first woman to perform the solo nonstop transatlantic flight.
A: Amy Johnson
B: Betty Miller
C: Amelia Earhart
D: Eileen Collins
C: Amelia Earhart
Note G was Ava Lovelace's first program, and the first computer program in history. It:
A: Printed "Hello World"
B: Calculated Bernoulli numbers
C: Performed long division
D: Calculated square roots
B: Calculated Bernoulli numbers
Who holds the record for the longest reign as a British monarch?
A. Queen Victoria
B. Queen Elizabeth I
C. Queen Elizabeth II
D. Queen Mary I
C: Queen Elizabeth II
Grace Hopper is credited with creating the first programming language for computers. She also served in a branch of our military. Which branch did she serve in?
A) Air Force
B) Army
C) Navy
D) National Guard
C) Navy
This state was the first to grant women the right to vote in 1869
A: California
B: New York
C: Colorado
D: Wyoming
D: Wyoming
In 1903, Marie Curie became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize. What other Nobel first did she achieve?
A: First person to win 2 Nobel Prizes
B: First person to be awarded posthumously
C: First woman to serve on the judging committee
D: First person to destroy their award
A: First person to win 2 Nobel Prizes
This invention turned secretary Bette Nesmith Graham into a millionaire. First marketed as "Mistake-Out," Graham's homemade invention was an instant hit.
A: Sticky Notes
B: White Out
C: Sharpie
D: Acrylic Paint
B: White Out
Which woman holds the record for the fastest 100m sprint?
A. Florence Griffith-Joyner
B. Shelly‑Ann Fraser‑Pryce
C. Carmelita Jeter
D. Elaine Thompson‑Herah
A: Florence Griffith-Joyner
Edith Clarke was the first female _____ engineer. She was also the first female professor of ______ engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Born to a family of nine children, she was orphaned at the age of 12. She used her inheritance to fund her college education and became a graduate in mathematics. She taught at a private school before joining AT&T.
A) Mechanical
B) Aerospace
C) Electrical
D) Chemical
C) Electrical
This woman was the first chair of the UN Human Rights Commission
A: Rosa Parks
B: Eleanor Roosevelt
C: Susan B. Anthony
D: Miriam A. Ferguson
B: Eleanor Roosevelt
Around 1239 Bettisia Gozzadini became the first woman to teach at a university. She taught at:
A: University of Oxford
B: University of Salamanca
C: University of Bologna
D: University of Vienna
C: University of Bologna
This woman is known for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.
A: Jane C. Wright
B: Elizabeth Blackwell
C: Ann Preston
D: Marie Curie
D: Marie Curie
Who is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history?
A. Greta Thunberg
B. Malala Yousafzai
C. Rigoberta Menchú
D. Wangari Maathai
B. Malala Yousafzai
Carol Shaw is believed to be the first female video game designer. A graduate in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, she began her career at _____. She created some of the most popular games for ______ such as Polo, 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe, and River Raid.
A) Atari
B) Nintendo
C) Sega
D) Microsoft
A) Atari
She is considered by Forbes to be the richest woman of 2026
A: Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers
B: Alice Walton
C: JK Rowling
D: Melinda Gates
B) Alice Walton
In the Colony of Maryland, Margaret Brent became the first women in what would become the US to serve as an attorney in this year
A: 1590
B: 1648
C: 1775
D: 1495
B: 1648
Rózsa Péter was one of the founders of this theory, a branch of mathematical logic, of computer science, and of the theory of computation that originated in the 1930s.
A: Heuristic
B: Merge Sort
C: Recursion
D: Tree Traversal
C: Recursion
Which woman holds the record for the most Olympic medals in gymnastics?
A. Nadia Comăneci
B. Simone Biles
C. Larisa Latynina
D. Shannon Miller
Answer: C. Larisa Latynina
(Simone Biles holds many records, but Latynina still holds the total medal count.)
Joan Clark is a cryptanalyst and numismatist who was recruited to the Government Code and Cypher School and then stationed to work at Bletchley Park in the section known as Hut 8. She was the only female practitioner of Banburismus which was a new cryptanalytic process developed by Alan Turing.
Clark was best known as a code-breaker at her station during ________ and played an important role in the Enigma project. Where she decrypted Germany’s secret communications.
A) World War 1
B) World War 2
C) Korean War
D) Vietnam War
B) World War 2
This country was the first to elect a woman to be its head of government in 1960
A: Australia
B: Brazil
C: Ceylon/Sri Lanka
D: Germany
C: Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon)
In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to do this
A: Become a licensed pilot
B: Swim across the English Channel
C: Become a millionaire
D: Get tenured at Harvard University
B: Swim across the English Channel
This type of star was discovered by Jocelyn Bell in 1967.
A: Neutron
B: Brown Dwarf
C: Red Giants
D: Red Dwarf
A: Neutron
Who became the first woman to win the Fields Medal (the “Nobel Prize of Mathematics”)?
A. Ingrid Daubechies
B. Maryam Mirzakhani
C. Emmy Noether
D. Karen Uhlenbeck
B. Maryam Mirzakhani