Biology
Who discovered how DNA is structured?
Rosalind Franklin
Which mathematicians helped land Apollo 11 on the moon?
Katherine Johnson
Which ancient world created the decimal system?
Ancient India
Who developed the idea behind WiFi?
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler (Heddy Lamar)
Who first linked yellow fever to mosquitoes?
Carlos Juan Finlay
Who revolutionized medicine by creating "HeLa" cells that allows us to study the effects of toxins, drugs, hormones and viruses on the growth of cancer cells?
Henrietta Lacks
Who was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes?
Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie
Who is considered the mastermind behind computer science?
Ada Lovelace
Which ancient civilization built complex aqueducts and canals?
Aztecs
What do you call the place in Young Hall that's a lecture hall, study lounge and meeting space all in one?
The Mani L. Bhaumik Collaboratory
Who laid the foundation for the discovery and understanding about evolution?
John Edmonstone
Who discovered nuclear fission and the theoretical explanation for it?
Lise Meitner
Who laid the basics of math?
Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
Who invented our present-day light bulbs?
Lewis Latimer
Where are we right now?
We are on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples :)
What was the first animal to get cloned?
Dr. Tong Dizhou's fish.
Who discovered dark matter?
Vera Rubin
Who was known as the "human computer"?
Shakuntala Devi
What company or person invented home security systems?
Marie Van Brittan Brown
Who created a board game that teaches the dangers about concentrated wealth by allowing the players to buy houses, hotels, and railroads as they move across the board? (Hint..?)
Elizabeth Magie - The Landlord's Game (Monopoly)
Who discovered that individuals with an extra copy of chromosome 21 presented with physical and developmental anomalies known as "Down syndrome"?
Marthe Gautier
Who invented the microphone by converting sound to electrical signals?
James West
Who is the mathematician that contributed to categorical topology?
Graciela Salicrup López
Who invented the kayak?
The Inuit people in Canada
What do you call the steps that get you from SAC / Kaufman Hall --> Royce Hall / Powell Library?
Tongva Steps