…in Space
…in Medicine
…in the Wild
…in the Lab
…in the Field
100
He was the pilot of SpaceX’s first humanned flight in 2020 and the pilot of Artemis II.
Who is Victor Glover?
100
She was the first woman to become a medical doctor in the United States, in 1849.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
100
She studied chimpanzees such as David Greybeard, and demonstrated that humans are not so different from apes.
Who is Jane Goodall?
100
Rosalind Franklin discovered the double-helix structure of this molecule.
What is DNA?
100
Margaret Murie, the “grandmother of the conservation movement,” was instrumental in persuading Congress to establish the Arctic Wildlife Refuge in this state.
What is Alaska?
200
Katharine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughn were just three of these people who helped NASA first missions succeed.
Who are the West Area Computers?
200
Dr Kizzmekia Corbett, leader of the NIH team that developed the COVID-19 vaccine, is this kind of "-ologist.” One who studies the body’s defense mechanisms against disease.
What is immunologist?
200
David Mech popularized this erroneous theory about wolf behavior, then corrected it after more careful study.
What is the “alpha wolf” theory?
200
Sure, Lonnie Johnson developed the nuclear power system on the Galileo satellite, as well as a thermoelectric energy converter, but you probably remember him more for inventing this toy.
What is the Super Soaker (or NERF gun)?
200
Nicknamed “Her Deepness,” this woman authored more than 150 scientific articles about marine biology.
Who is Sylvia Earle?
300
Christina Koch and Jessica Muir were the first to do this in 2019.
What is an all-female spacewalk?
300
Black doctor Charles Drew developed the first method to store vital material. It was collected across the US and sent overseas to help soldiers during WWII.
What is blood?
300
Like Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey studied animals in Africa, but her focus was this primate. She was so dedicated to her work, she lived full-time in Rwanda until her death.
What are gorillas?
300
The only person to win two Nobels in two separate fields, Marie Curie discovered this phenomenon, whereby atoms of certain elements spontaneously give out energy, which can be harmful.
What is radiation?
300
This book, penned by Rachel Carson, sparked an environmentalism movement that led to the banning of the pesticide DDT.
What is Silent Spring?
400
She was the first Black woman in space. (She also guest starred on an episode of Star Trek: the Next Generation).
Who is Mae Jemison?
400
Using oil from the Chaulmoogra plant, Alice Ball invented the cure for this affliction.
What is leprosy?
400
Quechuan biologist Ruthmery Pillco Huarcaya and her faithful canine Ukuku, study this animal in South America.
What is the Andean (or spectacled) bear?
400
Eunice Foot scientifically proved that this gas increases the atmospheric temperature in a phenomenon known as the greenhouse gas effect in 1856.
What is CO2?
400
Mary Anning, a fossil collector and geologist, discovered this dinosaur.
What is a plesiosaurus?
500
George Robert Carruthers designed this viewing tool which was brought to the moon.
What is a far UV camera or telescope?
500
Ibn Sina was the author of the world’s first widely-used medical textbook in the year 900. He also developed this practice to isolate people suspected of carrying an infectious disease. It was an instrumental line of defense against COVID-19 more than a thousand years later.
What is quarantine?
500
She is a wildlife ecologist, founder of the Black Birders week event, and is pictured here with a binturong!
Who is Corina Newsome?
500
Manu Prakash invented the paperfuge, a 78¢ tool which can diagnose this deadly disease without electricity.
What is malaria?
500
Amy Cardinal Christianson is an indigenous scientist proving that these are actually beneficial to the environment, not harmful.
What are wildfires?