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WiSTEM in Pop Culture
Inventions by Women
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The first woman to receive a Nobel Prize.

Who was Marie Curie?

100

Name the movie reference: "The limit does not exist".

What is Mean Girls?

100

In 1938, Ruth Graves Wakefield invented this sweet treat by accident when she added broken pieces of chocolate to cookie dough.

What are chocolate chip cookies?

200

The first person to discover the structure of DNA.

Who was Rosalind Franklin?

200

The powerful film based on the lives of Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan, the trailblazing mathematicians who brought astronauts to the moon.

What is Hidden Figures?

200

In 1870, Margaret Knight invented this flat-bottomed item, making it easier to pack and carry groceries.

What are square-bottomed paper bags?

300

The first computer programmer.

Who was Ada Lovelace?

300

Name the movie reference: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

What is Jurassic Park?

300

In 1843, Nancy Johnson invented this hand-cranked device that made frozen desserts much easier to enjoy.

What is an ice cream machine?

400

The first woman to go to space.

Who was Valentina Tereshkova?

400

Masterfully fantastic scientist, engineer, and inventor with a genius level of intellect in the movie Black Panther.

Who is Shuri?

400

In 1966, Marie Van Brittan Brown invented this surveillance setup that laid the foundation for modern safety in homes and businesses.

What is a home security system?

500

The first person to design a compiler for a programming language.

Who was Grace Hopper?

500

The female astrophysicist that appears in the Thor franchise.

Who is Jane Foster?

500

In 1991, Ann Tsukamoto invented a process for isolating these critical cells, key to regenerative medicine.

What are stem cells?

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