Name that Women in STEM
Jane Goodall, a British scientist, is considered the world’s expert on what?
Chimpanzees
Which famous nurse was known as “the Lady with the Lamp”?
Florence Nightinngale
What is the most common STEM career for women?
Psychologist
Name the movie reference: "The limit does not exist"
Mean Girls
How many faces are remembered by humans in their lifetime?
5,000
Name the 3 women featured in the famous film Hidden Figures, based on the trailblazing mathematicians who brought astronauts to the moon.
Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, and Dorothy Vaughan
The programming language, Ada is named after who?
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, the first computer programmer.
How many women have won Nobel Prizes in science?
20
Dana Scully in what hit 1990s sci-fi television character is credited with inspiring a surge of real-world women to enter science and engineering fields, a trend officially studied as the "Scully Effect"?
The X-Files
When was the STEM acronym (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), first introduced?
2001
Who's famous "Photo 51" X-Ray revealed the double-helix shape of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
Hedy Lamarr. Her frequency hopping theory is critical to today's bluetooth and wifi.
What year did the first woman win a Nobel Prize in science, and who was it?
1903, Marie Skłodowska Curie
Everyone's favorite science teacher, Miss Frizzle, has a side kick that sits on her shoulder. What animal is he?
A Lizard
Name three prime numbers ranging from numbers 1-20
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19
Who wrote the book, Silent Spring, which led to the banning of DDT (a chemical pesticide)?
Rachel Carson
Who was the first woman to go to space?
Valentina Tereshkova
What percent of women in the workforce hold stem positions?
27%
Who is the famous actress who played a neurobiologist on The Big Bang Theory, but also holds a real Ph.D. in neuroscience.
Mayim Bialik
Emma Haruka Iwao, a Google employee, achieved the record for computing Pi to how many digits in 2019?
31 trillion
Who was an American engineer and physician, and the first Black woman to fly to space?
Mae C. Jemison
Name the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
Elizabeth Blackwell
Women make up what percent of STEM industry CEOs?
3%
How many female STEM characters are featured in popular television and film?
30%-37%
Name the two letters of the alphabet that do NOT appear on the periodic table.
J and Q