Women in IBM/Tech
Grace Hopper was an early pioneer in computer programming and also served as a rear admiral in what branch of the US Armed Forces.
What is the US Navy?
The tennis center that hosts the US Open is named after what former tennis player and gender equality advocate.
Who is Billie Jean King?
English zoologist, Jane Goodall, is most well known for her studies and research on what animal.
What are chimpanzees?
This Broadway show based on the suffragists and the women's suffrage movement won 2 Tony Awards in 2024 for Best Book and Best Score.
What is "Suffs"?
This woman was the last pharaoh of Egypt.
Former IBM CEO, Ginni Rometty, has an undergraduate degree from what university
What is Northwestern University?
This Olympic swimmer became the most decorated U.S female (and the second most decorated US Olympian of all time) after her performance in the 2024 Paris Olympic games.
Who is Katie Ledecky?
Rosalind Franklin was a chemist who made significant contributions to the understanding of the molecular double helix structure of this molecule?
What is DNA?
The first American women's rights convention in the United States took place in this New York state town.
What is Seneca Falls?
This American abolitionist escaped slavery herself and also made several trips using the Underground Railroad to rescue other enslaved people.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This woman is sometimes considered as the first programmer ever as she was the first to recognize that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
She became the first female artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This American physicist and astronaut became the first American woman to travel into space in 1983.
What year did women in the United States win the right to vote? (Ratification of the 19th Amendment)
What is 1920?
This French woman was a military leader during the Hundred Years' War in the 1400s and later became a patron saint of France, was executed in 1431.
Who is Joan of Arc?
Jean E. Sammet joined IBM as a programmer in 1961 after she was part of the team that designed this "English-like" compiled programming language, designed for business use.
What is COBOL?
This woman scored the winning penalty kick in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup final to lead the US to victory and then featured famously on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Who is Brandi Chastain?
This woman was known as the founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This woman became the first female Secretary of State of the United States in 1997 under Bill Clinton's presidency.
Who is Madeleine Albright?
The first and only woman to serve as Israel's head of government, serving as the country's fourth prime minister from 1969 to 1974.
Who is Golda Meir?
These 3 female black mathematicians worked at NASA during the Space Race and were the subjects of the 2016 film "Hidden Figures".
Who is Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson?
Before she rose to singer-songwriter stardom with her albums SOUR and GUTS, Olivia Rodrigo starred in what Disney+ musical mockumentary series.
What is High School Musical: The Musical: The Series?
The first and only woman to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields: physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911.
Who is Marie Curie?
This country was the first self governing nation to allow women to vote in national elections in 1893.
What is New Zealand?
This queen is often called "the grandmother of Europe" – At one point her grandchildren occupied the thrones of 8 European countries.
Who is Queen Victoria?