Pioneers in their field
The first person to have won 2 nobel prizes in her career is...
Marie Curie
What is the unit used to quantify electrical current, and what does it represent?
An ampere (A), representing the rate at which electrical charge flow through an electrical circuit.
The _ _ _ _ _ is the powerhouse of the cell.
mitochondria
Who is a prominent activist for wildlife conservation that demonstrated, through her work studying chimpanzees, that empathy does not undermine scientific objectivity but can enhance understanding, while a close-mindedness and a lack of empathy actually introduces bias?
Jane Goodall
In what STEM industry to women make up 14-16% of the workforce globally?
Engineering
The mathematician frequently considered to be the "first programmer" is...
Ada Lovelace
What is an algorithm?
Nothing that complicated! It's basically just any set of step-by step instructions.
What were the 2 elements discovered by Marie Curie?
radium and polonium
Who is the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history? She is human rights advocate for the education of women and children in her native district, Swat, Pakistan.
Malala Yousafzai
What category was Pluto reclassified to?
The first woman to go to space...
Valentina Tereshkova
Name a car component whose development was largely thanks to the work of a woman.
Brake pads (Bertha Benz), engine-sourced heating (Margaret Wilcox), manual windshield wipers (Mary Anderson), automatic electric-powered windshield wipers (Charlotte Bridgwood), auto-signalling arms: precursors to the turning signals (Florence Lawrence)
What are autotrophs?
Organisms that make their own food from simple inorganic substances like carbon dioxide and water
Who's the activist whose solo school strike inspired the worldwide Fridays for Future movement and who, through speeches, protests, and participation in climate demonstrations in Europe and elsewhere, became an activist known for pressuring governments to address climate change and social issues?
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
What is the tightrope bias and how does it affect minorities in the workplace?
The “tightrope” metaphor refers to the narrow range of behavior seen as acceptable for people from non-dominant and stigmatized groups compared to the leeway afforded to those from dominant groups. This leaves individuals with fewer and fewer behavioral options that would not lead to some form of social penalty.
A Chinese American physicist who disproved the conservation of parity, yet did not receive the Nobel Prize for it:
Chien-Shiung Wu
What is said to be the first programming script?
Ada Lovelace's notes describing how the Analytical Engine proposed by Charles Babbage could be programmed to compute Bernoulli numbers
What is the common name of the colorless, highly pungent gas whose chemical formula is NH3?
Ammonia
What do you call the subatomic particles that make up protons and neutrons?
Quarks
The American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates, uncovering the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves:
Vera Rubin
Edith Clarke was an American electrical engineer and academic. What developments was she known for?
Inventing the Clarke calculator, which allowed a further understanding of long-range power transmission, making our current electric grid possible.
Who invented the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system in 2012?
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier
STEM wasn't always called "STEM". What was the previous, more clunky achronyme used by the U.S National Science Fundation?
In 2001, the NSF changed to "STEM" from the previous "SMET" (same words, different order).