Katherine
Katherine's specialty?
Math
Mary's specialty?
Engineering
Dorothy's specialty?
Programming
What does NASA stand for?
National Aeronautic and Space Administration
The separation of people by race, color, or religion.
Segregation
Why did Katherine go missing 40 minutes per day?
To use the colored restroom.
Who did Mary have to convince to allow her to attend advanced college extendion classes at an all white high school?
A judge.
Why does Dorothy take a book from the libaray?
The book she wanted was not in the colored section.
Who was the first American astronaut to orbit the earth?
John Glenn
What does Al Harrison do to help desegregate NASA?
Got rid of the colored restroom sign.
Why was Katherine originally denied entry to the Pentagon briefings?
Because she was a woman.
Company that made the first electronic mainframe computers.
IBM
What does Dorothy do the first time she sees the IBM?
She fixes it. (Gets it to work)
What was the name of the rocket that propelled John Glenn into orbit?
Atlas
The movie takes place during the ...
Civil Rights Movement
Cold War
Early 1960's
What medal was Katherine awarded at age 97 by President Barack Obama?
Presidentail Medal of Freedon
Small cards used to program computers.
Punch cards
What job was Dorothy denied even though she was already doing the job?
Supervisor
Who told Katherine that computers don't author reports?
Paul Stafford
If the women in the west computing group had not learned how to program the IBM...
Their job's would have been eliminated.
Which astronaut trusted Katherine's calculations over the IBM?
John Glenn
How many calculations can the IBM 7090 DPS do per second?
24,000
What is the high level computer language that Dorothy learned in order to program the IBM?
FORTRAN
What was the name of the Russian satellite that was first in space?
Sputnik
Laws that segregated blacks and whites.
Jim Crow Laws