woman who is credited with popularizing the term “debugging”
Who is Grace Hopper?
100
She was the first American woman to fly across the Atlantic solo in 1932
Who is Amelia Earhart?
100
This famous poet was Ada’s father
Who is Lord Byron?
100
Mae C. Jemison was the very first African American Female in this profession -----
A) Astronaut
B) Lawyer
C) Senator
D) Doctor
What is an astronaut?
100
Famous Quote from Madame Curie: "Be less curious about people and more curious about __________"
What is ideas?
200
Nicknamed "The Human Computer" by NASA, this African American woman calculated and verified the trajectories for the 1962 launch to orbit and the 1969 Apollo 11 launch to the moon against early computers -----
A) Mae Jamison
B) Katherine Johnson
C) Alexa Canady
D) Marie Daly
Who is Katherine Johnson? (B)
200
This woman doesn’t like to be called the “mother of the internet” because, as she says “The Internet was not invented by any individual." -----
A) Jean Bartick
B) Grace Hopper
C) Radia Perlman
D) Leloo Dallas
Who is Radia Perlman? (C)
200
Ada was addicted to this pastime, often considered a “vice” -----
A) Drinking
B) Gambling
C) Racing Horses
What is gambling? (B)
200
The first female computer programmers were called this -----
A) Betties
B) Card Girls
C) Rosies
D) Ladies of the Age
What is rosies? (C)
200
Grace Hopper famous quote: "It is often easier to ask for _______________ than to ask for permission."
What is forgiveness?
300
first woman in the United States to earn a PhD in computer science -----
A) Mary Kenneth Keller
B) Mae Jemison
C) Roberta Williams
Who is Mary Kenneth Keller? (A) 1965
300
Overshadowed, perhaps, by her more famous brother, she was the first female to discover a comet -----
A) Katherine Wright
B) Caroline Herschel
C) Grace Hubble
D) Barbara Kepler
Who is Caroline Herschel? (B)
300
This famous author read passages to Ada on her deathbed -----
A) Louisa May Alcott
B) Charles Dickens
C) Walt Whitman
D) Oscar Wilde
Who is Charles Dickens? (B)
300
She is the only woman to ever win 2 Nobel Peace Prizes
Who is Marie Curie?
300
This woman quoted “We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.” -----
A) Radia Perlman
B) Mae C Jemison
C) Evelyn Boyd Granville
Who is Evelyn Boyd Grandville? (C)
**one of the first African-American women to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics
400
this woman was the lead software engineer on Project Apollo (Moon Landing) -----
A) Carol Shaw
B) Isabel Drost-Fromm
C) Marge Simpson
D) Margaret Hamilton
Who is Margaret Hamilton? (D)
400
A decade after Neil Armstrong took the first steps on the moon, this oceanographer earned the title "her deepness" by descending 1250 feet, taking our deepest steps on the ocean floor -----
A) Diana Fosse
B) Margo Kidder
C) Sylvia Earle
Who is Sylvia Earle? (C)
400
This notable mathematics teacher of Ada Lovelace was also reponsible for a set of laws in Discrete mathematics that allow the expression of conjunctions and disjunctions purely in terms of each other via negation -----
A) Frances Villiers, Countess of Jersey
B) Baron Karl Drais
C) Prince George IV
D) Augustus De Morgan
Who is Augustus De Morgan? (D) [DeMorgan's Law!]
400
Name of the two computers worked on by Grace Hopper and Jean Bartik -----
A) COLOSSUS & UNIVAC
B) ENIAC & UNIVAC
C) WHIRLWIND & COLOSSUS
D) ENIAC & WHIRLWIND
What are ENIAC & UNIVAC? (B)
400
What is the GHC? -----
A) The General Holistic Computer- the first design with integrated circuits
B) The Gaskins Haskell Compiler- a compiler for the first object-oriented language
C) The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing- the world’s largest gathering of women technologists
What is The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing? (C)
500
This woman is the first female computer video game creator, best known for her game River Raid that she programmed while working for Activision, and a former Microprocessor Software Engineer at Atari. -----
A) Maria Liskov
B) Carol Shaw
C) Marie Curie
Who is Carol Shaw? (B)
500
This 3M corporate scientist holds over 50 patents -----
A) Cori Bargmann
B) Jayshree Seth
C) Corey Feldman
Who is Jayshree Seth? (B)
500
Ada is buried in Nottingham, England beside ________. -----
A) Her father, Lord Byron
B) Her mother, Anne Isabella Milbanke
C) Her husband, William King Earl of Lovelace
D) Her friend, Charles Dickens
Who is her father, Lord Byron? (A)
500
TRUE or FALSE: Silk was invented by a Chinese Empress over 5,000 years ago
What is TRUE?
Chinese legend calls Lady Hsi-Ling-Shih the Goddess of Silk. She is credited with the invention of the loom and the use of the silkworm.
500
this woman said “Any girl can be glamorous. All she has to do is stand still and look stupid.” -----
A) Ava Gabor
B) Grace Hopper
C) Erna Schneider Hoover
D) Hedy Lamar
Who is Hedy Lamar? (D)
**Hollywood “Golden Age” actress, and co-developer of a frequency-hopping/spread spectrum technology. Lamarr never earned a penny from her patent; after her patent expired, the technology was used in guided torpedoes by the U.S. Navy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.