STEM
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Women who made History!
100

This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell” because it produces most of the cell’s ATP.

What is the mitochondrion?

100

This 2023 movie, featuring a female-led cast, broke box office records as the highest-grossing film with a woman as lead.

What is Barbie?

100

This is the official mascot (name) of the University of South Florida.

What is Rocky the Bull?

100

This river is the longest in the world.

What is the Nile River?

100

She is known for her fight for girls’ education in Pakistan and survived an attack by the Taliban.

Who is Malala Yousafzai?

200

In physics, the rate of change of velocity is known as this.  

What is acceleration?  

200

As of 2025, this is the most-viewed video on YouTube.

What is “Baby Shark Dance”?

200

USF was founded in this decade.

What is the 1950s (1956)?

200

This Egyptian queen formed famous alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.

Who is Cleopatra?

200

This scientist discovered the structure of DNA through X-ray diffraction, though she wasn’t recognized until after her death.

Who is Rosalind Franklin?

300

In electronics, this component resists the flow of electric current.

What is a resistor?

300

This 2024 Grammy-winning artist became the first to have three albums simultaneously in the top 10 of the Billboard 200.

Who is Taylor Swift?

300

This is the name of the honors college at USF.

What is the Judy Genshaft Honors College?

300

She was the longest-reigning British monarch before Queen Elizabeth II surpassed her.

Who is Queen Victoria?

300

She was a lawyer and activist who became a Supreme Court Justice and championed gender equality and women’s rights.

Who is Ruth Bader Ginsburg?

400

In mathematics, this is the name of the theorem stating that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides.

What is the Pythagorean theorem?

400

Team Jeremiah or Team Conrad?

Team Conrad

400

USF’s official student newspaper, founded in 1966, is called this.

What is The Oracle?

400

This is the world’s smallest independent country, both in size and population.

What is Vatican City?

400

This American astronaut was the first U.S. woman in space in 1983.

Who is Sally Ride?

500

This biomedical imaging technique uses magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the body’s organs and tissues.

What is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?

500

This Dreamworks movie made in 2002 was punishment for animators who failed on 'The Prince of Egypt'.

What is 'Shrek'?

500

Before USF became a university, what was the land used for?

What is the Henderson Air Field/military operations? 

500

This landlocked Asian country has the capital city of Ulaanbaatar.

What is Mongolia?

500

This famous female scientist discovered radium and polonium, and was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (+ the only person to win in both Physics and Chemistry!)

Who is Marie Curie?