Women Inventions
Hedy Lamarr, an actress and inventor, helped develop frequency-hopping technology that would later be needed to make this technology.
What is Wi-fi/Bluetooth/GPS?
She coined the term S.T.E.M in 2001.
Who is Judith A. Ramaley
Rosalind Franklin's work in X-ray Crystallography helped reveal the structure of what?
What is DNA?
This was the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This environmental activist from Sweden began the global youth climate strike movement.
Who is Greta Thunberg?
Ruth Wakefield accidentally invented this sweet treat when replacing nuts with chocolate.
What is a chocolate chip cookie?
Inge Lehmann, a Danish seismologist, discovered what about the mechanical layers of the Earth?
What is a solid inner core?
This primatologist is famous for her long-term research on chimpanzees in Tanzania.
Who is Jane Goodall?
RIP Queen
Marie Curie was the first to win what award for her research in radioactivity?
What is the Nobel Prize?
This is the highest position to have been held by a women in Congress.
What is the Speaker of the House?
Mary Anderson invented this car feature to help in the snowy months.
What is a windshield wiper?
Marie Tharp, who was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer, helped create the first scientific map of the Atlantic Ocean Floor, by identifying what?
What is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge?
After 72 years of determined effort, this amendment to the Constitution was ratified, granting women the right to vote.
What is the 19th Amendment
This Tennis Legend became the first female athlete to receive the Presidental medal of Freedom, after her famous "Battle of the Sexes" match.
Who is Billie Jean King?
This Democratic representative from Hawaii made history as the first woman of color and the first woman of Asian-Pacific Islander descent to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Who is Patsy Takemoto Mink
This computer scientist developed the first compiler, which helped make modern programming languages possible.
Who is Grace Hopper?
At what age did Mary Anning complete identifying the skeleton of the Ichthyosaurus?
What is 12?
Bonus fun fact: She was also the first to identify the Pleasiosaurus fossil (long-necked marine reptile)
Sylvia Earle, a marine biologist and explorer, was the first woman to serve as chief scientist here.
What is NOAA?
Who was the first female President at Denison?
Who is Michele Tolela Myers?
(1989–1997)
Margaret Thatcher became the first ___ in the United Kingdom.
Who is the Prime Minister?
Originally designed to demonstrate the evils of unchecked capitalism, Elizabeth Magie's "the landlord's game," was patented in 1904, 30 years before a man patented a very similar game called ___.
What is Monopoly?
This is the first woman to be hired by the USGS. She was hired to help identify and classify crystalline rocks in the Appalachian Mountains.
Who is Florence Bascom?
Some people dream of living forever...her legacy, in a way, truly does. Her cells, illegally collected by Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1951, continue to be used today for biomedical research, including polio vaccines, cancer studies, and AIDS research.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to travel where?
What is Space?
Who was the longest-reigning monarch in British History?
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?