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100

This person was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences.

Who is Marie Curie?

100

Jane Goodall, a British scientist, is considered the world’s expert on what?

Chimpanzees

100

The number of zeros in a quintillion.

What is 18?

100

Name the movie reference: "The limit does not exist"

Mean Girls

100

This category of STEM jobs is 75% comprised of women.

What is healthcare?

200

This woman and her team were the first to discover nuclear fission of Uranium.

Who is Lise Meitner?

200

Who was the first woman to go to space?

Valentina Tereshkova

200

The next number in this series: 1, 3, 7, 15, 31

What is 63?

200

This powerful film is based on the lives of Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan, the trailblazing mathematicians who brought astronauts to the moon, what is it called?

Hidden Figures

200

This category of STEM jobs is only 14% comprised of women.

What is engineering?

300

This woman spent 18 years studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda and had a film called “Gorillas in the Mist” made about her in 1988.

Who is Dian Fossey

300

Almost 200 years ago the first computer programmer was born. What was her name?

Ada Lovelace

300

Area of an equilateral triangle with a side length of 4.

What is 4 root 3?

300

Name the move reference: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

Jurassic Park

300

About what percent of women make up the science and engineering workforce?

What is 29%?

400

Dubbed “The Most Beautiful Woman in Films”, this famous actress helped develop a “Secret Communications System” to combat Nazis in World War II that later ended up being the basis of current Wi-Fi.

Who is Hedy Lamarr?

400

Who was the first prime minister of her country to hold a science degree?

Margaret Thatcher

400

The force acting on an object in free fall.

What is gravity?

400

Who is the female astrophysicist that appears in the Thor franchise?

Jane Foster

400

Of 100 female bachelor students, 12 graduate with a STEM major, but only ___ continue to work in STEM fields 10 years after graduation.

What is 3?

500

This woman was the first known carrier of typhoid and infected 51 people.

Who is Typhoid Mary/Mary Mallon?

500

I am a mathematician who calculated the trajectories of Apollo 11, the mission which enabled man to take his first steps on the Moon. Who am I?

Katherine Johnson 

500

The non-binary equivalent of the binary number 1001101.

What is 76?

500

Everyone's favorite science teacher, Miss Frizzle, has a side kick that sits on her shoulder, what animal is he?

Lizard 

500

The wage gap between women and men is much smaller in STEM occupations than other occupations. In STEM fields, women earn $___ for every $1 earned by men, compared to $0.77 for other fields.

What is $0.92?