Iconic Women in STEM
Technology
UW Madison
Girls Who Code
100

This woman is referred to as the first programmer

Who is Ada Lovelace?

100

The non-abbreviation of HTML 

What is hypertext markup language?

100

This is UW-Madison mascot (full name)

Who is Buckingham U. Badger?

100

The year Girls Who Code was founded

When is 2012?

200

This Polish-born French physicist is famous for her research in radioactivity. She's also the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and only person to win in two different science fields. (Bonus point: which science fields did she win)

Who is Marie Curie?

200

The purpose of DUO mobile besides annoying students (Hint: MFA)

What is multifactor authentication?

200

The month and year when Morgridge Hall was opened

What happened September 2025?

200

The date of our next GWC meeting

When is September 28th?

300

The US Navy rear admiral who was known for inventing the first computer compiler and developing a programming language that used English-like words (Hint: conference named after her)

Who is Grace Hopper?

300

This popular operating system launched in 1991, also has its own mascot, Tux the penguin

What is Linux?

300

The name of historic, campus-based ice cream shop run by UW-Madison's agriculture department

What is babcock dairy?

300

The founder of Girls Who Code

Who is Reshma Saujani?

400

The first woman to travel around the Moon and beyond low Earth orbit (Hint: Artemis II)

Who is Christina Koch?

400

The programming language developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems (Hint: named after the type of coffee from Indonesia)

What is Java?

400

The official city bird of Madison, WI

What is plastic pink flamingo?

400

The number for GWC meeting location room

What is CS2560?

500

They programmed ENIAC, the first all-electronic digital computer (Hint: Hidden Figures)

Who is Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson?

500

The term for a testing environment in a computer system in which new or untested software or coding can be run securely (Hint: children's playground area)

What is sandbox?

500

This number of UW-Madison alumnis who have won Nobel Prizes (can guess within the range)

19 - 21

500

ALL the names of current board for GWC

Who is Justina, Yen, Angela, Trisha, Lina, Lexi?