Character Quiz
Name of the main character.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
In parts of the U.S., this practice of separating out races was widespread. An example of this practice in the film is the issue of the bathroom.
What is segregation?
What is the USSR?
At the beginning of the film, the ladies car had broken down. Fortunately, this person escorted them to work.
Who is a white policeman?
The actor who plays Al Harrison.
Who is Kevin Costner?
The character who became NASA's first African American woman engineer.
Who is Mary Jackson?
Mary Jackson had to petition this to be able to take classes in an "all-white high school".
Who is a judge or the court?
The first American man in space.
Who is Alan Shepard?
IBM stands for this.
What is International Business Machines?
The president at the time of the film. His picture is often featured in the background of the offices.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Dorothy Vaughan's self-studied this to advance in her career.
What is programming?
Dorothy Vaughan was doing this job despite not getting the title nor the pay.
What is being the supervisor?
The group of seven astronauts selected to fly the first set of US spacecraft.
Who are the Mercury 7?
Mary Jackson is assigned to work with the engineers on this.
What is the capsule?
In 1961, President Kennedy challenges the country to make it to this place in the next decade.
What is the Moon?
Katherine Johnson was skilled at this in particular and so she was selected to work in the Space Task Group.
What is analytical geometry?
What is a bus?
The first US man to orbit the earth.
Who is John Glenn?
Mr. Harrison asks Katherine to check the math of the men of the Space Task Group at NASA because these keep flying off the capsule.
What are the heat shields?
It is true that this astronaut specifically requested the Katherine Johnson review all of the calculations for the Friendship 7 mission.
Who is John Glenn?
The name of Katherine Johnson's first husband.
Who is Goble?
Who is Martin Luther King?
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
What is Mrs. Vaughn?
This president gave Katherine Johnson the highest award a civilian can earn, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is President Obama?