"Characters"
(+/-) The name of the main character (protagonist).
Who is Katherine Johnson?
How nice! GIVE TWO points total to other teams.
So nice!
(Speed) The country that put a satellite (called the Sputnik) in space first.
What is the USSR?
(+) How does Dorothy make herself and her coworkers valuable to NASA?
They taught themselves to program the IBM computer when no one else was able to do it.
(+/-) 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?
(+) The name of the person who became NASA's first African American woman engineer.
Who is Mary Jackson?
(+3) How Mary Jackson convinced the judge to allow her to attend Hampton High School, an all-white school.
She told him he would be making history by allowing the first black woman to attend an all white high school.
(BET) The first American man in space.
Who is Alan Shepard?
(+) True or false: In real life, John Glenn actually requested that Katherine Johnson review all of the calculations for the mission.
True
(Speed) The last name of the president at the time of the film, whose picture is often featured in the background of the offices.
Who is (John F.) Kennedy?
(BET) Dorothy Vaughan self-studied this subject 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?
(+2) Katherine Johnson was skilled at this specific math subject so she was selected to work in the Space Task Group.
What is analytical geometry?
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<3
(+) In 1961, the US president challenges the country to make it to this place in the next decade.
What is the Moon?
(Speed) The first US man to orbit the earth.
John Glenn
(BET) What the people doing the calculations for NASA were called.
What are "Computers"?
(+5) The Friendship 7.
The name of the spacecraft John Glenn used to orbit the earth.
(BET) Katherine's boss asks her to check the math of the men of the Space Task Group because these keep flying off the capsule.
What are the heat shields?
Sneaky! TAKE TWO points total from other teams.
Like a ninja!
(+/-) The name of the person who takes down the "Colored Ladies Room" sign with a crowbar.
Who is Al Harrison?
(SPEED) One of the most prominent civil rights leaders in US history, known for his "I have a dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King?
Yoink! TAKE TWO points total from other teams.
Wow!
(Speed) At the end of the film, Mrs. Mitchell showed her respect for Dorothy by calling her this.
What is Mrs. Vaughn?
(BET) This president gave Katherine Johnson the highest award a civilian can earn, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is President Obama?