Women in STEM
This physicist and chemist won two Nobel Prizes for her work on radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
This European city is known for canals instead of streets and is built on more than 100 small islands.
What is Venice?
This programming language, also the name of an island in Indonesia, is widely used in enterprise software.
What is Java?
Purdue’s mascot shares its name with this common nickname for someone named Peter.
Who is Purdue Pete?
In this word game, players create words using letter tiles with different point values.
What is Scrabble?
This English mathematician is often considered the world’s first computer programmer for her work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This city hosted the 2020 Summer Olympics.
What is Tokyo?
This protocol is used to securely transfer data over the web and is indicated by a padlock symbol in your browser.
What is HTTPS?
This main street separates Purdue’s campus from the Chauncey Hill area filled with restaurants and shops.
What is State Street?
In this game, you try to deduce the murderer, weapon, and room.
What is Clue?
She developed the first compiler, and a major annual conference for women in computing is named after her and attended by many Purdue students.
Who is Grace Hopper?
This city sits on the border of Europe and Asia and was historically known as Constantinople.
What is Istanbul?
This data structure follows “First In, First Out.”
What is a queue?
This Purdue alum became the second person to walk on the moon during Apollo 11.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
In this party game, players draw and guess phrases, often leading to hilarious misinterpretations.
What is Pictionary?
This biochemist used X-ray crystallography to capture the famous “Photo 51,” critical to discovering DNA’s double helix structure.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
This city is home to the world’s largest desert city skyline and sits along the Nile River.
What is Cairo?
This version control system, created by Linus Torvalds, is widely used for tracking changes in code and collaborating on software projects.
What is Git?
This iconic Purdue engineering building is named after a former U.S. president who attended the university.
What is Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering?
In this strategy board game, players flip black and white discs to control the board, and it’s named after a mathematical term meaning “to reverse.”
What is Othello?
This astronaut was the first woman of Indian origin in space and later flew on the ill-fated Columbia mission.
Who is Kalpana Chawla?
This South American city sits beneath the Corcovado mountain, home to Christ the Redeemer.
What is Rio de Janeiro?
This shortest-path algorithm relies on repeatedly selecting the minimum-distance vertex and relaxing edges.
What is Dijkstra’s algorithm?
Purdue’s airport is the first university-owned airport in the United States and is named after this famous aviator and alumnus.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
In this game, players act as railroad tycoons collecting routes across a map of cities.
What is Ticket to Ride?