Famous Women
I was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, traveling from Newfoundland to Ireland in approximately 15 hours.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
In the year 1920, this Constitutional Amendment gave women a voice and presence in political elections.
What is the 19th Amendment?
What does SWE stand for?
What is the Society of Women Engineers?
Point in the direction of Kinnick Stadium, where our Big Ten football team plays.
What is west?
What is the hardest natural substance found on Earth?
What is Diamond?
I was the first woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, in physics and later chemistry, which lead to the discovery of polonium and radium and development of X-rays.
Who is Marie Curie?
Since the year 1987, congress has declared what month as National Women's History Month?
What is March?
Name at least 2 colors that make up the official logo of SWE?
What is gold, purple, and gray?
The University of Iowa offers how many undergraduate engineering majors?
What is 8?
What is the human body's largest organ?
What is the Skin?
I am known for my trailblazing, 60 plus year study of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania. I also recently celebrated my 91st birthday this past Thursday.
Who is Jane Goodall?
What famous renaissance artist invented scissors?
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
How many countries does the organization SWE span?
What is 85?
What is the name of the river that splits the University's campus in half?
What is the Iowa River?
What is the only bird that can fly backwards?
What are hummingbirds?
I am known as the "human computer" and was part of a team that did mathematical calculations to help launch satellites -and later humans- into space, as seen in the movie Hidden Figures.
Who is Dorothy Johnson?
Name 1 of the 2 U.S. Presidents who were also formally trained engineers.
Who is Jimmy Carter/Herbert Hoover?
Who is the current president of SWE here at the University of Iowa?
Who is Elise?
What city in Iowa used to be home to the original capitol before it moved to Des Moines in 1857?
What is Iowa City?
What was the language spoken in the Roman Empire?
What was Latin?
With a career spanning over six decades, writing over 3,000 songs, and an amusement park located in Tennesse. The world's first cloned sheep was named after this famous female singer.
Who is Dolly Pardon?
What animal did Thomas Edison film while experimenting with moving images using his Kinetograph invention in 1892?
What was a cat?
What year was SWE founded?
What was 1950?
How many miles is between here and Washington D.C.?
What is 951 miles?
How many elements are on the periodic table?
What is 118?