Science
First woman to travel into space.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
She was played by Taraji P Henson in Hidden Figures.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Unabbreviated name for SWE.
What is Society of Women Engineers?
First Lady mathematician.
hint* she is Egyptian!
Who is Hypatia?
BMI stands for.
What is Body Mass Index?
The four planets with rings.
What is Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune?
Award given to Grace Hopper by President Barack Obama in 2016.
Transportation form that Olive Wetzel worked in.
What is Railway Travel?
Discovered Noether’s Theorem.
Who is Emmy Noether?
First woman to receive MD degree in US.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
Ada Yonath won a Nobel Prize for studies of this organelle.
Hint* From which RNA gets its name.
What is a Ribosome?
Woman who inspired Steve Jobs to create Apple.
Who is Adele Goldberg?
First Black engineer at NASA.
Who is Mary Jackson?
Princess of Mathematics.
Who is Sophie Germain?
Founder of modern nursing.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
The first female to discover a comet.
Who is Caroline Hershel?
First religious sister to receive a PH.D in computer science.
Who is Mary Kenneth Keller?
First woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the US.
Who is Edith Clarke?
Sophie Germain best known for.
What is her work in Number Theory?
First woman to serve as Surgeon General.
Who is Antonia Novello?
Wrote “The Sea Around Us”, in 1957.
Who is Rachel Carson?
Founder of scientific computing and very first computer programming.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Emily Warren Roebling contributed this struct after her husband developed caisson disease.
What is Brooklyn Bridge?
Name at least three topics that Maryam Mirakhani researched.
What is Teichmuller theory, hyperbolic geometry, ergodic theory, and symplectic geometry?
Only woman ever to receive the Medal of Honor.
Who is Mary Edwards Walker?