Ada
General Science
Susan
General Science #2
Claudette
100

Ada Lovelace’s mother encouraged her to study this subject instead of poetry.

What is mathematics?

100

What is Ada Lovelace known for?

wrote instructions for the Analytical Engine

100

What is Susan's full name?

What is Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell?

100

In the 1950s, this highly contagious viral disease claimed the life of Claudette Colvin's younger sister.

What is polio?

100

Claudette Colvin was just this age when she took a stand against segregation.

What is 15?

200

Ada Lovelace was born in this city in 1815

What is London, England?

200

Susan Burnell discovered

What is Pulsars?

200

Susan's birthplace

What is Belfast, Northern Ireland?

200

What inspired Ada Lovelace’s interest in mathematics?

Her mother

200

Claudette Colvin’s bus protest happened in this year, before the famous Montgomery Bus Boycott.

What is 1955?

300

In 1833, Ada Lovelace met this inventor, who was working on the Analytical Engine.

Who is Charles Babbage?

300

During her 35-year tenure as a nurse's aide, Claudette Colvin primarily worked in this type of healthcare facility.

What is a nursing home?

300

At what university did she earn her bachelors degree in physics?

What is the University of Glasgow?

300

Susan Burnell taught and studied gamma ray astronomy, where?

What is the University of Southampton?

300

Segregation laws in the South were known by this name, which Claudette Colvin challenged.

What are Jim Crow laws?

400

Lovelace translated a paper about the Analytical Engine from this language.

What is French?

400

When is Ada Lovelace holiday?

October 8.

400

Susan got her doctorate from?

What is Cambridge University?

400

After moving to New York City, Claudette Colvin worked in this healthcare role for over three decades.

What is a nurse's aide?

400

Unlike Rosa Parks, Claudette was charged with violating segregation laws and this crime.

What is disturbing the peace?

500

what are the name of Ada Lovelace children?

Byron King-Noel, Anne Blunt, and Ralph King-Noel.

500

Susan Burnell's job?

What is an astronomer and astrophysicist?

500

What are two of the colleges she's taught at?

What is the University of Southampton, University College London, Open University, Princeton University, and/or Oxford University?

500

What obstacles did Ada Lovelace face as a female scientist in the 19th century?

Women had limited access to formal scientific education and were often discouraged from pursuing mathematics and science

500

The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted this many days after Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks’ protests.

What is 381 days?