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This Polish-French physicist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for her research on radioactive elements. She was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the radioactive elements polonium and radium.
Who is Marie Curie?
This STEM field employs the highest proportion of women in the USA with 55% of all people employed in this field being women.
What is Biological Sciences?
The English primatologist spent 60 years studying the social interactions of chimpanzees in Kenya and Tanzania. She observed chimpanzees using tools and displaying human emotions including grief and advocated to make chimpanzees an endangered species.
Who is Jane Goodall?
In the movie Interstellar, this NASA physicist's (Jessica Chastain) dad leaves a dying Earth to find a suitable replacement planet on the other side of a wormhole. Her solution to the theory of quantum gravity saves the humans left on Earth and the space station they reside on is named after her.
Who is Murphy Cooper?
In 1900, Chicago reversed the flow of the Chicago River. Instead of emptying into Lake Michigan, the Chicago River now empties into what?
What is the Mississippi River?
This German politician earned her doctorate in quantum chemistry before being the first woman (and East German) elected the Chancellor of Germany from 2005 to 2021.
Who is Angela Merkel?
What is Chemical and Biological Engineering?
This entrepreneur studied chemical engineering at Stanford before dropping out in 2002 to start a healthcare technology company, Theranos. In 2022, she was found guilty of defrauding investors and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Who is Elizabeth Holmes?
This British witch served as Head of the Herbology department (the study of magical plants) at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Who is Pamona Sprout?
The world's first nuclear reactor was created in 1942 in a squash court under the football field of this local university.
What is the University of Chicago?
This 19th century English mathematician is often credited with writing the first computer program (to compute Bernoulli numbers) and has a programming language named after her.
Who is Ada Lovelace?
This country produces the most graduates in STEM fields with 34% of people graduating in STEM fields being women.
What is India?
This book, recently adapted to a Netflix series, tells the story of Chinese astronomer Ye Wenje who survives the communist revolution only to use a large radio telescope to invite aliens from a dying planet to travel to Earth and conquer humans.
What is 3 Body Problem?
This 2023 tv series is a stars Brie Larson as Elizabeth Zott, a chemist who hosts a feminist cooking show in 1960s America.
What is Lessons in Chemistry?
This 2004 comedy starring Lindsay Lohan is set in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois.
What is Mean Girls?
This Russian engineer and experienced skydiver was launched into space in 1963. She orbited earth 48 times, spending almost 3 days solo in space. To-date she is the only woman to have flown solo in space and the youngest (26 y.o.) female in space ever.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
This engineering field has the lowest participation of women (USA) with only 8% of all graduates being women.
A. Electrical Engineering B. Aeronautical Engineering C. Naval Engineering D. Civil Engineering
What is naval enginneering?
This movie tells the story of cryptologist Joan Clarke (Kiera Knightly), who worked with Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) during World War II to decipher encrypted German communications and break the German Enigma Code.
What is The Imitation Game?
This book, adapted into a movie in 2017, tells the story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, African-Amerrican mathematicians whose work at NASA on calculations of orbital mechanics and launch trajectories led to the first US space flight.
What is Hidden Figures?
This famous sculpture by Anish Kapoor known colloquially as "The Bean" was inspired by what chemical element?
What is mercury?
This biologist is the first American woman to win any unshared Nobel Prize in the sciences and only woman to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition.
A. Elizabeth Blackburn B. Barbara McClintock C. Youyou Tu D. Katalkin Kariko
Who is Barbara McClintock?
In 2024, this country had the highest share of women employed in STEM fields with 64% of all those employed in STEM being women.
A. USA B. Denmark C. Lithuania D. South Korea
What is Lithuania?
This English statistician is considered the founder of modern nursing. While caring for wounded soldiers in the Crimean War (1853) she significantly reduced casualties by introducing hygiene standards and rounding on patients.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
When this movie was released in 1997, it was one of the first sci-fi films where the main character was a female scientist. Astronomer Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) working at SETI decodes an alien transmission from the star Vega. The decoded signal contains the blueprints for a machine that can transport a human to Vega.
What is Contact?
This is Chicago's professional women's basketball team which competes in the WNBA.
What is Chicago Sky?