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Which woman created the term software engineering?

• Mary Anderson

• Margaret Hamilton

• Mileva Maric

• Margaret Sanger

Who was married to Einstein and is rumored to have helped with his theory of relativity?

• Mileva Maric

• Inge Lehmann

• Henrietta Leavitt

• Mary Anderson

This astronomer helped her brother prove that gravity exists outside of the solar system.

• Barbara McClintock

• Margaret Sanger

• Caroline Herschel

• Henrietta Leavitt

Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work in _______.

• Physiology

• Genetics

• Medicine

• Physics

All of the following are true regarding Mary Anderson except...

• she had an apartment complex built

• she invented the windshield wiper

• she invented the can opener

• she once lived in California

Which neuroscientist was awarded the Nobel Prize for her discovery of nerve growth factor?

• Rita Montalcini

• Margaret Hamilton

• Beulah Henry

• Margaret Sanger

This astronomer discovered a way to measure the distance between Earth and galaxies.

• Margaret Sanger

• Barbara McClintock

• Henrietta Leavitt

• Mary Anderson

Who was the first African American woman in space?

• Valentina Tereshkova

• Mae Jemison

• Annie Easley

• Katia Krafft

This volcanologist died doing what she loved, studying active volcanoes.

• Katia Krafft

• Hedy Lamarr

• Jane Cooke Wright

• Grace Hopper

Who invented the Laserphaco Probe, which is used to remove cataracts?

• Patricia Bath

• Annie Easley

• Dorothy Hodgkin

• Jane Goodall