Women in STEM Trivia [Historical]

Grace Hopper developed which common language for computers?

• ALGOL

• APL

• COBOL

• PASCAL

All of these famous faces have degrees in sciences, engineering and math subjects. But who studied engineering at university?

• Mayim Bialik

• Carol Vorderman

• Virginia Wade

• Lisa Kudrow

Elizabeth Bragg Cumming (1859-1929) was the first woman to earn a degree in civil engineering from which university?

• UC Berkeley

• UCLA

• MIT

• Cornell

____ optimized uranium production, contributing to the science behind the first nuclear bombs during World War II.

• Calutron Girls

• Clarice Phelps

• Lise Meitner

• Ida Noddak

Susan LaFlesche Picotte was the first ____ woman to earn a medical degree.

• Unmarried

• English

• Hispanic

• Native American

Who was the first female to become a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers?

• Ellen Ochoa

• Kate Gleason

• Hedy Lamarr

• Nora Stanton Barney

“Lean in: Women, work and the will to lead” is a book written by who?

• Susan Wojcicki

• Carol Shaw

• Sheryl Sandberg

• Ida Rhodes

Who is the architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., which she designed when she was only 21 years old?

• Maya Lin

• Neri Oxman

• Zaha Hadid

• Tatiana Bilbao

Who became the first female president of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1974?

• Maria M. Klawe

• Dhara Patel

• Bushra Anjum

• Jean E. Sammet

What did Caroline Herschel discover in the 18th century?

• A star

• A comet

• Pluto

• Extraterrestrial life