NSBE Jr. Black Engineer Quiz 1

Who was the first African American woman in space on the Endeavor space shuttle (1992)?

• Sally Ride

• Eileen Collins

• Mae Jemison

• Ellen Ochoa

She was a mathematician who worked at NASA and was depicted in the Hidden Figures movie. She calculated the flight path for Alan Shepard (the first American in space) and later checked critical flight path calculations for Apollo 13.

• Mary Jackson

• Katherine Johnson

• Dorothy Vaughn

• Sally Ride

Who is a nuclear engineer and inventor who developed the popular Super Soaker water gun?

• Thomas Edison

• Albert Einstein

• Steve Jobs

• Lonnie G. Johnson

He was a chemist known as was known as the "Soybean chemist" because he synthesized steroids and hormones from soybeans. His research also led to the development of Aer-O-Foam, also called "bean soup," used to put out oil and gasoline fires in World War II.

• Marie Curie

• Percy Lavon Julian

• Ronald E. McNair

• Linus Pauling

He was a laser physicist and a mission specialist for NASA on the STS 51-L Challenger mission that exploded shortly after takeoff in 1986.

• Sally Ride

• Ronald E. McNair

• Neil Armstrong

• John Glenn

He was a mathematician and nuclear scientist who was involved in the Manhattan Project. His work on nuclear reactor physics led to the discovery or co-discovery of phenomena like the Wilkins effect and the Wigner-Wilkins spectrum.

• J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.

• Albert Einstein

• Enrico Fermi

• Robert Oppenhiemer

Who is a farmer who could not read and signed his name with an "x," but he became the second African American inventor to receive a patent from the U.S. Patent Office in 1834. His machine saved time and, according to an 1836 article in The Mechanics' Magazine, "the labour of eight men." Two years later, he patented a machine for weed control and planting cotton.

• Elijah Mccoy

• George Washington Carver

• Lewis Latimer

• Henry Blair

Who was the first to graduate from the University of Iowa's College of Engineering?

• John Smith

• Mary Jones

• Archie Alexander

• William Brown

Who pioneered the development of polymer-ceramic systems for bone regeneration and inspired the technologies on the market for one repair?

• Cato Thomas Laurenchin

• Robert Billard

• John Doe

• Jane Doe

Who was NASA's first black female manager?

• Katherine Johnson

• Mae Jemison

• Sally Ride

• Dorothy Vaughn