Women's History Month - week 2

Jane Goodall was born in London in 1934. She is an influential

scientist, conservationist, and peace activist.

Beginning at age 26, Goodall traveled to Africa to study what

great ape species?

• Orangutans

• Chimpanzees

• Gorillas

• Bonobos

Deb Haaland was born in 1960. She is a member of the Laguna

Pueblo Native American tribe. In 2018, she is one of the first two

Native American women elected to the U.S. Congress.

In 2020, President Biden nominated Haaland to which role in his

Presidential Cabinet?

• Secretary of the Interior

• Secretary of Transportation

• Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Margaret Hamilton was born in 1936. She served as the director

of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation

Lab, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo

Moon missions.

In 1976, Hamilton co-founded a company called:

• Thinking About Software

• Higher Order Software

• Apollo Mission Software

• Margaret Hamilton Software Solutions

Mia Hamm was born in 1972. She was a forward on the U.S.

National Women’s Soccer team from 1987-2004 and won two

World Cups and two Olympic Gold Medals. She is considered the

first superstar in women’s soccer.

For what college team did Mia Hamm play soccer?

• Clemson University

• Tulane University

• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Kamala Harris was born in 1964. Harris’ mother was from India and

her father was from Jamaica. Harris attended Howard University in

Washington, D.C. In 2020, she became the first woman and first

Black American elected to the office of Vice President.

Before being elected Vice President, Harris was a U.S. Senator from:

• Washington

• New York

• Colorado

• California

Marcelite Harris was born in 1943 in Houston, Texas. She was the

first Black woman to serve as a major general in the U.S. military.

Her service medals and decorations include the Bronze Star, the

Presidential Unit Citation, and the Vietnam Service Medal.

In which branch of the U.S. Military did she serve?

• Army

• Air Force

• Navy

• Marines

Mae Jemison was born in 1956 in Decatur, Alabama. She

earned an engineering degree from Stanford University, and

then went on to attend medical school. In 1992, she became

the first Black woman in space.

Jemison was the mission specialist for which space shuttle?

• Endeavor

• Enterprise

• Atlantis

Grace Hopper was born in 1906. She was a U.S. Navy Rear

Admiral and one of the earliest computer programmers. She

worked on the staff of the Harvard Mark I computer during

WWII.

In 2017, which University named one of their residential

colleges after Hopper?

• Harvard University

• Yale University

• Cornell University

Katherine Johnson was born in 1918. She was a mathematician who

worked for NASA. Her calculations of orbital mechanics contributed

to the success of early U.S. crewed spaceflights, including NASA’s

first human spaceflight.

In 2015, at age 97, she received what honor from President

Obama?

• Kennedy Center Honor

• Presidential Medal of Freedom

• Congressional Medal of Honor

Barbara Jordan was born in 1936. She was a lawyer and

politician. In 1973, she became the first Black woman from

the South to be elected to the U.S. Congress.

Soon after her election to the U.S. House of Representatives,

she became well known for her participation in the:

• Iran-Contra Hearings

• Watergate Hearings

• Teapot Dome

• Army-McCarthy Hearings