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MUJERES_CIENCIA_IESJTURINA_2019

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which woman created the term software engineering?

a)

Mary Anderson

b)

Margaret Hamilton

c)

Mileva Maric

d)

Margaret Sanger

2.

Who was regarded as "Lady Edison"?

a)

Caroline Herschel

b)

Inge Lehmann

c)

Mary Anderson

d)

Beulah Louise Henry

3.

Which women's rights activist advocated for the use of birth control, a controversial topic?

a)

Barbara McClintock

b)

Rita Montalcini

c)

Margaret Sanger

d)

Margaret Hamilton

4.

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

a)

Mileva Maric

b)

Inge Lehmann

c)

Henrietta Leavitt

d)

Mary Anderson

5.

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

a)

Barbara McClintock

b)

Margaret Sanger

c)

Caroline Herschel

d)

Henrietta Leavitt

6.

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

a)

Physiology

b)

Genetics

c)

Medicine

d)

Physics

7.

Inge Lehmann was a _______ who discovered the centre of the Earth was both liquid and solid.

a)

Cytogeneticist

b)

Physicist

c)

Activist

d)

Seismologist

8.

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

a)

Rita Levi Montalcini

b)

Margaret Hamilton

c)

Beulah Henry

d)

Margaret Sanger

9.

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

a)

Margaret Sanger

b)

Barbara McClintock

c)

Henrietta Leavitt

d)

Mary Anderson

10.

This chemist invented a very strong and heat resistant synthetic fiber called Kevlar.

a)

Stephanie Kwolek

b)

Gertrude Elion

c)

Maria Sibylla Merian

d)

Rosalind Franklin

11.

Which woman played an important role in the creation of the atomic bomb?

a)

Agnodice

b)

Jude Milhon

c)

Maria Teresa

d)

Chien Shiung Wu

12.

This woman should have won the Nobel Prize for her discovery of DNA´s structure.

a)

Jude Milhon

b)

Rosalind Franklin

c)

Gertrude Elion

d)

Stephanie Kwolek

13.

Who taught herself how to program computers and advocated for the publics use of the internet?

a)

Jude Milhon

b)

Maria Sibylla Merian

c)

Vera Rubin

d)

Agnodice

14.

Which woman was accused of helping the Republican army during the Spanish Civil War?

a)

Maria Teresa Toral

b)

Maria Sibylla Merian

c)

Rosalind Franklin

d)

Vera Rubin

15.

This woman was one of the first astronomers to study dark matter.

a)

Vera Rubin

b)

Stephanie Kwolek

c)

Agnodice

d)

Rosalind Franklin

16.

All of the following are true about Agnodice except...

a)

she was born in Greece.

b)

she was unable to remove the law which banned women from becoming physicians.

c)

she disguised herself as a man because women weren't allowed to practice medicine.

d)

she helped women who were pregnant.

17.

This woman saved many lives by creating a drug which treated Leukemia and played an important role in discovering a treatment for AIDS.

a)

Rosalind Franklin

b)

Gertrude Elion

c)

Vera Rubin

d)

Stephanie Kwolek

18.

This entomologist was one of the first scientist in this field of study and she discovered many new insect species

a)

Maria Sibylla Merian

b)

Elizabeth Blackwell

c)

Rosalind Franklin

d)

Chien Shiung Wu

19.

This computer scientist helped program the Mark I, one of the first electronic computers.

a)

Dorothy Hodgkin

b)

Grace Hopper

c)

Jane Goodall

d)

Patricia Bath

20.

Which woman not only helped Einstein with his theory of relativity but also created the field of abstract algebra?

a)

Hypatia

b)

Emmy Noether

c)

Lillian Gilbreth

d)

Alice Ball