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Female mathematicians and scientists ICP

Total questions: 52

Worksheet time: 52mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was Lise Meitner interested in when she was little?

a)

Maths

b)

Physics

c)

Maths and Physics

d)

Chemistry

2.

Where did Sophie Germain study?

a)

École nationale d'ingénieurs de Metz

b)

École nationale supérieure de techniques avancées

c)

École polytechnique

d)

École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Brest

3.

Which college did Rosalind Franklin attend?

a)

Oxford University

b)

Newham College

c)

King's College

d)

Imperial College

4.

Why is Elena Pastor still focused on the “study of the electrochemical oxidation of ethanol”?

a)

Because she is creating a new boost that releases methanol to create energy

b)

Because she does not have other published works

c)

Because of the interest in a possible ethanol fuel cell

d)

Because her work is unfinished and she wants to complete it

5.

Toñi Varela is the boss of a organization that protect the starry sky called

a)

IAC

b)

Starlight

c)

Mercadona

d)

Nasa

6.

Where did Ada Lovelace study?

a)

At Cambridge University

b)

At Harvard University

c)

At Columbia University

d)

She didn’t study at any university

7.

Who was the teacher of Hipatia at the beginning?

a)

A women who teach in the Alexandria Museum

b)

His father Theon of Alexandria

c)

A women who teach in the Alexandria Academy

d)

Her big brother Theon of Alexandria

8.

Where is Nayara Rodríguez currently working?

a)

She currently works in the Management Cabinet of the Canary Islands Astrophysics Institute (IAC)

b)

She currently works In a supermarket

c)

She currently works in her house doing her own projects

d)

She currently works in the NASA

9.

Margarita Salas studied...

a)

Chemistry

b)

Biotechnology

c)

Biochemistry

d)

Technology

10.

Vera Rubin discovered...

a)

Movement of planets

b)

A new element

c)

Dark matter

d)

A new planet

11.

Emmy Noether was from

a)

Germany

b)

Belgium

c)

Poland

d)

Austria

12.

Antonia Pilar Pérez works in

a)

University Hospital of La Candelaria

b)

San Juan de Dios Hospital

c)

University Hospital of the Canary Islands

d)

Doctor Negrín Hospital

13.

Where did Antonia M. Varela Pérez make her doctoral thesis

a)

Oxford

b)

Cambridge

c)

Yale

d)

Harvard

14.

Darshan Ranganathan received a PhD in ...

a)

Philosophy

b)

Chemistry

c)

Mathematics

d)

Biology

15.

When Teresa Rodrigo received the Julio Peláez Prize for Pioneers in Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences?

a)

In 2010

b)

In 2012

c)

In 2014

d)

In 2016

16.

What did Stephanie Kwolek want to study when she was little?

a)

Chemistry

b)

Medicine

c)

Math

d)

Physics

17.

When was Emmy Noether born?

a)

23 of march 1882

b)

15 of march 1902

c)

30 of march 1982

d)

22 of march 1288

18.

What was the first invention of María del Carmen Betancourt Molina?

a)

the steam machine

b)

the epi cylindrical machine

c)

the light bulb

d)

the watch wp

19.

Thanks to her father, what was able for Caroline Lucretia Herschel to study?

a)

Biology, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, and music

b)

Astronomy, psychology, music, geology, and biology

c)

Music, mathematics,astronomy, philosofy and French

d)

Italian, music, geology, astronomy, and mathematics

20.

What did Chien-Shiung Wu do for two years after graduation?

a)

She was an assistant at a University

b)

She just was working in labs

c)

She traveled everywhere for work or just for experience

d)

he studied all the time because she only thought about her future job

21.

In which University does Mary Cartwright get her first qualification degree?

a)

University of St. Hugh

b)

University of Birmingham

c)

University of Cambridge

d)

University of Pittsburgh

22.

Where was Alice Ball born?

a)

United States

b)

Pennsylvania

c)

Chicago

d)

Washington

23.

Mary Cartwright was born in..?

a)

1902

b)

1856

c)

1900

d)

1898

24.

What was the master’s thesis of Alice Ball about?

a)

About the ball method

b)

About the Kava Plants

c)

About the Cervus elaphus

d)

About bee pollination

25.

What field of study is Katherin Johnson known for?

a)

Mathematics and Chemistry

b)

Mathematics

c)

Chemistry

d)

Astronomy

26.

Which university did Mercedes Prieto get her Degree in Physics?

a)

University of La Laguna

b)

University of Harvard

c)

University of Cambridge

d)

University of Seville

27.

When was Caroline Herschel born ?

a)

June 2004

b)

January 1750

c)

March 1750

d)

March 1570

28.

What are the chemical elements found by Marie Curie?

a)

Oxygen and Hydrogen

b)

Helium and Neon

c)

Polonium and Radium

d)

Curium and Uranium

29.

Why did Jocelyn Burnell become interested in astronomy?

a)

Because she went out at night to see the stars with her father

b)

Because she read books of astronomy in the library of her father

c)

Because her father was an astronomer

d)

There is no reason

30.

Where did Hypatia of Alexandria travel to be a teacher?

a)

France

b)

UK and Ireland

c)

Athens and Rome

d)

She always lived in Egypt

31.

What doctoral thesis is Nayra Rodriguez Eugenio doing?

a)

About the systems and relation between stars

b)

About rocks and mineral salts

c)

About the route of the planets in TRAPPIST-1

d)

About properties of star-forming galaxies and their evolution

32.

What did María la Judía study?

a)

Alchemy

b)

Astronomy

c)

Geology

d)

Biology

33.

Was it hard for Clara Immerwahr to enter a german university?

a)

Not at all, she could enter whenever she wanted

b)

She couldn’t apply for a university

c)

Yes, it was hard, but with hard work she could finally enter

d)

None of the answers are correct

34.

What did Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin discover?

a)

She discovered that stars are made largely of hydrogen and helium

b)

She discovered that the sun's composition is similar to the earth’s

c)

She discovered that stars are made largely of hydrogen and mercury

d)

None of the answers are correct

35.

When Katherine Johnson worked for NASA, what was her contribution to mathematics?

a)

She improved the calculation computers and adapted them to the needs

b)

She never worked for NASA

c)

She never made any scientific contribution, just ethics and equality issues

d)

Apart from his own work, she made no other contribution

36.

Where did Toñi Valera finally finish her final thesis?

a)

In Madrid

b)

She never planned to finish it

c)

In Cambridge,she got an incredible offer to finish it there

d)

She stayed at the IAC,and finished it a few months after

37.

Who is the father of Hipatia?

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

mathematician Theon

c)

Zeus

d)

Pitágoras

38.

what happened In the 1940s with Carlota de la Quintana y López de Arroyave?

a)

She started to study science

b)

nothing special

c)

Her brother died

d)

she returned to the island as the first doctor from the Canary Islands, practicing in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

39.

What was the greatest discovery of Margarita Salas?

a)

The liquid state

b)

The DNA polymerase protein produced by the bacterial virus

c)

The light

d)

The cure for several illness

40.

Who encouraged Dorothy Hodgkin since she was little in her interest in chemistry and crystals?

a)

F.M. Brewe

b)

Her father

c)

Her mother

d)

John Desmond Bernal

41.

Why couldn´t Lise Meitner go to the upper secondary school?

a)

Due to her notes

b)

Due to the non-access of girls

c)

Due to her father's illness

d)

Due to her lack of knowledge

42.

What did Sophie Germain contribute to?

a)

Second law of thermodynamics & Logarithms

b)

Information Theory & Formula of the polyhedra

c)

Theory of the approximation & Set theory

d)

Elasticity & Theory of numbers

43.

In which university does Edith Padron work at?

a)

In ULL ( University of La Laguna)

b)

In Universidad Europea de Canarias

c)

In Universidad del Atlántico Medio in Las Palmas

d)

In Univerdad Fernando Pessoa Canarias in Las Palmas

44.

What was Marjorie Jeuck Rice interested in?

a)

Geometry

b)

Physics

c)

Chemistry

d)

Biology

45.

Where was María Candelaria Hernández Goya born?

a)

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

b)

La Laguna

c)

El Puerto de la Cruz

d)

Santa Cruz de Tenerife

46.

Henrietta Leavitt was graduated as a…

a)

Astronomer

b)

Physicist

c)

Engineer

d)

Mathematician

47.

What was Katherine Johnson interested in when she was little?

a)

Mathematics

b)

Chemistry

c)

History

d)

Cooking

48.

Where is Sofia Kovalevskaya from?

a)

Japan

b)

Russia

c)

U.S.A.

d)

Côte d'Ivoire

49.

What did María Dolores Afonso Suárez study?

a)

Computer Science

b)

Bioengineering

c)

Aerospace engineering

d)

Telecommunication Systems Engineering

50.

Which of these things were studied by María gaetana Agnesi?

a)

The witch Curve

b)

Indifference Curves

c)

Nazca Lines

d)

Queuin System

51.

What made Gertrude Belle Ellion to become a biochemist?

a)

After watching Tom and Jerry, she wanted to know the substances they were in

b)

Her grandfather inspired her to find a cure for cancer after he died

c)

She didn’t know what else to do

d)

She seemed interested in science from a young age. She made her first experiment just turned 6 years old

52.

What did Sau Lan Wu want to be at first?

a)

Physicist

b)

Artist

c)

Teacher

d)

Dancer