WorksheetsHidden Figures
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
NACA stands for
National Association Commons for Air
Nation Accounts Committee for Airspace
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
National Association Committee for Space
Who was the 1st to be promoted into a management position at NACA?
Mary Jackson
Dorothy Vaughan
Christina Darden
Katherine Johnson
Who helped do the math that sent the 1st men into space?
Dorothy Vaughan
Christine Darden
Katherine Johnson
Mary Jackson
The four women did work during what period of time?
peace
Civil War
leap year
racial segregation
African Americans interested in math usually became ________________________.
engineers
housewives
doctors
math teachers
The laboratory the women met at was called ____________________.
Langston Hughes
Langley
NASA
LyondellBassell
The first Russian cosmonaut was __________________________.
Buzz Aldrin
Yuri Gagarin
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Komarov
Why couldn't African Americans sit at the same tables or use the same bathrooms as white people?
segregation
desegregation
Covid
none of the above
The four African American women were technically mathematicians or ________________________.
calculators
scientists
computers
number crunchers
In 1958, NACA changed its name to this name which is still used today ?
UNICEF
NCAA
NAPA
NASA
What was the name of the group of male African American pilots who fought bravely during WWII?
Mustang Pilots
Langley Airmen
Trailblazer Airmen
Tuskegee Airmen
In which US state is the Langley Lab located?
Texas
Hawaii
Virginia
Florida
In the mid-195s, NACA purchase their 1st electronic computer. What brand did they buy?
Apple
Acer
IBM
Chromebook
Prior to John Glenn's 1962 orbit around the earth, who did he request to double check the math?
Katherine Shetterly
Steven Hawking
Dorothy Vaughan
Katherine Johnson
What US President pledged to be the first country land a man on the moon?
Barack Obama
John F. Kennedy
Franklin Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
In 1963, what African American gave the famous, "I Have a Dream" speech
Lebron James
Malcolm X
Barack Obama
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Which Apollo mission was the 1st successful moon landing for astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin?
Apollo 11
Apollo 1
Apollo 42
Apollo 13
What genre is Hidden Figures?
Historical Fiction
Science Fiction
Nonfiction
A Short Story
What world event caused jobs previously for only men to open to women in 1943?
women were smarter than men
Franklin D. Roosevelt
WWII
Vietnam War
What was the Double V?
Victory in the war and victory against segregation
Double volcanoes
Vector Victor
Victory against Germany and France
What did some locals call some people who worked at the Langley Laboratory?
dorks
brain busters
NCAA nuts
weirdos
Pilot who was the first person to break the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 on October 14, 1947? (Hint- he just passed away)
Chuck Jones
Larry Byrd
Chuck Yeager
Ted Kennedy
Woman who became the Head of the West Area Computers and later the go-to for the IBM computer.
Mary Jackson
Dorothy Vaughan
Katherine Goble
Dorothy Hoover
What country was the U.S. competing against in the Space Race?
Germany
Soviet Union
Canada
Cuba
Who is the author of Hidden Figures?
JK Rowling
Katherine Goble
Dorothy Vaughan
Margot Lee Shetterly
