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Hidden Figures Trivia

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the name of the first satellite that Russia sent to space?
a)
Sputnik
b)
Sputnik II
c)
Explorer 1
d)
Vanguard
2.
What school did Mary Jackson fight to attend?
a)
University of Virginia
b)
Howard University
c)
Hampton High School
d)
Virginia Technical School
3.
Whose husband died? 
a)
Mary
b)
Christine
c)
Katherine
d)
Dorothy
4.
How did the machines affect female mathematicians?
a)
They were noisy and distracted the women from working.
b)
The women were in danger of losing their jobs to the machines.
c)
All answers are correct.
d)
No answers are correct.
5.
What is the name of the main character who was the mathematician and the supervisor?
a)
Mary Jackson
b)
Katherine Goble
c)
Dorothy Vaughn
d)
Vivian Mitchell
6.
What did they call the female mathematicians?
a)
Lab Ladies
b)
Computers
c)
Mathematicians
d)
Calculators
7.
What year did these events take place?
a)
1960's
b)
1950's
c)
1970's
d)
1040's
8.
Which of the women was promoted to Supervisor of the Programming Department?
a)
Dorothy 
b)
Katherine
c)
Mary
d)
Vivian
9.
Why did John Glenn want Katherine to return to the space Task Group?
a)
To recheck the calculations for the landing coordinates.
b)
To calculate the go/no go formula.
c)
To program the computers.
10.
Which one of the main characters obtained an engineering degree?
a)
Mary
b)
Katherine
c)
Vivian
d)
Dorothy
11.
What year was the NASA Space Race?
a)
1960
b)
1961
c)
1962
d)
1963
12.
What math was used to help solve the problem of getting the astronauts into space?
a)
Euclidean Geometry
b)
Trigonometry
c)
Analytical Geometry
d)
Differential Equations
13.
Why did John Glenn have to come back to Earth early?
a)
His heat shield was defective.
b)
He completed his mission early.
c)
He ran out of fuel.
d)
His space capsule cracked.
14.
What country was the United States in a "space race" with?
a)
Russia
b)
Cuba
c)
China
d)
Mexico
15.
What was the name of the astronaut that Katherine helped into orbit?
a)
John Glenn
b)
Neil Armstrong
c)
Louis Armstrong
d)
Glenn Johnson
16.
Who was the president at the time of the launch?
a)
John F. Kennedy
b)
Richard M. Nixon
c)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
d)
Gerald R. Ford
17.
 What was the programming language that Dorothy Vaughn learned to use with the IBM computer?
a)
Fortran
b)
Python
c)
Java
d)
Scala
18.
Where does the movie take place?
a)
New York City, New York
b)
Charleston, South Carolina
c)
Hampton, Virginia
19.
Why did Katherine have to leave her now work space for long periods of time?
a)
To use the only colored bathroom on NASA's property
b)
She was generally irresponsible and unreliable
c)
To see her friends
20.
True or False: The USA was the first country to put a man in space.
a)
True
b)
False
21.

As the film opens, a young Katherine is counting and identifying prime numbers. What is a prime number?

a)

A number than can only be divided by 0

b)

A number that cannot be multiplied

c)

A number whose only factors are 1 and itself

d)

An even number

22.

What type of necklace is Katherine allowed to wear in the Space Task Group?

a)

Pearls

b)

Diamonds

c)

Gold

d)

Silver

23.

How many calculations can the IBM do?

a)

500/minute

b)

24000/second

c)

5000/second

d)

1/day

24.

Katherine's work on Project Mercury includes _____.

a)

testing heat-reflective surfaces

b)

calculating flight trajectories

c)

recreating chemical reactions

d)

updating regional research bases

25.

Before his flight, John Glenn _______________.

a)

asked engineers to double-check the math

b)

wrote poems about his wife and children

c)

was treated for a reaction to an insect bite

d)

joked that he would miss the drive-in food

26.

Because she kept asking over and over, engineers finally allowed Katherine to ______________.

a)

use brighter lighting at her desk

b)

attend the editorial meetings

c)

use her full name on reports

d)

present at the regional conference

27.

Who petitioned the courts against Hampton High School and why?

a)

Mary Jackson because they would not allow her to teach at the school

b)

Dorothy Vaughan because they would not allow her children to attend school there

c)

Mary Jackson because they would not allow her to attend classes there

d)

Katherine Johnson because they would not allow her to teach at the school

28.

Why did Katherine Johnson have to run 1/2 mile across NASA campus?

a)

To eat lunch

b)

To get coffee

c)

To use the bathroom

d)

To make calculations

29.

What did Mary Johnson go to school for at night?

a)

Aeronautical Engineering

b)

Mathematics and Physical Science

c)

Computer Programming

d)

Astronaut

30.

Who got kicked out of the public library and why?

a)

Mary Jackson because she was colored

b)

Dorothy Vaughan for stealing a book

c)

Katherine Johnson for reading the wrong books

d)

Dorothy Vaughan for being in the white section of the library

31.

What brand machine did NASA buy to replace the human computers?

a)

HAL

b)

Dell

c)

IBM

d)

HP

32.

How many orbits of Earth did John Glenn make in the first US manned space craft?

a)

7

b)

3

c)

1

d)

0

33.

What was the name of the space craft in which John Glenn orbited the earth?

a)

Friendship 7

b)

Hubble

c)

Apollo

d)

Sputnik

34.

If Katherine Johnson ran the 1/2 mile across NASA campus in 6 minutes (in heels), how many miles per hour could she run if she maintained this pace?

a)

5 miles

b)

3 miles

c)

10 miles

d)

6 miles

35.

If the computing machine can calculate 24,000 computations per second, how many can it compute in one hour?

a)

8.64 x 107

b)

86.4 x 106

c)

8.64 x 106

d)

864 x 105

36.

If the human brain can complete 38 thousand trillion (38,000,000,000,000,000) calculations per second, approximately how much faster is it than the computer machine?

a)

1.58 x 1012

b)

15.8 x 1011

c)

9.12 x 1020

d)

6.32 x 10-13

37.
When the ladies car breaks down, how do they make it work at NASA?
a)
Bus
b)
ride in a police car
c)
they fix the car themselves and get a police escort
d)
they hitchhike
38.
IBM stands for
a)
International Business Machine
b)
Institute of Beta Mathematics
c)
Inventory Business Men
d)
none of these
39.
What do NASA computers calculate?
a)
Math necessary to handle launch and landing for the space program 
b)
costs associated with NASA's program
c)
The time it takes to complete  a project.
40.
the first man in space was
a)
The American Buzz Aldrin
b)
The Soviet, Yuri Gagarin
c)
The German, Ralph Yost
d)
ET
41.
The final calculations Katherine is asked to do are pertaining to
a)
inventing a new computer
b)
Gus Grissom's return trajectory
c)
The amount of burn fuel required to life the atlas rocket from the launch  pad.
d)
the safe return of John Glenn's capsule to the earth.
42.
What does Mr Harrison do when he learns there are separate bathrooms and coffee pots for Katherine?
a)
he does nothing
b)
he removes the segregated facilities
c)
he puts a coloured restroom closer to Katherine's desk.
d)
he complains to the head of NASA
43.
NASA landed the first man on the moon in
a)
1962
b)
1972
c)
1969
d)
1965
44.

The Friendship 7 mission

a)

successfully launched

b)

landed safely in the ocean near the Bahamas

c)

Had a malfunction with the capsules heat shield

d)

all of the answers

45.
Toward the end of the movie, the new IBM Supervisor is
a)
Dorothy
b)
Katherine
c)
Vivian
d)
Mary

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