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WorksheetsWomen in STEM Trivia [Historical]
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Grace Hopper developed which common language for computers?
ALGOL
APL
COBOL
PASCAL
All of these famous faces have degrees in sciences, engineering and math subjects. But who studied engineering at university?
Mayim Bialik
Carol Vorderman
Virginia Wade
Lisa Kudrow
Elizabeth Bragg Cumming (1859-1929) was the first woman to earn a degree in civil engineering from which university?
UC Berkeley
UCLA
MIT
Cornell
____ optimized uranium production, contributing to the science behind the first nuclear bombs during World War II.
Calutron Girls
Clarice Phelps
Lise Meitner
Ida Noddak
Susan LaFlesche Picotte was the first ____ woman to earn a medical degree.
Unmarried
English
Hispanic
Native American
Who was the first female to become a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers?
Ellen Ochoa
Kate Gleason
Hedy Lamarr
Nora Stanton Barney
“Lean in: Women, work and the will to lead” is a book written by who?
Susan Wojcicki
Carol Shaw
Sheryl Sandberg
Ida Rhodes
Who is the architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., which she designed when she was only 21 years old?
Maya Lin
Neri Oxman
Zaha Hadid
Tatiana Bilbao
Who became the first female president of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1974?
Maria M. Klawe
Dhara Patel
Bushra Anjum
Jean E. Sammet
What did Caroline Herschel discover in the 18th century?
A star
A comet
Pluto
Extraterrestrial life
What woman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for her contribution to the understanding of radiation?
Marie Curie
Rosalind Franklin
Lise Meitner
Barbara McClintock
A 2021 Mars rover was named after this English chemist and X-ray crystallographer:
Ada Lovelace
Grace Hopper
Rosalind Franklin
Rachel Carson
Who was the first woman to go to space?
Mae Carol Jemison
Valentina Treshkova
Kalpana Chawla
Sally Ride
Mary Putnam Jacobi fought for better education of women medical students in many ways, including:
Protesting unfair professors
Becoming a gynecologist
Donating to women’s education
Debunking menstruation myths
Who developed the signal flares that are still used by the U.S. Navy?
Esther Conwell
Beatrice Hicks
Beulah Louise Henry
Martha Coston
Which female mathematician calculated the trajectories of Apollo 11?.
Dorothy Vaughan
Neil Armstrong
Katherine Johnson
Mary Jackosn
Who invented signal hopping, which was a precursor to Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth?
Hedy Lamarr
Hertha Ayrton
Emily Warren Roebling
Edith Clark
Who is the founder of Girls Who Code?
Rachel Carson
Elizabeth Feinler
Bozoma Saint John
Reshma Saujani
What percentage of researchers worldwide are women?
Less than 30%
Between 30% and 40%
50%
0%
What woman became the first girl on the Iranian Mathematical Olympics team?
Hypatia
Shakuntala Devi
Maria Gaetana Agnesi
Maryam Mirzakhani
