wayground logo

Free Printable Worksheets

NEW

Font size

S
M
L
XL
Worksheets

Women in STEM Trivia [Historical]

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Grace Hopper developed which common language for computers?

a)

ALGOL

b)

APL

c)

COBOL

d)

PASCAL

2.

All of these famous faces have degrees in sciences, engineering and math subjects. But who studied engineering at university?

a)

Mayim Bialik

b)

Carol Vorderman

c)

Virginia Wade

d)

Lisa Kudrow

3.

Elizabeth Bragg Cumming (1859-1929) was the first woman to earn a degree in civil engineering from which university?

a)

UC Berkeley

b)

UCLA

c)

MIT

d)

Cornell

4.

____ optimized uranium production, contributing to the science behind the first nuclear bombs during World War II.

a)

Calutron Girls

b)

Clarice Phelps

c)

Lise Meitner

d)

Ida Noddak

5.

Susan LaFlesche Picotte was the first ____ woman to earn a medical degree.

a)

Unmarried

b)

English

c)

Hispanic

d)

Native American

6.

Who was the first female to become a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers?

a)

Ellen Ochoa

b)

Kate Gleason

c)

Hedy Lamarr

d)

Nora Stanton Barney

7.

“Lean in: Women, work and the will to lead” is a book written by who?

a)

Susan Wojcicki

b)

Carol Shaw

c)

Sheryl Sandberg

d)

Ida Rhodes

8.

Who is the architect of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., which she designed when she was only 21 years old?

a)

Maya Lin

b)

Neri Oxman

c)

Zaha Hadid

d)

Tatiana Bilbao

9.

Who became the first female president of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1974?

a)

Maria M. Klawe

b)

Dhara Patel

c)

Bushra Anjum

d)

Jean E. Sammet

10.

What did Caroline Herschel discover in the 18th century?

a)

A star

b)

A comet

c)

Pluto

d)

Extraterrestrial life

11.

What woman won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for her contribution to the understanding of radiation?

a)

Marie Curie

b)

Rosalind Franklin

c)

Lise Meitner

d)

Barbara McClintock

12.

A 2021 Mars rover was named after this English chemist and X-ray crystallographer:

a)

Ada Lovelace

b)

Grace Hopper

c)

Rosalind Franklin

d)

Rachel Carson

13.

Who was the first woman to go to space?

a)

Mae Carol Jemison

b)

Valentina Treshkova

c)

Kalpana Chawla

d)

Sally Ride

14.

Mary Putnam Jacobi fought for better education of women medical students in many ways, including:

a)

Protesting unfair professors

b)

Becoming a gynecologist

c)

Donating to women’s education

d)

Debunking menstruation myths

15.

Who developed the signal flares that are still used by the U.S. Navy?

a)

Esther Conwell

b)

Beatrice Hicks

c)

Beulah Louise Henry

d)

Martha Coston

16.

Which female mathematician calculated the trajectories of Apollo 11?.

a)

Dorothy Vaughan

b)

Neil Armstrong

c)

Katherine Johnson

d)

Mary Jackosn

17.

Who invented signal hopping, which was a precursor to Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth?

a)

Hedy Lamarr

b)

Hertha Ayrton

c)

Emily Warren Roebling

d)

Edith Clark

18.

Who is the founder of Girls Who Code?

a)

Rachel Carson

b)

Elizabeth Feinler

c)

Bozoma Saint John

d)

Reshma Saujani

19.

What percentage of researchers worldwide are women?

a)

Less than 30%

b)

Between 30% and 40%

c)

50%

d)

0%

20.

What woman became the first girl on the Iranian Mathematical Olympics team?

a)

Hypatia

b)

Shakuntala Devi

c)

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

d)

Maryam Mirzakhani