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1
In this 2016 movie, Taraji P. Henson played the role of Katherine Johnson.
The Dish
October Sky
Apollo 11
Hidden Figures
2
In 2015, President Obama awarded Katherine Johnson what award?
Gold Star
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Purple Heart
3
Sophie Germain is best known for her work in:
Number Theory and the Theory of Elsasticity
Fourier Analysis
Quadratics
Binomial Expansion
4
What university did Maryam Mirzakhani teach at prior to her death in 2017?
Yale
University of Illinois
Stanford
Harvard
5
Who was the first female mathematician to win the Fields Medal?
Judith Love Cohen
Maryam Mirzakhani
Sophie Germain
Ada Lovelace
6
Judith Love Cohen was also an electrical engineer who worked on:
Moon Landing
International Space Station
Black Holes
Minutemen Missiles
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How many women, including Mirzakhani, have won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in Mathematics?
5
2
3
1
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Sophie Germain grew up during what historical event?
Civil War
World War 1
French Revolution
American Revolution
9
Judith Love Cohen, while solving her guidance system problem, gave birth to which actor?
Jack Black
Tom Hanks
George Clooney
Tom Cruise
10
What is Ada Lovelace's claim to fame?
She is credited with writing the first computer algorithm.
She invented bernoulli numbers.
She killed a moth with her father's book of poetry.
She corresponded with Charles Babbage for 17 years.
11
Katherine Johnson worked for which organization for 35 years?
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Corps of America
NASA
CIA
NSA
12
What nickname did Charles Babbage give to Ada Lovelace?
The Enchantress of Numbers
The Guru of Numbers
The Mathematician Extraordinaire
The Number Goddess
13
Sophie Germain had to use an alias because of gender discrimination. What was her alias?
Monsieur LeBlanc
Matt Leblanc
Henri Poincarre
Cedric Villani
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What math topic did Maryam Mirzakhani NOT work on?
Dynamics and Geometry of Riemann Surfaces
Hyperbolic Geometry
Ergodic Theory
Modular Arithmetic
15
What machine did Ada Lovelace conceptualize?
Bifocals
Flying Machine
Catapult
Shoelaces
16
Which of the following is NOT true about Hypatia?
Was brutally murdered by a religious group
Developed concepts of conics
First female math teacher
Is known for solving the Pythagorean Theorem
17
Who was the aerospace engineer who helped create a guidance system to bring Apollo 13 home while in labor!
Sofya Kovalevskaya
Emmy Noether
Mary Cartwright
Judith Love Cohen
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Ada Lovelace is now called:
The World's First Computer Programmer
The Mathematical Poet
The Precursor of Programming
The Mother of Mathematics
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This astronomer, philosopher and mathematician was born in 370 AD in Alexandria, Egypt.
Mayim Bialik
Hypatia
Demeter
Pandrosian
