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1
Just as Jane Goodall studied chimpanzees in the wild, Dian Fossey studied:
bonobos
orangutans
gibbons
gorillas
2
The only two elements named after female scientists are Curium and
Gadolinium
Meitnerium
Lawrencium
Flerovium
3
Marie Curie's daughter, _______, won a Nobel Prize herself, in the field of Chemistry.
Marthe
Irène
Hélène
Thérèse
4
Ada, Countess of Lovelace, is considered to be the world's first
forensic scientist
statistician
paleontologist
computer programmer
5
Chien-Shiung Wu was nicknamed "the First Lady of Physics" for her experimental work in
nuclear and particle physics
condensed matter physics
fluid mechanics and turbulence
thermodynamics and statistical mechanics
6
Which mathematician and astronomer from Alexandria was murdered by a Christian mob?
Xanthippe
Khryseis
Hypatia
Orestea
7
Which 1940s movie star developed WiFi's spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology?
Hedy Lamarr
Lana Turner
Cyd Charisse
Natalie Wood
8
Before her early death, Du Châtelet did important work translating and expanding on the work of
Gottfried von Leibniz
Robert Hooke
Isaac Newton
Alessandro Volta
9
The main character of the movie Hidden Figures is NASA mathematician:
Marie Maynard Daly
Patricia Bath
Mae C. Jemison
Katherine Johnson
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Vera Rubin's galaxy studies provided the first evidence for
dark matter
supernovae
black holes
the Big Bang