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1
Judith Love Cohen, while solving her guidance system problem, gave birth to which actor?
Jack Black
Tom Cruise
George Clooney
Tom Hanks
2
Judith Love Cohen was also an electrical engineer who worked on:
Black Holes
Moon Landing
Minutemen Missiles
International Space Station
3
Ada Lovelace is now called:
The Mother of Mathematics
The Mathematical Poet
The World's First Computer Programmer
The Precursor of Programming
4
What machine did Ada Lovelace conceptualize?
Shoelaces
Bifocals
Flying Machine
Catapult
5
What math topic did Maryam Mirzakhani NOT work on?
Hyperbolic Geometry
Ergodic Theory
Modular Arithmetic
Dynamics and Geometry of Riemann Surfaces
6
Sophie Germain is best known for her work in:
Quadratics
Fourier Analysis
Number Theory and the Theory of Elsasticity
Binomial Expansion
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What university did Maryam Mirzakhani teach at prior to her death in 2017?
Yale
Harvard
Stanford
University of Illinois
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Which of the following is NOT true about Hypatia?
Was brutally murdered by a religious group
Is known for solving the Pythagorean Theorem
First female math teacher
Developed concepts of conics
9
Who was the aerospace engineer who helped create a guidance system to bring Apollo 13 home while in labor!
Emmy Noether
Sofya Kovalevskaya
Judith Love Cohen
Mary Cartwright
10
In 2015, President Obama awarded Katherine Johnson what award?
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Gold Star
Presidential Medal fo Freedom
Purple Heart
11
This astronomer, philosopher and mathematician was born in 370 AD in Alexandria, Egypt.
Demeter
Pandrosian
Mayim Bialik
Hypatia
12
Sophie Germain grew up during what historical event?
Civil War
World War 1
French Revolution
American Revolution
13
In this 2016 movie, Taraji P. Henson played the role of Katherine Johnson.
The Dish
October Sky
Hidden Figures
Apollo 11
14
How many women, including Mirzakhani, have won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in Mathematics?
3
2
1
5
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What nickname did Charles Babbage give to Ada Lovelace?
The Mathematician Extraordinaire
The Number Goddess
The Enchantress of Numbers
The Guru of Numbers
16
Sophie Germain had to use an alias because of gender discrimination. What was her alias?
Monsieur LeBlanc
Cedric Villani
Matt Leblanc
Henri Poincarre
17
What is Ada Lovelace's claim to fame?
She invented bernoulli numbers.
She is credited with writing the first computer algorithm.
She killed a moth with her father's book of poetry.
She corresponded with Charles Babbage for 17 years.
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Katherine Johnson worked for which organization for 35 years?
NSA
NASA
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Corps of America
CIA
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Who was the first female mathematician to win the Fields Medal?
Maryam Mirzakhani
Ada Lovelace
Sophie Germain
Judith Love Cohen
