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1
In 2015, President Obama awarded Katherine Johnson what award?
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Congressional Space Medal of Honor
Gold Star
Purple Heart
2
This astronomer, philosopher and mathematician was born in 370 AD in Alexandria, Egypt.
Demeter
Pandrosian
Mayim Bialik
Hypatia
3
What machine did Ada Lovelace conceptualize?
Bifocals
Catapult
Shoelaces
Flying Machine
4
Sophie Germain had to use an alias because of gender discrimination. What was her alias?
Cedric Villani
Matt Leblanc
Monsieur LeBlanc
Henri Poincarre
5
Judith Love Cohen, while solving her guidance system problem, gave birth to which actor?
Tom Hanks
Tom Cruise
George Clooney
Jack Black
6
In this 2016 movie, Taraji P. Henson played the role of Katherine Johnson.
Apollo 11
The Dish
October Sky
Hidden Figures
7
What nickname did Charles Babbage give to Ada Lovelace?
The Enchantress of Numbers
The Mathematician Extraordinaire
The Number Goddess
The Guru of Numbers
8
What math topic did Maryam Mirzakhani NOT work on?
Modular Arithmetic
Dynamics and Geometry of Riemann Surfaces
Hyperbolic Geometry
Ergodic Theory
9
What university did Maryam Mirzakhani teach at prior to her death in 2017?
Harvard
Yale
Stanford
University of Illinois
10
Katherine Johnson worked for which organization for 35 years?
NSA
NASA
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Corps of America
CIA
11
Judith Love Cohen was also an electrical engineer who worked on:
Moon Landing
Minutemen Missiles
Black Holes
International Space Station
12
Ada Lovelace is now called:
The Precursor of Programming
The Mother of Mathematics
The Mathematical Poet
The World's First Computer Programmer
13
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.
14
Who was the aerospace engineer who helped create a guidance system to bring Apollo 13 home while in labor!
Emmy Noether
Sofya Kovalevskaya
Mary Cartwright
Judith Love Cohen
15
How many women, including Mirzakhani, have won the Fields Medal, the most prestigious prize in Mathematics?
5
2
1
3
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Who was the first female mathematician to win the Fields Medal?
Judith Love Cohen
Ada Lovelace
Sophie Germain
Maryam Mirzakhani
17
Sophie Germain is best known for her work in:
Quadratics
Fourier Analysis
Binomial Expansion
Number Theory and the Theory of Elsasticity
18
Sophie Germain grew up during what historical event?
American Revolution
French Revolution
Civil War
World War 1
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Which of the following is NOT true about Hypatia?
First female math teacher
Was brutally murdered by a religious group
Developed concepts of conics
Is known for solving the Pythagorean Theorem
