2021 RUSH Women in STEM Trivia GRAND FINAL

Question 1

Who was the first Chief Technology Officer of the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

Megan Smith

Question 2

How many, on a scale of 10, minority women make up employed scientists and engineers?

Accepted Answer

1 in 10

Question 3

Who discovered the fossil of the pre-historic version of this animal?

Accepted Answer

Mary Anning (ichthyosaurus)

Question 4

This woman was the lead disoverer of human blood stem cells, which help treat leukemia.

Accepted Answer

Anna Tsukamoto

Question 5

Although they make up 47-53% of faculty in non-STEM, what percentage of STEM faculty are women?

Accepted Answer

18-31%

Question 6

Escaping a burning building would be harder without this woman, who invented the fire escape.

Accepted Answer

Anna Connelly

Question 7

Who invented the windshield wiper?

Accepted Answer

Mary Anderson

Question 8

She is the only woman to receive an unshared Nobel Peace Prize in physiology or medicine.

Accepted Answer

Barbara McClintock

Question 9

With 665 days, she holds the records for most days in space for both an American and a woman.

Accepted Answer

Peggy Whitson

Question 10

Lise Meitner was the key to developing what type of bomb?

Accepted Answer

Atomic

Question 11

What percentage more than men (in non-STEM) do women in STEM earn?

Accepted Answer

25%

Question 12

Now in her 70s, this woman was the first female, Hispanic Surgeon General of the U.S.

Accepted Answer

Antonia Novello

Question 13

Who is only the 2nd African American woman to ever earn a PhD in physics from UoA at Birmingham?

Accepted Answer

Hadiyah-Nicole Green

Question 14

Name the first person to win two (2) Nobel Prizes.

Accepted Answer

Marie Curie

Question 15

Who was the first person to suggest a cell's function and biology depend on its surroundings?

Accepted Answer

Mina Bissell

Question 16

Published in 1773, this woman was the first Black published poet.

Accepted Answer

Phillis Wheatley

Question 17

Rarely credited, this woman's work with X-Rays led to discovering the structure of DNA.

Accepted Answer

Rosalind Franklin

Question 18

Who was the inventor of the lighted underwater telescope?

Accepted Answer

Sarah Mather

Question 19

Who was the first woman to lead a major Hollywood studio?

Accepted Answer

Sherry Lansing

Question 20

This Harlem Renaissance sculptor is most famous for her busts of Black leaders.

Accepted Answer

Augusta Savage

Question 21

Virginia Apgar developed the Apgar Score. Who benefits?

Accepted Answer

Infant humans

Question 22

Who was the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature?

Accepted Answer

Toni Morrison

Question 23

The circular saw was invented when she thought to attach a blade to her spinning wheel.

Accepted Answer

Tabitha Babbit

Question 24

The hungry caterpillar turns into a beautiful butterfly-- and we only know this because of whom?

Accepted Answer

Maria Merian

Question 25

Marion Donovan helped mothers everwhere when she invented ___________.

Accepted Answer

Disposable diapers

Question 26

Who was the 6th century BC ancient Greek considered to be the first female writer?

Accepted Answer

Sappho

Question 27

This inventor of non-reflective glass was also the first woman to receive a PhD from Cambridge.

Accepted Answer

Katharine Blodgett

Question 28

Of the 590 total Nobel Prizes awarded between 1901-2018, how many went to women?

Accepted Answer

51

Question 29

Published in 1678, who was the first published female writer of the 13 Colonies?

Accepted Answer

Anne Bradstreet

Question 30

Who was the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award?

Accepted Answer

Alice Walker

Question 31

Josephine Cochrane did children everywhere a favor when she invented ____________.

Accepted Answer

The Dishwasher

Question 32

15 years before the Murphy bed, this woman became the first Black U.S. patent holder.

Accepted Answer

Sarah Goode

Question 33

This woman was the first to receive a post-secondary degree, period.

Accepted Answer

Elena Piscopia

Question 34

As a blind astrophysicist, she turns her space data sets into sound for her to study.

Accepted Answer

Wanda Diaz Merced

Question 35

The first medical degree to go to one went to this woman way back in 1849.

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Blackwell

Question 36

A chemist for 3M at the time, she was the co-inventor of Scotchgard.

Accepted Answer

Patsy Sherman

Question 37

She was the first Prime Minister of England to hold a science degree.

Accepted Answer

Margaret Thatcher

Question 38

Originally called the Landlord's Game, from whom was the idea for Monopoly stolen?

Accepted Answer

Elizabeth Magie

Question 39

We have this woman to thank for our modern day brown bag lunches.

Accepted Answer

Margaret Knight

Question 40

Women make up 50% of college-educated workforce. How many are Science & Engineering workforce?

Accepted Answer

29%

Question 41

This Iranian was the first woman to win a Fields Medal (the highest award in math).

Accepted Answer

Maryam Mirzakhani

Question 42

Typists everwhere rejoiced when Bette Graham invented ____________.

Accepted Answer

Liquid Paper (white out)

Question 43

Schools are trying to interest girls in STEM. What Florence, SC organization is doing that?

Accepted Answer

Girls University

Question 44

The first group of female students to study at a British university was known as ____________.

Accepted Answer

The Edinburgh 7

Question 45

This woman was MUSC's (Charleston, SC) first Black anesthesiologist.

Accepted Answer

Ebony Hilton-Buchholz

Question 46

MIT gave the first physics PhD to be awarded to a Black woman to her.

Accepted Answer

Shirley Jackson

Question 47

She was writing computer programs before there were computers.

Accepted Answer

Ada Lovelace

Question 48

As of September 2018, this woman is the first female flight director of NASA.

Accepted Answer

Holly Ridings

Question 49

She was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic.

Accepted Answer

Amelia Earhart

Question 50

Having spent eight (8) days there, this woman was the first Black woman in space.

Accepted Answer

Mae Jamison

Question 51

The ISRO hired this woman as their first female satellite project director.

Accepted Answer

Anuradha TK

Question 52

This woman was considered the top mountain gorilla expert when she was murdered in her bed.

Accepted Answer

Dian Fossey

Question 53

Without her, we probably wouldn't know that HIV leads to AIDS.

Accepted Answer

Flossie Wong-Staal

Question 54

The first female Black graduate of Tufts University School of Dentistry.

Accepted Answer

Jessie Garnett

Question 55

Gertrude Elion won the Nobel Prize in this field for her work on rational drug design.

Accepted Answer

Chemistry

Question 56

This woman was the first recorded mathematician.

Accepted Answer

Hypatia of Alexandria

Question 57

She is the first woman to receive a PhD in atomic radiation.

Accepted Answer

Sameera Moussa

Question 58

The first female sailor to solo circumnavigate the world spent 189 days doing it. Who was she?

Accepted Answer

Kay Cottee

Question 59

This chemist invented Kevlar by mistake.

Accepted Answer

Stephanie Kwolek

Question 60

The first dental hygienist in the world was this woman.

Accepted Answer

Irene Newman

Question 61

On what kind of energy did the home designed by Maria Telkes run?

Accepted Answer

Solar

Question 62

Which woman can we thank for having community theater programs at all?

Accepted Answer

Margo Jones

Question 63

Who was the first African-American woman to direct on Broadway?

Accepted Answer

Vinette Carroll

Question 64

Which woman co-founded the Academy responsible for the Oscars?

Accepted Answer

Mary Pickford

2021 RUSH Women in STEM Trivia GRAND FINAL

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2021 RUSH Women in STEM Trivia GRAND FINAL

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