Mercedes' English Class

Q1: Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?

• Marie Curie
• Bertha von Suttner
• Emmanuelle Charpentier
• Rosalind Franklin

Q2: For What is Rosalind Franklin known?

• For her calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee
• For her achievements in discovering radioactivity and inventing a mobile X-ray unit.
• For her revolutionary work in discovering the double helix structure of DNA.
• For her discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure

Q3: Who is regarded as the first computer programmer — long before modern computers were invented?

• Charles Babbage
• Ada Lovelace
• Marie Curie 
• Chien-Shiung Wu

Q4: What was Janaki Ammal’s area of scientific expertise?

• Physics
• Mathematics
• Chemistry
• Plant Biology

Q5: Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE in 2015 for discovering...

• Discovered important principles for drug treatment
• Investigated how the nervous system grows and develops
• Discovered a novel therapy against malaria
• Developed a methodology for the determination of protein hormones in the blood

Q6: When was Gladys West inducted into the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame?

• 2017
• 2018
• 2019
• 2020

Q7: Helen Taussig founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is best known for discovering…

• The cause of “blue baby syndrome”
• Pediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome
• Yellow Jaundice 
• Congenital Heart Disorder 

Q8: Who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “the development of a method for genome editing”?

• Emmanuelle Doudna and Jennifer Charpentier 
• Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
• Emmanuelle Charpentier and Marie Curie 
• Marie Curie and Jennifer A. Doudna

Q9: Who is the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice?

• Linus Pauling (Chemistry and Peace)
• John Bardeen (Physics)
• Frederick Sanger (Chemistry)
• Marie Curie (Physics and Chemistry)

Q10: How many female scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine so far?

ACTIVITY 2. Write a Catchy Slogan: 

Create a short, powerful, and memorable slogan to promote the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.