1. What percentage of scientific researchers worldwide are female?

i) 14%
ii) 30%
iii) 42%

2. ____ is a British chemist who was instrumental in discovering the structure of DNA. A rover
going to Mars in 2021 will bear her name.
i) Rosalind Franklin
ii) Dorothy Hodgkin
iii) Edith Humphrey

3. Between 1901 and 2020, the Nobel Prizes in scientific fields were awarded 387 times. Out of the
387 recipients, how many were women?
i) 16%
ii) 25%
iii) 99%

4. Globally, what percentage of artificial intelligence (AI) and data professionals are women?
i) 8%
ii) 11%
iii) 26%

5. Who was the first female Muslim Astronaut?

i) Yamsin Abdel Aziz
ii) Ayesha Khalid
iii) Anousheh Ansari

6. Who founded the world first University?

i) Fatimah Al Fihri
ii) Sumaya Mukhtar
iii) Mary Anning

7. Who is the founder of ‘Girls who code’?

i) Ms Shen LI
ii) Reshma Saujani
iii) Emily Harris

8. Who was the first woman to win the noble prize in Sciences?
i) Dorothy Hodgkin
ii) Ada Lovelace
iii) Marie Curie

9. Who became the first woman on the Iranian Mathematical Olympics team?
i) Maryam Mirzakhani
ii) Alenush Teiran
iii) Saba Valadkhan

10. Who developed the signal flares that are still used by the US Navy?
i) Lisie Mertiner
ii) Chien Shung Wu
iii) Martha Coston
11. Who invented signal hopping which was a precursor for WIFI, GPS, and Bluetooth?
i) Vera Rubin
ii) Jess Wade
iii) Hedy Lamarr

12. Who has been nicknamed ‘the mother of the internet’?

i) Maria Tekles
ii) Radia Perlman
iii) Jess Wade

13. Who is the only woman to have received, by herself (unshared), a Nobel Prize for Medicine?
i) Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
ii) Gerty Theresa Cori
iii) Barbara McClintock

14. Who was the first woman to go to space?

i) Valentina Tereshkova
ii) Mae Carol Jemison
iii) Kalpana Chawla

15. Who is known as the inventor of the first compiler? (A compiler is a program that translates
programming code to machine language).
i) Grace Hopper
ii) Anita Borg
iii) Adele Goldstine

16. What woman studied biology, started her career in healthcare finance and later went on to
become CEO of a leading personal genomics company?
i) Anne Wojcicki
ii) Sheryl Sandberg
iii) Susan Wojcicki

17. How many women have received a noble prize in the sciences?
i) 10
ii) 20
iii) 30