1. Dian Fossey is an expert on ... ?
a) Ants
b) Horses
c) Flies
d) Elephants
e) Gorillas
The correct answer is e) Gorillas
2. Mae Carol Jemison an American physician was the first African American woman to ... ?
a) Head the Harvard Medical School
b) Land on the Moon
c) Head the World Health Organisation
d) Travel in Space
The correct answer is d)Travel in Space
3. Anna Freud is a ... ?
a) Medical Researcher
b) physicist
c) biologist
d) psychoanalyst
The correct answer is d) psychoanalyst
4. Margaret Mead became world famous in the field of ... ?
a) Anthropology
b) Sociology
c) Geology
d) Bioethics
The correct answer is a) Anthropology
5. Jane Goodall is famous for studying which animal ?
a) Dolphins
b) Orangutans
c) Chimpanzee
d) Sharks
The correct answer is c) Chimpanzee
6. Chien Shiung-Wu is an American physicist who ... ?
a) worked on the Manhattan Project
b) worked on the Space Shuttle design
c) worked on the first Cellular Phone
The correct answer is a) worked on the Manhattan Project
7. Grace Murray Hopper was a world class American Mathematician and Computer Scientist but she was also ... ?
a) knighted by the English Queen
b) first female Air Traffic Controller
c) first female Rear Admiral
d) an Olympic athelete
The correct answer is c) first female Rear Admiral
8. Dixie Lee Ray became ... ?
a) a leading authority on Virus Transmission
b) the main collaborator of Stephen Hawking
c) Editor of Science magazine
d) chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission
The correct answer is d) chairperson of the Atomic Energy Commission
9. Florence Sabin used microscopes to study ... ?
a) germ transmission
b) the human lymph system
c) skin cells and skin caner
d) rare plants and flowers
The correct answer is b) the human lymph system
10. Between 1901 and 2009 a Nobel prize has been awarded to a woman how many times ?
a) 21
b) 41
c) 61
d) 121
The correct answer is b) 41
11. In 2004 Linda B. Buck won a Nobel prize in ... ?
a) Literature
b) Peace
c) Physics
d) Physiology or Medicine
The correct answer is d) Physiology or Medicine
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