This document provides information about an event called "Let Her Ask Day 10" hosted by Prajna Whatsapp Group on August 14, 2020. It includes 20 multiple choice or fill in the blank questions related to women in STEM fields. Correct answers are provided for each question identifying important female scientists and their contributions throughout history.

1. Let Her Ask Day 10
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By
Gladwino Ousjes
Prajna Whatsapp Group
14/08/2020 - 8:00pm

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Qn will be open for one minute
STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics
Keep Guessing
+10 and +5 points will be given to first response and
second response respectively.
Complimentary Point (+1) will given if responses
comes in 1-5 seconds difference with first response
Clue is pointed out in separate colour.

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This Award (Created in 1998) for Women in Science
aims to improve the position of women in science by
recognizing outstanding women researchers who have
contributed to scientific progress.
The awards are a result of a partnership between the
French cosmetics company and one of the UN
organization, carrying a grant of $100,000 USD for
eminent women scientists from 5 regions of the world.
The partnership also giving The Rising Talent Grants for
15 researchers in different regions. Name the award
1. The World needs Science,
and Science needs Women

4. Ans
Lóréal -
UNESCO Award
for women in
science

5. 2. Identify
Her

6. Rita Fariya
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7. Marie Curie --- Physics & Chemistry --- 1903 & 1911
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Pierre Curie --- Physics --- 1903
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Irene Joliot Curie --- Chemistry ---1953
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Federic Joliot Curie ---- Chemistry --- 19534
___________ --- Peace --- 19655
3. FITB. Exclusively from Family

8. ANS
Henry Labouisse (Husband of Eve, 2nd
daughter of Marie Curie)

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She was born in Travancore on 1918. She preferred
Physics over Medicine. She had a opportunity to work
with meteorological equipment at the Imperial
College of London, under government scholarship.
She standardized the designs for around 100
weather-related instruments, including rain gauges
and barometers and started a company that made
instruments for solar radiation and wind speed.
Her motto was, “Wrong measurements are worse
than no measurements at all.”
She is known as "Weather women of India". Who is
she?

10. Anna Mani
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11. 5. Trailer of which filim?
Video

12. Hidden Figures
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13. 6. Identify Them and connect with the third one

14. 1. Sally Ride
2. Katherine Johnson
3. Nalini Nandkarni
Mattel rejected to make "Treetop barbies", later
started working with National Geographic to
create a lineup of scientist Barbies
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15. 7. Who is she?
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X was American mathematician and rear admiral in the
U.S. Navy who was a pioneer in developing computer
technology, helping to devise UNIVAC I, the first
commercial electronic computer, and naval
applications for COBOL (common-business-oriented
language).
She is also imparted in naming the term bug to refer to
unexplained computer failures.
She retired from the navy with the rank of commander
in 1966, but she was recalled to active duty the
following year to help standardize the navy’s computer
languages. At the age of 79, she was the oldest officer
on active U.S. naval duty when she retired again in 1986.

16. Grace Hopper
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17. 8. Put Funda

18. Permenent Commission of Women
officers in Army
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19. 9. First scientist to do ___?
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Flossie Wong-Staal, a molecular virologist, died in July 8, 2020 .
Her research in this field is now being deployed in the fight against
Covid 19.
Until the late ’70s, the idea of this particular work was
controversial and scientists were dismissively referred the issue to
as “human rumor viruses". And in '80s the presence of this viruses
is proven and she provided molecular evidence needed as proof,
which was a necessary step towards developing eventual
treatments.
She was also included in The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite
Stories of Courage and Resilience, by Hillary Rodham Clinton and
Chelsea Clinton.
Wong-Staal was one of 20 women honored in the #20for2020
campaign highlighting the work of female leaders.

20. Cloning of HIV and Mapping of its
genes
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21. 10. Connect

22. DARK MATTER
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In Clockwise
1.2019 Nobel Laureates
(understanding of the
evolution of the universe and
Earth's place in the cosmos)
2. Vera Rubin (Pioneer in Dark
Matter studies)
3. DARK (German series
including Dark Matter)
4. The galaxy named after Vera
Rubin

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X is honored with the name of a new genus of ferns found in
Central and South America, Mexico, Arizona and Texas. A
genus is a group of closely related species.
Members of the new genus also bear a distinct DNA
sequence spelling resembles the name of artist herself.
X germanotta and X monstraparva are new to the genus.
In 2010 Grammy Awards, X wore a heart-shaped Armani
Prive' costume with giant shoulders that looked(for
scientists) exactly like the bisexual reproductive stage of the
ferns, called a gametophyte. It was even the right shade of
light green.
Celebrity species abound in science.But those are just
individual species. This is an entire genus that so far
includes 19 species of ferns.

24. Lady GAGA (DNA Sequence)
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25. 12. Connect

26. 11 Indian Women scientists the new
STEM chairs are named after
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27. ..
13. Identify reaction and Name the scientists
Behind

28. Hunsdiecker reaction (also called the Borodin
reaction)
Named after Clare and Heinrich Hunsdiecker
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29. 14. Connect and Find the Movie which made with reference
of this.

30. Leakey's Angels (The trimates)
Charlie's Angels
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31. 15. What is she holding (left one)
Clue : Right one

32. Left : Katie Bouman holding algorithm that
helped to click the image of Black Hole for
first time (2019)
Right : Margret Hamilton with code for
Appolo mission (1969)
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33. 16. Who is depicted in the minimalist poster

34. Lisa Meitner
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35. 17. Identify the Speaker

36. Rachel Carson
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37. 18.What is her mission? 
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A seven year old girl from
Srinagar, Jannat, is on a
mission, which has been
doing since she was five.
Apart from appreciations from
locals, her story is now
included in curriculum of
Hyderabad based schools.
Prime minister also shared her
viral mission video and wrote "
Hearing this little girl will make
your morning even better!
Great passion towards
Swachatha" He also
mentioned about her in "Mann
ki Baat" section

38. Cleaning Dal Lake (Kashmir)
mainly Plastic Garbage (Along
with Save Dal)
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39. 19. Give me the name
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She was the first real-life astronaut to appear in famous
Star Trek : The next Generation
She is also the first African American woman to travel
and orbited around earth on space shuttle Endeavour in
1992 for eight days.
She pursued degree in chemistry from Stanford University
and Medical degree from Cornell University and also
joined Peace Corps.
As she resigned from NASA, she established Foundation
for Excellence, named after her mother, and continues to
advocate for minorities and women in STEM and promote
educational opportunities for all.

40. Mae Jemison
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41. 20. New project!
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Lakshmi Menon, a resident of Ernakulam district in
Kerala,who is an interior fashion and jewellery
designer by profession, was practising as an artist in a
gallery in San Francisco back then
she is also the founder of Pure Living Foundation
which came up with the zero investment innovation,
stands for Products which are Upcycled Recycled and
Economised.
The material used for this new project is very
comfortable as there is a fluffiness to it due to the
small air space created while braiding the plastics
together. (Image on right top)
Keralities remember her with the Chekkutty dolls,
small cloth dolls with a smiling face that stood out as
a symbol of hope during the 2018 floods.

42. SHAYYA - Waste
management of the
PPE scrap to mattress.
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43. 5 3 7 11
1901-
1920
244
21. What Does This Say
1921-
1940
1941-
1960
1961-
1980
1981-
2000
2000-
2019

44. Ans. The Number of Women Nobel
Laureates with Year

45. 22. Identify the lady in the left

46. Anandibai Joshi (First Indian
women physician with training in
Allopathy from abroad, USA)
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47. 23.
Stephanie Kwolek was an organic chemist, best known for
inventing X in 1965. X is an immensely strong plastic,
discovered as a replacement for steel reinforcing strips in
racing car tires.
Today, X is used in a great number of different ways, including
armor, gloves, tires, yacht sails, shoes, ropes, and tennis
racquet strings and large variety of protective clothing
applications, which have saved the lives of countless police
officers and other people.
In precise chemical terms, 1,4-phenylene-diamine reacts with
terephthaloyl chloride in a condensation polymerization
producing X and eliminating hydrogen chloride. weight-for-
weight the polymer she had made was five times stronger
than steel.

48. Kevlar
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49. 24. Logo of ____

50. Kerala Shastra Sahithya Parishath
(KSSP)
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51. (°C) -- Temperature -- Anders Celsius1
(Pa) -- pressure -- Blaise Pascal2
(Mx) -- Magnetic flux – James Clerk Maxwell3
(D) -- Electric dipole moment – Peter Debye4
(GM) -- Two-photon absorption cross section – ________5
25. FITB.

52. Maria Goeppert-Mayer
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53. THANKS