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Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon

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Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon game quiz
"Annie Jump Cannon was born on December 11, 1863 and died on April 13, 1941. She was a very famous astronomer who is unfortunately, not well known. Hopefully, this quiz will help to change that."

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1. Where did she first study physics and astronomy?
    Yale
    Oxford
    Wellesley
    Harvard


2. Does she have a crater named after her on the Moon?
    Yes
    No


3. Besides astronomy, she also developed skills in
    photography
    biology
    botany
    fishing


4. What famous mnemonic phrase in Astronomy refers to a scheme she helped to develop?
    Oh, be a fine girl , kiss me!
    Magnificent desolation
    Facts are stubborn things, but statictics are more pliable
    The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.


5. Annie Jump Cannon also published catalogs of
    never published any catalogs
    supernova remnants
    variable stars
    galaxies


6. Why is she known as one of Edward Pickering's women?
    He hired her, and a lot of other women, including Henrietta Leavett to carry out astronomical calculations.
    She was his housekeeper.
    She was his third wife.
    She wasn't known as one of his women.


7. Annie Jump Cannon was the first woman to be awarded the National Academy of Science's Draper Gold Medal.
    True
    False


8. Annie Jump Cannon became curator of the Harvard College Observatory in 1938.
    True
    False


9. The Annie Jump Cannon Award is awarded each year for outstanding research by a woman in astronomy.
    True
    False


10. She did which of the following?
    Helped to catalog the known satellites of the outer solar system
    Worked on revising William Hershel's galaxy observations
    Assigned the spectral type of over 300,000 stars
    Developed the spectrascope


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