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He Didn't Make It! Trivia Quiz

She did! How many of these famous female inventors have you heard of?

A multiple-choice quiz by Rowena8482. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Rowena8482

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
331,525

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
534

Question 1 of 10

1. One lady inventor was named Mary Anderson, born in Alabama USA in the 1860s. Her invention was related to vehicle design, often considered a male preserve. Which of these things did she take out a patent on in 1903? Hint

Seat belt buckles

Windscreen wipers

An infant car seat

An in-car heater

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Question 2 of 10

2. Sarah Goode became the first ever African-American woman to take out a patent, when she applied for one in 1885. Which space saving device did she invent? Hint

Folding 'cabinet' bed

Compact refrigerator

Pressure cooker

Folding clothes airer

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Question 3 of 10

3. This woman invented several devices which have improved conditions for animals in stock yards and meat processing plants. She is also famed for her animal rights work, and noted for her advocacy of people who, like herself, are affected by autism. She holds a doctoral degree, and has appeared on television many times. Who is she? Hint

Paige Joseph

Estelle Sinclair

Marjorie Brennan

Temple Grandin

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Question 4 of 10

4. Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron. Way back in the 1840s, she invented and patented something that most people think of as a very modern innovation. What was it? Hint

Computer programming

Mobile (cell) phone

Solar power cell

Rechargable battery

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Question 5 of 10

5. In 1950, a housewife named Marion Donovan invented something for which many millions of women have been grateful ever since. What was her revolutionary idea? Hint

Automatic washing machine

Single leg tights (pantyhose)

Disposable nappy (diaper)

Run proof mascara

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Question 6 of 10

6. The first recorded American woman inventor was named Sybilla Masters, but her patents were granted in her husband's name. This was in accordance with the English laws in effect in America at the time. In what year was Sybilla (via her husband) granted a patent for "Cleansing Curing and Refining of Indian Corn Growing in the Plantations"? Hint

1800

1849

1902

1715

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Question 7 of 10

7. Bette Nesmith was the mother of Mike, who was a member of the Monkees. She also ran her own company which marketed her invention, used in millions of offices all over the world. What did she invent? Hint

Staple remover

Liquid paper

Electric pencil sharpener

Post it notes

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Question 8 of 10

8. In 1983, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine solo. Who was she? Hint

Barbara McClintock

Maria Goeppert Mayer

Sonya Kovalevsky

Mary Edwards Walker

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Question 9 of 10

9. Ellen Ochoa holds patents on several engineering innovations, in the field of optical systems. She has another 'claim to fame' too; which of these things is it? Hint

She gave birth to quintuplets in 1989

First hispanic woman to win a Nobel Prize

She won a Grammy Award in 1995

First hispanic female astronaut

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Question 10 of 10

10. In 1964, Stephanie Kwolek invented poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide. How is this substance more usually known? Hint

Nylon

Teflon

Kevlar

Rayon

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Windscreen wipers

As well as her invention, which eventually became standard in almost every car made, Mary was a rancher, and owned a vinyard. She died in 1953, aged 87.

2. Sarah Goode became the first ever African-American woman to take out a patent, when she applied for one in 1885. Which space saving device did she invent?

Answer: Folding 'cabinet' bed

Sarah was born into slavery, sometime around 1850. After the Civil War she moved to Chicago and ran a furniture shop, which was where she devised the folding bed.

Answer: Temple Grandin

As well as degrees in psychology and animal science, Dr. Grandin holds a Ph.D in animal science, which was awarded in 1989. In 2010, an eponymous biographical film was released. It was directed by Mick Jackson, and starred Clare Danes as Dr. Grandin.

4. Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron. Way back in the 1840s, she invented and patented something that most people think of as a very modern innovation. What was it?

Answer: Computer programming

Ada Lovelace worked with Charles Babbage when he was making his famous Difference Engine, acknowledged as the first ever computer. She devised a method for programming it using punched cards, in 1843. Sadly, Ada died when she was just 36 years old, so we will never know what else she could have achieved.

5. In 1950, a housewife named Marion Donovan invented something for which many millions of women have been grateful ever since. What was her revolutionary idea?

Answer: Disposable nappy (diaper)

Marion started out by making waterproof covers for her child's ordinary cloth non-disposable nappies, using an old shower curtain. After that she developed her idea further into a truly disposable nappy, and when she couldn't get backing from any existing manufacturing companies, she started up her own business.
By the time she died in 1998, she had taken out twenty patents for various small household devices, including a new type of dental floss.

Answer: 1715

Sybilla also held another patent, again in her husband's name, for "Working and Weaving in a New Method, Palmetta Chip and Straw for Hats and Bonnets and other Improvements of that Ware".
British Patent Law applied in America at the time, before the War of Independence (1775-1783) took the newly formed United States out of British control.

Answer: Liquid paper

Bette originally marketed her correction fluid as "Mistake Out" from 1956. When she started her full time business, she changed the name to Liquid Paper. She eventually sold the company to Gillette for over US$47 million.

8. In 1983, she became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine solo. Who was she?

Answer: Barbara McClintock

Although not strictly speaking an invention, Barbara Mclintock's discovery of the molecular pathways in the process of genetic transposition meant she was the first woman ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on her own, without sharing it with a male colleague.
Mary Edwards Walker was a nurse and surgeon during the American Civil War.
Sonya Kovalevsky was a Russian mathematician who lived in the nineteenth century.
Maria Goeppert Mayer was a scientist, and, with her colleague Hans Jensen, won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963.

9. Ellen Ochoa holds patents on several engineering innovations, in the field of optical systems. She has another 'claim to fame' too; which of these things is it?

Answer: First hispanic female astronaut

Ellen's first space flight was aboard the shuttle Discovery in 1993.
She later went on to become the Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center in Texas.

10. In 1964, Stephanie Kwolek invented poly-paraphenylene terephtalamide. How is this substance more usually known?

Answer: Kevlar

The discovery of kevlar came about almost by accident, when Stephanie persuaded her colleagues, at the Dupont chemical company, to run some tests on the 'leftovers' from a different experiment. Ordinarily it would have been thrown away, but she suspected it could be useful under favourable conditions. Kevlar, as we now know it, was fully marketable by the early 1970s, and it has many applications, apart from the well known bullet proof vests, including car tyres, tennis racquets, and trampolines.

Source: Author Rowena8482

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