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The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, celebrated on 11 February, aims to promote women and girls in science. This Day is an opportunity to promote full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls. Gender equality is a global priority for UNESCO, and the support of young girls, their education and their full ability to make their ideas heard are levers for development and peace.

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Valentina Tereshkova is one of three Russian cosmonauts heading the Soviet Union’s hall of fame, for what reason?*
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First women to orbit the moon
First women in space
Wife of Yuri Gagarin

Who was the deputy operations director on the Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan?*

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Nandini Harinath
Seetha C-K
Mallika Srinivasan

Who played a crucial role in discovering the structure of DNA through her work on X-ray crystallography?*
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Rosalind Franklin
Ada Lovelace
Barbara McClintock

Who was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize in 1903?*
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Gerty Cori
Marie Curie
Irène Joliot-Curie

Which European country is home to the largest number of women researchers?*
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Latvia
Sweden
Poland

A mathematician who calculated the trajectories of Apollo 11, the mission which enabled man to take his first steps on the Moon is:*
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Dorothy Vaughan
Katherine Johnson
Mary Jackson

Jane Goodall, a British scientist, is considered the world’s expert on:*
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Chimpanzees
Nerve cells
Whales

Who is known as Missile Woman of India?*
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Kalpana Chawla
Tessy Thomas
Nandini Harinath

Frenchwoman Françoise Barré-Sinoussi received the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for:*
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The discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
The malaria treatment
The use of radioimmunology

What did German astronomer Caroline Herschel discover in the 18th century?*
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A star
A comet
A new continent