Hidden Figures: Discussion Questions

Hidden Figures Movie Questions 1. Which of the three women is the computer scientist? Dorothy Vaughan 2. Which of the three women is the engineer? Mary Jackson 3. Which of the three women is the mathematician? Katherine Johnson 4. Who is the head of the Space Task Group? Al Harrison 5. Who is second in command of the Space Task Group? Paul Stafford 6. Who was the US President during the movie? JFK 7. Was Martin Luther King Jr. still alive in the movie? yes 8. Who was assigned to the Space Task Group? Katherine Johnson 9. Who was assigned to the Supersonic Pressure Tun- Mary Jackson nel? 10. Who became supervisor of the West Computing Pool? Dorothy Vaughan 11. Who was the first human to orbit Earth? Yuri Gagarin 12. Who was the first American to orbit Earth? John Glenn 13. Where did Mary have to go to become an engineer? Hampton High School (all white) 14. What kind of math did Katherine have to do in the Analytical Geometry Space Task Group? 15. What kind of computing machine did NASA purchase? IBM 16. What does IBM stand for? International Business Machine 1/2 17. Where did John Glenn take off from? Cape Canaveral, Florida 18. What does Paul bring Katherine at the end of the movie? coffee 19. Who did John Glenn trust to calculate his mission? Katherine Johnson 20. Who got the IBM 7090 to work? Dorothy Vaughan 21. What year did the movie take place? 1961 22. What government system did the Soviet Union have? communism 23. What kind of sign did Al Harrison knock down? colored bathroom 24. Complete this quote from Mary's husband, Levi: "Civil Rights ain't always ______" civil 25. Complete this quote from Dorothy, "You act right, you are _____" right 2/2