Q 01/05

Where was Grace Hopper born in 1906?

A) Philadelphia

B) New York

C) Boston

D) Washington, D.C.

Answer · why

B) New York

Grace Hopper was born in New York City on 9 December 1906; her father Walter was an insurance broker, and the family spent summers at a house in Wolfe...

Q 02/05

What was Grace Hopper's maiden name?

A) Brewster

B) Russell

C) Murray

D) Van Horne

Answer · why

C) Murray

She married NYU professor Vincent Foster Hopper in 1930, divorced in 1945 and kept his surname.

Q 03/05

How many alarm clocks did the young Grace dismantle at age 7 before her mother caught on?

A) Five

B) Seven

C) Six

D) Three

Answer · why

B) Seven

Seven alarm clocks were taken apart by the seven-year-old Grace, who wanted to see how they worked, before her mother noticed and limited her to disma...

Q 04/05

Why did Hopper keep a clock on her wall that ran counterclockwise?

A) To fight people's allergy to change

B) It was an old Navy wardroom tradition

C) She was left-handed and preferred it

D) It was a treasured family heirloom

Answer · why

A) To fight people's allergy to change

To fight people's allergy to change, she said: humans love to say 'we've always done it this way', so she kept a clock that ran counterclockwise as a ...

Q 05/05

Why was Hopper initially rejected for early admission to college at 16?

A) Vassar did not admit women under 18

B) Her Latin scores were too low

C) She failed the physics exam

D) She was too young

Answer · why

B) Her Latin scores were too low

Her Latin scores were too low on the entrance exam, so she was turned away at 16; admitted a year later, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa in mathematics a...