Black History Trivia

Which famous African American worked for NASA and helped put the first Americans in space and on the moon?

• Rosa Parks

• Katherine Johnson

• Ruby Bridges

• Mae Jemison

George Washington Carver discovered a way to use what food for many different purposes?

• apples

• peanuts

• ice cream

• bacon

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?

• Booker T. Washington

• Marcus Garvey

• W.E.B. Dubois

• William Wells Brown

Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?

• Marcus Williams

• Medgar Evans

• Emmett Till

• Marcus Garvey

Who was the first black woman to speak out publicly against slavery?

• Maria Stewart

• Sojourner Truth

• Mary Mcleod Bethune

• Francis Watkins Harper

What former slave published the newspaper "The North Star"?

• David Walker

• William Wells Brown

• Fredrick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

She was the first African American to publish her writings.

• Phyllis Wheatley

• Ida B. Wells

• Marion Shea

Charles Drew is responsible for which of the following?

• refrigerator

• blood banks

• plastic surgery

Garrett Morgan is responsible for which two inventions?

• Traffic light, gas mask

• Traffic light, cars

• Gas mask, stop sign

Who was the first African American Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

• Clarence Thomas

• Thurgood Marshall

• Hugo Black