Aspire Hub - World leaders

Where did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat

• Montgomery, Alabama

• Houston, Texas

• Nashville, Tennessee

• New Orleans, Louisiana

True or False: Harriet Tubman served as a spy during the Civil War

• True

• False

Who was the first black American baseball player?

• Sam Jethrowe

• Monte Irvin

• Jackie Robinson

• Moses Fleetwood Walker

Who was the first Chinese-American female film star

• Marilyn Monroe

• Anna May Wong

• Elizabeth Taylor

• Audrey Hepburn

Who was Kalpana Chawla? (two possible answers!)

• Indian American astronaut

• Indian American zoologist

• Indian American marine biologist

• Indian American aerospace engineer

Which famous monarch led Britain to victory against the Spanish navy?

• George Washingotn

• Elizabeth I

• Alexander the Great

• Julius Caesar

Who invented the light bulb filament?

• Lewis Latimer

• Thomas Edison

Answer explanation

Lewis Latimer was an African American inventor that created a carbon filament, later used by Thomas Edison for the light bulb.

Whose writings and activism inspired the Filipino Revolution against the Spanish?

• Hernan Cortez

• Jose Rizal

• Alexander Hamilton

• Thomas Jefferson

How old was Joan of Arc when she led France to victory in Orleans?

• ~ 16

• ~23

• ~47

• ~ 31

True or False: Napoleon Bonaparte shortly served as emperor of France

• True

• False