Black History Quiz Week 1

Who is the founder of Famous Amos Cookies?

• Benjamin Banneker

• Wally Amos

• Marian Anderson

• Mary McLeod Bethune

Who was the first black child to attend an all-white school in Louisiana?

• George Washington Carver

• Willa Beatrice Brown

• Ruby Bridges

• Blanche Armwood

This history maker was the first African American to sing at the Metropolitian Opera in New York.

• Marian Anderson

• M. Athalie Range

• Plessey, Homer

• Rosa Parks

He wrote and published a book about his struggles being a slave.

• Frederick Douglas

• George Washington Carver

• Benjamin Banneker

• Wally Amos

Who was the first African-American woman from Florida to graduate from an accredited law school, Howard University.

• Mansa Musa

• Blanche Armwood

• Marian Anderson

• Mary McCloud Bethune

She was the first African American woman to earn a pilots license.

• Marian Anderson

• Willa Beatrice Brown

• Ruby Bridges

• Mary McLeod Bethune

Her school that she opened in Daytona Beach, Florida over the years grew and became a college.

• Mary McCloud Bethune

• Michelle Obama

• Beatrice Willa Brown

• Ruby Bridges

He discovered over 300 ways to make peanuts.

• George Washington Carver

• Wally Amos

• Benjamin Banneker

• Frederick Douglas

Because of his skills in astronomy and mathematics, President George Washington asked him to help survey the land that would become Washington D.C.

(a)  

(a)   was the first all-black city to be incorporated in Florida.