Practice Quiz 1 Black History Brain Bowl

Who was the first African-American woman to become an airplane mechanic?

(a)  

She was assigned to a segregated unit at NASA called West Area Computing and was one of the first African American women to hold a leadership position at NASA.

• Arthenia Joyner

• Dorothy Vaughan

• Rosa Parks

• Mae Jemison

This town was located north of St. Augustine and was formed by a former enslaved African named Francisco Menendez. He led and governed this town which provided a fort to help protect St. Augustine from the British.

(a)  

Who was the powerful emperor who ruled over a large empire in West Africa in 1324?

• Alexander the Great

• King George

• Mansa Musa

• King Henry

Who was arrested for refusing to leave a whites only railroad car in 1892 which led to the Supreme Court ruling that initiated the "separate but equal" laws in the US?

(a)  

She helped integrate public schools in New York. She later moved to Tampa and became the first Black woman elected as a Hillsborough County School Board member and eventually became the chairwoman. An elementary school is also named after her in her honor in Tampa.

• Dorris Reddick

• Madame CJ Walker

• Wilma Rudolph

• Zora Neale Hurston

What was the first all black city to be incorporated in Florida?

• Miami

• Tampa

• Jacksonville

• Eatonville

He was an astronomer and mathematician. He wrote yearly almanacs that included when solar and lunar eclipses would occur. He also helped survey the land which would eventually become Washington, D.C .

(a)  

He was a biologist who studied the structure of cells.

He also helped with founding Omega Psi Phi which is a historical black fraternity.

• George Washington Carver

• Ernest Everett Just

• Mansa Musa

• Homer Plessy

Who developed home remedies that helped improve haircare treatments for black women? She eventually became a self made millionaire.

• Blanche Armwood

• Rosa Parks

• Madam C.J. Walker

• Ruby Bridges