WorksheetsBlack History 2017
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who invented the pacemaker?
a)
Otis Boykin
b)
Russell Williams
c)
Dr. Charles Drew
d)
Dr. Patricia Bath
2.
Who invented the video game console?
a)
Playstation
b)
Jerry Lawson
c)
Jerry Jones
d)
George Crum
3.
Who invented the world famous snack, potato chips?
a)
Lay's
b)
George Washington Carver
c)
George Crum
d)
Garrett Mor
4.
Who invented the blood bank?
a)
Dr. Charles Richard Drew
b)
Dr. Charles Otis
c)
Dr. Marc Hannah
d)
Dr. Thomas Morgan
5.
Who in vented the squeeze mop?
a)
Fredrick Jones
b)
Richard Stewart
c)
Jerry Lawson
d)
Thomas W. Stewart
6.
He invented the gas mask and the traffic signals____________.
a)
Charles Drew
b)
Garrett Morgan
c)
Morgan Freeman
d)
Richard Spikes
7.
This person invented peanut butter________.
a)
George Washington
b)
George Crum
c)
George Micheal
d)
George Washington Carver
8.
This lady invented the home security system.
a)
LaShonda Howard-Holmes
b)
Marie Van Brittan Brown
c)
Patrica Bath
d)
Harriett Lawson
9.
__________invented the carbon filament, which made light bulbs far more efficient and affordable.
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Lewis Latimer
c)
Garrett Morgan
d)
Charles Boykin
10.
__________invented the carbon filament, which made light bulbs far more efficient and affordable.
a)
Thomas Edison
b)
Lewis Latimer
c)
Garrett Morgan
d)
Charles Boykin
11.
The 44th President of the US
a)
Barack Obama
b)
George Bush
c)
Bill Clinton
d)
Ronald Reagan
12.
Antislavery activist__________.
a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
Sojourner Truth
c)
Rosa Parks
d)
Fredrick Douglass
13.
Underground railroad leader______
a)
Morgan Freeman
b)
Harriet Tubman
c)
Fredrick Douglas
d)
Malcolm X
14.
The classic street mailbox, with a hinged door that closes to protect your mail, was invented by African-American__________.
a)
Otis Boykin
b)
J. Cooper
c)
William Davis
d)
Philip B. Downing
15.
Cameroonian engineer ________ invented the Cardopad, the first medical tablet that allows doctors to perform tests like the electrocardiogram (ECG) in remote locations with no electricity.
a)
Marc Hannah
b)
George Crum
c)
Arthur Zang
d)
Thomas Stewart
16.
African-American inventor _____ invented one of the first lawn mowers to use a rotary blade.
a)
John Burr
b)
John Brown
c)
James Burr
d)
Jamie Brown
17.
The first person ever to patent a hot comb in the US was________, the daughter of former slaves.
a)
Madam C.J. Walker
b)
Annie Malone
c)
Annie Gypsy
18.
In 1919, African-American inventor _________ invented and patented the gas furnace.
a)
Rosa Parks
b)
Madam C.J. Walker
c)
Alice Parker
d)
Charles K
19.
African-American inventor _____ came up with the first ever design for a lawn sprinkler, which is similar to those still used today.
a)
Joseph H. Smith
b)
James Smith
c)
Joseph P. Walker
d)
Charles Brooks
20.
The touch-tone phone, caller ID, and call waiting were all made possible by the inventions of a black scientist, __________, who worked at Bell Laboratories.
a)
Sarah Bell
b)
Lincoln Brown
c)
Henrietta Bradberry
d)
Shirley Ann Jackson
21.
_______, an African American, invented the gamma-electrical cell in 1971, which still used in today in cell phones.
a)
Dr. Henry T. Sampson
b)
Alexander Graham Bell
c)
Alexander P. Ashbourne
d)
Dr. Charles Drew
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