WorksheetsBlack History Biography Quiz grades 3-5
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 40mins
Who was the first African-American Congresswoman?
Mae Jemison
Shriely Chisholm
Patricia Bath
Georgia Gilmore
Who was George W. Bush's Secretary of State?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Granville T. Woods
Lewis Howard Latimer
Colin Powell
Who invented the multiplex telegraph (aka 'induction telegraph')?
Granville T. Woods
Langston Hughes
Lewis Howard Latimer
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Who helped to support the Montgomery bus boycott?
Patricia Bath
Mae Jemison
Georgia Gilmore
Mary Jackson
Who was NASA's first black female engineer?
Mae Jemison
Mary Jackson
Georgia Gilmore
Serena Williams
Who hosts a TV show and is the director of the Hayden Planetarium?
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Langston Hughes
Colin Powell
Granville T. Woods
Who is the first African-American female doctor to receive a medical patent (for the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment)?
Mae Jemison
Rosa Parks
Patricia Bath
Shirley Chisholm
Who was a writer and major contributor of the "Harlem Renaissance" of the 1920's?
Colin Powell
Langston Hughes
Granville T. Woods
Booker T. Washington
