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Black History Month 1

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

African-American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the second documented, successful pericardium surgery in the United States to repair a wound

a)

Daniel Hale Williams

b)

Edward Bouchet

c)

Ernest Everett Just

d)

Percy Julian

e)

Charles H. Turner

2.

African American chemist who developed an inject-able oil extract that was the most effective treatment for leprosy until the 1940s.

a)

Alice Ball

b)

Mae C. Jemison

c)

Marie Maynard Daly

d)

Katherine G. Johnson

e)

Valerie Thomas

3.

African-American mathematician who made contributions to the United States' aeronautics and space programs with the early application of digital electronic computers at NASA.

a)

Katherine G. Johnson

b)

Patricia Bath

c)

Valerie Thomas

d)

Mae C. Jemison

e)

Shirley Ann Jackson

4.

First African-American woman to become a medical school dean.

a)

Barbara Ross-Lee

b)

Patricia Bath

c)

Valerie Thomas

d)

Mae C. Jemison

e)

Alice Ball

5.

Graduate of Tuskegee University, this American inventor, aerospace engineer, and entrepreneur, whose work history includes a U.S. Air Force term of service and a twelve-year stint at NASA, including the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His most notable invention to children today is from 1989 which was the Super Soaker.

a)

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

b)

Lonnie G. Johnson

c)

Dr. A. Hasani Stone II

d)

George Carruthers

e)

Percy Julian

6.
Who recorded the song “I’m Black and I’m Proud”?
a)
Jamie Foxx
b)
Stevie Wonder
c)
James Brown
d)
Alicia Keys
7.

American engineer, physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.

a)

Mae C. Jemison

b)

Marie Maynard Daly

c)

Shirley Ann Jackson

d)

Alice Ball

e)

Katherine G. Johnson

8.
How many children did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King have together?
a)
6
b)
2
c)
None
d)
4
9.
Who was the first African- American on a United States postage stamp?
a)
Martin Luther King Jr.
b)
Barak Obama
c)
Langston Hughes
d)
Booker T. Washington
10.

What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream?

a)

To become friends with Rosa Parks

b)

To be treated equally

c)

To visit Washington, D.C.

d)

To have his own statue in Washington, D.C.

11.

Who Is This?

a)

Christina Aguilera

b)

Demi Lovato

c)

Whitney Houston

d)

Bruno Mars

12.
Who invented the blood bank?
a)
Dr. Charles Richard Drew
b)
Dr. Charles Otis
c)
Dr. Marc Hannah
d)
Dr. Thomas Morgan
13.
This lady invented the home security system.
a)
LaShonda Howard-Holmes
b)
Marie Van Brittan Brown
c)
Patrica Bath
d)
Harriett Lawson
14.
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
15.

This individual sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

a)

Taran Burke

b)

Maya Angelou

c)

Letitia Wood Brown

d)

Colin Kaepernick

16.

When Black Live Matter movement started?

a)

2020

b)

2013

c)

2012

17.

Unapologetically black means:

a)

They feel they are not included in society.

b)

They don`t apologize for who they are and their skin colour

18.

What year were the Panthers founded?

a)

1980

b)

1970

c)

1950

d)

1966