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Black history month

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The most famous female poet of the 18th century

a)

Phillis Wheatley

b)

Maya Angelou

c)

Patti LaBelle

2.

What Has Been YourFavorite Part About February?

a)
b)
c)
d)
3.

Name this famous movie.

a)

The Wiz

b)

The Wizard of Oz

c)

Get On The Bus

d)

Coming To America

4.

Who said it?


"Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation."

a)

Lena Horne

b)

Coretta Scott King

c)

Alice Walker

d)

Winne Mandela

5.

Who was a NASA mathematician, and the focus of the film Hidden Figures

a)

Katherine Johnson

b)

Amanda Spann

c)

Oprah Winfrey

d)

Kerry Washington

6.

She is considered one of the greatest and most dominant gymnasts of all time!

a)

Wilma Rudolph

b)

Simone Biles

c)

Althea Gibson

d)

Katherine Johnson

7.

I am known as "Air Jordan," "His Airness;". I was named "the greatest North American athlete of the 20th century," by ESPN. Who am I?

a)

Louis Armstrong

b)

Michael Jackson

c)

Michael Jordan

d)

Josh Gibson

8.

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

9.
What war between the North and South was fought over the future of slavery in America?
a)
The Civil War
b)
The Revolutionary War
c)
The Spanish-American War
d)
World War II
10.

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

11.

Who once said "The time is always right to do what is right."

a)

Rosa McCauley

Parks

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Martin Luther King

Jr.

d)

Garret Morgan

12.

What team did Jackie Robinson play for?

a)

The Dodgers

b)

The Yankees

c)

The Giants

13.

She was known for being an American author, poet and civil rights activist.

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Maya Angelou

d)

Florence Price

14.

She is a mathematician that helped save the Apollo 13 space mission!

a)

Wilma Rudolph

b)

Simone Biles

c)

Althea Gibson

d)

Katherine Johnson

15.

Condoleezza Rice became the first black female _______.

a)

U.S. Secretary

b)

U.S. Supreme Judge

c)

Presidential Candidate

16.

I had a lot of patents, including those for a hair-straightening product, a breathing device, a revamped sewing machine and an improved traffic signal. Who am I?

a)

Daniel Hale

b)

Garrett Morgan

c)

Frederick Jones

d)

Kelly Miller

17.

Who became the first black player in Major League Baseball in 1947?

a)

Michael Jordan

b)

Jackie Robinson

c)

Muhammad Ali

18.

Our science experiments this week used what?

a)

Water Bottle and Balloons

b)

Ice Cream and Sprinkles

c)

Fire and Ice

19.

the United States, a country in North America

a)
b)
c)
20.
This lady invented the home security system.
a)
LaShonda Howard-Holmes
b)
Marie Van Brittan Brown
c)
Patrica Bath
d)
Harriett Lawson
21.

What African-American woman made history when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Aretha Franklin

c)

Oprah Winfrey

22.
The "Divine Nine" is an informal name for whom or what in U.S. college/university Greek life?
a)
The nine historically African-American Greek-letter organizations 
b)
The first nine sororities to have ever been founded
c)
 The nine fundamental tenets of all fraternities and sororites
d)
The first nine U.S. presidents to have been members of a fraternity
23.

Who was the first African-American President of the United States of America?

a)

Colin Powell

b)

Dr. George Washington Carver

c)

Barack Obama

d)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

24.

Name The Historial Hero.

Hint One: First African American Female Astronaut

Hint Two: Flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour

a)

Mae Jamison

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Betty White

d)

Maya Angelou

25.

What is the name of one of her most famous songs?

a)

R-E-S-P-O-N-S-I-B-L-E

b)

R-E-S-P-E-C-T