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WorksheetsBellamy Black History Brain Bowl 2024
Total questions: 52
Worksheet time: 41mins
George Washington Carver made many inventions, but these were made from sweet potatoes.
Milk, shampoo, a type of glue
Almond Milk, Shampoo, a type of glue
Coco Milk, body wash and erasers
He was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice.
Clarence Thomas
Thurgood Marshall
William Henry Hastie
Charles Hamilton Houston
Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Ralph Bunche
Nelson Mandela
Albert John Lutul
Arminta Ross led more than 300 slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad. What's the name we all know her by?
Harriet Tubman
Michelle Obama
Oprah Winfrey
Shirley Chisholm
I was the first African-American child to attend an all-white public elementary school in the American South. Who am I?
Ruby Bridges
Hattie McDaniel
Aretha Franklin
Oprah Winfrey
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?
Daniel Hale
Garrett Morgan
Frederick Jones
Kelly Miller
Who is considered the "Father of Black History"?
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr.
Carter G. Woodson
Jesse Jackson
He was a science writer and cell biologist.
Ernest E. Just
This African King, who ruled over Mali, and spread Islam all over west Africa, is the richest man in the world valued at $400 billion dollars.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Who is Idi Amin?
Who is Mandela?
Who is Gaddafi?
(a) parents owned the Cotton Club in Tampa and she became a great leader in Tampa, Florida, and the United States.
He became the first black lawyer in the state of Florida and was also a great writer, poet, and member of NAACP. His novel, the autobiography of an ex-colored man made him even more famous.
Who was MLK Jr?
Who was James Weldon Johnson?
Who was Diana Ross?
Who was Jane Weyman?
She was the first African American to become an airplane mechanic and a pilot with her own flying school.
(a)
She was a writer and anthropologist who traveled around the United States writing about people's lives.
Who is Serena Williams?
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Who is Nelcia Charles?
Who is Diane Warwick?
These were 26 talented artists who created over 200, 000 paintings of Florida including beaches and palm trees which they sold from the trunks of their cars.
Who were the painters?
Who were the artists?
Who were Florida Highwaymen?
Who were the Flower Children?
She was a leader, educator, a women's rights activist, a mother, and started her own school for black students only. That school became a college.
(a)
She went from being a cleaner on trains during World War 11 to becoming the first African American to serve as head of a Florida state agency (Secretary of the Department of Community Affairs).
Who is M. Athalie Range?
Who is Louise Gopher?
Who is Barack Obama?
Who is Mae Jemison?
She was a math school math teacher who became the first African American Mathematician to hold a leadership position at NASA.
Who is Mae Jemison?
Who is Mary Bethune?
Who is Jessica Johnson?
Who is Dorothy Vaughan?
She was the first African American to be a part of the Hillsborough County School Board and teacher at Washington Elementary.
Who is Francis Bellamy?
Who is Doris Ross Reddick?
Who is Selma Hayek?
Who is Mayna Leto?
This was the first accredited high school which was named for a Tampa resident who was the first African American woman who graduated from Howard University.
What is Armwood High School?
What is Blake High School?
What is Leto High School?
What is Dorothy C York?
This talented writer, author, and instructor tutored black children for free to ensure they had every chance to succeed.
Who is Dorothy C. York?
Who is Mary Bethune?
Who is Dorothy Martin?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This inventor and businessman patented the three-signal traffic light.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
Who is Barack Obama?
Who is Garrett Morgan?
He was an educator, started the Tuskegee University, and Civil Rights Leader.
Who is Booker T Washington?
Who is Benjamin Bennaker?
Who is George WaShington Carver?
This was the First Incorporated All-Black Town in Florida.
Where is Eatonville?
Where is Fort Mose?
Where is Tampa?
This was the first Legally Sanctioned African American Community in the US.
Where is Tampa?
Where is Eatonville?
Where is Tampa?
Where is Fort Mose?
He was the inventor of peanut butter and 400 other products from plants.
Who was George Washington?
Who was Carter C Woodson?
Who was George Washington Carver?
He was an abolitionists and a newspaper editor.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
Who is George Washington Carver?
Who is Booker T Washington?
He was the inventor of the Super Soaker water gun.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
Who is Lonnie Lawrence?
Who is
Lionel Richie?
She was the first African American woman to enter space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
Who is C J Walker?
Who is Simon Biles?
She was a famous opera singer from the 1930s and 40s. She even sang at the White House.
Who was Marian Anderson?
Who was Miriam Makeba?
Who is Mary Boone?
She was the first black child to attend an all-white school in Louisiana.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
Who is Rudy Roo?
Who is Ruby Bridges?
She was the first American woman to win 3 gold medals.
Who was Ruby Bridges?
Who was Jesse Owens?
Who was Wilma Rudolph?
Who was Makeba Rodgers?
She was a nurse, Civil Rights Activist, a lead hundreds to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman (Arminta Ross)?
Who was Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree)
Who was Rosa Parks?
She was an Anti-slavery Activist, Women’s Rights Activist, and a renowned speaker.
Who is Harriet Tubman (Arminta Ross)?
Who is Sojourner Truth (Isabella Baumfree)?
Who is Ruby Bridges?
She was a librarian at the Boston Public Library and a children’s author.
Who is Angela Williams?
Who is Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard?
Who is Harold Johnson?
He is the founder of Famous Amos Cookies.
Who is Harry Amos?
Who is Wally Amos?
Who is Andy Amos?
He was the first Black Explorer – with Lewis & Clark.
Who is Pork?
Who is Mork?
Who is York?
He was first African American Florida Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Who is Joseph W Hatchett?
Who is Elijah Mc Coy?
This school was named after a former school board member, minister, civil rights leader and educator.
What is Blake, Howard High School?
What is Stewart, Garland V Middle School?
What is Lowry, A. Leon Elementary School?
She was only African American school board member for 12 years.
What is Mary Bryant Elementary School?
What is Lowry Elementary School?
What is Reddick Elementary School?
He invented lubricant for steam engine.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
He had a love for clocks and was appointed by George Washington to work on the design for the capital.
Who is Elijah McCoy?
Who is George Washington Carver?
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
Who was the famous African American scientist and inventor known for his work with peanuts?
George Washington Carver
Lewis Latimer
Garrett Morgan
Benjamin Banneker
Ready for a splash of history? Who masterminded the creation of the iconic Super Soaker water gun?
George Washington Carver
Lonnie G. Johnson
Garrett Morgan
Elijah McCoy
She was a teacher for 45 years, a K-8 elementary school was named for her, and she tutored students for free.
(a)
She was the first black woman to be elected as chair of the school board, served for 12 years, and had an elementary school named after her.
(a)
She was a NASA mathematician and was the first African American to hold a leadership position at NASA.
She was the first black woman to practice law in Hillsborough County and her parents owned the Cotton Club.
