Olympic Athletes
I did all that!
Civil Rights
Odd Facts
What's my job?
100

This woman is the fastest woman in the world and known for her beauty, long hair, and long nails.

Flo Jo or Florence G Joyner

100

This lady loved to braid hair, do nails, design her own uniforms, had Barbies made in her honor, married another Olympic star athlete, set many world records for running, and died from an epileptic seizure in her sleep.  

Flo Jo or Florence G Joyner

100

She had to ask a judge to give her permission to take classes at an all-white high school so she could enroll in the engineer training program at NASA.

Mary Jackson

100

Has a sister named Venus who is great at the same sport as she is

Serena Williams

100

President of the United States

Barack Obama

200

This woman is the most decorated gymnast of all time.

Simone Biles

200

This man grew up in Hawaii, has a father from Kenya, loves basketball, doesn’t like ice cream, and was the first African American to be elected President of the United States.

Barack Obama

200

This word means to be separated by skin color or race.

segregation

200
Did not make his high school basketball team 

Michael Jordan

200

professional basketball player

Kobe Bryant or Michael Jordan

300

This basketball player was a member of the U. S. Dream Team, winning gold medals at the 1984 and 1992 Olympics.  

Michael Jordan

300

This woman grew up both Baptist and Hindu,  was a lawyer, was California’s Attorney General, served as a U.S. Senator, and is the first woman, the first Asian-American, and the first African-American Vice President of the United States.

Kamala Harris

300

The Jim Crow Laws in the Southern United States said that segregation was legal as long as things were...

separate but equal

300

Killed in a helicopter crash along with his daughter

Kobe Bryant

300

Vice President of the United States

Kamala Harris

400

In July 2012, she and her teammates were featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated, the first time an Olympic gymnastics team had been featured on the cover of the magazine.

Gabby Douglas

400

This man was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force, earned a doctorate in aerospace engineering, served as a mission specialist on the space shuttle Challenger, went into space 4 times, and was an astronaut at NASA.  

Guy or Guion Bluford

400

Where were segregation laws in place in the United States prior to 1962?

Southern American States

400

The word used to describe Simone Biles

prodigy

400

photographer

Gordon Parks

500

This woman won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic games in London playing tennis.

Serena Williams

500

This woman has started her own magazine, acted in movies, started her own production company, hosted a talk show, and one of the richest people in the country.

Oprah Winfrey

500

Whose cells were taken from her and used without her permission for medical research?  This violated her rights.  

Henrietta Lacks

500

The name of Henrietta Lack's cells

HeLa cells

500

gymnastics coach

Gabby Douglas

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