Black Inventors
Black Scientist
Blacks & Civil Rights
Blacks in Sports & Movies
Blacks in Art & Music
100
I am famous for inventing the traffic light signal and the gas mask.
Who is Garret Morgan?
100
I am famous for persuading southern farmers to switch from planting cotton to planting peanuts and sweet potatoes.
Who is Dr. George Washington Carver?
100
I am famous for NOT giving up my seat to a white person on the bus.
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
I am the first black person to play major league baseball.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
100
I am known as music's King of Pop
Who is Michael Jackson?
200
I was the first black woman to become a millionaire from the hair products I created.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker?
200
I am the first African American woman to go into space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
200
I am the only African American with a holiday because of my work in the civil rights movement.
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
I am the first woman to win three gold medals in a single Olympic game and I just happened to be Black.
Who is Wilma Rudolph?
200
I am known as music's Queen of Soul of music.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
300
I am a chef famous for inventing the potato chip after an angry customer sent back their french fries for being to thick.
Who is George Crum (Speck)
300
I was a research mathematician for NASA who performed key calculations for launching astronauts into space in the 1960s and 1970s. I began working as a “computer” for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), performing and checking calculations for technological development. The movie Hidden Figures is based upon my life.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
300
I am the first African American to be appointed to the Supreme Court as a judge.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
300
I am the first African American Actor to star as the lead superhero in a movie. Who am I and what is the name of the movie?
Who is Chadwick Bozeman? What is Wakanda?
300
I am a 21st century African American man who creates large paintings of random people I find walking down the street. I put them in traditional posses and I use a lot of flowers in my paintings as well. I have created paintings with people from St. Louis as well.
Who is Kehinde Wiley?
400
I invented the super soaker water gun fun for kids of all ages. I am a NASA scientist and nuclear engineer.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
400
I am an Ophthalmologist (eye doctor) who invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment.
Who is Dr. Patricia Bath?
400
What are the Student-led nonviolent protests against segregated lunch counters called?
What is a sit-in?
400
I am the first African American woman to receive an Oscar for best lead actress in a movie (Monster's Ball)
Who is Halle Berry?
400
What is the name of the city that was named "Music City" by Queen Victoria in 1873? After hearing the all black college choir called the Jubilee singers from FISK University, an HBCU, sing the queen said "their voices are amazing and wherever they are from must be a music city."
What is Nashville Tennessee?
500
John Purdy and Daniel R. Sadgwar introduced their version of this item to the American public when the patent was issued June 11, 1889. Then in 1911 Nathaniel Alexander is widely credited with inventing the modern, practical version of this item.
Bonus: Where was this item used as a weapon to defend African Americans against white attackers?
What is a folding table?
Bonus Answer: What is the Montgomery Alabama Riverfront Brawl of 2023!
500
I was A surgeon who performed the first successful open-heart surgery in 1893 and founded the first Black-owned and operated hospital in the U.S.
Who is Daniel Hale Williams?
500
What is the name of the Supreme Court ruling ending school segregation.
What is Brown vs the Board of Education?
500
I am the Most decorated American gymnast, (I have the most awards) with numerous Olympic and World Championship medals.
Who is Simone Biles?
500
I am the first African American to achieve EGOT status, having won all four major American entertainment awards: an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?