Famous Inventions
Heroes Among Us
Our Town
Finding Our Place
Legends from Our Past
100
A nurse named Marie Ban Brittan Brown "upgraded" the television and an alarm to notify her of strangers lurking around her home.  Name this invention.


Closed circuit tv/Security system/Surveillance
100
First African-American female to host a TV show
Oprah Winfrey
100
Orlando's first African-American chief of police and Orange County's first African-American sheriff.
Sheriff Jerry Demings*


Correct response:  Demings

100
The year slavery was abolished
1865
100
First African-American millionaire.  Invented hair products.
Madame CJ Walker
200
John Standard revolutionized the kitchen with this invention
The refrigerator
200

Lonnie Johnson was the engineer that invented this $1 billion dollar Hasbro toy

Super Soaker
200
Orlando born Chris Johnson and Ha Ha Dix are famous for what reason?
NFL or Football
200
Which amendment gave African-American voting rights?
Fifteenth
200
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
"Father of Black History"
300
Frederick M. Jones invented this "cool" unit
Air conditioning unit
300
44th American president and the first African-American president
President Barack Obama
300

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First black incorporated town in the United States right here in Orange County

Eatonville
300
At its height, what was the slave population in the United States?
4 million
300
Broke 3 track & field World Records in 45 minutes at Ohio State.  Also won 4 Olympic golds in 1936 Games and shattering Hitler's superior race theory.
Jesse Owens
400

Granville T. Woods put the amusement in amusement parks with this invention.  



Roller coasters
400

Henry Sampson co-invented the Gamma-Electric cell which converts high radiation energy (gamma rays) to electricity allowing us all to "stay connected" with this invention.

The cell phone
400
Eatonville hosts an African-American festival each year at the end of January or the first week of February to celebrate one of its own.  What is the name of this festival?
Zora Neale Hurston Festival
400
First African-American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
400

Paul E. Williams invented and patented this hovering craft for war

The helicopter
500
Augustus Jackson is responsible for keeping us all "deliciously cool."  What did he invent?
Ice cream
500
Phillip Emeagwalie is called the Bill Gates of Africa and pioneered this invention by studying bees and the honeycomb.
World's First Super Computer* (performing 3.1 billion calculations per second)


*The word "computer" will be considered the correct response

500
Dr. Sylvester Gates is a graduate of Orange County's first school for African-Americans and MIT.   Named as President Obama's advisor on Science and Technology.  Best known for his work on the supersymmetry theory.  His thesis on supersymmetry is the first of its kind at MIT.  What is this high school?

Jones High School



500
From prisoner, to minister, to human rights activist.  Used the words . . . by any means necessary to reference African-Americans being treated as human beings
Malcolm X
500

Garrett Morgan invented this "control mechanism" in  rainbow of colors.

The traffic light
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