Singers/Bands
What singer recently performed for the 2023 Superbowl half-time show?
Rihanna
This inventor developed hundreds of products using peanuts and promoted alternative crops to cotton in order to prevent soil depletion.
George Washington Carver
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The first black EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony winner) known for acting roles, comedy, iconic voice, and being a host on the talkshow The View.
Whoopi Goldberg
She is the first black woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice.
Ketanji Brown
This singer made history in the most Grammy awards won with a total of 32.
Beyoncé
Without this invention by the black inventor George T. Sampson, your clothes would be hung outside on a line to dry.
Automatic Clothes Dryer
She was the first black woman to travel into space.
Mae Carol Jemison
Sidney Poitier (1964)
Hattie McDaniel was the first black Oscar winner (1939), but it was for her role in Gone with the Wind
This singer was a very popular diverse artist with songs ranging from pop to soul to R&B, before passing away in 2016. One of his most well-known songs is Purple Rain.
Prince
Black inventor Garrett Morgan created this invention to solve the problem of many cars crashing in intersections.
The Traffic Light
This mathematician had a 33 year career at NASA and did calculations that were critical to the success of early spaceflights. She was called a human computer.
Katherine Johnson
This filmmaker explores issues within the black community through his films, including She's Gotta Have It (1986), Malcolm X (1992), and BlacKkKlansman (2019), and has received countless accolades.
Spike Lee
This artist embodied the New York art scene of the 1980s and created highly expressionistic art that mixed graffiti and abstract styles.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
This singer is one of the most well-known jazz singers of all time, especially for his hit song "What a wonderful world."
Louis Armstrong
This black inventor created an automatic elevator door to help solve the problem of the difficult to open manual elevator doors.
a. Charles Drew
b. Alexander Miles
c. Gerald Lawson
b. Alexander Miles
Gladys West is a mathematician and computer scientist that pioneered this system that helps you get where you need to go.
GPS
She is known for portraying Uhura on Star Trek, which was groundbreaking for African-American actresses as one of the first black women to be featured in a major tv show.
Nichelle Nichols
How old was Serena Williams when she won her first US Open?
17
This singer was the first black artist to win a Grammy
a) Chuck Berry
b) Ray Charles
c) Nina Simone
d) Ella Fitzgerald
d) Ella Fitzgerald (1958)
Where would your mail go without the invention of the mailbox by this black inventor?
a. Phillip Downing
b. Richard Spikes
c. Alexander Miles
a. Philip Downing
Shirley Ann Jackson is a prominent American physicist. She was the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. from what university?
MIT
Which three NBA teams has Lebron James played for?
Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat, and LA Lakers