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100

This person pioneered the preservation and use of blood plasma during WWII leading the way for modern-day blood transfusions.

Who is Dr. Charles R. Drew?

100

The powerhouse of the cell

What is mitochondria?

100

This country is both an island and a continent

What is Australia?

100

David's father has three sons: Snap, Crackle, and _____?

Who is David?

100

Chadwick Boseman starred in this 2018 Marvel film directed by Ryan Coogler

What is Black Panther?

200

This person was the first black woman in the US to receive an MD degree

Who is Rebecca Lee Crumpler?

200

The molecule that carries genetic information in our cells

What is DNA?

200

The only country in the world whose name starts with the letter 'O'. 

What is Oman?

200

I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?

What is seven?

200

The city where the 2009 Disney film "The Princess and the Frog" is set. 

What is New Orleans?

300

This person is one of the NIH's leading scientists who helped develop and produce the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine

Who is Kizzmekia Corbett?

300

The largest organ in the human body

What is skin?
300

This many US states share a border with Canada

What is 13?

300

I'm tall when I'm young and short when I'm old. What am I?

What is a candle?

300

These football teams won the last 3 Superbowls. 

What are the Kansas City Chiefs (2023), the Los Angeles Rams (2022), and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2021)

400

This person opened the first black-owned hospital (also the first non-segregated hospital in America)

Who is Daniel Hale Williams?

400

Name the four lobes of the cerebral cortex 

What are Frontal, Parietal, Occipital, and Temporal

400

This country has the most pyramids in the world

What is Sudan?

400

What question can you never honestly say yes to?

What is "Are you asleep?"

400

This disease is the only infectious disease to be eradicated 

What is small pox?

500

This person was the first Black psychiatrist in the United States. He researched degenerative brain disorders with Dr. Alois Alzheimer.

Who is Solomon Carter Fuller?

500

Name the 20 amino acids used in protein synthesis

What are Alanine, Arginine, Asparagine, Aspartic Acid, Cysteine, Glutamic Acid, Glutamine, Glycine, Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Phenylalanine, Proline, Serine, Threonine, Tryptophan, Tyrosine, Valine

500

Name 20 African Countries.

What are Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

500

Only one color, but not one size, stuck at the bottom, yet easily flies. Present in sun, but not in rain, doing no harm and feeling no pain. What is it?

What is a shadow?

500

Name the last 12 US Presidents in chronological order. 

Who are John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Joseph Biden

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