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100

This former NASA physicist and mathematician performed the complex calculations that enabled humans to successfully achieve space flight.

Who is Katherine Johnson?

100

This inspiring individual was South Africa's first black Head of State.

Who is Nelson Mandela?

100

This woman is credited with being the first African American author.

Who is Phyllis Wheatley?

100

This Jamaican-American artist is considered the "King of Calypso".

Who is Harry Belafonte?

100

iConnect was launched in this year.

What is 2017?

200

This chemist and inventor's patents made universal telephone service possible. He became the first Black engineer to be inducted into the National Academy of Engineering.

Who is Walter Lincoln Hawkins?

200

This hero served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army.

Who is Harriet Tubman?

200

This person wrote the book "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Who is Zora Neale Hurston?

200

After Nigeria, this country has the largest number of Black people worldwide.

What is Brazil?

200

Eaton University Relations and iConnect partner in this Strategic Initiative to impact our pipeline of Black engineers and attract talent to Eaton.

What is National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)?

300

This inventor prepared the blueprints for Alexander Graham Bell's telephone.

Who is Lewis Latimer?

300

In 1972, she became the first woman candidate for President of the United States.

Who is Shirley Chisholm?

300

Born in 1931, she was the first African American female author to win the Nobel Prize. 

Who is Toni Morrison?

300

This singer, born in the Barbados, broke the Guinness World Record for digital single sales in 2012.

Who is Rihanna?

300

These are the 4 KSIs of iConnect.

What are Recruit, Retain, Develop, and Advance?

400

This is the nickname for the cells extracted from Henrietta Lacks, that have been used to test the effects of radiation and poisons without human experimentation.

What are HeLa cells?

400

This place was home to the "Black Wall Street", one of the most prosperous and thriving Black communities in American history.

Where is Tulsa, Oklahoma?

400

Black French novelist, Alexandre Dumas, wrote this famous adventure set in 17th century France.        

What is The Three Musketeers?

400

This teacher lost her job due to a lawsuit against her for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked "Whites Only".

Who is Ida B. Wells?

400

ACT is an acronym for this statement of iConnect's purpose.

What is Advance Culture Together?

500

Born on May 17th, 1893, Black inventor Frederick McKinley Jones invented this commonly used household item still in use today.

What is the refrigerator?

500

The Voting Rights Act was passed in this year, overturning efforts by state legislatures to disenfranchise African-American voters. 

What is 1965?

500

This author is known for his social and political views and published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903.

Who is W.E.B. DuBois?

500

This anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass.

What is The North Star?

500

There are this many iConnect Hubs.

What is 5?

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