Pop Culture
This 1982 album became the best-selling album of the 1980s--and of all time.
What is "Thriller by Michael Jackson"
Cells taken without her consent became the immortal human cell line, revolutionizing cancer research, vaccine development, and modern biomedical science.
Who is "Henrietta Lacks"
TRUE or FALSE: Black patients have thicker skin and feel less pain.
What is "False"
Who is the first Black woman physician-astronaut to go to space?
Who is "Mae C. Jemison"
Led the walk from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights
Who is "Martin Luther King Jr".
This media mogul famously suprised her studio audience by giving every audience member a free car, shouting "You get a car!"
Who is "Oprah Winfrey"
This physician revolutionized emergency medicine by developing modern blood banking and plasma storage techniques used worldwide.
Hint: "Has a Medical School in Los Angeles Named after them"
Who is "Charles Drew"
This commonly used kidney function equation historically included a race correction that's now been removed.
What is "eGFR"
In 1864, she graduated from the New England Female Medical College and became the first woman in the America to earn an M.D.
Who is "Rebecca Lee Crumpler"
This person caused the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Who is Rosa Parks
This actor won an Academy Award for his role as corrupt detective Alonzo Harris in Training Day.
Who is "Denzel Washington"
A self-taught surgical technician whose work helped develop the first sucessful surgery for "blue baby syndrome".
Hint "Played by Mos Def in HBO Movie Something the Lord Made"
Who is "Vivien Thomas"
TRUE or FALSE: Black people don't get skin cancer and therefore don't need sunscreen.
What is "FALSE"
In 1837, he earned an M.D. from the University of Glasgow, becoming the first black American to receive a medical degree.
Who is "James McCune Smith"
Went to jail for refusing to fight in the Vietnam War
Who is Muhammad Ali
Released ni 2013, Nothing Was the Same helped propel this artist to become the most streamed artist of the 2010s.
Who is "Drake"
This Black ophthalmologist became the first to receive a medical invention patent after inventing the Laserphaco Probe, a tool that allows one to have minimally invasive cataract surgery.
Who is "Patricia Bath"
Pulse oximeters have been shown to be less accurate in patients with this:
What is "darker skin pigmentation"
A prominent Black surgeon recognized for performing one of the first sucessful open-heart surgeries in 1893.
Who is "Daniel Hale Williams"
This Civil Rights Leader changed their last name from Little
Who is "Malcolm X"
This poet and civil rights icon wrote the groundbreaking autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Who is "Maya Angelou"
Who invented the "disposable" syringe?
Who is "Phil Brooks"
This pulmonary function test historically adjusted "normal" lung capacity downward for Black patients, which may have delayed diagnosis of lung disease.
What is "spirometry race correction"
An Afro-Puerto Rican physician who graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1880, becoming the first person of Puerto Rican descent to earn a medical degree in America.
Who is "José Celso Barbosa"
This was the last city to Abolish Slavery in the USA
This Important Federal Holiday celebrates this Victory! 300 Extra points!
Where is "Galveston Texas"
June 19th 1865