Country Capitols
This city is on the coast of West Africa. The city was founded in 1687 by Portugal as a fortified port and trading center. The center of this city has a lot of old Portuguese colonial buildings.
anti-colonial guerrillas declared independence of the country from Portugal in 1973. Main products of the city include peanuts, hardwoods, copra, palm oil, milk products, and rubber.
What is Bissau, Guinea-Bissau?
This toy is a putty-like substance that was originally created by Kutol Products, a company in Cincinnati, Ohio for use as a substance to clean coal residue from wallpaper in the 1930s.
What is Play Doh?
Interesting fact: the nephew of one of the owners of Kutol Products was the brother in law of a nursery school teacher who took the putty to school. The kids enjoyed using it for art projects. Kutol Products soon began to manufacture the product as a children’s toy, and called it Play Doh.
This company was the first successful personal computer company. This company manufactures smartphones and tablet computers. Its headquarters are located in Cupertino, California.
What is Apple?
This HBCU was founded by the North Louisiana Colored Agricultural Relief Association in 1901. In 1994 this institute awarded bachelor degrees. Total enrollment in this program is approximately 6,000.
What is Grambling State University?
This fruit is high in dietary fiber. The fruit is the size of a large orange. The skin is not edible, but it holds hundreds of juicy seeds that you can eat plain or sprinkle on salads, oatmeal, hummus, and other dishes.The majority of these fruits are grown in California.
What is a pomegranate?
The city was incorporated under French colonial rule in 1749.In 1804, it became the capital when the country gained its independence.
Sadly, there is a lot of poverty in this city, and this city, along with other areas in the country, suffered a lot of damage during an earthquake in 2010.
What is Port Au Prince, Haiti?
Interesting facts: The city has one avenue named for American abolitionist hero John Brown, and another that is named for another American abolitionist hero, Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner.
The first known version of this toy was created by a map engraver called John Spilsbury, in 1762. He mounted a map onto wood and then cut around the countries. He then have his creation to children in the local school to help them learn geography.
What is a jigsaw puzzle?
This company was founded in Beijing. It initially specialized in televisions. It currently has operations in over 60 countries.
What is Lenovo?
This HBCU in Missouri was founded in 1866. This university’s mascot is the Blue Tigers. Majors offered include agriculture and agribusiness. It shares a name with one of the former US presidents.
What is Lincoln University Missouri?
This fruit is a member of the rose family. The shape of the fruit looks like a tomato. and tastes like a mango with cinnamon. It has a deep orange color and is very sweet to eat.
What is a persimmon?
The name of this city is derived from the Algonquin word “adawe”, which means “to trade”.
Before its current name, which it got in 1855, its name was Bytown.
This city is located on the border between what is now Ontario and Quebec, and is inhabited by both English speakers and French speakers.
What is Ottowa, Canada?
Different versions of this toy have been found in different cultures. The toy has been made by made by carving and shaping fruits, nuts, and seeds. The toy is designed to turn in a circle, as rapidly as possible.
What is a spinning top?
This company was founded by 2 people, one named David Packard. This company sells printers, cloud products, etc. The company headquarters are located in Palo Alto, California.
What is HP?
This HBCU is in Ohio and was founded in 1856 when the Underground Railroad was established.
The HBCU’s name is made to honor the great 18th century abolitionist, William Wilberforce.
What is Wilberforce University?
This fruit has a lot of vitamin C
This fruit is orange. A southern state uses this fruit on its license plates. It’s grown throughout the warmer temperate regions of both the Northern and Southern hemispheres.
What is a peach?
This city was initially inhabited by various tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Piscataway people.
This city has had a significant African American population since the city's foundation, although gentrification is changing this. Its residents have a representative in the US House of Representatives, but the representative is not allowed to vote.
What is Washington, DC?
This is a toy that kids use with great fun to get each other wet. One famous model of this toy was designed by an African American aerospace engineer by the name of Lonnie Johnson.
What is a water gun?
Interesting fact: Lonnie Johnson is the black man who invented the Supersoaker.
This company has a major share in the market both in the US and abroad. Its headquarters are located in Armonk, New York. It purchased Electronic Typewriters, Inc. in 1993
What is IBM?
This HBCU was founded in 1867 in Washington DC. Its library is the leading research library on African American history. Many of this university’s graduates advance to leadership positions in education, social reform, and government.
What is Howard University?
This fruit is closely related to peaches and cherries. This fruit is baked in a variety of pastries. This fruit is purple.
What is a plum?
This city is its country’s:
- financial capital; many U.S. banks and corporations maintain offices or distributing centers in this city
-most populated city
-has an airport named after Luis Muñoz Marín, the island’s first elected governor
What is San Juan, Puerto Rico?
Interesting fact: During the early 16th century, this city was the point of departure of Spanish expeditions to charter or settle unknown parts of the New World
got its name from the President Theodore Roosevelt after an incident where he refused to shoot a bear during a hunting trip.
-one of these toys was sent to space in 1955 on Space Shuttle Discovery.
What is a teddy bear?
Interesting facts:
A teddy bear named Magellan T. Bear was sent to space in 1955 on Space Shuttle Discovery.
February 10th is celebrated as Teddy Day.
This company was started in 1984. It lives in Round Rock, Texas. It overtook the Compaq Computer Corporation in 1999 as the largest selleer of PCs in the US.
What is Dell Inc.?
This is the only US Catholic historically black university. All undergraduate students must complete 60 hours of liberal arts core curriculum courses including English literature, fine arts, foreign languages, history, etc. This HBCU is one of six universities in New Orleans.
What is Xavier University of Louisiana?
This food originally came from South America. It is also grown in Hawaii, Florida, and other states with similar climates.
Its compounds are linked to several health benefits including immunity and recovery from surgery. It has a hard outer covering and is yellow on the inside.
This food is packed with nutrients, antioxidants, and other helpful compounds.
What is a pineapple?
This city is:
-located in the central part of the country
-became the capital city of its country on December 12, 1991; prior to that date, Lagos was the capital of the country
-several universities are located in this capital city
What is Abuja, Nigeria?
This toy has its origins in Bridgeport, Connecticut after the owner of a pie company observed university students playfully throwing empty pie tins to each other. The toy is a plastic disc that people can throw to one another.
What is a Frisbee?
Here is the rest of the story. William Frisbie opened the Frisbie Pie Company in 1871.Students from nearby universities would throw the empty pie tins to each other, yelling “Frisbie!” In 1948, Walter Frederick Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni invented a plastic version of the pie tins. Morrison made an improved model in 1955 and sold it to the new toy company Wham-O; the company later gave the toy the name Frisbee disc.
This company was founded in 1989. This company's headquarters are in Taipei. Its industry is Technology Hardware & Equipment.
What is ASUS?
This HBCU is in Daytona Beach, Florida. This school originally opened with just 5 girls. This college became a 4-year institution in 1942.
What is Bethune Cookman College?
This fruit is an ingredient in Hawaiian Punch. It was named by 16th century Spanish missionaries in Brazil. The center of the fruit, which is a mixture of pulp and seeds, is eaten; the rest of the fruit is discarded or recycled.
What is passion fruit?