Black History Month
This professor became the first Black woman to receive tenure at the University of Pittsburgh.
Who is Dr. Tiffany Gary-Webb?
This nurse, known as the 'Lady with the Lamp,' founded modern nursing practices during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This is the strongest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
These three rivers converge at the Point in downtown Pittsburgh.
What are the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio?
This civil rights leader and minister ran for US President in 1984 and 1988 and worked closely under Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a key figure in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Who is Rev. Jesse Jackson?
In 1849, this woman became the first female physician in the United States when she graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York.
Who is Elizabeth Blackwell?
This type of diabetes is characterized by the body's inability to produce insulin.
What is Type 1 diabetes?
This is the most stolen food in the world.
What is cheese?
This Pittsburgh rapper had a massive hit with 'See You Again,' featured on the Furious 7 soundtrack.
Who is Wiz Khalifa?
This pioneering Pittsburgh ambulance service, founded in 1967, became one of the first paramedic programs in the United States.
What is Freedom House Ambulance Service?
This pioneering surgeon became the first Black woman transplant surgeon in the United States.
Who is Dr. Velma Scantlebury?
This neurotransmitter is often called the 'feel-good chemical' and is targeted by many antidepressants.
What is serotonin?
This planet's 243-day rotation period is clockwise, making its days longer than its years.
What is Venus?
These two legendary Negro League teams represented Pittsburgh, with one playing at Greenlee Field and the other at Forbes Field.
What are the Pittsburgh Crawfords and the Homestead Grays?
In 1847, Dr. David Jones Peck became the first African American to earn a medical degree in the United States from this Chicago institution.
What is Rush Medical College?
This biochemist won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Medicine for developing drugs to treat leukemia, gout, and herpes, including the immunosuppressant azathioprine.
Who is Dr. Gertrude Elion?
This process, occurring in mitochondria, produces ATP as the cell's main energy currency.
What is cellular respiration (or oxidative phosphorylation)?
This is the only continent without an active volcano.
What is Australia?
Pittsburgh sits at this elevation above sea level, significantly lower than Denver but higher than Cleveland.
What is approximately 1,200 feet?
For many years, John Coverdale Gilmer was believed to be Pitt's first Black graduate in 1897, until university archives confirmed that this civil engineer graduated four years earlier.
Who is William Hunter Dammond?
This physician became the first woman president of the American Medical Association in 1998, over 150 years after the organization's founding.
Who is Dr. Nancy Dickey?
This enzyme, discovered in 1928 by Alexander Fleming, breaks down bacterial cell walls.
What is lysozyme?
In 1911, explorer Roald Amundsen became the first person to reach this geographic location.
What is the South Pole?
Before 'Steelers,' Pittsburgh's NFL team was briefly known by this name from 1940-1942.
What are the Pirates?