Black History Month
This American professional baseball player became the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. He broke the baseball color line when he started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
Jackie Robinson
This woman became a Civil Rights icon when she refused to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955.
Rosa Parks
A covering for the hand that encases the thumb separately and the four fingers together.
Mitten
From what tree do acorns come from?
Oak tree
Often called creepy, scary and spooky, these night animals get a bad rap, but they are important in many ways. They pollinate over 300 species of fruit. They help spread seeds for nuts, figs and cacao, the main ingredient in chocolate. Each night, they can eat their body weight or more in insects, numbering in the thousands, making them heroes of the night!
Bats
On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is accused of whistling at a white woman. What happened to Emmett Till as a result of the accusation?
Abducted, brutally beaten and thrown into a river.
She has been a hero to young readers since her first book in the Little House on the Prairie series was published 1932, but older readers can also look to the author for inspiration. She didn’t publish her first work until she was 65 years old (though she did have some help from daughter) and wrote a dozen more after that. Her book series inspired a television show in which the author was the main character.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
A permanent mark or design made on the skin by a process of pricking and ingraining an indelible pigment.
Tattoo
Where can you find the smallest bone in the human body?
Inner ear
This nocturnal animal has a defensive weapon unlike most animals. It is a sulfuric spray. It has a range of up to 10 feet, and its odor can be detected up to 1.5 miles.
Skunk
On August 28, 1963 at The March on Washington the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of his many famous speeches "I have a dream". How did he finish this statement? “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by...
"...the content of their character."
This man was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797.
George Washington
To set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; to begin a fight.
Attack
Diabetes develops as the result of a problem with which specific organ in the body?
Pancreas
Thanks to the black markings that fall across their eyes, these nocturnal animals have been typecast as the conniving thief figure in stories for centuries. But their famous black masks help them see clearly. The black fur works just like the black stickers athletes wear under their eyes: The dark color absorbs incoming light, reducing glare.
Racoon
This network of secret routes and safe houses was established and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. It was a scheme that was assisted by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the cause of the escapees. What did this network become known as?
The Underground Railroad
One of her best-known roles was Martha — half of the toxic, warring couple at the center of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? She also played the lead role in Cleopatra in 1963 and was married to Richard Burton twice.
Elizabeth Taylor
Carelessly discarded refuse, such as wastepaper.
Litter
What is the rarest blood type? A, B, AB or O
AB
This large, hairy spider lives mostly in the southwestern United States and has a painful but not highly venomous bite.
Tarantula
Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. How old was Ruby when she had to be escorted by 4 federal marshals to her new, previously all white school?
6 years old
This man invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and the light bulb. He ran a successful business and research laboratory, was a tough, eccentric job interviewer, had his last breath collected by his pal Henry Ford.
Thomas Edison
Judgment, as by a jury or judge, that a defendant is not guilty of a crime as charged.
Aquittal
What is the nearest planet to the sun?
Mercury
These nocturnal creatures are the only marsupial native to the United States. They are light gray and their long pink tail can curl tightly around branches, grasp and carry objects, and help stabilize them as it clambers around in trees and bushes.
Opossum