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This man became the first Black President of the United States in 2009.
Who is Barack Obama?
This 1990s sitcom starred Will Smith as a teenager sent to live with his wealthy relatives in Bel-Air.
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
In 1955, this woman's refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus sparked a major boycott during the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
What is Newton’s Third Law?
This continent has the largest number of countries.
What is Africa?
This Brooklyn Dodgers player broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
This hip-hop artist’s 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly won a Grammy for Best Rap Album and is widely studied for its political themes.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
Founded in 1966 in Oakland, this organization was created to monitor police activity and advocate for Black self-defense.
What is the Black Panther Party?
This quantity is calculated as force multiplied by distance and is measured in joules.
What is work?
This country has the most pyramids.
What is Sudan?
Known as the “Peanut Man,” this agricultural scientist became one of the first prominent African Americans to earn a Bachelor of Science degree and revolutionized farming techniques.
Who is George Washington Carver?
This comedian created and starred in the HBO series Insecure.
Who is Issa Rae?
This Reconstruction-era amendment, ratified in 1870, prohibited denying citizens the right to vote based on race.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
In electrical engineering, this device stores energy in an electric field and resists changes in voltage.
What is a capacitor?
Brian Urlacher and Walter Payton both played for this NFL team.
What is the Chicago Bears?
Madam C.J. Walker became the first Black self-made millionaire by building a business around these types of products.
What are hair care products?
This hip-hop collective, formed in Staten Island in the early 1990s, includes members like RZA, GZA, Method Man, and Ghostface Killah.
Who are the Wu-Tang Clan?
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation under the doctrine of “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This civil engineering concept measures how much a material deforms under stress and is defined as change in length divided by original length.
What is strain?
This secluded presidential retreat two-hours out of Washington, DC has hosts US presidents and foreign leaders.
What is Camp David?
This trailblazer became the first Black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and later the first Black woman to run for president.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
This Harlem Renaissance writer and poet authored “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” a novel centered on Janie Crawford’s journey of self-discovery.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Founded in 1816, this organization supported the migration of free African Americans to West Africa, leading to the creation of Liberia.
What is the American Colonization Society?
In aerospace engineering, this dimensionless number compares the speed of an object to the speed of sound in the surrounding medium.
What is the Mach number?
It’s the only island whose territory makes up parts of 3 different independent nations.
What is Borneo?