Famous People
This person became blind at the age of three and was only 15 when he invented the universal system of reading and writing for blind people. Hint: it's named after him.
A. Louis Braille
B. Brian Laurence
C. Brad Illenson
A. Louis Braille
There are 253 million visually impaired people in the world, how many of them are fully blind?
*Each group makes a guess, the closest group wins.*
36 million
Fill in the Blank -- Braille is the universal system of reading and writing for blind people that uses raised dots to symbolize letters and other characters. The Braille cell is made up of ____ dots. Different letters are made by raising some dots in the cell and leaving others flat.
A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
C. 6
There are many animals who use echoes, rather than sight, to navigate their surroundings. Dolphins and bats are two examples. Though it isn't common, there have been several cases of blind people with this same ability. What is it called?
A. Sono-Locating
B. Noise Bouncing
C. Echolocation
Some blind people use guide dogs to help them navigate their surroundings. What is the most common breed of guide dogs?
A. Labrador Retrievers
B. Poodles
C. Chihauhuas
D. Pitbulls
A. Labrador Retrievers
This person was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. She lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness at the age of 19 months.
A. Patty Duke
B. Helen Keller
C. Anne Sullivan
B. Helen Keller
Fill in the Blank -- According to the Perkins School for the Blind, a sighted person can read 300 words per minute, and some fast braille readers can whip through a book at a speed of ____ words per minute.
A. 200
B. 400
C. 1000
B. 400
True or False? -- Braille started out as a military code called “night writing.”
True!
True or False? -- In recent years, researchers have explored the relationship between sight and touch, theorizing that a person can get equivalent information about an object through touching as they can through seeing.
True!
This Marvel superhero has both superpowers and elite training; but unlike other comic book characters, he is also completely blind.
A. Hawkeye
B. Daredevil
C. Ant-Man
D. Batman
B. Daredevil
Like Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles is also a blind musician. Charles won a Grammy Award in 1975 for his cover of a famous Stevie Wonder song. Which song was it?
A. Happy Birthday
B. Superstitious
C. Living for the City
C. Living for the City
Paralympic Hall of Fame swimmer Trischa Zorn is a U.S. swimmer who has been blind since birth. She is the most successful athlete in the history of the Paralympic Games. How many TOTAL Paralympic metals has she won?
*Each team makes a guess. Closest number wins.*
55 TOTAL -- (41 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze)
Just because someone is blind, doesn’t mean they can't learn math. There’s a special version of braille just for mathematics. What is it called?
A. The Nemeth Code
B. The Pythagorean Theorem
C. The Math Dots
A. The Nemeth Code
True or False? -- One study has shown that blind children ages 3 to 16 scored the same as their sighted counterparts in tests of both short-term and long-term memory capabilities
False! Blind children performed BETTER than their sighted counterparts on the memory tests.
What character in the video game “Mortal Combat” is a blind master swordsman?
A. Scorpion
B. Goro
C. Sonya Blade
D. Kenshi
D. Kenshi