This Newark royal has her own line of cosmetic products through Cover Girl. It's easy, breezy, and beautiful ;-)
(We're looking for her stage name and real name.)
Who is Dana, "Queen Latifah", Owens?
100
This MIT success story is the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in theoretical physics.
Who is Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson?
100
This Louisiana native is regarded as the first African American millionaire.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
100
Dr. Patricia Bath is a famous doctor of this science, whose Greek roots "ophthalmos" meaning eye and "logos" meaning word.
What is Ophthalmology?
100
This mixed media artist shares her first name with a popular pop star.
Who is Kesha Bruce?
200
26 year old Alexis Casson is making waves making these, a series of still images on a strip of plastic which, when run through a projector and shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images.
What are films?
200
She became the first African American woman ever admitted into the astronaut training program.
Who is Mae Jemison?
200
This production company was started by Chicago's most famous TV personality after her fame with her self entitled show.
What is Harpo Productions?
200
Dr. Ida Stephens Owens was the first black woman, to not only earn her Ph.D, but to ever receive a degree in Biology-Physiology from this North Carolina institution of higher education.
What is Duke University?
200
The famous choreographer's equally famous sister is better known as "Mrs. Huxtable" than her real name Phylicia Rashad.
Who is Debbie Allen?
300
Ms. Casson will tell you that while making this film genre, she often must interview people for real opinions on sometimes controversial matters in order to educate the public.
What is documentary?
300
Mae Jemison attended this prestigious college for her dual degree in Chemical Engineering and African & African American Studies.
What is Stanford University?
300
She won a full tuition scholarship to college for winning Miss Black Tennessee contest when she was 18 years old.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
300
She is the the first African American female doctor to patent a medical invention.
Who is Dr. Patricia Bath?
300
Debbie Allen and her siblings moved to this country as children to escape racism in their native Texan homeland.
What is Mexico?
400
Queen Latifah is missing this prestigious award to be a nominated "EGOT" - a person who has won all four major annual American entertainment awards: the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.
What is a Tony award?
400
Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson was appointed by this president to serve as an advisor to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). (We're looking for his full name.)
Who is President Barack Obama?
400
This historically significant city is the home of many influential Black women on our list, and the birthplace of RadioOne.
What is Washington, D.C.?
400
Dr. Patricia Bath's patented invention for cataract removal is similar to this related modern day procedure used to correct vision. I was blind, but now, I see....
What is LASIK?
400
Some of Kesha Bruce's work is permanently displayed in this collection, named after a famous slave boat and its grizzly uprising, at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.
What is The Amistad Center for Art and Culture?
500
Alexis Casson and Queen Latifah share an interest in this musical genre, Casson making a documentary about women in it and Owens having started her career in it.
What is Rap?
500
This shuttle launched the seven passenger crew of Mission STS-47 into outer space in 1992, including the the first Japanese astronaut to fly aboard the Shuttle, the first African-American woman to fly in space, and the first married couple to fly on the same space mission.
What is the Endeavour?
500
Sarah Breedlove was the first child to her parents born after this controversial edict.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
500
Castor Bean, Belladonna, Fiddleback Spider, Pufferfish, Heroin, Hemlock, Arsenic, Strychnine and Cyanide are all types of this substance that Dr. Owens could come in contact with daily.
What is poison?
500
Debbie Allen was the only original cast member to be a part of the tv movie, tv series, AND motion picture film of this famous NYC movie from 1980; the filmmakers arranged with the Mayor's Office to close 46th Street for several days in the summer of 1979 to shoot the film's title number.