BLACK INNOVATORS
At Tuskegee, he promoted crop rotation and new uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes.
Who is George Washington Carver?
T'Challa rules this fictional African nation in Black Panther.
What is Wakanda?
The United States celebrated its Bicentennial in this year.
What is 1976?
Buddy Lists and away messages defined this service abbreviated AIM.
What is AOL Instant Messenger?
This green fruit is mashed with lime, onion, and chiles to make guacamole
What is an avocado?
This force keeps your feet on the ground and the Moon in orbit around Earth.
What is gravity?
In 1992, this physician and engineer became the first Black woman in space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
Issa Rae played Issa Dee on this HBO comedy series.
What is Insecure?
John Travolta played disco king Tony Manero in this 1977 movie.
What is Saturday Night Fever?
This simple phone game made Nokia users steer a growing line toward pixel snacks.
What is Snake?
Hummus is traditionally built around this legume, also called the garbanzo bean.
What is a chickpea?[Chickpea; garbanzo bean]
Bread rises because yeast releases bubbles of this gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
This physician standardized methods for processing and storing blood plasma and led Blood for Britain.
Who is Charles Drew?
Troy Maxson is the central character of this August Wilson play.
What is Fences?
First observed nationwide on April 22, 1970, this annual event rallies people for the planet.
What is Earth Day?
Launched in 1999, this file-sharing service made MP3 swapping a household controversy.
What is Napster?
This spongy Ethiopian flatbread is traditionally made from teff flour.
What is injera?
A liquid with a pH below 7 is described by this word.
What is acidic?
This ophthalmologist invented the Laserphaco technique and device for cataract surgery.
Who is Patricia Bath?
For Monster's Ball, she became the first Black winner of the Best Actress Oscar.
Who is Halle Berry?
The 1974 'Rumble in the Jungle' ended when Muhammad Ali knocked out this champion.
Who is George Foreman?
Apple introduced this pocket music player in 2001 with '1,000 songs in your pocket.'
What is the iPod?
Ghana and Nigeria have a famously friendly rivalry over versions of this tomato-rich rice dish.
What is jollof rice?
This term measures how readily a material transfers heat; metals generally have more of it than wood
What is thermal conductivity?
This IBM engineer helped develop the PC's ISA bus and later became IBM's first Black Fellow.
Who is Mark Dean?
Lorraine Hansberry's play about the Younger family takes its title from a Langston Hughes poem.
What is A Raisin in the Sun?
Sony launched this portable cassette player in Japan in 1979.
What is the Walkman? [Walkman; Sony Walkman]
Will Wright's 2000 computer game let players build homes and manage virtual people.
What is The Sims?
This Adjarian variety of Georgian cheese bread is shaped like a boat and filled with cheese, egg, and butter.
What is Adjarian khachapuri?[Adjarian khachapuri; khachapuri]
Water droplets skitter on a very hot pan because of this vapor-cushion phenomenon.
What is the Leidenfrost effect?