Black History
$100 – Who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama?
Rosa Parks
$100 – Who was the first President of the United States?
George Washington
$100 – What ancient civilization built pyramids as tombs for their pharaohs?
Ancient Egypt
$100 – Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean?
Amelia Earhart
$100 – Who invented the light bulb?
Thomas Edison
$200 – What was the name of the secret network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom?
The Underground Railroad
$200 – What document, signed in 1776, declared the U.S. independent from Britain?
The Declaration of Independence
$200 – What was the name of the war that took place between 1939 and 1945?
World War II
$200 – Who was the famous Underground Railroad conductor who helped enslaved people escape?
Harriet Tubman
$200 – What tool do people use to find their direction, pointing north?
A compass
$300 – Who was the first Black Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
$300 – What war was fought between the North and South from 1861 to 1865?
The Civil War
$300 - What country built the Great Wall to protect itself from invaders?
China
$300 – Who was the famous queen of England known for her long rule and fancy dresses?
Queen Elizabeth I
$300 – Who were the two brothers that invented the first airplane?
The Wright Brothers
$400 - Who broke decades of racial segregation in professional baseball when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers?
Jackie Robinson
$400 – What was the name of the movement in the 1960s that fought for African American?
The Civil Rights Movement
$400 - What country shared a boarder with Germany and had the largest Jewish population?
Poland
$400 - What young girl wrote a diary while hiding from the Nazis during World War II.
Anne Frank
$400 - What invention by Alexander Graham Bell allowed people to talk to each other over long distances?
The telephone
$500 - What does HBCU stand for?
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
$500 – What event led to the start of the American Revolution?
The Boston Tea Party (or British taxation without representation)
$500 - What country will you find the capital city Warsaw?
Poland
$500 - What African American woman mathematician helped NASA send the first astronauts to space? (Hint: The Movie Hidden Figures is about her)
Katherine Johnson
What life-changing invention, patented by Garrett Morgan, helps control traffic at intersections?
The traffic light.