BHM Jeopardy Round 2

Firsts

200

The 1st black female to receive a Doctor of Medicine 

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

400

I was the first black female to receive a patent 

The patent? A dough-kneader

Judy W. Reed

600

My hair care products helped make me the first Black female millionaire

Madame C.J. Walker

800

First black and Native American female pilot

Bessie Coleman

1000

I built a clock entirely out of wood, the first built in America, that kept precise time for decades

Benjamin Banneker 

HBCU

200

What does HBCU stand for?

Historically Black Colleges and Universities

400

Oldest HBCU in the U.S., founded in 1852

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

600

Alma mater of a prominent civil rights leader who was also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc.

Morehouse College

800

This Hollywood actor was expelled from Morehouse College for student activism

Samuel L. Jackson

1000

“Black Panther” attended this HBCU.

Howard University

Politicians

200

First Black president

Barack Obama

400

Former Detroit mayor, pardoned by President Trump  

Kwame Kilpatrick

600

First Black and Southeast Asian Vice President

Kamala Harris

800

First Black female elected to Congress

Shirley Chisolm

1000

First Black, Muslim woman to serve as a U.S. Representative from Minnesota

Ilham Omar

Final Jeopardy

1000

Organized in 1773, the First African Baptist Church has pews that display Arabic script and is located in what southeast U.S. coastal city?

Savannah, Georgia