WHO INVENTED THAT?
*This American inventor is credited with inventing the lightning rod and bifocal glasses and is also featured on the $100 bill.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
*This woman became the first female vice president of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
*This mammal lays eggs despite having fur and producing milk.
What is a platypus?
*In geometry, a triangle with all three sides equal in length is classified as this type of triangle.
What is an equilateral triangle?
*This abolitionist escaped slavery and repeatedly returned to the South to guide others to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
*An NDA is a legal agreement that prevents parties from sharing confidential information.
What is Non-Disclosure Agreement?
This inventor is famously credited with inventing the practical incandescent light bulb and held more than 1,000 U.S. patents.
Who is Thomas Edison?
*This American aviator was the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic ocean by airplane.
Who is Amelia Earhart?
This animal has a highly specialized digestive system that allows it to survive on a diet consisting almost entirely of eucalyptus leaves.
What is a koala?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
In science, these three are the common states of matter.
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
In 1960, this young girl passed an entrance examination used to select Black students for previously all-white schools in New Orleans, becoming a symbol of school desegregation.
Who is Ruby Bridges?
WHO is a United Nations agency responsible for coordinating international public health efforts.
What is World Health Organization?
*These two brothers achieved the first successful powered, controlled airplane flight in 1903.
Who are the Wright brothers?
*This Polish physicist discovered Radium in 1898 and is the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry.
Who is Marie Curie?
These specialized insects feed primarily on the feces of herbivorous animals and use the Milky Way to navigate moonless nights.
What is a dung beatle?
*Earth is traditionally divided into this many time zones.
What is 24?
This baseball player broke Major League Baseball's modern color barrier in 1947 when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
In computer networking, LAN refers to a network that connects devices within a limited area, such as a home, school, or office.
What is Local Area Network?
This Italian Renaissance artist and inventor sketched designs for flying machines, armored vehicles, and mechanical devices centuries before modern technology.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This American suffragist helped lead the movement for women's voting rights and was arrested for voting illegally in 1872.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
*This winged mammal can use echolocation to navigate and hunt, producing high-frequency sounds that bounce off surrounding objects.
What is a bat?
*This type of eclipse occurs when the Moon moves directly between the Sun and Earth, blocking all or part of the Sun's light from reaching our planet.
What is a solar eclipse?
*This Black teenager's 1955 murder in Mississippi became a catalyst for the civil rights movement after his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral.
Who is Emmett Till?
In aviation, TSA is the federal agency responsible for security screening at U.S. airports.
What is Transportation Security Administration?
*This Italian scientist built an advanced telescope in 1609 to observe Jupiter's largest moons and his telescopic findings supported the theory that Earth and other planets orbit the sun.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This Mexican-American civil rights activist co-founded the United Farm Workers, led major agricultural labor strikes, and helped negotiate contracts that improved wages and working conditions for farmworkers.
Who is Dolores Huerta?
Dating back approximately 450 million years, this group of marine predators existed long before dinosaurs and even the earliest known trees.
What are sharks?
A ____ is a geometric polygon with 10 sides, 10 vertices, and 10 interior angles.
What is a decagon?
In 1961, these interracial groups of activists rode interstate buses through the segregated South to challenge segregation in transportation.
Who were the Freedom Riders?
Commonly found on computers, chargers, and electronic devices, USB is a standard used to connect devices and transfer data.
What is Universal Serial Bus?
This Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer pioneered the development of alternating-current electrical systems and invented the Tesla coil.
Who is Nikola Tesla?
In 1983, this NASA astronaut made history aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, becoming the first American woman to travel into space.
Who is Sally Ride?
Despite its small size, this creature possesses extraordinary strength relative to its body weight, and can carry objects up to 50 times their own weight.
What is an ant?
This letter is the only letter of the alphabet that does not appear in any of the 50 U.S. state names.
What is the letter Q?
Founded in Oakland, California, in 1966, this organization advocated for Black self-determination and established community programs, including free breakfasts for children.
What is the Black Panther Party / Black Panthers?
In healthcare, HIPAA is a U.S. federal law that includes protections for patients' health information.
What is "Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act"?