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This was Muhammad Ali’s Original name.
What is Cassius Clay?
100
This woman wrote the book I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.
Who is Maya Angelou?
100
This musician wrote the song “What a wonderful world”.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
100
This movement, which began in 2013, is committed to ending injustice against Black people and police brutality.
What is Black Lives Matter?
100
To stay cool on hot summer days, Lonnie Johnson invented this toy that shoots water.
What is a Super Soaker (water-gun)?
Recently Lonnie Johnson was awarded $72.8 million dollars in royalties from Hasbro.
200
This athlete is known for his skyhook and for wearing goggles.
Who is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
200
This Chicago-born lawyer is the author of the best selling memoir Becoming.
Who is Michelle Obama?
200
In 1987, this singer was the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
200
At this major event of the Civil Rights Movement, on August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr delivered the I Have a Dream speech.
What is the March on Washington?
More than 200,000 people participated in The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Their demands included desegregation, civil rights, jobs, and improved working conditions.
200
Garrett Morgan is credited with inventing this device to help control the cars on the road.
What is the traffic light?
300
This athlete won 4 gold medals in Track & Field at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
Who is Jesse Owens?
During this Olympic Games, Jesse Owens destroyed Hitler’s idea of Aryan Supremacy, the idea that whites are superior to blacks.
300
In 2018, People's magazine named this actor the "Sexiest Man Alive".
Who is Idris Elba?
300
Along with being blind, this musician also lost his sense smell due to a car crash in 1973.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
An inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Wonder has won 25 Grammy Awards and sold more than 100 million records.
300
Three years after the 1954 Supreme Court desegregation ruling, Brown vs Board of Education, this group of African-American students faced protests and threats when they integrated their Arkansas high school.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
300
What salty snack made from a starch vegetable was created by a man named George Crum?
What are potato chips?
400
This world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937-1949 was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1990.
Who is Joe Louis?
400
This actor played Walter in the film version of the play A Raisin in the Sun.
Who is Sydney Poitier?
400
This singer was portrayed by Chadwick Boseman in the 2014 film “Get On Up”
Who is James Brown?
400
This 1965 legislation, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson, was designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
400
You lay your clothes across this object, designed by Sarah Boone, to get the wrinkles out of them.
What is an ironing board?
Sarah Boone received a U.S. government patent from the state of Connecticut for an improvement to the ironing board in 1892.
500
This athlete is the author of the book On the Line.
Who is Serena Williams?
500
This famous actor attended Shepherd Glen Elementary and Hamden Middle.
Who is Dwayne Johnson?
500
This artist is famous for her Lincoln Memorial concert in Washington, D.C. on April 9, 1939.
Who is Marian Anderson?
500
This is the commemoration of the day that the abolition of slavery was announced in Texas. (This was two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.)
What is Juneteenth?
500
This type of bank was created by Charles R. Drew to help store a vital liquid for human existence.
What is a Blood Bank?