misc.
Who refused to give up her seat on the Montgomery Bus?
What year were women given the right to vote?
1965
Who discovered radioactivity and won two Nobel Prizes?
Who is Marie Curie?
Who was the African American female tennis player who won 23 Grand Slams?
Who is Serena Williams
Who is known as the "King of Pop"?
Who is Michael Jackson
Who helped 300 slaves escape?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What year did Black History Month start?
1976
In 1959, this businesswoman debuted the Barbie doll at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
Who is Ruth Handler?
Who was the first African American to play a major sport. When this played joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated.
Who is Jackie Robinson
Who is the director of Black Panther and Sinners?
Who is Ryan Coogler?
Who was Sally Ride
What year could women start getting credit cards?
1974
Who invented an early version of the traffic signal?
Who was Garrett Morgan?
Who was the "Mother" of Rock & Roll?
Who became the first woman ever to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Who was Aretha Franklin?
Exactly nine months before Rosa Parks’ iconic protest, this 15-year-old student was the first to be arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus.
March 2, 1955
What year did Marie Van Brittan Brown patent the first version of this home security system, featuring a camera, monitors, and a two-way microphone.
1966
This 1940s Hollywood star co-patented the "Secret Communication System" that now powers modern Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Who was Hedy Lamarr
Who worked as a spy, during WWII, for the French Resistance, smuggling military secrets written in invisible ink on her sheet music?
Who was Josephine Baker?
Who became the first African American Justice on the US Supreme Court?
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This exact date is when a 63-year-old schoolteacher became the first person to survive Niagara Falls in a barrel; she chose the date because it was her 63rd birthday.
October 24, 1901
What exact date (d/m/y) did Michael Jackson win a record of 8 Grammys for Thriller?
February 28, 1984
Who invented the manual windshield wipers?
Who is Mary Anderson?
Who was the first Black woman to win a World Figure Skating Championship. She later retired from skating to become an orthopedic surgeon!
Who was Debi Thomas
Who was the first woman to win an EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony)?
Who is Helen Hayes