Artists (505-523)
This feminist icon and Mexican painter is known for her self-portraits
Who is Frida Kahlo?
(Room #523)
While not as prolific as The King of Pop, you may be surprised that this larger-than-life artist stood only 5'2"
Who is Prince?
(Room #529)
Born in 1874 in Bologna, Italy, he invented the radio
Who is Guglielmo Marconi?
(Room #553)
Known for his work with a certain legume, he shares part of his name with a past United States president
Who is George Washington Carver?
(Room #607)
This Beloved author, often writes novels using the theme of the black experience in the United States
Who is Toni Morrison?
(Room #577)
From Reading, PA, this Pop Artist used faceless, cartoonish figures in his pieces.
Who is Keith Haring?
(Room #521)
A former resident of Baltimore and Philadelphia, one of her most famous songs was sampled by Kanye West in "Blood on the Leaves"
Who is Billie Holiday?
(Room #531)
Played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the feature film, The Imitation Game.
Who is Alan Turing?
(Room #546)
This chemist's research led to breakthroughs in hygiene and medicine, and was so influential that there is an entire process named after him that is utilized by those who are lactose-tolerant every day.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
(Room #632)
Despite having little fame from her writing before her death in England in 1817, her novels gained popularity in the 1800s, with three eventually becoming feature films.
Who is Jane Austen?
(Room #582)
Born in the same city as Publicis, she started working on paintings, but eventually moved into large installations, including a large spider outside of the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain.
Who is Louise Bourgeois?
(Room #505)
This North Philadelphia native had 5 consecutive platinum R&B albums before having an accident on Lincoln Drive in his Rolls Royce, leaving him paralyzed from the chest down.
Who is Teddy Pendergrass?
(Room #532)
This network engineer, often referred to as the "Mother of the Internet" has requested that people no longer call her the "Mother of the Internet"
Who is Radia Perlman?
(Room #545)
Born in England around humans, she has done most of her research in Africa, studying non-humans.
Who is Jane Gooddall?
(Room #616)
Winner of eight Tony awards, an Oscar, and eight Grammys, he was the lyricist behind West Side Story and Sweeney Todd, among others
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
(Room #801-03)
Friends with Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, and ex of Madonna, this neo-expressionist inspired a jersey for the Brooklyn Nets in the 2022-23 NBA Season.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
(Room #516, with the really long table)
With performances at the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 and again at the March on Washington in 1963, she was influential in the Civil Rights movement and her home and church in Philadelphia have been added to the National Registry of Historic Places.
Who is Marian Anderson?
(Room #541)
A famous actress with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, she was also a self-taught inventor who pioneered the technology that would eventually be use in WiFi, GPS, and Bluetooth.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
(Room #564)
The first woman to win the Nobel Prize, as well as the first person to win it twice, she coined the term "radioactivity" in 1903.
Who is Marie Curie?
(Room #635)
Born in Harlem, this author wrote Go Tell It On The Mountain, he moved to Paris in the late 1940s, but returned to the United States to become an activist in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and '60s.
Who is James Baldwin?
(Room #583)
A member of Pablo Picasso's circle and the early cubist movement, her work can now be found at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and in Nagano, Japan, in the only museum that solely contains the work of a female artist.
Who is Marie Laurencin?
(Room #520)
This artist founded Philadelphia International Records in 1971 as a rival to Motown, and helped to perfect the Philly sound of Philadelphia soul music.
Who are Gamble & Huff?
(Room #540)
Likely the person who lived the earliest in this entire game, by improving the printing press with the addition of movable type, he helped usher on an information revolution, leading to the Renaissance and Reformation.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
(Room #562)
He developed one of the first successful polio vaccines, and chose not to patent it nor seek any profit from it, in order to maximize its use and distribution.
Who is Jonas Salk?
(Room #637)
This author's career spanned nearly sixty years, and was a pioneer in the feminist science fiction genre, with her most famous work being The Left Hand of Darkness
Who is Ursula Le Guin?
(Room #572)