Athletes
Activists
Artists
Scientists
Inventors
100
LeBron James plays this position.
What is power forward?
100
This Baptist Minister and civil rights activist wrote the poem "I Have a Dream."
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
This actor played T'Challa in Black Panther.
Who is Chadwick Boseman?
100
This famous astrophysicist is known for popularizing science through books such as The Pluto Files (2009) and frequent appearances on television as a talk show guest or hosting his series about science, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
100
Sarah Boone, in 1892, invented this flat and elongated surface that makes removing wrinkles from clothes much easier.
What is the ironing board?
200
He is the first Canadian sprinter to win three medals at a single Olympic games.
Who is Andre De Grasse?
200
Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin are known for sparking this movement.
What is the civil rights movement?
200
These two words are represented by the shorthand R&B.
What are rhythm and blues?
200
Mae Jemison was the first African-American female to travel here.
What is space?
200
Garrett Morgan, in 1923, invented this method of controlling traffic at intersections.
What is a 3-light traffic light?
300
Kyrie Irving plays for this team.
Who are the Dallas Mavericks?
300
This woman from Montgomery, Alabama invigorated the struggle for racial equality by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955.
Who is Rosa Parks?
300
This rapper was awarded with a Pulitzer Prize for his album containing the song HUMBLE., released in 2017, and his work has been taught in various school curriculums.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
300
George Washington Carver was an agricultural chemist best known for his discovery of uses for this nut, which is actually a legume.
What is a peanut?
300
Lewis Latimer, in 1881, used this element (hint: one of the first 10) to create a light bulb filament.
What is carbon?
400
He played for the Montreal Royals before breaking Major League Baseball's colour barrier in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
400
This person's face is on the Canadian $10 bill because she refused to leave her seat in a segregated movie theatre in Nova Scotia.
Who is Viola Desmond?
400
This artist holds the current record for the most song entries in the Billboard Top 100.
Who is Drake?
400
Mark E. Dean is one of the top engineering minds at the IBM, which stands for this.
What is the International Business Machines Corporation?
400
In addition to being the first African American professor at Harvard, Dr. George Grant invented this useful golf device.
What is the golf tee?
500
P.K. as in P.K. Subban stands for this.
What is Pernell-Karl?
500
This woman escaped slavery and coordinated 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 similarly enslaved people.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
This actor ranked as the greatest actor of the 21st century by the New York Times.
Who is Denzel Washington?
500
This woman (1930 – present) is a mathematician whose extremely detailed model of the Earth became the foundation of GPS that is used today in countless applications, including navigation and communication.
Who is Gladys West?
500
This innovator of agriculture in the late 1800s invented peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?