Social Justice
This famous civil rights activist delivered his famous speech "I Have a Dream" in Washington D.C.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.
The American Revolutionary War was fought between these two nations.
What is the United States and Great Britain.
This is the temperature (in F) that water boils.
What is 212 degrees F?
This planet is the closest to our Sun.
What is Mercury?
This former Secretary of State nearly won the Presidential Election in 2016.
Who is Hilary Clinton?
This group gained the right to vote in 1920 via the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
Women
He accidentally discovered penicillin by leaving a culture plate out over a two-week vacation.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This silvery-white metal is also an important mineral used by the human body to regulate fluid, send nerve signals and regulate muscle contractions.
What is Potassium?
This is thought to be the hottest planet in the Solar System.
What is Venus?
At the time she was elected, she was the youngest ever to win a seat in the U.S. Congress.
Who is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?
She was killed by police on her own home in Louisville, Kentucky on March 13, 2020.
Who is Breonna Taylor
He was an South African anti-apartheid theologian and human-rights activist and the first black African Archbishop.
Who was Archbishop Desmond Tutu?
He had quite the "trip" home when accidentally discovering the psychoactive properties of lysergic acid diethylamide in 1938.
Who was Albert Hofmann?
This planet is known to have the most (confirmed and provisional) moons orbiting it.
What is Saturn?
This Nobel and Pulitzer-winner didn't publish her first novel, "The Bluest Eye" until age 39.
Who is Toni Morrison?
This system of ideas and actions is to actively change policies, behaviors, and beliefs that perpetuate racist ideas and actions.
What is Anti-Racism
This African King is thought to have been the richest human being to have ever lived.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This is the most common element found on earth.
What is Oxygen?
This comet has an orbital period in relation to the Earth of 75 years.
Haley's Comet
This wide-ranging author who helped push feminism beyond a white, middle class worldview died recently on December 15th, 2021.
Who is bell hooks? (Gloria Jean Watkins)
This year saw both the Endangered Species Act signed into law AND the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision.
What is 1973?
This is the oldest "living" language, still spoken today by over 70 million people.
What is Tamil? (Official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore, still spoken in India -- 5,000+ years old)
Lightning tends to produce this molecule, resulting in a characteristic smell in the atmosphere after a storm.
What is Oxone?
This extra-terrestrial mountain is known to be the tallest mountain in the solar system, nearly 3x the height of Sagarmatha aka "Everest".
What is Olympus Mons?
She was only the third African American to earn a PHD in Mathematics in 1937, and worked behind the scenes despite prejudice at NASA to enable early Spaceflight.
Who was Katherine Johnson. (Died Feb, 2020)