Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year 2024 is the year of the what?
Dragon
Chest discomfort or a heart attack is the first sign of what.
Heart disease.
Black history month started out as a week in February of this year.
1926
At what age did Serena Williams win her first U.S. Open?
17
The 5 elements of the Chinese zodiac are water, wood, earth, fire and… what?
Metal.
This blood type is the universal plasma donor.
AB
In this year U.S. President Gerald Ford officially declared February as Black History Month.
1976
What state was Barack Obama senator of before his presidency?
Illinois
In most countries, it is traditional to remove bad luck before Lunar New Year by doing this.
Sweeping the house.
The two upper chambers in the heart that receive blood are called what?
Left atrium and right atrium
Black History Month happens in February for good reason. Woodson selected February in honor of these two well-known political activist's birthdays.
Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
Madam C.J Walker is known as the first Black self-made millionaire. What product led to her success?
Hair Grower
Lunar New Year in China typically lasts this many days.
15
It takes this long does it take for blood to circulate around the entire body.
20 seconds
Every year, ASALH selects an overarching theme for Black History Month. The very first Black History Month theme was Civilization: A World Achievement. This years theme is what?
“African Americans and the Arts”.
Jackie Robinson debuted in the MLB as first base for which team?
Brooklyn Dodgers
The heavenly emperor who rules over Lunar New Year is named after which gemstone?
Jade
What is in blood that leaves the heart and not in blood that returns to the heart?
Oxygen
(blood is brighter red when it leaves the heart because it carries oxygen)
Spurred by growing racial violence in the early 20th century, and particularly by 1908 race riots in Springfield, Illinois, a group of African American leaders joined together to form a new permanent civil rights organization called what?
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
This was Maya Angelou's first body of work.
I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing