Owens/Thorpe
Carver
Wright
States
Vocab
100
How many gold medals did Jesse Owens win?
Four
100
What chore did Carver do to get through college?
laundry
100
What kind of shop did the Wright brothers open?
A bike shop.
100
What is state D?
Oregon
100
Carver found over 300 uses for the _____________.
peanut
200
What future president did Jim Thorpe play against?
Dwight Eisenhower
200
What did Carver love to learn about when he was young and studied as he got older?
plants
200
Where did the Wright brothers first successfully test an airplane?
Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
200
What is state F?
Wyoming
200
Carver became the first African American to graduate from what University?
Iowa State University
300
What school record did Jim Thorpe break?
high jump
300
Carver became known as ___________________.
"The Plant Doctor"
300
The Wright brothers successfully invented the first ___________________________.
successful airplane
300
What is state J?
Colorado
300
Jim Thorpe became the first president of the American Professional ________________ Association.
Football
400
Who was nicknamed "Buckeye Bullet"?
Jesse Owens
400
What university did Carver teach at?
Tuskegee Institute
400
The Wright brothers started what kind of company?
An airplane company
400
What is state I?
Utah
400
Who asked George Washington Carver to teach at Tuskegee Institute?
Booker T. Washington
500
Who was nicknamed, "America's Athlete of the Century"?
Jim Thorpe
500
Carver became the director of what department at Tuskegee Institute?
Agriculture
500
Which Wright brother first successfully piloted an engine-powered plane?
Orville Wright
500
What is state E?
Idaho
500
Carver encouraged farmers to grow vegetables, peanuts, and sweet potatoes instead of _____________.
cotton