Black History 2017 - Assessment

1.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Who invented the pacemaker?

Otis Boykin

Russell Williams

Dr. Charles Drew

Dr. Patricia Bath

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Who invented the video game console?

Playstation

Jerry Lawson

Jerry Jones

George Crum

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Who invented the world famous snack, potato chips?

Lay's

George Washington Carver

George Crum

Garrett Mor

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Who invented the blood bank?

Dr. Charles Richard Drew

Dr. Charles Otis

Dr. Marc Hannah

Dr. Thomas Morgan

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Who in vented the squeeze mop?

Fredrick Jones

Richard Stewart

Jerry Lawson

Thomas W. Stewart

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

He invented the gas mask and the traffic signals____________.

Charles Drew

Garrett Morgan

Morgan Freeman

Richard Spikes

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

This person invented peanut butter________.

George Washington

George Crum

George Micheal

George Washington Carver

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

This lady invented the home security system.

LaShonda Howard-Holmes

Marie Van Brittan Brown

Patrica Bath

Harriett Lawson

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

__________invented the carbon filament, which made light bulbs far more efficient and affordable.

Thomas Edison

Lewis Latimer

Garrett Morgan

Charles Boykin

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

__________invented the carbon filament, which made light bulbs far more efficient and affordable.

Thomas Edison

Lewis Latimer

Garrett Morgan

Charles Boykin

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The 44th President of the US

Barack Obama

George Bush

Bill Clinton

Ronald Reagan

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Antislavery activist__________.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Sojourner Truth

Rosa Parks

Fredrick Douglass

13.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Underground railroad leader______

Morgan Freeman

Harriet Tubman

Fredrick Douglas

Malcolm X

14.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The classic street mailbox, with a hinged door that closes to protect your mail, was invented by African-American__________.

Otis Boykin

J. Cooper

William Davis

Philip B. Downing

15.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Cameroonian engineer ________ invented the Cardopad, the first medical tablet that allows doctors to perform tests like the electrocardiogram (ECG) in remote locations with no electricity.

Marc Hannah

George Crum

Arthur Zang

Thomas Stewart

16.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

African-American inventor _____ invented one of the first lawn mowers to use a rotary blade.

John Burr

John Brown

James Burr

Jamie Brown

17.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The first person ever to patent a hot comb in the US was________, the daughter of former slaves.

Madam C.J. Walker

Annie Malone

Annie Gypsy

18.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

In 1919, African-American inventor _________ invented and patented the gas furnace.

Rosa Parks

Madam C.J. Walker

Alice Parker

Charles K

19.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

African-American inventor _____ came up with the first ever design for a lawn sprinkler, which is similar to those still used today.

Joseph H. Smith

James Smith

Joseph P. Walker

Charles Brooks

20.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The touch-tone phone, caller ID, and call waiting were all made possible by the inventions of a black scientist, __________, who worked at Bell Laboratories.

Sarah Bell

Lincoln Brown

Henrietta Bradberry

Shirley Ann Jackson

21.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

_______, an African American, invented the gamma-electrical cell in 1971, which still used in today in cell phones.

Dr. Henry T. Sampson

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander P. Ashbourne

Dr. Charles Drew

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