Week 2 Black History Quiz#3

I was an African-American biologist and educator best known for my work on egg fertilization and my work on the make-up of a cell.

• Ernest Hemmingway

• Ernest Everett Just

• Ernest P. Worrell

My first career was as a physician. Later, I became an astronaut and worked for NASA. I was the first African American woman to travel to space. I am _______.

• Mae Jemison

• Mae Whitman

• Mae James

I went from being a poor student to receiving academic honors and eventually attending medical school. As a doctor, I was director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33 and became famous for separating conjoined twins. Today, I am the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. I am _______.

• Dr. Ben Casey

• Dr. Patricia M. Bath

• Dr. Ben Carson

Katherine G. Johnson is an African-American ___________ whose calculations of orbits in outer space as a NASA scientist, made it possible for success of the first and U.S. manned ________.

• mathematician

• trip to Australia

• spaceflights

• astronaut

90% of microphones used today are based on the creativeness of ___________, an African-American scientist who also made talking on the telephone possible.

• James Dean

• James Edward West

• James Charles

I am an American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator. I am the Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City.

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Neil Armstrong

• Neil Boyd

__________ was an African American mathematician and aerospace engineer at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. I am known for helping African American children in my community create a miniature wind tunnel for testing airplanes.

• Mary Kenner

• Mary Bethune

• Mary Jackson

_________________________ worked at NASA & built spacecrafts. He is also famous for inventing the super soaker water gun.

• Lonnie G. Johnson

• Jonnie L. Gonson

_________________was the first African American Man to go to space in 1983.

• Guion Bluford

• Guy Redford

2. Which of the following scientists preformed one of the first, successful open heart surgeries?

• Dr. Mae Jemison

• Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Garrett Morgan

• Dr. Daniel Hale Williams