My name is Benjamin Banneker, and I taught myself astronomy and mathematics. I am best known for _______.
Benjamin Banneker

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D Lesh
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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First African-American to teach in a pre-dominantly white college
Constructing a clock that struck hourly
First African-American to attend John Hopkins University
First African-American woman to earn a Ph.D in Mathematics
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Martha Euphemia Lofton Haynes is best known as the _______?
First African-American to teach in a pre-dominantly white college
Constructing a clock that struck hourly
First African-American to attend John Hopkins University
First African-American woman to earn a Ph.D in Mathematics
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MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
My name is Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. I am an African American mathematician and physicist, but I am best known for _____________ and having a PhD in mathematics ____________.
at the age of 19.
being the first African-American to use the Substitution Method
being the first African-American to attend John Hopkins University
entering University at the age of 13
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
She taught math before working at NASA. Much of her 40-year career at NASA was spent researching supersonic flight and sonic booms. She is in the book Hidden Figures.
Katherine Johnson
Christine Darden
Mary Jackson
Mae Jemison
5.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
I worked on the first American flight into space, and also on the Apollo 13 flight. My name is ___________, and in 2017, they made a movie about me and my friends Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, African-American women working at NASA. The movie was called __________ .
Katherine Johnson
"Women in Space"
"Hidden Figures"
Mae Jemison
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
I was the first African American to be admitted to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, but it was not an easy task. I had to work extremely hard to get there. Do you know who I am? (Hint, I share a name with someone you know)
Torrey Craig
Phil Lesh
David Blackwell.
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Who was David Harold Blackwell?
The first African-American to teach in a pre-dominantly white college
The only black American inducted into National Academy of Sciences
The first African-American to attend Johns Hopkins University.
First African-American woman to earn a Ph.D in Mathematics
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