Black History Quiz Week 1

Who is the founder of Famous Amos Cookies?

• Benjamin Banneker

• Wally Amos

• Marian Anderson

• Mary McLeod Bethune

Who was the first black child to attend an all-white school in Louisiana?

• George Washington Carver

• Willa Beatrice Brown

• Ruby Bridges

• Blanche Armwood

This history maker was the first African American to sing at the Metropolitian Opera in New York.

• Marian Anderson

• M. Athalie Range

• Plessey, Homer

• Rosa Parks

He wrote and published a book about his struggles being a slave.

• Frederick Douglas

• George Washington Carver

• Benjamin Banneker

• Wally Amos

Who was the first African-American woman from Florida to graduate from an accredited law school, Howard University.

• Mansa Musa

• Blanche Armwood

• Marian Anderson

• Mary McCloud Bethune

She was the first African American woman to earn a pilots license.

• Marian Anderson

• Willa Beatrice Brown

• Ruby Bridges

• Mary McLeod Bethune

Her school that she opened in Daytona Beach, Florida over the years grew and became a college.

• Mary McCloud Bethune

• Michelle Obama

• Beatrice Willa Brown

• Ruby Bridges

He discovered over 300 ways to make peanuts.

• George Washington Carver

• Wally Amos

• Benjamin Banneker

• Frederick Douglas

Because of his skills in astronomy and mathematics, President George Washington asked him to help survey the land that would become Washington D.C.

_______________ was the first all-black city to be incorporated in Florida.