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October is Black History Month and if you haven’t read about our 10 Inspiring Lives then you really should – specially because you won’t be able to answer these 10 inspiring questions if you don’t! What do you stand to win?? Well £30 worth of record tokens, that’s what! Well, after all, it’s not just Science that Black History has contributed to is it….
BLACK HISTORY QUIZ...
01 Charles Richard Drew is best known for his research into blood and for setting up blood banks but he first got into university on a scholarship to Amherst College in Massachusetts because…
he was a great athlete too
his father owned the college
he charmed his way in
02 Who invented both the gas mask and traffic signals?
Alexander Graham Bell
Garret A Morgan
James Dyson
03 Katherine G Johnson was a pioneer in which subject?
Space Flight
Medicine
Entomology
04 Which two instruments did Benjamin Banneker, inventor, mathematician and astronomer, play at school?
Flute and violin
Cello and cymbals
Piano and clarinet
05 Charles Henry Turner was the first scientist to prove that insects could do what?
See
Hear
Fly
06 Which household item is Lewis Latimer associated with?
Washing Machine
Vacuum cleaner
Lightbulb
07 Which solar eclipse did Benjamin Banneker predict that so many other prominent astronomers got wrong?
1789
1878
1999
08 Elijah McCoy invented the ‘oil cup’ and Granville T Woods invented the multiplex telegraph. Both these inventions improved the safety of what?
Cinema and photography
Trains and railways
Hiking and climbing
09 George Washington Carver helped farmers to grow so many crops that he had to find new uses for them. What did he NOT manage to make out of peanuts?
Glass
Ink
Soap
10 Daniel Hale Williams performed surgery on which organ for the first time, without using a modern anaesthetic, antibiotics or using a blood transfusion?
Liver
Spleen
Heart
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