Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What modern laundry device did Sarah Boone patent, the first Black woman to do so?
Sarah Boone was a dress maker that created the modern ironing board and held U.S. patent 473,563 for it.
- Multiple Choice
2. Potato chips, invented by Black cook George Crum in New York in the 1850s, were initially known as _____________.
FUN FACT
Thanks to Moon's Lake House, the Saratoga Springs, New York, restaurant where George Crum worked, the snack was known as Saratoga Chips until the 1920s.
- Multiple Choice
3. In 1938, Frederick McKinley Jones, inventor of trucking refrigeration, founded the company _____________.
Founded in the 1940s, Thermo King is still at the leading edge of transportation refrigeration and has been for over eighty years.
- Multiple Choice
4. Which of Thomas Edison's inventions did Black inventor Lewis Latimer help improve and patent?
In addition to several other inventions, Black inventor Lewis Latimer created the carbon filament for the light bulb and helped Thomas Edison get his patent.
- Multiple Choice
5. Which innovation by Garrett Morgan made driving a much safer endeavor?
In 1923, Garett Morgan invented the three-light traffic signal still widely used today.
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