Black History Month Quiz

Which one of the following listed women was the first African-American woman to be admitted into NASA’s astronaut training program and to be selected as a crew member in NASA’s Endeavour STS47 mission in 1992?

--------- was a British-Jamaican nurse who offered help to injured soldiers in the Crimean war but was refused by the British government because she was black. She funded her travel to Crimea and shared food and medicine to the troops.

Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu was Britain’s first ------- nurse specialist who helped found the Brent Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Counselling centre.

In 1952, ---------------- became the first black nurse to work in the NHS

Which English novelist immediately became a best-seller with her 2001 debut novel, White Teeth?

Which of the following is Maya Angelou's first body of work?

Nicola Adams, the first female Olympic boxing champion, won the World Boxing Organization (WBO) Female flyweight title in what year?

Who was recognized as the first Afro-Caribbean nurses to work in Britain?

The HeLa cell line is the first ever immortalized cell line used extensively in cancer research and this cell line was derived from an African-American woman called -------