1. Who developed the first electric light?
2. Who used the Cumberland Gap to bring settlers to Kentucky?
3. Who invented the first telephone?
4. Who was the greatest American pioneer for woman's suffrage?
5. Who was a pioneer in developing products from peanuts? This person invented peanut butter.
6. Who was the great Native-American Chief who tried to lead his people to Montana and Canada after white settlers came to his land in Washington State?
7. Who was a famous athlete from Oklahoma who paved the way for Native-American athletes in the Olympics and in the National Football League?
8. Who was the first American in space?
9. Who was the first American to set foot on the moon?
10. Who was the first American woman in space?
11. Which woman was important in making the first American flag?
12. Name an early female pioneer in physics who discovered radium.
13. Name an African-American athlete who won 4 gold medals in the 1936 olympics, and pioneered the way for other African-American track stars.
Answers -- (1) Thomas Edison, (2) Daniel Boone,
(3) Alexander Graham Bell, (4) Susan B. Anthony,
(5) George Washington Carver, (6) Chief Joseph, (7) Jim Thorpe,
(8) John Glenn, (9) Neal Armstrong, (10) Sally Ride,
(11) Betsy Ross, (12) Marie Curie, (13) Jesse Owens.