History Makers 2025

Question 1

This settlement and voting rights activist won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work for women and among the poor...

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Jane Addams

Question 2

This award-winning chemist and physicist contributed enormously to the fields of electrochemistry & electromagnetism...

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Michael Faraday

Question 3

This radical abolitionist believed that he was called by God to strike the "death blow" to slavery in the US...

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John Brown

Question 4

This vertebrate paleontologist is credited with discovering and naming the most dinosaurs by any one person...

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Dong Zhiming

Question 5

This Osage dancer, the first American major prima ballerina, revolutionized American ballet with her style...

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Maria Tallchief

Question 6

This Hall of Fame baseball player and antiracist activist was the first Black person to play in Major League Baseball...

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Jackie Robinson

Question 7

This royal monarch of the state of Jhansi was one of the leaders of the Indian Rebellion against the British Raj...

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Rani Lakshmibai

Question 8

This mathematician was the first Black woman aerospace engineer at NASA; the DC headquarters is now named after her...

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Mary Jackson

Question 9

This martial artist, actor, dancer, filmmaker, philosopher, and social change maker founded Jeet Kune Do...

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Bruce Lee

Question 10

This radical civil rights activist fought for the victims of Japanese internment camps & lead anti-war protests...

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Yuri Kochiyama

Question 11

This football (soccer) player, known as O Rei (the King), is widely regarded as the greatest goalscorer of all time...

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Pelé

Question 12

This animator, filmmaker, and writer founded Studio Ghibli, an award-winning animation studio, and has won two Oscars...

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Hayao Miyazaki

Question 13

This marine biologist, conservationist, and author of Silent Spring advanced the global environmental movement...

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Rachel Carson

Question 14

This leader in the Civil Rights Movement was a member of the inner circle of one of its main organizations, the SCLC...

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Dorothy Cotton

Question 15

A Wild Social Studies Question Appeared!

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the Indigenous nation, the Piscataway, inhabited the lands we are on now

Question 16

This theoretical physicist & cosmologist contributed enormously to popular understandings of various scientific fields..

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Stephen Hawking

Question 17

This dancer, teacher, & choreographer's modern style reshaped the dance world & is still taught in academies worldwide..

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Martha Graham

Question 18

A Wild Science Question Appeared!

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an object at rest remains at rest, & an object in motion remains in motion

Question 19

This mathematician and scientist solved orbital mechanics calculations that were critical to the success of NASA...

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Katherine Johnson

Question 20

This Jewish girl kept a diary documenting her life in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands...

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Anne Frank

Question 21

This engineer made dozens of scientific breakthroughs, including his contributions to alternating current electricity...

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Nikola Tesla

Question 22

This nurse, AKA "The White Mouse", spied against the Nazis and, being so good, became the most-wanted spy during WWII...

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Nancy Wake

Question 23

This author, minister, & lover of sweaters was the creator, showrunner, & host of a hugely popular preschool TV show...

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Fred Rogers

Question 24

This guitarist, singer, and songwriter developed the style of rhythm and blues, becoming "The Father of Rock & Roll”...

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Chuck Berry

Question 25

This Sac & Fox Nation member was an Olympic medalist and is widely considered to be the greatest athlete of all time...

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Jim Thorpe

Question 26

A Wild Completely Random Question Appeared!

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the name comes from the German "hamstern", which means "to hoard"

Question 27

This architect, AKA "The Queen of the Curve" for her style, won many of the most prestigious architectural awards...

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Zaha Hadid

Question 28

This women's rights activist, writer, television show host, and podcaster is the co-founder of Daughters for Earth...

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Zainab Salbi

Question 29

This ancient thinker founded an important school and is considered a foundational figure of Western philosophy...

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Plato

Question 30

This bold and dramatic post-impressionist painter is among the most famous and influential artists in world history...

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Vincent van Gogh

Question 31

This engineer and computer scientist is best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web (the internet!)...

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Tim Berners-Lee

Question 32

A Wild Writing Question Appeared!

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comma

Question 33

This extraordinary woman of 18th century China is known for contributions to medicine, astronomy, math, & poetry...

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Wang Zhenyi

Question 34

This blind educator invented the tactile system of reading and writing used by blind people today...

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Louis Braille

Question 35

This athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, defying Hitler and White Supremacist lies...

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Jesse Owens

Question 36

This singer, AKA "The Voice", is one of the most awarded entertainers ever and was inducted into many Halls of Fame...

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Whitney Houston

Question 37

This brave social reformer and statistician is considered to be the founder of modern nursing...

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Florence Nightingale

Question 38

This musician was a child prodigy and is now the most famous cello soloist ever, winning 19 Grammy awards so far...

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Yo-Yo Ma

Question 39

A Wild Math Problem Appeared!

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four, quatro, 4, IV

Question 40

This doctor improved blood storage & transfusion techniques, allowing medics to save thousands of lives during WWII...

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Charles Drew

Question 41

This scholar traveled more than 75,000 miles of the 14th-century known world & wrote about it in the famous Riḥlah...

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Muhammad Ibn Battuta

Question 42

This poet, the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer prize, is one of the most influential & widely read of the 1900s...

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 43

This nonviolent intellectual resistance group, led by Hans and Sophie Scholl, opposed the Nazis using propaganda...

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The White Rose

Question 44

This abolitionist and revolutionary was born into slavery, but she escaped and freed many others from bondage...

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Harriet Tubman

Question 45

This boxing world champion, AKA "The Greatest", won countless bouts & was a proud activist against racism & war...

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Muhammad Ali

Question 46

This Baptist minister, activist, organizer, and speaker led the Civil Rights Movement and the March on Washington...

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 47

This women's education activist is the youngest Nobel Prize winner ever & one of TIME's most influential people...

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Malala Yousafzai

Question 48

This Omaha reformer was the first Indigenous woman to earn a medical degree, saving many lives in her community...

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Susan La Flesche

Question 49

This Ponca chief successfully argued in US Court that Native peoples are "persons within the meaning of law" in 1879...

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Mantcunanjin

Question 50

This Lakota war hero, AKA Crazy Horse, defended his people and led their resistance against American imperialism...

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Tasunke Witko

Question 51

This accomplished mathematician and writer is regarded as the first computer programmer ever, nearly 200 years ago...

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Ada Lovelace

Question 52

This distinguished military officer was key in fighting for the American Revolution and the French Revolution...

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Marquis de Lafayette

Question 53

This experimental physicist worked on the Manhattan Project and made significant contributions to nuclear science...

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Wu Chien-Shiung

Question 54

This writer, literary critic, and human rights activist won the Nobel Peace Prize while imprisoned by his government...

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Liu Xiaobo

Question 55

A Wild Reading Question Appeared!

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double-u, dubble yoo, w, W

Question 56

This NASA astronaut, author, and physicist was the first American woman in space...

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Sally Ride

Question 57

This zoologist specialized in poison dart frogs and was a human rights activist focusing on women’s voting rights...

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Bertha Lutz

Question 58

This civil rights activist, who started and lead the Montgomery bus boycott, made huge progress against racism...

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Rosa Parks

Question 59

This scholar, scientist, and Navy admiral was a pioneer in computer programming & invented one of the first linkers...

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Grace Hopper

Question 60

This trumpeter, singer, and composer is one of the most influential people in jazz music of all time...

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Louis Armstrong

History Makers 2025

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History Makers 2025

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