JEOPARDY FIRSTEXPLORERSPEOPLEHELPERSLEADERS $100 $200 $300 $400 $500 Final Jeopardy $500 Credits

Answer Started the FIRST library and fire department.

Question Who is Benjamin Franklin?

Answer FIRST African American major league baseball player.

Question Who is Jackie Robinson?

Answer FIRST United States President in a Republican form of government. Born in Virginia

Question Who is George Washington?

Answer FIRST African American United States Supreme Court Justice.

Question Who is Thurgood Marshall?

Answer FIRST European to land in Florida. He was looking for the fountain of youth.

Question Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?

Answer Sponsored by France to colonize the New World. Explored the Saint Lawrence River Valley.

Question Who is Jacques Cartier?

Answer Sponsored by Spain to discover riches and land to conquer. EXPLORER who gave Spain claim to Florida.

Question Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?

Answer EXPLORER who was sponsored by England to find riches, a western sea route to Asia, and colonize Virginia.

Question Who is Christopher Newport?

Answer EXPLORER who discovered the “New World”. Discovered a sea route to America. Landed in San Salvador. Sponsored by Spain to find sea route to Asia

Question Who is Christopher Columbus?

Answer EXPLORER who was sponsored by England to find riches, a western sea route to Asia, and colonize Virginia. One of the first men to reach the Fall Line of the James River. Made 4 more voyages to Jamestown.

Question Who is Christopher Newport?

DAILY DOUBLE How much do you wish to wager?

DAILY DOUBLE Answer Believed to have sewn one of our country’s first flags.

Question Who is Betsy Ross?

Answer African American woman who refused to give up her public bus seat.

Question Who is Rosa Parks?

Answer She overcame disabilities. Helped others who were blind and deaf.

Question Who is Helen Keller?

Answer Helped women to get the right to vote.

Question Who is Susan B. Anthony?

Answer African American who studied plants. Found hundreds of uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans.

Question Who is George Washington Carver?

Answer African American baseball player who HELPED others of his heritage to gain opportunities

Question Who is Jackie Robinson?

Answer African American minister who HELPED change laws

Question Who is Martin Luther King?

Answer This President of the United states HELPED free slaves. He was born in a log cabin.

Question Who is Abraham Lincoln?

Answer This Indian girl was a HELPER and friend to the settlers of Jamestown.

Question Who is Pocahontas?

Answer This person HELPED others who were blind and deaf.

Question Who is Helen Keller?

Answer This LEADER was the third President of the United States Author of Declaration of Independence Born in Virginia

Question Who is Thomas Jefferson?

DAILY DOUBLE How much do you wish to wager?

Answer LED women in the struggle for equal rights

Question Who is Susan B. Anthony?

Answer Brave LEADER of soldiers “Father of our Country”

Question Who is George Washington?

Answer This African American minister was a LEADER who helped bring about changes in laws through peaceful means.

Question Who is Martin Luther King?

Answer This LEADER taught himself how to read Became our 16 th President Was known as “Honest Abe”

Question Who is Abraham Lincoln?

FINAL JEOPARDY How much do you wish to wager?

Answer This American experimented with kites Proved that electricity was present in lightening

Question Who is Benjamin Franklin?

Created By Joy Halkyard Special Education Teacher Columbia ES April 2005