Diversity "Bingo" Game
This Diversity Bingo Game will not only help you discover how much you know about other cultures, it will also help you to get to know each other better. Print out this page for each game member. The rules of the game are that everyone must ask everyone else at least one of the questions below to see if they know the answer. Have that person who thinks they know the answer also write their name next to the answer. You can't answer the questions on your own sheet, you may only get the questions answered by other people. There is no "high score" that you are trying to get. Rather, you will be trying to both find out a little bit about other people in the game as well as other cultures. Allow about 20 minutes for everyone to try to find others to fill in their answers, then come together as a group to share those answers. Hint: there may be more than one right answer for some questions. Have fun! (For the game moderator, the answers are found in this Diversity Bingo Game Answers link.)
1. Juneteenth was the name given to the June 19th day commemorating the
following historical event:
__________________________________________________________________________________.
2. Illinois celebrates Casimir Pulaski day. Who was he? ________________________________________
3. What woman won a Nobel Prize for her research into radioactivity? __________________________________
4. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt famously quit her DAR chapter in 1939 when they
refused to allow an opera singer to
perform at their function in Constitution Hall. Instead, the Washington D.C. Mall became this
singer's concert hall to an amazing 75,000 people. What was the opera singer's name?
_____________________________________
5. A female crystallographer photographed the structure of DNA which
made it possible for Watson and Crick
to formulate their theories about DNA. What was the crystallographer's
name? ________________________
6. "May 5th marks the Mexican armyís victory over the French invaders at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. In the United States, the celebration of this battle has come to be known simply as the '_________________.' Along with Mexican Independence Day on Sept. 16, ____________________ has become a time to celebrate Mexican heritage and culture." (US Census Bureau Web site)
7. Nuclear Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu conducted research about nuclear beta ___________.
8. Name of the first African American woman physicist who became President of Rensselaer Polytechnic University in 1998 is: __________________________________.
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