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Black History Trivia
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1. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Freedom's Journal
TheFirst Black Nurse
Boston University
W. E. B. Du Bois
2. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
One year
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Quincy Jones
1986
3. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Montgomery
The North Star
1909
Whitney Houston
4. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Robert Smalls
Jesse Redman Fauset
The North Star
Bill Cosby
5. First black Miss America
MLK
Sojourner Truth
1968
Vanessa Williams
6. First black star of a network TV show
Brown v. Board of Education
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Bill Cosby
Reggie Jackson
7. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Vanessa Williams
Delany Martin
Reggie Jackson
Jim Crow Laws
8. In what year was MLK assassinated?
Congressional Black Caucus
Michael Jackson
1968
Joseph Hayne Rainey
9. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordon
Coleman Hawkins
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Aretha Franklin
10. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
1986
A Rodeo Cowboy
Michael Jordon
Brown v. Board of Education
11. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Louis Armstrong
Baltimore - Maryland
Boston University
W. E. B. Du Bois
12. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Sojourner Truth
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Toni Morrison
Bill Cosby
13. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Ella Fitzgerald
Baltimore - Maryland
The North Star
1945
14. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that slaves were property - that blacks were not citizens - and that the MI Compromise was unconstitutional?
James Weldon Johnson
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Willie Thrower
1893
15. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
1909
Montgomery
Robert Smalls
Reggie Jackson
16. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
The Cosby Show
One year
MLK
Thurgood Marshall
17. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Michael Jackson
Gwendolyn Benneth
Ella Fitzgerald
18. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Twice
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
The Amos And Andy Show
19. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Vanessa Williams
1909
Countae Cullen
Congressional Black Caucus
20. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
1995
Nella Larsen
1965
Phillis Wheatley
21. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
The Harlem Renaissance
Willie Thrower
Brown v. Board of Education
1995
22. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Barack Obama
One year
Congressional Black Caucus
Jackie Robinson
23. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that slaves were property - that blacks were not citizens - and that the MI Compromise was unconstitutional?
Colin Powell
Emlen Tunnell
W. E. B. Du Bois
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
24. First black RNC chairman
Wilma Rudolph
Michael Jackson
Robert Smalls
Michael Steele
25. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Aretha Franklin
A Tribe Called Quest
Countae Cullen
Dr. Charles Drew
26. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
1863
Twice
TheFirst Black Nurse
Jan E. Metzeliger
27. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1965
Bill Cosby
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
28. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
Barack Obama
Twice
1865
Hattie McDaniel
29. First black female to host a TV show
The Pips
Oprah Winfrey
One year
Langston Hughes
30. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Michael Jordon
Langston Hughes
1986
Wilma Rudolph
31. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Louis Armstrong
Vermont
Hattie McDaniel
Langston Hughes
32. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
The Cosby Show
Colin Powell
Malcolm X
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
33. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
MLK
Jackie Robinson
Countae Cullen
Sojourner Truth
34. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Baltimore - Maryland
Delany Martin
One year
1893
35. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Berry Gordy
Brown v. Board of Education
Langston Hughes
Bill Cosby
36. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Whitney Houston
Sojourner Truth
Thomas Dorsey
Coleman Hawkins
37. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
Oprah Winfrey
Brown v. Board of Education
Barack Obama
Michael Jackson
38. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Vanessa Williams
Louis Armstrong
Thurgood Marshall
Michael Steele
39. This member of the NY Yankees whose late-season heroics earned him the name 'Mr. October' hit three dramatic home runs in the last game of the World Series against the LA Dodgers at Yankee Stadium.
Reggie Jackson
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1909
Jim Crow Laws
40. First black supreme court justice
Quincy Jones
Thurgood Marshall
Ella Fitzgerald
Toni Morrison
41. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Willie Thrower
14
The Underground Railroad
Louis Armstrong
42. Where Is Morgan University Located?
The Twist
1968
Colin Powell
Baltimore - Maryland
43. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Jesse Redman Fauset
1893
Vermont
Gwendolyn Benneth
44. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
James Weldon Johnson
The Cosby Show
MLK
Jim Crow Laws
45. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Toni Morrison
1965
A Tribe Called Quest
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
46. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Aretha Franklin
Gwendolyn Benneth
14
TheFirst Black Nurse
47. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Countae Cullen
Aretha Franklin
The Twist
1986
48. First black Miss America
Vanessa Williams
Colin Powell
Robert Smalls
W. E. B. Du Bois
49. First black female to win a Grammy
TheFirst Black Nurse
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Ella Fitzgerald
Anne Bontemps
50. First black NFL quarterback
Willie Thrower
Jim Crow Laws
Gwendolyn Benneth
Baltimore - Maryland
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