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Black History Trivia
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1. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
Jim Crow Laws
Sojourner Truth
Brown v. Board of Education
Baltimore - Maryland
2. In what year was MLK assassinated?
A Rodeo Cowboy
Vanessa Williams
1968
Toni Morrison
3. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
1963
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Pips
Jan E. Metzeliger
4. First black president
Barack Obama
Thurgood Marshall
Sojourner Truth
Brown v. Board of Education
5. In what year was the NAACP founded?
1909
Langston Hughes
Dr. Charles Drew
Coleman Hawkins
6. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
Langston Hughes
Sojourner Truth
Usain Bolt
The Twist
7. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
Phillis Wheatley
The Amos And Andy Show
Freedom's Journal
One year
8. Best known for his work with blood plasma - this man helped set up the American Red Cross blood bank and established the first blood bank in England?
Dr. Charles Drew
1945
Robert Smalls
14
9. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Gone With The Wind
Quincy Jones
Louis Armstrong
W. E. B. Du Bois
10. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Anne Bontemps
Michael Jordon
Barack Obama
Brown v. Board of Education
11. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
A Rodeo Cowboy
MLK
Aretha Franklin
12. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
14
Vanessa Williams
Twice
W. E. B. Du Bois
13. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Countae Cullen
The North Star
A Tribe Called Quest
Jackie Robinson
14. First black major league baseball player
Michael Jackson
One year
Jackie Robinson
Congressional Black Caucus
15. First black secretary of state
Colin Powell
Aretha Franklin
Thomas Dorsey
Delany Martin
16. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
MLK
Jan E. Metzeliger
Reggie Jackson
Twice
17. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
A Tribe Called Quest
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1909
Boston University
18. First black NFL quarterback
Willie Thrower
Freedom's Journal
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
TheFirst Black Nurse
19. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Vanessa Williams
Usain Bolt
TheFirst Black Nurse
MLK
20. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Michael Jordon
Toni Morrison
James Weldon Johnson
Usain Bolt
21. In what year was the Million Man March?
Jan E. Metzeliger
MLK
1995
James Weldon Johnson
22. First African American newspaper
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23. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
Bill Cosby
1865
Vermont
Thomas Dorsey
24. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Congressional Black Caucus
Langston Hughes
James Weldon Johnson
1965
25. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
Jesse Redman Fauset
Boston University
Emlen Tunnell
26. 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.
Joseph Hayne Rainey
1995
Reggie Jackson
Toni Morrison
27. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
1963
Malcolm X
W. E. B. Du Bois
Delany Martin
28. First black secretary of state
Hattie McDaniel
Colin Powell
Ella Fitzgerald
A Rodeo Cowboy
29. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
MLK
Michael Jackson
Louis Armstrong
The North Star
30. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
Langston Hughes
A Tribe Called Quest
1893
Twice
31. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Usain Bolt
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Congressional Black Caucus
Emlen Tunnell
32. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
Bill Cosby
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Langston Hughes
The Twist
33. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
1986
Aretha Franklin
1965
34. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Vanessa Williams
Montgomery
Dr. Charles Drew
One year
35. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Langston Hughes
Jackie Robinson
Oprah Winfrey
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
36. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
The Amos And Andy Show
Michael Steele
Langston Hughes
A Rodeo Cowboy
37. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Jan E. Metzeliger
1986
Gone With The Wind
Countae Cullen
38. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Montgomery
Jan E. Metzeliger
MLK
Berry Gordy
39. First black supreme court justice
Countae Cullen
1863
Oprah Winfrey
Thurgood Marshall
40. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Dr. Charles Drew
Congressional Black Caucus
Malcolm X
1986
41. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
The North Star
Vermont
Oprah Winfrey
James Weldon Johnson
42. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
1986
Gwendolyn Benneth
The Amos And Andy Show
43. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Langston Hughes
1863
The North Star
The North Star
44. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Coleman Hawkins
The North Star
Countae Cullen
Wilma Rudolph
45. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
1865
A Tribe Called Quest
TheFirst Black Nurse
MLK
46. First African American newspaper
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47. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
A Rodeo Cowboy
1909
Toni Morrison
Barack Obama
48. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Ella Fitzgerald
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Thurgood Marshall
Michael Jordon
49. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
The Harlem Renaissance
Barack Obama
One year
James Weldon Johnson
50. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
14
The North Star
14
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