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Black History Trivia
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1. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Phillis Wheatley
Gwendolyn Benneth
Vermont
Vermont
2. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Freedom's Journal
1986
Emlen Tunnell
1865
3. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Berry Gordy
The Pips
Aretha Franklin
MLK
4. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Willie Thrower
TheFirst Black Nurse
Usain Bolt
The Amos And Andy Show
5. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
The Amos And Andy Show
Langston Hughes
Robert Smalls
6. First black RNC chairman
Michael Steele
Phillis Wheatley
1863
Langston Hughes
7. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Whitney Houston
James Weldon Johnson
1863
The North Star
8. First black star of a network TV show
Bill Cosby
1893
Whitney Houston
The Twist
9. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Jan E. Metzeliger
The Pips
Anne Bontemps
Louis Armstrong
10. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
1863
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Wilma Rudolph
Gwendolyn Benneth
11. Queen Of Soul
Michael Steele
Thomas Dorsey
Aretha Franklin
1986
12. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
A Tribe Called Quest
Joseph Hayne Rainey
James Weldon Johnson
The Cosby Show
13. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Congressional Black Caucus
1863
Jackie Robinson
The North Star
14. First black star of a network TV show
Michael Jordon
Michael Jordon
Phillis Wheatley
Bill Cosby
15. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Congressional Black Caucus
The Twist
W. E. B. Du Bois
Emlen Tunnell
16. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Michael Jordon
14
Coleman Hawkins
The Pips
17. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Delany Martin
Barack Obama
The Amos And Andy Show
Countae Cullen
18. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Michael Jordon
Jackie Robinson
Usain Bolt
Berry Gordy
19. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
1963
Hattie McDaniel
Phillis Wheatley
1965
20. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Jackie Robinson
Langston Hughes
Robert Smalls
Jesse Redman Fauset
21. First black supreme court justice
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Thurgood Marshall
Boston University
Reggie Jackson
22. In what year was the VRA passed?
A Tribe Called Quest
1965
Sojourner Truth
Robert Smalls
23. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
W. E. B. Du Bois
MLK
The Underground Railroad
Sojourner Truth
24. First black supreme court justice
Gone With The Wind
Thurgood Marshall
James Weldon Johnson
A Rodeo Cowboy
25. First African American newspaper
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26. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
The North Star
Michael Jordon
Louis Armstrong
Ella Fitzgerald
27. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Langston Hughes
Thomas Dorsey
Jackie Robinson
28. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Willie Thrower
29. First black Miss America
Colin Powell
1863
Freedom's Journal
Vanessa Williams
30. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Oprah Winfrey
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
The Cosby Show
31. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Delany Martin
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Langston Hughes
Usain Bolt
32. In what year was the Million Man March?
1995
Quincy Jones
Jackie Robinson
Oprah Winfrey
33. Father Of Gospel Music
Hattie McDaniel
1863
Brown v. Board of Education
Thomas Dorsey
34. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
1893
Jackie Robinson
Montgomery
1968
35. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
The Underground Railroad
1909
Jim Crow Laws
Montgomery
36. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Anne Bontemps
Congressional Black Caucus
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Jackie Robinson
37. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
The Harlem Renaissance
Jackie Robinson
Hattie McDaniel
Vermont
38. First black president
A Tribe Called Quest
TheFirst Black Nurse
Barack Obama
Freedom's Journal
39. First black major league baseball player
Jackie Robinson
Quincy Jones
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1963
40. First black secretary of state
Gone With The Wind
Montgomery
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Colin Powell
41. 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
Colin Powell
Toni Morrison
Montgomery
42. First black female to host a TV show
Freedom's Journal
1965
Oprah Winfrey
Thomas Dorsey
43. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
The North Star
Vanessa Williams
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Jackie Robinson
44. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Freedom's Journal
Michael Jordon
Thomas Dorsey
Boston University
45. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Delany Martin
Langston Hughes
Anne Bontemps
Brown v. Board of Education
46. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
The Cosby Show
1909
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
TheFirst Black Nurse
47. 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?
14
Jackie Robinson
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
The Underground Railroad
48. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Langston Hughes
1965
Colin Powell
Anne Bontemps
49. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
Countae Cullen
Delany Martin
Nella Larsen
50. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Sojourner Truth
Freedom's Journal
Berry Gordy
Louis Armstrong
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