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Black History Trivia
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1. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
1945
Robert Smalls
Whitney Houston
The North Star
2. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
1863
Colin Powell
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Twice
3. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
MLK
Michael Jackson
The Harlem Renaissance
The North Star
4. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Delany Martin
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
1965
5. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Coleman Hawkins
Robert Smalls
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Louis Armstrong
6. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Quincy Jones
Aretha Franklin
TheFirst Black Nurse
One year
7. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Boston University
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Berry Gordy
Robert Smalls
8. First black star of a network TV show
The Pips
Toni Morrison
1965
Bill Cosby
9. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Nella Larsen
1995
1995
Berry Gordy
10. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
The Twist
1963
1865
11. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
1986
A Rodeo Cowboy
Michael Jordon
Michael Jackson
12. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
MLK
Quincy Jones
Malcolm X
Gwendolyn Benneth
13. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Nella Larsen
Barack Obama
James Weldon Johnson
14. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Brown v. Board of Education
Vanessa Williams
Anne Bontemps
Coleman Hawkins
15. This singer holds the title of Most Top 10 Singles from an album for Thriller (1982) and the Most Number One Singles from an Album for Bad (1987)
Langston Hughes
Colin Powell
Michael Jackson
1909
16. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
1865
W. E. B. Du Bois
Berry Gordy
The Underground Railroad
17. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
MLK
1909
Berry Gordy
Sojourner Truth
18. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Robert Smalls
Thomas Dorsey
1865
The Pips
19. In what year was MLK assassinated?
Baltimore - Maryland
The North Star
The Harlem Renaissance
1968
20. First black supreme court justice
Countae Cullen
Langston Hughes
Jan E. Metzeliger
Thurgood Marshall
21. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Thurgood Marshall
Toni Morrison
Louis Armstrong
Gwendolyn Benneth
22. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Aretha Franklin
The Cosby Show
Jan E. Metzeliger
Wilma Rudolph
23. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
1963
1965
One year
Bill Cosby
24. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
1909
Berry Gordy
Colin Powell
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
25. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Freedom's Journal
1945
Boston University
Ella Fitzgerald
26. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Vanessa Williams
1986
MLK
Louis Armstrong
27. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Whitney Houston
Toni Morrison
Thurgood Marshall
Jesse Redman Fauset
28. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Twice
1995
Willie Thrower
Malcolm X
29. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Vermont
Colin Powell
Michael Steele
Countae Cullen
30. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Colin Powell
1945
Louis Armstrong
The Twist
31. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
A Rodeo Cowboy
1986
The North Star
Gwendolyn Benneth
32. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
1963
A Rodeo Cowboy
Coleman Hawkins
Colin Powell
33. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
The Cosby Show
Gone With The Wind
Ella Fitzgerald
The North Star
34. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
1863
Michael Jordon
Jesse Redman Fauset
14
35. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
Berry Gordy
Baltimore - Maryland
Reggie Jackson
Twice
36. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
The North Star
Whitney Houston
Louis Armstrong
Phillis Wheatley
37. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
Jackie Robinson
1945
The Harlem Renaissance
James Weldon Johnson
38. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
14
Anne Bontemps
Congressional Black Caucus
Quincy Jones
39. 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?
Sojourner Truth
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Michael Jordon
1968
40. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Freedom's Journal
Boston University
Robert Smalls
Malcolm X
41. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Reggie Jackson
TheFirst Black Nurse
1863
1963
42. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
MLK
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Colin Powell
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
43. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
1909
Hattie McDaniel
Boston University
1893
44. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Vermont
MLK
Reggie Jackson
Coleman Hawkins
45. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Gwendolyn Benneth
A Tribe Called Quest
Coleman Hawkins
46. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?
Oprah Winfrey
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Vermont
Michael Jordon
47. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Bill Cosby
Colin Powell
Aretha Franklin
1893
48. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Phillis Wheatley
One year
Berry Gordy
TheFirst Black Nurse
49. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Delany Martin
1863
1995
50. First black secretary of state
Montgomery
Thomas Dorsey
Colin Powell
Coleman Hawkins
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