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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Louis Armstrong
1968
1986
Thomas Dorsey
2. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Congressional Black Caucus
A Rodeo Cowboy
1893
Jackie Robinson
3. In what year was MLK assassinated?
1968
Gone With The Wind
Congressional Black Caucus
Emlen Tunnell
4. 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)
Michael Jackson
1968
Louis Armstrong
1863
5. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
1965
1865
Baltimore - Maryland
Dr. Charles Drew
6. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Reggie Jackson
1893
One year
Delany Martin
7. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Colin Powell
Usain Bolt
Louis Armstrong
Jackie Robinson
8. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
James Weldon Johnson
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Robert Smalls
Louis Armstrong
9. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
James Weldon Johnson
Congressional Black Caucus
Countae Cullen
1963
10. In what year was the NAACP founded?
1965
Vermont
1909
14
11. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
1909
Aretha Franklin
Delany Martin
1963
12. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Jesse Redman Fauset
The North Star
1865
Anne Bontemps
13. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
1865
MLK
1965
One year
14. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
MLK
Berry Gordy
Congressional Black Caucus
A Rodeo Cowboy
15. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Countae Cullen
The Harlem Renaissance
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
1965
16. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Langston Hughes
Ella Fitzgerald
Michael Jordon
James Weldon Johnson
17. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Michael Steele
TheFirst Black Nurse
The Twist
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
18. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Boston University
1986
TheFirst Black Nurse
Michael Jackson
19. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
Sojourner Truth
Whitney Houston
1893
Joseph Hayne Rainey
20. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
A Rodeo Cowboy
James Weldon Johnson
W. E. B. Du Bois
Freedom's Journal
21. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Michael Jordon
Jesse Redman Fauset
1963
Montgomery
22. 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?
Delany Martin
Dr. Charles Drew
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Montgomery
23. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
Gone With The Wind
Ella Fitzgerald
Jim Crow Laws
24. First black female to host a TV show
Michael Steele
MLK
Oprah Winfrey
Anne Bontemps
25. In what year was the VRA passed?
A Rodeo Cowboy
1986
1965
Oprah Winfrey
26. First published black poet
Langston Hughes
Phillis Wheatley
Thomas Dorsey
Willie Thrower
27. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
The Pips
1963
The North Star
MLK
28. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
MLK
Baltimore - Maryland
Anne Bontemps
29. First black supreme court justice
Thurgood Marshall
Usain Bolt
Congressional Black Caucus
Twice
30. 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.
Whitney Houston
Reggie Jackson
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
One year
31. Queen Of Soul
The Cosby Show
1965
Anne Bontemps
Aretha Franklin
32. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
1995
Wilma Rudolph
Willie Thrower
One year
33. In what year was MLK assassinated?
Baltimore - Maryland
Colin Powell
1965
1968
34. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Bill Cosby
1968
Dr. Charles Drew
Jim Crow Laws
35. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
Delany Martin
Anne Bontemps
1863
The North Star
36. 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?
The Harlem Renaissance
Michael Jackson
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Gone With The Wind
37. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Dr. Charles Drew
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Robert Smalls
14
38. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
A Tribe Called Quest
Michael Steele
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Jackie Robinson
39. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
A Tribe Called Quest
Ella Fitzgerald
Barack Obama
Brown v. Board of Education
40. First black star of a network TV show
Bill Cosby
Montgomery
MLK
Toni Morrison
41. First black major league baseball player
The Amos And Andy Show
The Pips
Jackie Robinson
The Amos And Andy Show
42. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
1893
Vanessa Williams
Coleman Hawkins
Michael Jackson
43. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Jim Crow Laws
Langston Hughes
1893
The Harlem Renaissance
44. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Freedom's Journal
Anne Bontemps
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
45. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Montgomery
Robert Smalls
Joseph Hayne Rainey
14
46. Queen Of Soul
Berry Gordy
Aretha Franklin
Quincy Jones
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
47. First black president
Barack Obama
Coleman Hawkins
Berry Gordy
Delany Martin
48. First black female to host a TV show
Oprah Winfrey
1865
Langston Hughes
Sojourner Truth
49. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Oprah Winfrey
Langston Hughes
Gwendolyn Benneth
Jan E. Metzeliger
50. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
Nella Larsen
Usain Bolt
1963
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey