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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
W. E. B. Du Bois
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Michael Steele
MLK
2. First black female to win a Grammy
The Pips
Ella Fitzgerald
1965
Colin Powell
3. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
The Harlem Renaissance
Gwendolyn Benneth
Quincy Jones
One year
4. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Oprah Winfrey
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Emlen Tunnell
One year
5. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Nella Larsen
1963
Thurgood Marshall
Jackie Robinson
6. First black supreme court justice
Thurgood Marshall
The Harlem Renaissance
The Pips
Quincy Jones
7. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
1909
Vermont
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
1963
8. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
1863
Dr. Charles Drew
Malcolm X
Toni Morrison
9. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
TheFirst Black Nurse
Baltimore - Maryland
Hattie McDaniel
1863
10. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Congressional Black Caucus
Reggie Jackson
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Joseph Hayne Rainey
11. First black Miss America
Usain Bolt
The Twist
Vanessa Williams
Hattie McDaniel
12. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
MLK
Louis Armstrong
Michael Jordon
14
13. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Louis Armstrong
1965
Montgomery
Twice
14. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
The Cosby Show
1995
The Twist
15. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Anne Bontemps
1968
Malcolm X
Coleman Hawkins
16. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
1965
1965
Brown v. Board of Education
MLK
17. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
W. E. B. Du Bois
Sojourner Truth
Barack Obama
18. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Jim Crow Laws
Countae Cullen
1965
19. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
The Twist
Thurgood Marshall
Malcolm X
Michael Jordon
20. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Berry Gordy
A Tribe Called Quest
TheFirst Black Nurse
Colin Powell
21. In what year was the VRA passed?
1965
Usain Bolt
Anne Bontemps
Delany Martin
22. 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)
Jan E. Metzeliger
James Weldon Johnson
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Michael Jackson
23. In what year was the Million Man March?
1995
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Nella Larsen
Malcolm X
24. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Langston Hughes
1965
Thomas Dorsey
1995
25. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
Willie Thrower
Hattie McDaniel
Reggie Jackson
1963
26. Father Of Gospel Music
Thomas Dorsey
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
A Rodeo Cowboy
Jesse Redman Fauset
27. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
1909
Boston University
Berry Gordy
14
28. In what year was MLK assassinated?
1968
1863
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Twice
29. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Anne Bontemps
MLK
Aretha Franklin
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
30. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
The Cosby Show
One year
Ella Fitzgerald
1965
31. First black female to host a TV show
Langston Hughes
Oprah Winfrey
Bill Cosby
Reggie Jackson
32. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
Brown v. Board of Education
Michael Jordon
Toni Morrison
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
33. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
The Underground Railroad
MLK
Dr. Charles Drew
Montgomery
34. Father Of Gospel Music
Oprah Winfrey
Thomas Dorsey
Coleman Hawkins
Berry Gordy
35. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
The North Star
Barack Obama
Usain Bolt
Brown v. Board of Education
36. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Dr. Charles Drew
Quincy Jones
Bill Cosby
1909
37. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Michael Jordon
Congressional Black Caucus
Thomas Dorsey
Michael Steele
38. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
1909
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
A Tribe Called Quest
The Pips
39. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Countae Cullen
Louis Armstrong
The Underground Railroad
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
40. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
1986
Jackie Robinson
Toni Morrison
The Amos And Andy Show
41. First black RNC chairman
Bill Cosby
Michael Steele
1995
Colin Powell
42. First black billionaire
Thurgood Marshall
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Bill Cosby
Vanessa Williams
43. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Boston University
Colin Powell
One year
Vermont
44. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Boston University
The Pips
Twice
MLK
45. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
Dr. Charles Drew
The Amos And Andy Show
Vanessa Williams
46. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Freedom's Journal
Langston Hughes
Jackie Robinson
TheFirst Black Nurse
47. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
1965
Gwendolyn Benneth
MLK
1945
48. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
1865
Malcolm X
Countae Cullen
Anne Bontemps
49. What athlete gained worldwide stardom during the 1960 Olympics in Rome when she became the first American woman to win three gold medals at the Games - winning the 100- and 200-meter dashes and the 400-meter relay?
W. E. B. Du Bois
James Weldon Johnson
Wilma Rudolph
Phillis Wheatley
50. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
The Harlem Renaissance
The Underground Railroad
MLK
1945
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