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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Langston Hughes
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Jan E. Metzeliger
2. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
The Amos And Andy Show
Jesse Redman Fauset
Brown v. Board of Education
1965
3. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Berry Gordy
Langston Hughes
Hattie McDaniel
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
4. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
W. E. B. Du Bois
1963
1965
5. First black star of a network TV show
Reggie Jackson
James Weldon Johnson
Bill Cosby
Freedom's Journal
6. Father Of Gospel Music
1965
Robert Smalls
Aretha Franklin
Thomas Dorsey
7. First black supreme court justice
Thurgood Marshall
The Amos And Andy Show
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Michael Jordon
8. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Gwendolyn Benneth
MLK
MLK
Robert Smalls
9. First black person to win an Oscar
Hattie McDaniel
1995
Toni Morrison
Dr. Charles Drew
10. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Whitney Houston
Vermont
Jim Crow Laws
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
11. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
14
Dr. Charles Drew
Berry Gordy
Vermont
12. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
1865
1863
14
1963
13. In what year was the VRA passed?
1968
1965
One year
Michael Jackson
14. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Toni Morrison
W. E. B. Du Bois
Usain Bolt
Oprah Winfrey
15. 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?
1863
MLK
Wilma Rudolph
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
16. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Vermont
Sojourner Truth
Jackie Robinson
Congressional Black Caucus
17. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
Reggie Jackson
1995
MLK
The Underground Railroad
18. First black person to win an Oscar
Michael Jackson
Hattie McDaniel
Colin Powell
Congressional Black Caucus
19. In what year was the NAACP founded?
1909
The Harlem Renaissance
Oprah Winfrey
Baltimore - Maryland
20. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Baltimore - Maryland
Vanessa Williams
Phillis Wheatley
Toni Morrison
21. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Willie Thrower
The Cosby Show
1909
The Pips
22. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
1909
Anne Bontemps
TheFirst Black Nurse
The Amos And Andy Show
23. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
Whitney Houston
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Baltimore - Maryland
The Harlem Renaissance
24. First black secretary of state
Twice
Usain Bolt
Colin Powell
Jim Crow Laws
25. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Michael Jordon
A Tribe Called Quest
TheFirst Black Nurse
One year
26. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Montgomery
14
Brown v. Board of Education
Freedom's Journal
27. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
MLK
Jan E. Metzeliger
The Amos And Andy Show
Phillis Wheatley
28. First published black poet
TheFirst Black Nurse
Phillis Wheatley
Emlen Tunnell
Vanessa Williams
29. 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
Oprah Winfrey
1965
Wilma Rudolph
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.
Jim Crow Laws
Berry Gordy
Reggie Jackson
Ella Fitzgerald
31. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
1865
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Emlen Tunnell
Nella Larsen
32. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordon
1965
Vermont
Phillis Wheatley
33. In what year was the NAACP founded?
1909
Congressional Black Caucus
Emlen Tunnell
Berry Gordy
34. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
1945
Jackie Robinson
Anne Bontemps
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
35. In what year was MLK assassinated?
Willie Thrower
1968
MLK
Wilma Rudolph
36. First black RNC chairman
Emlen Tunnell
Michael Steele
Bill Cosby
Thurgood Marshall
37. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Gone With The Wind
Oprah Winfrey
Congressional Black Caucus
MLK
38. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1986
Michael Jackson
1945
39. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Whitney Houston
Vermont
Berry Gordy
Robert Smalls
40. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
MLK
Quincy Jones
Jan E. Metzeliger
Robert Smalls
41. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
Sojourner Truth
Twice
1893
Jesse Redman Fauset
42. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Michael Jordon
Vanessa Williams
James Weldon Johnson
Aretha Franklin
43. In what year was the Million Man March?
Sojourner Truth
Wilma Rudolph
1995
Twice
44. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Baltimore - Maryland
Boston University
One year
1863
45. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
A Tribe Called Quest
1893
Wilma Rudolph
Baltimore - Maryland
46. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Emlen Tunnell
Brown v. Board of Education
Oprah Winfrey
The Pips
47. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Whitney Houston
Thurgood Marshall
1909
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
48. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
14
Barack Obama
Bill Cosby
Colin Powell
49. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
1909
Freedom's Journal
Nella Larsen
50. First black female to win a Grammy
Whitney Houston
The Cosby Show
Ella Fitzgerald
1968