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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Sojourner Truth
Berry Gordy
Baltimore - Maryland
Ella Fitzgerald
2. 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)
The Twist
Michael Jackson
Brown v. Board of Education
Joseph Hayne Rainey
3. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
W. E. B. Du Bois
Langston Hughes
Berry Gordy
Vermont
4. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
1965
MLK
Delany Martin
Hattie McDaniel
5. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Dr. Charles Drew
Freedom's Journal
1863
Joseph Hayne Rainey
6. First black supreme court justice
Usain Bolt
The North Star
Brown v. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
7. First black major league baseball player
1995
Jackie Robinson
Jan E. Metzeliger
The Cosby Show
8. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Michael Jordon
Langston Hughes
TheFirst Black Nurse
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
9. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
1995
Barack Obama
Michael Jackson
A Rodeo Cowboy
10. 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
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
The Harlem Renaissance
James Weldon Johnson
11. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
Berry Gordy
Hattie McDaniel
1963
Colin Powell
12. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Michael Jordon
Oprah Winfrey
Twice
Louis Armstrong
13. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Louis Armstrong
Delany Martin
Michael Jackson
14. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
Bill Cosby
W. E. B. Du Bois
1965
1865
15. First black female to win a Grammy
Nella Larsen
1986
Ella Fitzgerald
1986
16. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
The Cosby Show
Vanessa Williams
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
17. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordon
A Tribe Called Quest
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Joseph Hayne Rainey
18. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1968
The Amos And Andy Show
14
19. In what year was the VRA passed?
Baltimore - Maryland
1965
The Amos And Andy Show
Congressional Black Caucus
20. 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?
Bill Cosby
The Underground Railroad
Dr. Charles Drew
Langston Hughes
21. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Michael Jordon
The Twist
Michael Steele
Whitney Houston
22. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
1865
Langston Hughes
Jackie Robinson
Phillis Wheatley
23. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Berry Gordy
Michael Steele
Boston University
Jackie Robinson
24. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Wilma Rudolph
Michael Jordon
Vanessa Williams
The Amos And Andy Show
25. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Amos And Andy Show
Ella Fitzgerald
Phillis Wheatley
Colin Powell
26. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
1965
The Cosby Show
James Weldon Johnson
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
27. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
W. E. B. Du Bois
Vermont
Anne Bontemps
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
28. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
Twice
Jackie Robinson
Robert Smalls
Aretha Franklin
29. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
Toni Morrison
Congressional Black Caucus
The Twist
Robert Smalls
30. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
One year
Robert Smalls
Bill Cosby
The North Star
31. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Vanessa Williams
The Pips
Langston Hughes
Sojourner Truth
32. First black secretary of state
Jan E. Metzeliger
Hattie McDaniel
1893
Colin Powell
33. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Quincy Jones
Boston University
MLK
Baltimore - Maryland
34. 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?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Langston Hughes
Thurgood Marshall
Robert Smalls
35. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Michael Jordon
1986
James Weldon Johnson
36. In what year was the Million Man March?
Usain Bolt
Reggie Jackson
1995
The Amos And Andy Show
37. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Jan E. Metzeliger
1965
A Tribe Called Quest
Nella Larsen
38. First black NFL quarterback
A Tribe Called Quest
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Willie Thrower
Michael Steele
39. First African American newspaper
40. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
1963
Michael Jackson
Anne Bontemps
1965
41. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
1995
Anne Bontemps
Montgomery
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
42. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Jesse Redman Fauset
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Bill Cosby
Nella Larsen
43. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
The Amos And Andy Show
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Langston Hughes
James Weldon Johnson
44. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
The Harlem Renaissance
1893
Ella Fitzgerald
1863
45. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
Michael Jordon
Colin Powell
Quincy Jones
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
46. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
1965
Berry Gordy
W. E. B. Du Bois
Quincy Jones
47. First black president
Barack Obama
Langston Hughes
Countae Cullen
Michael Steele
48. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Bill Cosby
Oprah Winfrey
Usain Bolt
MLK
49. In what year was MLK assassinated?
1968
1965
James Weldon Johnson
1865
50. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Countae Cullen
Aretha Franklin
Gone With The Wind
Nella Larsen