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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Quincy Jones
W. E. B. Du Bois
Anne Bontemps
Thurgood Marshall
2. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?
Quincy Jones
The Pips
W. E. B. Du Bois
Joseph Hayne Rainey
3. First African American newspaper
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4. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Louis Armstrong
Vermont
Michael Jordon
Louis Armstrong
5. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
1945
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Brown v. Board of Education
6. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
1893
Robert Smalls
Anne Bontemps
1945
7. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Bill Cosby
1965
Emlen Tunnell
1963
8. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
A Rodeo Cowboy
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Montgomery
Vermont
9. 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
Dr. Charles Drew
MLK
Phillis Wheatley
10. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
The Amos And Andy Show
The Amos And Andy Show
The Underground Railroad
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
11. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
14
Countae Cullen
Brown v. Board of Education
The Amos And Andy Show
12. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
The North Star
Phillis Wheatley
Brown v. Board of Education
Malcolm X
13. First black billionaire
Berry Gordy
Willie Thrower
Michael Jordon
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
14. First black star of a network TV show
Bill Cosby
Langston Hughes
Vanessa Williams
Langston Hughes
15. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Colin Powell
Montgomery
Vermont
Louis Armstrong
16. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Willie Thrower
Michael Jordon
Gwendolyn Benneth
The Cosby Show
17. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
Langston Hughes
A Rodeo Cowboy
Quincy Jones
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
18. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
A Tribe Called Quest
Jesse Redman Fauset
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Louis Armstrong
19. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
The Amos And Andy Show
A Tribe Called Quest
1865
Oprah Winfrey
20. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Usain Bolt
Michael Jordon
Anne Bontemps
1968
21. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Whitney Houston
1986
Nella Larsen
The Pips
22. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
One year
Vanessa Williams
Michael Jordon
Quincy Jones
23. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
The Twist
TheFirst Black Nurse
Boston University
1965
24. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Quincy Jones
Emlen Tunnell
Jim Crow Laws
Thurgood Marshall
25. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Phillis Wheatley
1968
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Cosby Show
26. Father Of Gospel Music
1963
Thomas Dorsey
The Cosby Show
MLK
27. First black NFL quarterback
Coleman Hawkins
1963
Willie Thrower
Jim Crow Laws
28. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Gwendolyn Benneth
Jan E. Metzeliger
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
1909
29. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
Barack Obama
Oprah Winfrey
Michael Jackson
1963
30. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Jan E. Metzeliger
Jim Crow Laws
1995
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
31. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jim Crow Laws
MLK
Colin Powell
Joseph Hayne Rainey
32. 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
Louis Armstrong
1995
One year
33. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Montgomery
MLK
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
34. In what year was the VRA passed?
Coleman Hawkins
Barack Obama
1965
Reggie Jackson
35. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
1863
Twice
1945
Oprah Winfrey
36. First black supreme court justice
A Tribe Called Quest
Bill Cosby
Thurgood Marshall
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
37. 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.
Reggie Jackson
Toni Morrison
Thurgood Marshall
Aretha Franklin
38. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
Countae Cullen
Whitney Houston
Quincy Jones
Jim Crow Laws
39. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Jan E. Metzeliger
Nella Larsen
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Willie Thrower
40. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
1963
Langston Hughes
1865
1909
41. In what year was the Million Man March?
TheFirst Black Nurse
Malcolm X
1995
Brown v. Board of Education
42. In what year was the VRA passed?
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
1965
Reggie Jackson
1986
43. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
The North Star
14
Louis Armstrong
Twice
44. In what year was the NAACP founded?
1909
A Tribe Called Quest
Anne Bontemps
Brown v. Board of Education
45. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
Malcolm X
1945
Colin Powell
1865
46. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Hattie McDaniel
1963
Coleman Hawkins
1968
47. First black Miss America
1865
Vanessa Williams
Willie Thrower
Hattie McDaniel
48. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
Barack Obama
1865
Toni Morrison
Hattie McDaniel
49. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
Usain Bolt
Emlen Tunnell
Langston Hughes
MLK
50. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
1893
Jan E. Metzeliger
1893
One year