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Black History Trivia
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1. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Colin Powell
Barack Obama
Michael Jackson
1909
2. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
1968
1963
Langston Hughes
Thomas Dorsey
3. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
One year
Langston Hughes
1893
Barack Obama
4. First black star of a network TV show
Nella Larsen
Colin Powell
Bill Cosby
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
5. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
W. E. B. Du Bois
Congressional Black Caucus
Jackie Robinson
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
6. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Emlen Tunnell
Oprah Winfrey
One year
1965
7. First black female to win a Grammy
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Sojourner Truth
Ella Fitzgerald
Michael Jordon
8. First black female to host a TV show
Oprah Winfrey
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Countae Cullen
Langston Hughes
9. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
1995
1945
Anne Bontemps
One year
10. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
1893
Thomas Dorsey
Jackie Robinson
MLK
11. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
1865
Willie Thrower
Thomas Dorsey
Nella Larsen
12. Father Of Gospel Music
Brown v. Board of Education
Thomas Dorsey
James Weldon Johnson
Michael Jordon
13. First black person to win an Oscar
Phillis Wheatley
Hattie McDaniel
Jan E. Metzeliger
Michael Jackson
14. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
1965
Twice
Robert Smalls
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
15. 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)
Coleman Hawkins
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Vermont
Michael Jackson
16. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
1893
Louis Armstrong
Oprah Winfrey
Michael Jackson
17. First black president
Twice
The North Star
Barack Obama
Bill Cosby
18. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
1986
Jim Crow Laws
Jan E. Metzeliger
Vermont
19. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
14
Montgomery
1963
1965
20. In what year was the Million Man March?
Gone With The Wind
Vermont
1995
Wilma Rudolph
21. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Delany Martin
Quincy Jones
Jesse Redman Fauset
Willie Thrower
22. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Quincy Jones
Countae Cullen
One year
Michael Steele
23. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Montgomery
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Jackie Robinson
Gone With The Wind
24. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
A Tribe Called Quest
1863
Hattie McDaniel
The Twist
25. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
W. E. B. Du Bois
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Quincy Jones
26. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Brown v. Board of Education
Congressional Black Caucus
Quincy Jones
1863
27. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Emlen Tunnell
The Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
The Twist
28. In what year was MLK assassinated?
Langston Hughes
1968
1965
MLK
29. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Toni Morrison
MLK
Thomas Dorsey
Vanessa Williams
30. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
TheFirst Black Nurse
Usain Bolt
1965
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
31. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
1909
Countae Cullen
The Cosby Show
1995
32. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Brown v. Board of Education
James Weldon Johnson
Coleman Hawkins
33. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Berry Gordy
Congressional Black Caucus
Jackie Robinson
Berry Gordy
34. First black supreme court justice
Vanessa Williams
The Pips
Thurgood Marshall
Hattie McDaniel
35. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Vermont
W. E. B. Du Bois
Berry Gordy
Jackie Robinson
36. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Baltimore - Maryland
1965
Anne Bontemps
Bill Cosby
37. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Wilma Rudolph
Brown v. Board of Education
1945
1995
38. First black RNC chairman
1893
Oprah Winfrey
Michael Steele
Joseph Hayne Rainey
39. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Jan E. Metzeliger
Congressional Black Caucus
Sojourner Truth
The Cosby Show
40. 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.
Malcolm X
Reggie Jackson
1945
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
41. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Langston Hughes
Sojourner Truth
Gone With The Wind
Gwendolyn Benneth
42. 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?
Whitney Houston
Dr. Charles Drew
Jim Crow Laws
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
43. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Malcolm X
1945
Berry Gordy
Colin Powell
44. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Phillis Wheatley
1863
Sojourner Truth
The Twist
45. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
1968
Colin Powell
Whitney Houston
46. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
1909
Nella Larsen
Anne Bontemps
Malcolm X
47. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
Emlen Tunnell
James Weldon Johnson
Emlen Tunnell
MLK
48. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
1945
14
MLK
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
49. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
1893
Delany Martin
Langston Hughes
Gwendolyn Benneth
50. 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?
TheFirst Black Nurse
Michael Steele
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
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