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Black History Trivia
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1. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Brown v. Board of Education
Gwendolyn Benneth
MLK
A Rodeo Cowboy
2. 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?
The Cosby Show
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1945
Vanessa Williams
3. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Phillis Wheatley
One year
Montgomery
Vermont
4. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
The Pips
The North Star
Quincy Jones
Whitney Houston
5. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Thurgood Marshall
1965
Toni Morrison
Jesse Redman Fauset
6. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Baltimore - Maryland
1963
1968
Michael Steele
7. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
Jackie Robinson
The North Star
Gone With The Wind
The Cosby Show
8. Queen Of Soul
1893
Coleman Hawkins
Quincy Jones
Aretha Franklin
9. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
Malcolm X
MLK
14
Freedom's Journal
10. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Usain Bolt
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Jim Crow Laws
11. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
W. E. B. Du Bois
Vermont
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Robert Smalls
12. First black major league baseball player
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Ella Fitzgerald
Jackie Robinson
1863
13. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Countae Cullen
1968
1965
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
14. First black NFL quarterback
Baltimore - Maryland
Willie Thrower
MLK
The Harlem Renaissance
15. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
1863
1865
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Gwendolyn Benneth
16. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1909
A Tribe Called Quest
Colin Powell
The North Star
17. 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?
Delany Martin
Louis Armstrong
Sojourner Truth
Dr. Charles Drew
18. First black Miss America
Toni Morrison
Langston Hughes
Anne Bontemps
Vanessa Williams
19. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
1863
Jackie Robinson
Baltimore - Maryland
Michael Steele
20. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Boston University
Ella Fitzgerald
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Michael Jackson
21. First black president
Bill Cosby
Ella Fitzgerald
Barack Obama
Gwendolyn Benneth
22. Father Of Gospel Music
Wilma Rudolph
The North Star
Berry Gordy
Thomas Dorsey
23. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Barack Obama
Malcolm X
1986
The North Star
24. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Colin Powell
Barack Obama
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
25. First African American newspaper
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26. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Brown v. Board of Education
1963
Berry Gordy
Michael Jordon
27. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Michael Jackson
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Malcolm X
28. First black Miss America
Whitney Houston
Vermont
One year
Vanessa Williams
29. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
14
Congressional Black Caucus
Berry Gordy
Robert Smalls
30. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Ella Fitzgerald
Montgomery
Toni Morrison
Usain Bolt
31. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Anne Bontemps
Malcolm X
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Phillis Wheatley
32. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Sojourner Truth
Dr. Charles Drew
Thomas Dorsey
Coleman Hawkins
33. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Langston Hughes
Jesse Redman Fauset
A Tribe Called Quest
34. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
14
Nella Larsen
Ella Fitzgerald
Vanessa Williams
35. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Congressional Black Caucus
Langston Hughes
Berry Gordy
The Underground Railroad
36. First black major league baseball player
Langston Hughes
1909
Jim Crow Laws
Jackie Robinson
37. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Montgomery
Thomas Dorsey
1909
W. E. B. Du Bois
38. 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.
Thurgood Marshall
The Cosby Show
TheFirst Black Nurse
Reggie Jackson
39. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
The Amos And Andy Show
Reggie Jackson
MLK
Jan E. Metzeliger
40. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
James Weldon Johnson
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
The Harlem Renaissance
Reggie Jackson
41. In what year was the NAACP founded?
1909
Usain Bolt
Dr. Charles Drew
1865
42. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Gone With The Wind
Vermont
The Cosby Show
Sojourner Truth
43. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
1865
Louis Armstrong
Hattie McDaniel
Vanessa Williams
44. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
James Weldon Johnson
Robert Smalls
Boston University
Sojourner Truth
45. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
Freedom's Journal
Whitney Houston
The Underground Railroad
Montgomery
46. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Whitney Houston
The Cosby Show
Congressional Black Caucus
Hattie McDaniel
47. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Berry Gordy
Twice
Baltimore - Maryland
Vanessa Williams
48. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
1945
Coleman Hawkins
Robert Smalls
Quincy Jones
49. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Freedom's Journal
Aretha Franklin
Baltimore - Maryland
Jesse Redman Fauset
50. First black female to win a Grammy
Berry Gordy
Ella Fitzgerald
The Underground Railroad
Hattie McDaniel