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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.
Wilma Rudolph
Willie Thrower
The Pips
Reggie Jackson
2. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
One year
Usain Bolt
Louis Armstrong
1986
3. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
One year
1965
1893
The Pips
4. 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?
The North Star
1968
Dr. Charles Drew
Jim Crow Laws
5. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Bill Cosby
Michael Steele
14
Louis Armstrong
6. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Montgomery
Hattie McDaniel
Countae Cullen
Jesse Redman Fauset
7. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Emlen Tunnell
Michael Jordon
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
1995
8. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
The Underground Railroad
Jan E. Metzeliger
1863
9. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Michael Steele
1909
A Rodeo Cowboy
Langston Hughes
10. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
Brown v. Board of Education
Sojourner Truth
Emlen Tunnell
The Twist
11. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
MLK
1909
1865
12. First black star of a network TV show
1995
Bill Cosby
Hattie McDaniel
The Twist
13. First black president
MLK
Barack Obama
Toni Morrison
Oprah Winfrey
14. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
A Rodeo Cowboy
1863
Montgomery
James Weldon Johnson
15. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Michael Steele
Brown v. Board of Education
Colin Powell
Anne Bontemps
16. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Whitney Houston
1865
17. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
The North Star
Jackie Robinson
Aretha Franklin
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
18. 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
The Underground Railroad
The North Star
1945
19. First black female to win a Grammy
Colin Powell
Ella Fitzgerald
Whitney Houston
The Underground Railroad
20. In what year was MLK assassinated?
TheFirst Black Nurse
1995
1863
1968
21. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
The Amos And Andy Show
Quincy Jones
The Twist
Twice
22. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Toni Morrison
Whitney Houston
Gone With The Wind
Montgomery
23. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Colin Powell
Aretha Franklin
Michael Jackson
Boston University
24. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Jesse Redman Fauset
Whitney Houston
Hattie McDaniel
Delany Martin
25. In what year was MLK assassinated?
1945
Barack Obama
1968
Sojourner Truth
26. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Toni Morrison
Montgomery
Countae Cullen
Jesse Redman Fauset
27. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Anne Bontemps
Hattie McDaniel
Gone With The Wind
Oprah Winfrey
28. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Nella Larsen
Toni Morrison
Jackie Robinson
29. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Reggie Jackson
1965
W. E. B. Du Bois
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
30. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Hattie McDaniel
Oprah Winfrey
1865
The Cosby Show
31. Where Is Morgan University Located?
1945
1986
Louis Armstrong
Baltimore - Maryland
32. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
1893
Anne Bontemps
Jackie Robinson
A Tribe Called Quest
33. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
1963
One year
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
1995
34. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Colin Powell
Gwendolyn Benneth
A Tribe Called Quest
35. In what year was the VRA passed?
Sojourner Truth
Emlen Tunnell
1986
1965
36. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Oprah Winfrey
The Twist
TheFirst Black Nurse
Michael Jordon
37. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Malcolm X
1965
Whitney Houston
One year
38. 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)
Willie Thrower
Baltimore - Maryland
Michael Jackson
W. E. B. Du Bois
39. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
The Underground Railroad
Baltimore - Maryland
Langston Hughes
14
40. 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)
A Tribe Called Quest
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Michael Jackson
The Cosby Show
41. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Colin Powell
Reggie Jackson
A Rodeo Cowboy
42. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
1863
Boston University
Whitney Houston
Freedom's Journal
43. In what year was the Million Man March?
A Rodeo Cowboy
1995
Louis Armstrong
TheFirst Black Nurse
44. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
The Pips
The Harlem Renaissance
Sojourner Truth
Langston Hughes
45. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
1995
Michael Steele
Aretha Franklin
46. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
1965
Jan E. Metzeliger
Brown v. Board of Education
Sojourner Truth
47. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Jim Crow Laws
Twice
Robert Smalls
The Cosby Show
48. 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
Sojourner Truth
1986
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
49. Queen Of Soul
1863
Aretha Franklin
W. E. B. Du Bois
Boston University
50. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Jan E. Metzeliger
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Montgomery
MLK