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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
A Rodeo Cowboy
Boston University
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Brown v. Board of Education
2. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Hattie McDaniel
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Countae Cullen
Nella Larsen
3. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Gone With The Wind
14
MLK
TheFirst Black Nurse
4. First black secretary of state
Countae Cullen
Barack Obama
Colin Powell
Jesse Redman Fauset
5. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Colin Powell
Coleman Hawkins
Gone With The Wind
Delany Martin
6. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Coleman Hawkins
Bill Cosby
Delany Martin
Congressional Black Caucus
7. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
The Underground Railroad
Anne Bontemps
Toni Morrison
Nella Larsen
8. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
1965
1863
Gone With The Wind
Robert Smalls
9. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Malcolm X
The North Star
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
10. In what year was the VRA passed?
Hattie McDaniel
Barack Obama
1965
Brown v. Board of Education
11. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Wilma Rudolph
14
1945
Berry Gordy
12. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
Nella Larsen
Brown v. Board of Education
A Rodeo Cowboy
14
13. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
The Harlem Renaissance
Usain Bolt
Michael Jackson
14. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
1986
Countae Cullen
The Twist
Wilma Rudolph
15. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
1965
Michael Steele
W. E. B. Du Bois
16. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Twice
Coleman Hawkins
Baltimore - Maryland
Louis Armstrong
17. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
A Rodeo Cowboy
Louis Armstrong
The Cosby Show
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
18. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
1965
Berry Gordy
Coleman Hawkins
14
19. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
The Cosby Show
Bill Cosby
Montgomery
1986
20. First black Miss America
Emlen Tunnell
14
Coleman Hawkins
Vanessa Williams
21. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Sojourner Truth
Jim Crow Laws
Vermont
The Underground Railroad
22. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
The Pips
1865
James Weldon Johnson
Congressional Black Caucus
23. First black female to win a Grammy
Anne Bontemps
Ella Fitzgerald
Hattie McDaniel
Congressional Black Caucus
24. First black billionaire
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
1965
Delany Martin
25. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
1909
26. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Bill Cosby
James Weldon Johnson
Hattie McDaniel
1863
27. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Langston Hughes
Brown v. Board of Education
Michael Steele
W. E. B. Du Bois
28. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
The Harlem Renaissance
1986
Joseph Hayne Rainey
1965
29. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Quincy Jones
Dr. Charles Drew
1863
30. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
1945
Jackie Robinson
Usain Bolt
Thomas Dorsey
31. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Vermont
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
James Weldon Johnson
Congressional Black Caucus
32. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
The Pips
Twice
Freedom's Journal
Hattie McDaniel
33. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
Willie Thrower
The Pips
Quincy Jones
1963
34. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
The Underground Railroad
Ella Fitzgerald
Emlen Tunnell
Thomas Dorsey
35. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Louis Armstrong
The Cosby Show
Ella Fitzgerald
One year
36. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
1965
Colin Powell
Gone With The Wind
Langston Hughes
37. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
James Weldon Johnson
Emlen Tunnell
Countae Cullen
Langston Hughes
38. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Whitney Houston
Aretha Franklin
Michael Jackson
Louis Armstrong
39. First black RNC chairman
Congressional Black Caucus
Michael Steele
1986
Quincy Jones
40. First black billionaire
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
1909
Nella Larsen
1965
41. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
1893
MLK
James Weldon Johnson
Malcolm X
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?
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
The Cosby Show
Jesse Redman Fauset
Dr. Charles Drew
43. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
1986
1893
Montgomery
The Harlem Renaissance
44. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
Whitney Houston
Thurgood Marshall
Twice
45. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
1963
Toni Morrison
The Twist
Thurgood Marshall
46. First black Miss America
Vanessa Williams
MLK
Brown v. Board of Education
1945
47. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Baltimore - Maryland
Michael Jordon
Langston Hughes
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
48. First black president
1909
Barack Obama
1963
Reggie Jackson
49. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Vermont
A Rodeo Cowboy
Usain Bolt
Bill Cosby
50. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Sojourner Truth
The Harlem Renaissance
Michael Jackson
Gwendolyn Benneth