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Black History Trivia
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1. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Thomas Dorsey
Congressional Black Caucus
Jan E. Metzeliger
Willie Thrower
2. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Baltimore - Maryland
Gone With The Wind
1986
Boston University
3. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Robert Smalls
1986
Jim Crow Laws
4. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
Dr. Charles Drew
Coleman Hawkins
Vermont
1963
5. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
1965
The Twist
One year
Usain Bolt
6. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Sojourner Truth
Quincy Jones
Dr. Charles Drew
1863
7. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
1968
Phillis Wheatley
One year
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
8. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
MLK
Montgomery
W. E. B. Du Bois
Langston Hughes
9. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
14
Vermont
1945
10. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
W. E. B. Du Bois
MLK
Jesse Redman Fauset
Sojourner Truth
11. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Thomas Dorsey
Gone With The Wind
Baltimore - Maryland
Oprah Winfrey
12. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
TheFirst Black Nurse
The Pips
Dr. Charles Drew
Hattie McDaniel
13. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
1963
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Wilma Rudolph
1865
14. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Jesse Redman Fauset
Twice
Emlen Tunnell
Boston University
15. In what year was the NAACP founded?
1909
Jesse Redman Fauset
1863
Michael Jackson
16. First published black poet
Phillis Wheatley
Malcolm X
Montgomery
One year
17. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Bill Cosby
The Cosby Show
Langston Hughes
The Underground Railroad
18. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
Brown v. Board of Education
The Pips
Freedom's Journal
Whitney Houston
19. First black billionaire
Coleman Hawkins
Jan E. Metzeliger
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
20. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
1893
Berry Gordy
1863
Jim Crow Laws
21. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
1863
1863
The Underground Railroad
Coleman Hawkins
22. First black president
Emlen Tunnell
Anne Bontemps
Barack Obama
Hattie McDaniel
23. Father Of Gospel Music
Dr. Charles Drew
Michael Jordon
The Harlem Renaissance
Thomas Dorsey
24. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Thomas Dorsey
Gwendolyn Benneth
The Amos And Andy Show
25. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Louis Armstrong
Reggie Jackson
TheFirst Black Nurse
Usain Bolt
26. First published black poet
Willie Thrower
Phillis Wheatley
MLK
Ella Fitzgerald
27. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
Nella Larsen
Colin Powell
The North Star
Barack Obama
28. In what year was the VRA passed?
1893
1965
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
1909
29. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Michael Steele
James Weldon Johnson
Gone With The Wind
Whitney Houston
30. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Berry Gordy
James Weldon Johnson
Langston Hughes
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
31. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
MLK
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Robert Smalls
Bill Cosby
32. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Freedom's Journal
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Reggie Jackson
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
33. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Freedom's Journal
Aretha Franklin
1963
Congressional Black Caucus
34. First black Miss America
Michael Jackson
1968
Vanessa Williams
Colin Powell
35. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Freedom's Journal
Louis Armstrong
Jackie Robinson
Countae Cullen
36. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Vermont
TheFirst Black Nurse
Nella Larsen
Sojourner Truth
37. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Langston Hughes
W. E. B. Du Bois
1945
The Pips
38. First black secretary of state
Coleman Hawkins
Dr. Charles Drew
The Harlem Renaissance
Colin Powell
39. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Coleman Hawkins
Twice
A Tribe Called Quest
Thurgood Marshall
40. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
The Underground Railroad
Langston Hughes
Countae Cullen
Ella Fitzgerald
41. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Gwendolyn Benneth
One year
Emlen Tunnell
Brown v. Board of Education
42. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Emlen Tunnell
Usain Bolt
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Vermont
43. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
1965
Colin Powell
Emlen Tunnell
Usain Bolt
44. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
The Underground Railroad
Langston Hughes
W. E. B. Du Bois
One year
45. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Barack Obama
One year
Langston Hughes
46. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Gone With The Wind
1986
The Underground Railroad
The Cosby Show
47. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Jesse Redman Fauset
Reggie Jackson
Anne Bontemps
Baltimore - Maryland
48. 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.
MLK
Aretha Franklin
Reggie Jackson
Colin Powell
49. First black star of a network TV show
Bill Cosby
The North Star
W. E. B. Du Bois
Colin Powell
50. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
1893
Anne Bontemps
Quincy Jones
The Underground Railroad