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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
Aretha Franklin
One year
Jim Crow Laws
2. First black RNC chairman
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Langston Hughes
Michael Steele
Jackie Robinson
3. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
Montgomery
MLK
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
4. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
One year
Jan E. Metzeliger
Phillis Wheatley
W. E. B. Du Bois
5. First black president
Boston University
Barack Obama
The North Star
Aretha Franklin
6. First black supreme court justice
Bill Cosby
1909
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Thurgood Marshall
7. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Jim Crow Laws
Aretha Franklin
Usain Bolt
Gone With The Wind
8. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
Jesse Redman Fauset
Brown v. Board of Education
Usain Bolt
Vermont
9. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Michael Jackson
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
1986
1986
10. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Thomas Dorsey
Berry Gordy
1995
11. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
A Tribe Called Quest
Freedom's Journal
Congressional Black Caucus
Aretha Franklin
12. Where Is Morgan University Located?
1909
Baltimore - Maryland
Jan E. Metzeliger
Hattie McDaniel
13. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
Barack Obama
Delany Martin
1965
The Amos And Andy Show
14. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
Nella Larsen
The North Star
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Jesse Redman Fauset
15. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Colin Powell
Phillis Wheatley
Langston Hughes
Nella Larsen
16. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
1945
Baltimore - Maryland
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Barack Obama
17. First black person to win an Oscar
Vanessa Williams
Hattie McDaniel
1865
Countae Cullen
18. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Langston Hughes
Usain Bolt
TheFirst Black Nurse
Wilma Rudolph
19. First African American newspaper
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20. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
The Underground Railroad
Emlen Tunnell
Vermont
1865
21. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Congressional Black Caucus
14
Bill Cosby
Jesse Redman Fauset
22. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
Whitney Houston
The Twist
The Cosby Show
MLK
23. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Oprah Winfrey
Toni Morrison
Quincy Jones
Michael Jackson
24. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Congressional Black Caucus
MLK
W. E. B. Du Bois
Joseph Hayne Rainey
25. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Malcolm X
Colin Powell
Thomas Dorsey
Coleman Hawkins
26. First black female to host a TV show
The Underground Railroad
Montgomery
Oprah Winfrey
Jesse Redman Fauset
27. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
A Rodeo Cowboy
Jackie Robinson
Congressional Black Caucus
The Pips
28. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Colin Powell
A Tribe Called Quest
Anne Bontemps
The Cosby Show
29. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Jesse Redman Fauset
Toni Morrison
The Amos And Andy Show
1986
30. First published black poet
Phillis Wheatley
Jim Crow Laws
Nella Larsen
Delany Martin
31. First black female to win a Grammy
1865
Ella Fitzgerald
A Tribe Called Quest
Jim Crow Laws
32. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
1863
Phillis Wheatley
1986
James Weldon Johnson
33. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
The Cosby Show
Whitney Houston
Anne Bontemps
Langston Hughes
34. First black major league baseball player
Jackie Robinson
Nella Larsen
The North Star
The Underground Railroad
35. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Twice
Coleman Hawkins
Jan E. Metzeliger
Jan E. Metzeliger
36. In what year was the Million Man March?
1893
1995
The Cosby Show
Baltimore - Maryland
37. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
James Weldon Johnson
Quincy Jones
1865
Jan E. Metzeliger
38. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Jesse Redman Fauset
14
Robert Smalls
39. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Thurgood Marshall
Emlen Tunnell
Whitney Houston
Quincy Jones
40. Queen Of Soul
A Rodeo Cowboy
Aretha Franklin
Brown v. Board of Education
Hattie McDaniel
41. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Louis Armstrong
The Pips
1965
1863
42. 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.
Gone With The Wind
Reggie Jackson
1995
MLK
43. What athlete gained worldwide stardom during the 1960 Olympics in Rome when she became the first American woman to win three gold medals at the Games - winning the 100- and 200-meter dashes and the 400-meter relay?
Coleman Hawkins
Wilma Rudolph
The Harlem Renaissance
Anne Bontemps
44. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
The Pips
Nella Larsen
Usain Bolt
45. 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)
Michael Jackson
Vermont
Jesse Redman Fauset
Berry Gordy
46. 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
Vanessa Williams
1995
1865
47. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
MLK
Langston Hughes
1909
48. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
14
Vanessa Williams
1968
W. E. B. Du Bois
49. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
14
MLK
Dr. Charles Drew
The North Star
50. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Whitney Houston
Jan E. Metzeliger
One year
Brown v. Board of Education