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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Colin Powell
MLK
Louis Armstrong
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
2. First black NFL quarterback
Willie Thrower
Wilma Rudolph
Baltimore - Maryland
Anne Bontemps
3. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Freedom's Journal
Hattie McDaniel
Delany Martin
TheFirst Black Nurse
4. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Thurgood Marshall
The Harlem Renaissance
Congressional Black Caucus
Delany Martin
5. Queen Of Soul
Aretha Franklin
Wilma Rudolph
Montgomery
Langston Hughes
6. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Phillis Wheatley
1986
1965
Coleman Hawkins
7. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
A Rodeo Cowboy
Colin Powell
The Cosby Show
Anne Bontemps
8. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
TheFirst Black Nurse
MLK
1968
W. E. B. Du Bois
9. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
TheFirst Black Nurse
Robert Smalls
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Coleman Hawkins
10. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Jim Crow Laws
TheFirst Black Nurse
Joseph Hayne Rainey
11. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
Anne Bontemps
Congressional Black Caucus
The Pips
Anne Bontemps
12. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
1968
Emlen Tunnell
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Anne Bontemps
13. First black star of a network TV show
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Brown v. Board of Education
Oprah Winfrey
Bill Cosby
14. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Montgomery
The North Star
Michael Jordon
TheFirst Black Nurse
15. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
Oprah Winfrey
The Underground Railroad
Gwendolyn Benneth
Langston Hughes
16. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
1863
Phillis Wheatley
Bill Cosby
14
17. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Louis Armstrong
14
Malcolm X
One year
18. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
The Pips
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Jan E. Metzeliger
Usain Bolt
19. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
MLK
The Amos And Andy Show
1893
1965
20. First black supreme court justice
A Rodeo Cowboy
Freedom's Journal
Montgomery
Thurgood Marshall
21. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Michael Jordon
Langston Hughes
Gwendolyn Benneth
Freedom's Journal
22. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Montgomery
Jackie Robinson
Boston University
Michael Jordon
23. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
14
Coleman Hawkins
1986
Delany Martin
24. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
One year
Jan E. Metzeliger
Whitney Houston
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
25. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Wilma Rudolph
1995
Delany Martin
James Weldon Johnson
26. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
Willie Thrower
The Underground Railroad
1863
MLK
27. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Congressional Black Caucus
Barack Obama
Sojourner Truth
The Pips
28. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
Freedom's Journal
Hattie McDaniel
1893
Malcolm X
29. First published black poet
Nella Larsen
Phillis Wheatley
Jan E. Metzeliger
TheFirst Black Nurse
30. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Michael Jordon
The Cosby Show
Malcolm X
Aretha Franklin
31. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
Usain Bolt
Whitney Houston
Brown v. Board of Education
32. In what year was the NAACP founded?
1909
Thurgood Marshall
Coleman Hawkins
Reggie Jackson
33. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Gwendolyn Benneth
Ella Fitzgerald
Jesse Redman Fauset
Jan E. Metzeliger
34. First black RNC chairman
Michael Steele
The Twist
Oprah Winfrey
Jesse Redman Fauset
35. 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.
The North Star
Reggie Jackson
Thomas Dorsey
The Amos And Andy Show
36. First black star of a network TV show
Bill Cosby
Whitney Houston
Freedom's Journal
1865
37. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Robert Smalls
1995
Baltimore - Maryland
Montgomery
38. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Freedom's Journal
Toni Morrison
Boston University
The Cosby Show
39. 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.
Oprah Winfrey
Reggie Jackson
Michael Jordon
Thurgood Marshall
40. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Vanessa Williams
MLK
Aretha Franklin
41. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Usain Bolt
1968
1865
Whitney Houston
42. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Whitney Houston
W. E. B. Du Bois
Jan E. Metzeliger
A Tribe Called Quest
43. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
The Amos And Andy Show
Aretha Franklin
1965
Colin Powell
44. Father Of Gospel Music
Hattie McDaniel
1963
Jesse Redman Fauset
Thomas Dorsey
45. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1965
A Tribe Called Quest
Oprah Winfrey
46. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
1909
14
Jim Crow Laws
MLK
47. In what year was the Million Man March?
1995
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Phillis Wheatley
48. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Dr. Charles Drew
Jim Crow Laws
Langston Hughes
Thurgood Marshall
49. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Delany Martin
Colin Powell
TheFirst Black Nurse
Thomas Dorsey
50. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Bill Cosby
Montgomery
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
The Cosby Show