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Black History Trivia
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1. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Countae Cullen
Montgomery
Boston University
2. First black female to win a Grammy
Usain Bolt
Ella Fitzgerald
1965
Delany Martin
3. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
A Rodeo Cowboy
Michael Steele
Vermont
Congressional Black Caucus
4. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Toni Morrison
Thomas Dorsey
Michael Jackson
Baltimore - Maryland
5. First black star of a network TV show
James Weldon Johnson
Toni Morrison
Bill Cosby
Vermont
6. First published black poet
Thomas Dorsey
Congressional Black Caucus
Phillis Wheatley
Barack Obama
7. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Congressional Black Caucus
Emlen Tunnell
1863
Hattie McDaniel
8. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
1863
Langston Hughes
Countae Cullen
Gwendolyn Benneth
9. In what year was the Million Man March?
Ella Fitzgerald
1945
The Amos And Andy Show
1995
10. 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?
Jan E. Metzeliger
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Vermont
Emlen Tunnell
11. 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?
Dr. Charles Drew
1965
1909
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
12. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
Boston University
Phillis Wheatley
Brown v. Board of Education
The Harlem Renaissance
13. Where Is Morgan University Located?
1965
Vermont
Baltimore - Maryland
The Amos And Andy Show
14. First black NFL quarterback
1963
Willie Thrower
The Cosby Show
W. E. B. Du Bois
15. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
The Cosby Show
Ella Fitzgerald
Gone With The Wind
Usain Bolt
16. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
The Amos And Andy Show
A Tribe Called Quest
The North Star
Brown v. Board of Education
17. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Usain Bolt
Brown v. Board of Education
Countae Cullen
Quincy Jones
18. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Michael Steele
Coleman Hawkins
Sojourner Truth
The Cosby Show
19. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Vanessa Williams
Coleman Hawkins
MLK
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
20. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
14
Jan E. Metzeliger
Twice
Langston Hughes
21. 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?
Wilma Rudolph
14
Coleman Hawkins
The North Star
22. First black person to win an Oscar
Hattie McDaniel
Phillis Wheatley
Michael Jackson
1995
23. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
Thurgood Marshall
Baltimore - Maryland
Barack Obama
MLK
24. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
1986
1995
1863
Wilma Rudolph
25. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Louis Armstrong
TheFirst Black Nurse
Toni Morrison
Langston Hughes
26. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
14
Usain Bolt
Barack Obama
Wilma Rudolph
27. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
Freedom's Journal
Toni Morrison
The Amos And Andy Show
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
28. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Bill Cosby
1909
Wilma Rudolph
James Weldon Johnson
29. First black billionaire
Baltimore - Maryland
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
MLK
1963
30. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
Twice
A Tribe Called Quest
1963
The Pips
31. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
The Amos And Andy Show
Phillis Wheatley
1963
Usain Bolt
32. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
Reggie Jackson
1963
Jesse Redman Fauset
Jim Crow Laws
33. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Jan E. Metzeliger
Coleman Hawkins
Oprah Winfrey
Emlen Tunnell
34. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
Quincy Jones
1963
Emlen Tunnell
Hattie McDaniel
35. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
The Cosby Show
Willie Thrower
The Cosby Show
Countae Cullen
36. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Brown v. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
Langston Hughes
Whitney Houston
37. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Anne Bontemps
Quincy Jones
W. E. B. Du Bois
Wilma Rudolph
38. First black Miss America
Vanessa Williams
Jesse Redman Fauset
Brown v. Board of Education
Oprah Winfrey
39. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Delany Martin
The Harlem Renaissance
Hattie McDaniel
Nella Larsen
40. First black secretary of state
1865
Louis Armstrong
Colin Powell
1965
41. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
The North Star
Jesse Redman Fauset
Vermont
Gwendolyn Benneth
42. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
The Amos And Andy Show
Quincy Jones
Twice
Baltimore - Maryland
43. First black major league baseball player
1863
Jackie Robinson
Louis Armstrong
MLK
44. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
14
1909
The North Star
Michael Steele
45. First African American newspaper
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46. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
A Rodeo Cowboy
Emlen Tunnell
Delany Martin
47. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
The North Star
Berry Gordy
The Pips
Bill Cosby
48. First black NFL quarterback
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Jim Crow Laws
Willie Thrower
Jim Crow Laws
49. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Gone With The Wind
Louis Armstrong
Usain Bolt
MLK
50. First black female to host a TV show
Oprah Winfrey
1945
The Pips
James Weldon Johnson
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