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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Willie Thrower
1909
Sojourner Truth
Baltimore - Maryland
2. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
A Tribe Called Quest
Countae Cullen
1965
3. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Ella Fitzgerald
One year
Barack Obama
Phillis Wheatley
4. 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?
Countae Cullen
Dr. Charles Drew
1893
Ella Fitzgerald
5. 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)
Toni Morrison
Michael Jackson
1965
TheFirst Black Nurse
6. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
1965
Jim Crow Laws
Quincy Jones
Jackie Robinson
7. First black Miss America
Vanessa Williams
Colin Powell
Jackie Robinson
Emlen Tunnell
8. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Aretha Franklin
Ella Fitzgerald
Gone With The Wind
Montgomery
9. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Vermont
Vermont
1995
Gone With The Wind
10. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
Congressional Black Caucus
1963
Jesse Redman Fauset
Gone With The Wind
11. In what year was MLK assassinated?
A Tribe Called Quest
1986
Jesse Redman Fauset
1968
12. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
1865
14
Barack Obama
Vermont
13. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
1945
W. E. B. Du Bois
Hattie McDaniel
14. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
MLK
Delany Martin
Michael Jackson
15. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Michael Jordon
Dr. Charles Drew
Berry Gordy
Jan E. Metzeliger
16. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
Jim Crow Laws
Vermont
Nella Larsen
Twice
17. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
1865
Delany Martin
Colin Powell
14
18. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Dr. Charles Drew
Boston University
14
Countae Cullen
19. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
Colin Powell
The North Star
Michael Jackson
Freedom's Journal
20. First black major league baseball player
1863
The North Star
Gwendolyn Benneth
Jackie Robinson
21. First black RNC chairman
Colin Powell
Malcolm X
Michael Steele
The Harlem Renaissance
22. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
The North Star
A Rodeo Cowboy
Boston University
The Underground Railroad
23. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Langston Hughes
A Tribe Called Quest
Jim Crow Laws
24. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Quincy Jones
Berry Gordy
MLK
Vermont
25. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
Anne Bontemps
The Pips
Malcolm X
Langston Hughes
26. First published black poet
Jim Crow Laws
Phillis Wheatley
Brown v. Board of Education
Bill Cosby
27. 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?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
The Twist
Berry Gordy
Delany Martin
28. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
1963
Congressional Black Caucus
Usain Bolt
Anne Bontemps
29. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
A Rodeo Cowboy
Baltimore - Maryland
Barack Obama
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
30. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
Wilma Rudolph
1865
Coleman Hawkins
The Cosby Show
31. 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
Anne Bontemps
Malcolm X
Delany Martin
32. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
A Tribe Called Quest
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Countae Cullen
MLK
33. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Montgomery
Hattie McDaniel
Thurgood Marshall
Michael Steele
34. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
The Pips
Ella Fitzgerald
The Twist
Usain Bolt
35. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
W. E. B. Du Bois
TheFirst Black Nurse
Michael Steele
Langston Hughes
36. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Langston Hughes
Congressional Black Caucus
Whitney Houston
1968
37. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Countae Cullen
38. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
1995
Whitney Houston
1909
Hattie McDaniel
39. First black person to win an Oscar
1986
Hattie McDaniel
14
Langston Hughes
40. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Montgomery
Langston Hughes
Freedom's Journal
Malcolm X
41. First black billionaire
Thurgood Marshall
1865
The Amos And Andy Show
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
42. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Usain Bolt
Jesse Redman Fauset
Ella Fitzgerald
Colin Powell
43. In what year was the VRA passed?
A Rodeo Cowboy
Congressional Black Caucus
Aretha Franklin
1965
44. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Boston University
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Gone With The Wind
Freedom's Journal
45. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Colin Powell
Nella Larsen
1968
The Cosby Show
46. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
The Cosby Show
Boston University
Michael Jackson
Jim Crow Laws
47. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Twice
Phillis Wheatley
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Gwendolyn Benneth
48. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
1965
A Tribe Called Quest
Jesse Redman Fauset
Anne Bontemps
49. First black female to win a Grammy
1986
Coleman Hawkins
Ella Fitzgerald
1909
50. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Thomas Dorsey
A Tribe Called Quest
Colin Powell
Montgomery