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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Wilma Rudolph
Dr. Charles Drew
Barack Obama
Michael Jordon
2. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Barack Obama
Quincy Jones
Oprah Winfrey
Robert Smalls
3. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
Anne Bontemps
1965
1893
MLK
4. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Montgomery
The Amos And Andy Show
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
5. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Jesse Redman Fauset
1986
A Tribe Called Quest
Phillis Wheatley
6. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Bill Cosby
Willie Thrower
Usain Bolt
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
7. First black female to win a Grammy
Ella Fitzgerald
Berry Gordy
Jim Crow Laws
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
8. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Oprah Winfrey
Vermont
Usain Bolt
9. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
TheFirst Black Nurse
1965
14
Colin Powell
10. First black major league baseball player
Jan E. Metzeliger
Jackie Robinson
The Pips
Michael Jordon
11. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Brown v. Board of Education
Emlen Tunnell
W. E. B. Du Bois
12. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
Dr. Charles Drew
Quincy Jones
A Rodeo Cowboy
Freedom's Journal
13. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Baltimore - Maryland
The Twist
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Aretha Franklin
14. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Louis Armstrong
Michael Jackson
Jesse Redman Fauset
MLK
15. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
1986
The Twist
Gwendolyn Benneth
Twice
16. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Langston Hughes
Quincy Jones
Ella Fitzgerald
MLK
17. First African American newspaper
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18. In what year was the VRA passed?
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
1965
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
1945
19. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
Bill Cosby
The Twist
Twice
One year
20. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
1965
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
1945
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
21. First black supreme court justice
Colin Powell
Colin Powell
The Harlem Renaissance
Thurgood Marshall
22. Father Of Gospel Music
Twice
Emlen Tunnell
Thomas Dorsey
Bill Cosby
23. In what year was MLK assassinated?
1968
Sojourner Truth
Twice
Nella Larsen
24. First black NFL quarterback
The North Star
Reggie Jackson
Willie Thrower
1965
25. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Sojourner Truth
Colin Powell
Langston Hughes
James Weldon Johnson
26. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
Reggie Jackson
Quincy Jones
Nella Larsen
Michael Jordon
27. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Barack Obama
Twice
Freedom's Journal
Emlen Tunnell
28. First black star of a network TV show
Quincy Jones
A Tribe Called Quest
Ella Fitzgerald
Bill Cosby
29. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
1995
Quincy Jones
Toni Morrison
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
30. 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?
1965
Usain Bolt
1968
Dr. Charles Drew
31. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Gwendolyn Benneth
Jackie Robinson
The Cosby Show
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
32. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Colin Powell
The North Star
Jesse Redman Fauset
1863
33. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Jesse Redman Fauset
1863
Brown v. Board of Education
Colin Powell
34. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
14
Boston University
1965
Brown v. Board of Education
35. First black star of a network TV show
Jan E. Metzeliger
Vermont
Vanessa Williams
Bill Cosby
36. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
TheFirst Black Nurse
1963
The Pips
Sojourner Truth
37. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
14
Michael Jackson
Emlen Tunnell
The Amos And Andy Show
38. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Emlen Tunnell
Sojourner Truth
1909
TheFirst Black Nurse
39. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
The Amos And Andy Show
Bill Cosby
TheFirst Black Nurse
Gone With The Wind
40. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Dr. Charles Drew
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
TheFirst Black Nurse
1909
41. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Dr. Charles Drew
1963
Brown v. Board of Education
Countae Cullen
42. 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?
Freedom's Journal
Wilma Rudolph
Whitney Houston
Montgomery
43. First black supreme court justice
Baltimore - Maryland
Delany Martin
Thurgood Marshall
MLK
44. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Countae Cullen
One year
Colin Powell
45. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
W. E. B. Du Bois
Toni Morrison
Colin Powell
Michael Steele
46. First black female to win a Grammy
Gwendolyn Benneth
Montgomery
Ella Fitzgerald
Jan E. Metzeliger
47. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Dr. Charles Drew
Jim Crow Laws
The Cosby Show
Willie Thrower
48. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
The North Star
A Tribe Called Quest
Oprah Winfrey
Coleman Hawkins
49. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
1945
1965
Michael Steele
Coleman Hawkins
50. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Barack Obama
Vanessa Williams
MLK
Coleman Hawkins