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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
A Rodeo Cowboy
The Cosby Show
2. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
One year
Quincy Jones
A Tribe Called Quest
3. First black NFL quarterback
Wilma Rudolph
Willie Thrower
Langston Hughes
Michael Steele
4. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
1893
Michael Jackson
Emlen Tunnell
Vermont
5. First published black poet
1865
One year
1963
Phillis Wheatley
6. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
1893
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Montgomery
The Harlem Renaissance
7. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
1893
Reggie Jackson
1986
Toni Morrison
8. First black major league baseball player
Gwendolyn Benneth
1945
Boston University
Jackie Robinson
9. First published black poet
Baltimore - Maryland
Twice
Phillis Wheatley
Congressional Black Caucus
10. In what year was the Million Man March?
1995
Oprah Winfrey
Nella Larsen
Bill Cosby
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?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1863
Gone With The Wind
Bill Cosby
12. First black Miss America
1965
Congressional Black Caucus
Vanessa Williams
Baltimore - Maryland
13. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
The Underground Railroad
1986
Whitney Houston
The Pips
14. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
MLK
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Brown v. Board of Education
The North Star
15. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
The Twist
Reggie Jackson
Langston Hughes
W. E. B. Du Bois
16. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Jan E. Metzeliger
Gwendolyn Benneth
Brown v. Board of Education
Colin Powell
17. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jan E. Metzeliger
Langston Hughes
Colin Powell
Jim Crow Laws
18. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
The Amos And Andy Show
1965
Oprah Winfrey
Reggie Jackson
19. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Quincy Jones
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Congressional Black Caucus
TheFirst Black Nurse
20. First black RNC chairman
James Weldon Johnson
The Harlem Renaissance
Michael Steele
1909
21. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Michael Jordon
Usain Bolt
Quincy Jones
Boston University
22. First black president
Bill Cosby
Colin Powell
Barack Obama
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
23. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Dr. Charles Drew
Whitney Houston
Twice
Countae Cullen
24. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Ella Fitzgerald
1863
The Harlem Renaissance
Barack Obama
25. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
MLK
Louis Armstrong
Colin Powell
Phillis Wheatley
26. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Oprah Winfrey
1995
Barack Obama
Michael Jordon
27. First black RNC chairman
Michael Steele
The Amos And Andy Show
Anne Bontemps
Vanessa Williams
28. First black NFL quarterback
Willie Thrower
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Jan E. Metzeliger
The North Star
29. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Langston Hughes
Joseph Hayne Rainey
MLK
Quincy Jones
30. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
1986
Delany Martin
Nella Larsen
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
31. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
Vermont
Whitney Houston
The Harlem Renaissance
Jackie Robinson
32. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
One year
Langston Hughes
A Rodeo Cowboy
1945
33. First black secretary of state
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Twice
Colin Powell
1965
34. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
1945
Jackie Robinson
Brown v. Board of Education
1995
35. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
1995
1968
Vanessa Williams
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
36. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Usain Bolt
Jan E. Metzeliger
Joseph Hayne Rainey
James Weldon Johnson
37. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?
Jesse Redman Fauset
Joseph Hayne Rainey
TheFirst Black Nurse
The Pips
38. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Gwendolyn Benneth
1968
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1963
39. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
1865
1963
1863
40. In what year was the VRA passed?
1965
Robert Smalls
Gwendolyn Benneth
Joseph Hayne Rainey
41. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Gwendolyn Benneth
Coleman Hawkins
Langston Hughes
The North Star
42. First black star of a network TV show
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Colin Powell
Bill Cosby
Jim Crow Laws
43. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Congressional Black Caucus
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Colin Powell
Langston Hughes
44. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
Brown v. Board of Education
The Amos And Andy Show
1963
Malcolm X
45. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
1986
Nella Larsen
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
46. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Whitney Houston
Reggie Jackson
Usain Bolt
Aretha Franklin
47. First black person to win an Oscar
1986
Hattie McDaniel
Montgomery
Thurgood Marshall
48. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
TheFirst Black Nurse
Michael Steele
Vanessa Williams
Robert Smalls
49. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
W. E. B. Du Bois
1963
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Bill Cosby
50. First black Miss America
Vanessa Williams
Nella Larsen
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Reggie Jackson