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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Jackie Robinson
Quincy Jones
Emlen Tunnell
Gwendolyn Benneth
2. First black star of a network TV show
Bill Cosby
The North Star
Vermont
One year
3. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
14
Quincy Jones
Phillis Wheatley
1995
4. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Robert Smalls
Louis Armstrong
Boston University
1965
5. First black supreme court justice
Thurgood Marshall
Jesse Redman Fauset
Hattie McDaniel
Thomas Dorsey
6. First black secretary of state
Congressional Black Caucus
Colin Powell
1968
Jackie Robinson
7. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Robert Smalls
Jan E. Metzeliger
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
The Pips
8. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
Anne Bontemps
MLK
Willie Thrower
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
9. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
The Underground Railroad
Ella Fitzgerald
Anne Bontemps
TheFirst Black Nurse
10. First black female to win a Grammy
Michael Jackson
Ella Fitzgerald
1986
The North Star
11. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
1863
Delany Martin
Michael Jackson
Montgomery
12. In what year was the VRA passed?
The North Star
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
1965
Jim Crow Laws
13. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Quincy Jones
Langston Hughes
Toni Morrison
Montgomery
14. 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?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Dr. Charles Drew
Colin Powell
Whitney Houston
15. Father Of Gospel Music
Thomas Dorsey
MLK
Jan E. Metzeliger
Michael Jackson
16. First black female to host a TV show
Oprah Winfrey
Langston Hughes
Delany Martin
1995
17. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
Coleman Hawkins
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Countae Cullen
The Twist
18. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
1995
Toni Morrison
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Emlen Tunnell
19. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
W. E. B. Du Bois
1968
Sojourner Truth
20. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Thurgood Marshall
1863
Jesse Redman Fauset
Langston Hughes
21. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
1968
Congressional Black Caucus
Quincy Jones
Brown v. Board of Education
22. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Thurgood Marshall
Langston Hughes
1965
TheFirst Black Nurse
23. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
Wilma Rudolph
Jim Crow Laws
Freedom's Journal
The North Star
24. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
The Amos And Andy Show
14
Vermont
Congressional Black Caucus
25. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
Langston Hughes
A Rodeo Cowboy
1986
Jesse Redman Fauset
26. First black president
MLK
Jim Crow Laws
Barack Obama
1965
27. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
TheFirst Black Nurse
Langston Hughes
1986
Bill Cosby
28. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Jesse Redman Fauset
Phillis Wheatley
Reggie Jackson
29. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
James Weldon Johnson
14
Usain Bolt
MLK
30. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Gwendolyn Benneth
Langston Hughes
Jesse Redman Fauset
Thurgood Marshall
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.
Joseph Hayne Rainey
MLK
Reggie Jackson
Gone With The Wind
32. In what year was the VRA passed?
1965
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes
The Cosby Show
33. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Toni Morrison
Congressional Black Caucus
MLK
1968
34. First black NFL quarterback
Delany Martin
The Harlem Renaissance
14
Willie Thrower
35. First black major league baseball player
1893
The Pips
Vanessa Williams
Jackie Robinson
36. Father Of Gospel Music
The Underground Railroad
The Harlem Renaissance
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Thomas Dorsey
37. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
A Rodeo Cowboy
Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston
Boston University
38. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
Brown v. Board of Education
1893
Congressional Black Caucus
1945
39. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
14
Jan E. Metzeliger
The Underground Railroad
Brown v. Board of Education
40. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Michael Jordon
Louis Armstrong
14
1986
41. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Whitney Houston
Robert Smalls
Ella Fitzgerald
Berry Gordy
42. First black RNC chairman
Toni Morrison
Michael Steele
Reggie Jackson
MLK
43. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Michael Jackson
One year
1995
Jan E. Metzeliger
44. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Montgomery
Thomas Dorsey
Vermont
A Tribe Called Quest
45. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
1863
Barack Obama
Usain Bolt
1986
46. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
Brown v. Board of Education
Thurgood Marshall
14
The North Star
47. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Whitney Houston
Jim Crow Laws
Whitney Houston
The North Star
48. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordon
TheFirst Black Nurse
Oprah Winfrey
1893
49. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Coleman Hawkins
The Cosby Show
1909
Anne Bontemps
50. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
W. E. B. Du Bois
1863
Quincy Jones
Baltimore - Maryland