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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. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Langston Hughes
MLK
Colin Powell
The Harlem Renaissance
2. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Toni Morrison
Delany Martin
Nella Larsen
Sojourner Truth
3. In what year was the Million Man March?
Vermont
Reggie Jackson
1995
Vanessa Williams
4. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
The Amos And Andy Show
Freedom's Journal
The Harlem Renaissance
Michael Jordon
5. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
MLK
Delany Martin
The Twist
Wilma Rudolph
6. 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?
Coleman Hawkins
Wilma Rudolph
Phillis Wheatley
Willie Thrower
7. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Sojourner Truth
A Tribe Called Quest
14
Louis Armstrong
8. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
The Pips
1963
14
9. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Twist
Jan E. Metzeliger
10. First black NFL quarterback
W. E. B. Du Bois
Usain Bolt
14
Willie Thrower
11. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Quincy Jones
Michael Jordon
Louis Armstrong
Anne Bontemps
12. First black female to win a Grammy
Ella Fitzgerald
Colin Powell
Thurgood Marshall
Vanessa Williams
13. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Emlen Tunnell
The Cosby Show
Michael Jordon
Nella Larsen
14. In what year was the VRA passed?
1965
14
Thurgood Marshall
Congressional Black Caucus
15. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Thomas Dorsey
Congressional Black Caucus
1963
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
16. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
Aretha Franklin
A Tribe Called Quest
Brown v. Board of Education
Sojourner Truth
17. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Montgomery
1965
Nella Larsen
Jan E. Metzeliger
18. 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?
A Tribe Called Quest
A Rodeo Cowboy
Dr. Charles Drew
Twice
19. In what year was the VRA passed?
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
1965
1945
Langston Hughes
20. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
1963
Colin Powell
W. E. B. Du Bois
Berry Gordy
21. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
1986
1965
Hattie McDaniel
Langston Hughes
22. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Robert Smalls
Usain Bolt
Louis Armstrong
The Pips
23. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Robert Smalls
1986
Baltimore - Maryland
Barack Obama
24. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
1893
Toni Morrison
Phillis Wheatley
Delany Martin
25. 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)
Delany Martin
One year
Hattie McDaniel
26. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Gwendolyn Benneth
Jan E. Metzeliger
Reggie Jackson
27. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
1909
Dr. Charles Drew
Emlen Tunnell
1945
28. 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.
Congressional Black Caucus
Montgomery
Reggie Jackson
1945
29. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
Emlen Tunnell
Brown v. Board of Education
Nella Larsen
The Pips
30. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Phillis Wheatley
Wilma Rudolph
Langston Hughes
Colin Powell
31. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Whitney Houston
Barack Obama
Toni Morrison
Bill Cosby
32. 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.
Michael Steele
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Reggie Jackson
33. First black Miss America
Vanessa Williams
1965
Dr. Charles Drew
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
34. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Nella Larsen
1909
Langston Hughes
One year
35. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Louis Armstrong
Twice
Jim Crow Laws
Montgomery
36. First published black poet
Montgomery
Colin Powell
Montgomery
Phillis Wheatley
37. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
The Amos And Andy Show
Jackie Robinson
Jesse Redman Fauset
Wilma Rudolph
38. In what year was MLK assassinated?
1968
One year
Bill Cosby
1995
39. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
Twice
The North Star
Oprah Winfrey
1986
40. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Bill Cosby
Colin Powell
Jim Crow Laws
41. First black major league baseball player
Jackie Robinson
The North Star
Toni Morrison
Jim Crow Laws
42. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
1963
1968
Freedom's Journal
Gone With The Wind
43. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Congressional Black Caucus
Bill Cosby
Countae Cullen
Michael Steele
44. First black star of a network TV show
Bill Cosby
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Vanessa Williams
Jan E. Metzeliger
45. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
Gone With The Wind
1995
The Harlem Renaissance
MLK
46. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Congressional Black Caucus
Freedom's Journal
Jim Crow Laws
Boston University
47. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Jesse Redman Fauset
1945
1963
1965
48. First black president
One year
Aretha Franklin
Barack Obama
The Pips
49. 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?
Twice
MLK
1863
Wilma Rudolph
50. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
The Cosby Show
The North Star
Brown v. Board of Education
Phillis Wheatley