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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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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. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Brown v. Board of Education
1893
Michael Jordon
2. Father Of Gospel Music
Thomas Dorsey
Jackie Robinson
Congressional Black Caucus
Ella Fitzgerald
3. First black secretary of state
James Weldon Johnson
Colin Powell
Michael Jordon
Aretha Franklin
4. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Michael Jordon
1963
Michael Steele
Louis Armstrong
5. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Vermont
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
1968
Joseph Hayne Rainey
6. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
Michael Steele
A Rodeo Cowboy
Gone With The Wind
1863
7. First black supreme court justice
The Amos And Andy Show
Colin Powell
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Thurgood Marshall
8. First black female to host a TV show
The Twist
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Oprah Winfrey
The North Star
9. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
TheFirst Black Nurse
The Amos And Andy Show
Boston University
Colin Powell
10. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Delany Martin
Robert Smalls
1995
Congressional Black Caucus
11. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
1893
Aretha Franklin
Phillis Wheatley
Louis Armstrong
12. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
Robert Smalls
Jan E. Metzeliger
14
The North Star
13. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
MLK
Reggie Jackson
One year
Dr. Charles Drew
14. 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)
The Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Michael Jackson
W. E. B. Du Bois
15. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Jim Crow Laws
Baltimore - Maryland
MLK
W. E. B. Du Bois
16. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
1863
The Cosby Show
1965
One year
17. First black star of a network TV show
1945
Barack Obama
Bill Cosby
1965
18. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Reggie Jackson
Oprah Winfrey
Sojourner Truth
MLK
19. Queen Of Soul
Langston Hughes
The Amos And Andy Show
Michael Steele
Aretha Franklin
20. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
MLK
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
TheFirst Black Nurse
Coleman Hawkins
21. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
A Tribe Called Quest
Sojourner Truth
Jesse Redman Fauset
A Rodeo Cowboy
22. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Montgomery
Toni Morrison
1945
Bill Cosby
23. First black Miss America
Jim Crow Laws
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Vanessa Williams
The North Star
24. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Gwendolyn Benneth
One year
Langston Hughes
The Harlem Renaissance
25. First black female to host a TV show
A Rodeo Cowboy
Delany Martin
Oprah Winfrey
Coleman Hawkins
26. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Emlen Tunnell
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Malcolm X
Coleman Hawkins
27. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
Twice
The Twist
Jackie Robinson
Jesse Redman Fauset
28. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Michael Jordon
Gwendolyn Benneth
1965
Emlen Tunnell
29. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
Jackie Robinson
Ella Fitzgerald
The Pips
Montgomery
30. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Twice
1909
MLK
Thomas Dorsey
31. First black person to win an Oscar
Montgomery
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Gwendolyn Benneth
Hattie McDaniel
32. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
1995
James Weldon Johnson
Reggie Jackson
A Tribe Called Quest
33. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
Twice
Vanessa Williams
Nella Larsen
1963
34. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
Michael Jordon
1945
The Amos And Andy Show
Michael Steele
35. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Congressional Black Caucus
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Sojourner Truth
Ella Fitzgerald
36. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
James Weldon Johnson
Gwendolyn Benneth
37. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Ella Fitzgerald
1995
Gone With The Wind
Delany Martin
38. First black RNC chairman
Coleman Hawkins
Phillis Wheatley
Barack Obama
Michael Steele
39. In what year was the VRA passed?
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Franklin
1965
Whitney Houston
40. First black major league baseball player
Oprah Winfrey
1893
Jackie Robinson
Jim Crow Laws
41. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
Michael Jackson
Colin Powell
Twice
The Pips
42. In what year was MLK assassinated?
MLK
1968
Ella Fitzgerald
Whitney Houston
43. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Anne Bontemps
Gwendolyn Benneth
Twice
Gone With The Wind
44. Father Of Gospel Music
Thomas Dorsey
1865
Aretha Franklin
Anne Bontemps
45. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
1986
Hattie McDaniel
TheFirst Black Nurse
Willie Thrower
46. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
TheFirst Black Nurse
The Cosby Show
Michael Jordon
Malcolm X
47. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Baltimore - Maryland
Phillis Wheatley
Jim Crow Laws
The Harlem Renaissance
48. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Vanessa Williams
Robert Smalls
The North Star
Jim Crow Laws
49. 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)
Thomas Dorsey
1968
Brown v. Board of Education
50. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
The Harlem Renaissance
Aretha Franklin
Delany Martin
1893