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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Whitney Houston
W. E. B. Du Bois
Colin Powell
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
2. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Congressional Black Caucus
Quincy Jones
Toni Morrison
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
3. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
The North Star
Vermont
The Amos And Andy Show
1909
4. In what year was the Million Man March?
1995
Sojourner Truth
Barack Obama
Toni Morrison
5. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
The North Star
Freedom's Journal
Jesse Redman Fauset
Countae Cullen
6. First black supreme court justice
One year
Thurgood Marshall
1863
Emlen Tunnell
7. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
Jesse Redman Fauset
Michael Jordon
Brown v. Board of Education
The Twist
8. In what year was MLK assassinated?
1963
Coleman Hawkins
Joseph Hayne Rainey
1968
9. First black star of a network TV show
The North Star
Willie Thrower
Bill Cosby
Sojourner Truth
10. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Cosby Show
MLK
1965
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)
Baltimore - Maryland
Robert Smalls
1865
12. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
14
Anne Bontemps
Hattie McDaniel
James Weldon Johnson
13. First black RNC chairman
Usain Bolt
Michael Steele
The Twist
Jim Crow Laws
14. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Barack Obama
Usain Bolt
Langston Hughes
15. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Langston Hughes
The North Star
Jackie Robinson
Whitney Houston
16. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
1893
Louis Armstrong
Jim Crow Laws
14
17. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Colin Powell
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Jesse Redman Fauset
James Weldon Johnson
18. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
The Twist
The Underground Railroad
Jim Crow Laws
Michael Jackson
19. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Boston University
1995
Robert Smalls
Freedom's Journal
20. First black president
Ella Fitzgerald
Joseph Hayne Rainey
1865
Barack Obama
21. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
Willie Thrower
1986
The Twist
22. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
Barack Obama
1865
Gone With The Wind
Toni Morrison
23. First black RNC chairman
Michael Steele
A Rodeo Cowboy
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
24. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
1965
1963
TheFirst Black Nurse
Anne Bontemps
25. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
Gone With The Wind
Montgomery
The Amos And Andy Show
Congressional Black Caucus
26. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
Reggie Jackson
James Weldon Johnson
A Rodeo Cowboy
Toni Morrison
27. First black secretary of state
Ella Fitzgerald
1986
Colin Powell
Phillis Wheatley
28. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
James Weldon Johnson
Montgomery
Freedom's Journal
Robert Smalls
29. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Gwendolyn Benneth
The Pips
The Cosby Show
Countae Cullen
30. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Usain Bolt
Sojourner Truth
1945
The Cosby Show
31. First black supreme court justice
Jim Crow Laws
Ella Fitzgerald
Colin Powell
Thurgood Marshall
32. 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?
Robert Smalls
MLK
Dr. Charles Drew
MLK
33. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Montgomery
One year
Michael Steele
Whitney Houston
34. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Anne Bontemps
A Rodeo Cowboy
Phillis Wheatley
Colin Powell
35. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
Countae Cullen
The North Star
1945
Twice
36. First black Miss America
Vanessa Williams
Twice
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Oprah Winfrey
37. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
The Amos And Andy Show
TheFirst Black Nurse
1863
Thomas Dorsey
38. 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
Michael Jackson
Dr. Charles Drew
Boston University
39. In what year was the VRA passed?
Langston Hughes
Nella Larsen
1963
1965
40. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Vanessa Williams
The Cosby Show
1986
Jan E. Metzeliger
41. 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
Montgomery
Boston University
42. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
Congressional Black Caucus
Robert Smalls
MLK
Usain Bolt
43. First black billionaire
The Amos And Andy Show
Toni Morrison
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Reggie Jackson
44. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
1965
W. E. B. Du Bois
Vanessa Williams
Toni Morrison
45. First black star of a network TV show
Jim Crow Laws
Michael Jackson
1986
Bill Cosby
46. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
Jan E. Metzeliger
Barack Obama
Twice
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
47. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
The North Star
Jackie Robinson
Jim Crow Laws
Gwendolyn Benneth
48. First black major league baseball player
The Cosby Show
The North Star
Jackie Robinson
Quincy Jones
49. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
Jim Crow Laws
1995
The North Star
1945
50. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Jesse Redman Fauset
W. E. B. Du Bois
Quincy Jones
Boston University