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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 black female to win a Grammy
MLK
Ella Fitzgerald
A Tribe Called Quest
Barack Obama
2. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
Thurgood Marshall
1865
Phillis Wheatley
3. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Bill Cosby
Langston Hughes
Thurgood Marshall
Bill Cosby
4. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
The Harlem Renaissance
The North Star
Emlen Tunnell
Coleman Hawkins
5. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Willie Thrower
The North Star
Whitney Houston
Coleman Hawkins
6. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Thomas Dorsey
1863
Langston Hughes
1963
7. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
MLK
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Harlem Renaissance
Jackie Robinson
8. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordon
Malcolm X
Sojourner Truth
One year
9. First published black poet
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Phillis Wheatley
Boston University
Robert Smalls
10. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
One year
1945
Oprah Winfrey
14
11. First black supreme court justice
Thurgood Marshall
14
1986
Jim Crow Laws
12. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Usain Bolt
The Amos And Andy Show
Usain Bolt
14
13. First published black poet
Phillis Wheatley
Usain Bolt
Congressional Black Caucus
Thurgood Marshall
14. First black NFL quarterback
1965
Michael Jordon
1986
Willie Thrower
15. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Gwendolyn Benneth
TheFirst Black Nurse
James Weldon Johnson
MLK
16. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Vanessa Williams
Twice
TheFirst Black Nurse
A Tribe Called Quest
17. First black star of a network TV show
Bill Cosby
Baltimore - Maryland
Berry Gordy
Langston Hughes
18. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
1965
Nella Larsen
Reggie Jackson
The Cosby Show
19. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
Michael Jordon
1965
Quincy Jones
The Cosby Show
20. First black star of a network TV show
TheFirst Black Nurse
1968
Bill Cosby
Delany Martin
21. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Montgomery
Wilma Rudolph
Willie Thrower
Usain Bolt
22. Father Of Gospel Music
Brown v. Board of Education
Thomas Dorsey
Usain Bolt
Countae Cullen
23. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Nella Larsen
1909
Jan E. Metzeliger
The Amos And Andy Show
24. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
1863
1945
Freedom's Journal
1965
25. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
MLK
Usain Bolt
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Colin Powell
26. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
Jackie Robinson
The Underground Railroad
Aretha Franklin
The Harlem Renaissance
27. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Ella Fitzgerald
James Weldon Johnson
MLK
Sojourner Truth
28. First black RNC chairman
Michael Steele
1893
Malcolm X
Joseph Hayne Rainey
29. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
The Cosby Show
Coleman Hawkins
Congressional Black Caucus
Nella Larsen
30. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Anne Bontemps
The Pips
Reggie Jackson
Gwendolyn Benneth
31. First black major league baseball player
Boston University
1965
Jackie Robinson
1968
32. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
MLK
The Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Ella Fitzgerald
33. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Barack Obama
Congressional Black Caucus
Aretha Franklin
Louis Armstrong
34. In what year was MLK assassinated?
A Tribe Called Quest
Berry Gordy
1968
Barack Obama
35. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Colin Powell
Jan E. Metzeliger
Toni Morrison
36. In what year was the VRA passed?
The Pips
Brown v. Board of Education
1965
Usain Bolt
37. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Malcolm X
Coleman Hawkins
TheFirst Black Nurse
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
38. First black NFL quarterback
Montgomery
Willie Thrower
Michael Jackson
Thurgood Marshall
39. Queen Of Soul
Whitney Houston
Aretha Franklin
The North Star
TheFirst Black Nurse
40. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
MLK
Baltimore - Maryland
Sojourner Truth
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
41. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Jan E. Metzeliger
The Harlem Renaissance
Michael Jordon
Colin Powell
42. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Toni Morrison
Brown v. Board of Education
Gwendolyn Benneth
Emlen Tunnell
43. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
Jesse Redman Fauset
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Vanessa Williams
44. 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
Anne Bontemps
Aretha Franklin
Boston University
45. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
1945
Usain Bolt
The Pips
TheFirst Black Nurse
46. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
1965
Willie Thrower
The North Star
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
47. Where Is Morgan University Located?
James Weldon Johnson
TheFirst Black Nurse
Baltimore - Maryland
Jackie Robinson
48. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Michael Jordon
James Weldon Johnson
Whitney Houston
TheFirst Black Nurse
49. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nella Larsen
Colin Powell
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
14
50. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
Barack Obama
One year
TheFirst Black Nurse
1893