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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. First black president
Barack Obama
Phillis Wheatley
One year
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
2. 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.
Bill Cosby
Whitney Houston
A Rodeo Cowboy
Reggie Jackson
3. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Quincy Jones
1965
Jan E. Metzeliger
Sojourner Truth
4. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
A Rodeo Cowboy
MLK
Jim Crow Laws
The Twist
5. First black secretary of state
Colin Powell
Coleman Hawkins
Toni Morrison
The Underground Railroad
6. 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)
Sojourner Truth
1995
Michael Jackson
Louis Armstrong
7. In what year was the NAACP founded?
MLK
Louis Armstrong
Reggie Jackson
1909
8. Father Of Gospel Music
Thomas Dorsey
Oprah Winfrey
Toni Morrison
Jan E. Metzeliger
9. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Delany Martin
Wilma Rudolph
Hattie McDaniel
Vermont
10. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Thomas Dorsey
Jackie Robinson
1963
Baltimore - Maryland
11. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
TheFirst Black Nurse
1863
Wilma Rudolph
MLK
12. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
1965
MLK
Bill Cosby
Louis Armstrong
13. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordon
Baltimore - Maryland
Jim Crow Laws
Michael Jackson
14. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Emlen Tunnell
Sojourner Truth
1968
Michael Steele
15. First African American newspaper
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16. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Twice
James Weldon Johnson
The Underground Railroad
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
17. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Aretha Franklin
The Harlem Renaissance
MLK
18. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Gone With The Wind
Montgomery
Berry Gordy
Anne Bontemps
19. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
The North Star
Emlen Tunnell
Oprah Winfrey
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
20. First black Miss America
Congressional Black Caucus
Vanessa Williams
The Twist
Michael Steele
21. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Colin Powell
1863
1968
22. First black star of a network TV show
Bill Cosby
1893
Usain Bolt
A Rodeo Cowboy
23. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Ella Fitzgerald
Jan E. Metzeliger
Vanessa Williams
Montgomery
24. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
Aretha Franklin
Dr. Charles Drew
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
A Rodeo Cowboy
25. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
TheFirst Black Nurse
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Brown v. Board of Education
26. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
James Weldon Johnson
Jesse Redman Fauset
Aretha Franklin
Coleman Hawkins
27. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Toni Morrison
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
1986
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
28. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Brown v. Board of Education
Michael Jordon
Boston University
TheFirst Black Nurse
29. First black NFL quarterback
Colin Powell
1986
Willie Thrower
Montgomery
30. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Jesse Redman Fauset
Nella Larsen
The Underground Railroad
Thurgood Marshall
31. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
The Underground Railroad
Baltimore - Maryland
Jesse Redman Fauset
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
32. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
14
Twice
Phillis Wheatley
1863
33. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Malcolm X
Jesse Redman Fauset
Jim Crow Laws
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
34. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
Montgomery
1893
The Harlem Renaissance
Nella Larsen
35. First black female to host a TV show
MLK
The North Star
Oprah Winfrey
Willie Thrower
36. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
Jackie Robinson
1865
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
14
37. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Montgomery
A Tribe Called Quest
Bill Cosby
1893
38. Father Of Gospel Music
Hattie McDaniel
Thomas Dorsey
Emlen Tunnell
Colin Powell
39. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Jim Crow Laws
1945
Gone With The Wind
Coleman Hawkins
40. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Emlen Tunnell
Michael Steele
Ella Fitzgerald
1986
41. 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?
Gone With The Wind
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Wilma Rudolph
Countae Cullen
42. First African American newspaper
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43. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Toni Morrison
Phillis Wheatley
Usain Bolt
Freedom's Journal
44. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
1963
Vermont
Thurgood Marshall
Anne Bontemps
45. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Robert Smalls
Bill Cosby
Coleman Hawkins
1909
46. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Boston University
Phillis Wheatley
1995
Whitney Houston
47. In what year was the VRA passed?
Brown v. Board of Education
Coleman Hawkins
Congressional Black Caucus
1965
48. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Willie Thrower
James Weldon Johnson
Ella Fitzgerald
Barack Obama
49. In what year was MLK assassinated?
1965
1865
1968
The Cosby Show
50. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
1865
1863
The North Star
Vanessa Williams