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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. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
W. E. B. Du Bois
Thomas Dorsey
Louis Armstrong
Boston University
2. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Thomas Dorsey
The Amos And Andy Show
Delany Martin
James Weldon Johnson
3. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
Twice
A Rodeo Cowboy
Jesse Redman Fauset
Quincy Jones
4. First African American newspaper
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5. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
1968
Sojourner Truth
Freedom's Journal
The Pips
6. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
1893
Delany Martin
Quincy Jones
Joseph Hayne Rainey
7. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
1909
Montgomery
1965
Jackie Robinson
8. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Bill Cosby
Twice
The North Star
9. First black president
Countae Cullen
Barack Obama
Whitney Houston
Berry Gordy
10. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Usain Bolt
1945
1995
1909
11. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Willie Thrower
Dr. Charles Drew
Malcolm X
MLK
12. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Colin Powell
The Underground Railroad
1865
Michael Jordon
13. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
Michael Jackson
1963
1865
14
14. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Nella Larsen
Willie Thrower
1893
Delany Martin
15. First black RNC chairman
1995
Michael Steele
A Tribe Called Quest
Emlen Tunnell
16. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Gone With The Wind
Montgomery
Boston University
Nella Larsen
17. First black female to host a TV show
Gwendolyn Benneth
The North Star
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Oprah Winfrey
18. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Jim Crow Laws
Toni Morrison
Countae Cullen
MLK
19. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Wilma Rudolph
Sojourner Truth
Colin Powell
James Weldon Johnson
20. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
A Rodeo Cowboy
James Weldon Johnson
Brown v. Board of Education
1863
21. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
14
Colin Powell
Wilma Rudolph
Brown v. Board of Education
22. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
1986
Jim Crow Laws
Jan E. Metzeliger
Quincy Jones
23. In what year was MLK assassinated?
1909
Anne Bontemps
1968
Sojourner Truth
24. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Anne Bontemps
Ella Fitzgerald
1945
1986
25. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Boston University
Coleman Hawkins
Toni Morrison
1986
26. Queen Of Soul
1965
Toni Morrison
Aretha Franklin
The Amos And Andy Show
27. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
1968
1865
Gwendolyn Benneth
Joseph Hayne Rainey
28. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Baltimore - Maryland
Usain Bolt
1963
Twice
29. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Boston University
Michael Jordon
Michael Steele
Phillis Wheatley
30. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Berry Gordy
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Quincy Jones
Malcolm X
31. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Emlen Tunnell
The Pips
Ella Fitzgerald
Vermont
32. First black president
Freedom's Journal
Barack Obama
Wilma Rudolph
1863
33. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
The Cosby Show
MLK
Michael Jackson
Delany Martin
34. In what year was MLK assassinated?
Thomas Dorsey
Boston University
1968
1893
35. 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?
1968
Dr. Charles Drew
Louis Armstrong
1995
36. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Countae Cullen
Gone With The Wind
Hattie McDaniel
Whitney Houston
37. In what year was the NAACP founded?
1909
Langston Hughes
Gwendolyn Benneth
1965
38. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
1968
Vermont
Michael Steele
Gone With The Wind
39. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
1965
Vanessa Williams
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
1986
40. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
TheFirst Black Nurse
Delany Martin
Hattie McDaniel
1945
41. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Wilma Rudolph
Reggie Jackson
Dr. Charles Drew
Gone With The Wind
42. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Freedom's Journal
1986
Dr. Charles Drew
Baltimore - Maryland
43. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
The Harlem Renaissance
Boston University
1863
Willie Thrower
44. Queen Of Soul
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Aretha Franklin
Langston Hughes
1995
45. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
MLK
Usain Bolt
Thurgood Marshall
Toni Morrison
46. First black secretary of state
Colin Powell
Langston Hughes
Freedom's Journal
Jan E. Metzeliger
47. 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?
Usain Bolt
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Michael Jordon
Wilma Rudolph
48. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
The Cosby Show
Twice
Berry Gordy
Langston Hughes
49. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
James Weldon Johnson
Berry Gordy
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
A Tribe Called Quest
50. First black star of a network TV show
Barack Obama
Bill Cosby
Langston Hughes
Vermont