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Black History Trivia
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1. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Phillis Wheatley
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Langston Hughes
Berry Gordy
2. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Countae Cullen
1865
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
3. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Usain Bolt
Colin Powell
Thomas Dorsey
14
4. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?
MLK
1865
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Dr. Charles Drew
5. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
1865
Baltimore - Maryland
Anne Bontemps
TheFirst Black Nurse
6. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Congressional Black Caucus
Malcolm X
Colin Powell
Jesse Redman Fauset
7. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
Michael Jordon
1865
Toni Morrison
Jesse Redman Fauset
8. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
1893
Dr. Charles Drew
Emlen Tunnell
Delany Martin
9. First black female to win a Grammy
Oprah Winfrey
Baltimore - Maryland
Ella Fitzgerald
Coleman Hawkins
10. First published black poet
Reggie Jackson
1995
Congressional Black Caucus
Phillis Wheatley
11. First published black poet
Boston University
1963
Barack Obama
Phillis Wheatley
12. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
1995
Langston Hughes
14
1968
13. First black RNC chairman
Phillis Wheatley
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Langston Hughes
Michael Steele
14. First black RNC chairman
A Tribe Called Quest
Michael Steele
The Amos And Andy Show
Ella Fitzgerald
15. In what year was the VRA passed?
Aretha Franklin
1965
Congressional Black Caucus
Robert Smalls
16. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
The Harlem Renaissance
Delany Martin
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Louis Armstrong
17. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Whitney Houston
The Underground Railroad
Bill Cosby
TheFirst Black Nurse
18. First African American newspaper
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19. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
The Pips
Malcolm X
Usain Bolt
1963
20. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
The Harlem Renaissance
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Pips
One year
21. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
W. E. B. Du Bois
Hattie McDaniel
One year
1965
22. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Dr. Charles Drew
Gwendolyn Benneth
1909
Gone With The Wind
23. 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?
Dr. Charles Drew
Bill Cosby
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
1909
24. Father Of Gospel Music
Nella Larsen
Thomas Dorsey
Willie Thrower
Berry Gordy
25. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Dr. Charles Drew
The Cosby Show
Toni Morrison
Congressional Black Caucus
26. In what year was MLK assassinated?
James Weldon Johnson
Michael Jackson
1968
Thurgood Marshall
27. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Jan E. Metzeliger
A Rodeo Cowboy
Brown v. Board of Education
1965
28. First black president
Robert Smalls
Bill Cosby
MLK
Barack Obama
29. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
A Tribe Called Quest
1893
1863
The North Star
30. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Jesse Redman Fauset
Dr. Charles Drew
TheFirst Black Nurse
Baltimore - Maryland
31. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
1893
Delany Martin
Usain Bolt
Gone With The Wind
32. In what year was the VRA passed?
1865
Countae Cullen
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1965
33. African American Novelist - Critic - Poet - Editor - Kn ownFor Her Discovery and encouragement Of Other General Writers Of The Harlem Renaissance?
Gone With The Wind
Jesse Redman Fauset
Colin Powell
1909
34. First black billionaire
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
1963
Robert Smalls
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
35. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Harlem Renaissance
1965
Colin Powell
James Weldon Johnson
36. First black NFL quarterback
Willie Thrower
TheFirst Black Nurse
Boston University
Twice
37. 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)
Gone With The Wind
1945
Michael Jackson
Nella Larsen
38. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
Louis Armstrong
The North Star
1963
Freedom's Journal
39. Queen Of Soul
Bill Cosby
Jim Crow Laws
Aretha Franklin
The Pips
40. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
The Twist
MLK
14
Vermont
41. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
One year
Quincy Jones
Malcolm X
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
42. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
The Harlem Renaissance
One year
Twice
The Underground Railroad
43. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Louis Armstrong
MLK
Thomas Dorsey
1965
44. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Countae Cullen
Jan E. Metzeliger
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
45. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Jim Crow Laws
1968
Montgomery
1863
46. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
1909
Jackie Robinson
Sojourner Truth
Coleman Hawkins
47. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Louis Armstrong
Michael Steele
Delany Martin
Thomas Dorsey
48. In what year was MLK assassinated?
Colin Powell
Bill Cosby
Jim Crow Laws
1968
49. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Whitney Houston
1945
Toni Morrison
Hattie McDaniel
50. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Reggie Jackson
Bill Cosby
1986
A Tribe Called Quest
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