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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Louis Armstrong
Dr. Charles Drew
Jan E. Metzeliger
1963
2. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Usain Bolt
1945
Brown v. Board of Education
Michael Jackson
3. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Barack Obama
Aretha Franklin
W. E. B. Du Bois
Delany Martin
4. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
TheFirst Black Nurse
Montgomery
Jackie Robinson
Barack Obama
5. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
Whitney Houston
The Cosby Show
Usain Bolt
Congressional Black Caucus
6. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
MLK
Gwendolyn Benneth
1963
Twice
7. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Michael Steele
Colin Powell
Gone With The Wind
TheFirst Black Nurse
8. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
Vermont
TheFirst Black Nurse
The Underground Railroad
The Pips
9. 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.
Jim Crow Laws
Reggie Jackson
Hattie McDaniel
Robert Smalls
10. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Hattie McDaniel
Robert Smalls
Emlen Tunnell
Jackie Robinson
11. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
The North Star
The Cosby Show
Jan E. Metzeliger
Sojourner Truth
12. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Michael Jackson
14
Vermont
Oprah Winfrey
13. First black RNC chairman
Coleman Hawkins
The Cosby Show
Delany Martin
Michael Steele
14. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Ella Fitzgerald
Langston Hughes
1965
Boston University
15. In what year was MLK assassinated?
Colin Powell
Baltimore - Maryland
1968
1995
16. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Aretha Franklin
Coleman Hawkins
Joseph Hayne Rainey
1893
17. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Delany Martin
Langston Hughes
Twice
18. In what year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
The Harlem Renaissance
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Bill Cosby
1863
19. First black Miss America
Hattie McDaniel
Twice
Vanessa Williams
Thomas Dorsey
20. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
The Amos And Andy Show
Emlen Tunnell
Nella Larsen
1945
21. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Robert Smalls
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
The Amos And Andy Show
1909
22. First Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Colin Powell
1965
1909
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
23. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Coleman Hawkins
Montgomery
Anne Bontemps
The Cosby Show
24. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
Phillis Wheatley
1865
Congressional Black Caucus
Jackie Robinson
25. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Aretha Franklin
1968
Jim Crow Laws
Toni Morrison
26. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordon
Sojourner Truth
Countae Cullen
Jan E. Metzeliger
27. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
Gone With The Wind
Brown v. Board of Education
One year
Anne Bontemps
28. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Michael Steele
Colin Powell
Thomas Dorsey
W. E. B. Du Bois
29. First published black poet
Boston University
One year
Phillis Wheatley
Coleman Hawkins
30. First black female to host a TV show
The Underground Railroad
Toni Morrison
Oprah Winfrey
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
31. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Whitney Houston
1986
The Cosby Show
Berry Gordy
32. First black president
Malcolm X
MLK
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Barack Obama
33. First published black poet
Usain Bolt
Michael Jordon
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Phillis Wheatley
34. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Usain Bolt
1965
Michael Steele
Jesse Redman Fauset
35. First black person to win an Oscar
Willie Thrower
Michael Jordon
Hattie McDaniel
MLK
36. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Bill Cosby
Louis Armstrong
1945
Delany Martin
37. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
One year
1963
Delany Martin
TheFirst Black Nurse
38. First black secretary of state
Colin Powell
Baltimore - Maryland
Brown v. Board of Education
Freedom's Journal
39. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Michael Jordon
Malcolm X
Freedom's Journal
Emlen Tunnell
40. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
Langston Hughes
The Pips
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
TheFirst Black Nurse
41. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordon
A Tribe Called Quest
Brown v. Board of Education
The Harlem Renaissance
42. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
One year
Hattie McDaniel
Whitney Houston
The Twist
43. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
TheFirst Black Nurse
Vanessa Williams
Louis Armstrong
Reggie Jackson
44. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
A Rodeo Cowboy
MLK
The Pips
Willie Thrower
45. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
Delany Martin
The Harlem Renaissance
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Usain Bolt
46. First black star of a network TV show
Emlen Tunnell
Michael Jackson
1909
Bill Cosby
47. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Barack Obama
Quincy Jones
Nella Larsen
14
48. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Emlen Tunnell
Louis Armstrong
Joseph Hayne Rainey
49. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Delany Martin
Langston Hughes
Oprah Winfrey
Colin Powell
50. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Colin Powell
1986
Baltimore - Maryland
Delany Martin