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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
Quincy Jones
Delany Martin
Willie Thrower
Baltimore - Maryland
2. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Dr. Charles Drew
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
1963
Brown v. Board of Education
3. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
The Pips
Quincy Jones
Baltimore - Maryland
Usain Bolt
4. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Jim Crow Laws
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Wilma Rudolph
1965
5. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Whitney Houston
Phillis Wheatley
1968
Twice
6. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
Jim Crow Laws
1965
Congressional Black Caucus
Montgomery
7. 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.
Reggie Jackson
Robert Smalls
Wilma Rudolph
The Cosby Show
8. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
MLK
Jim Crow Laws
The Pips
Robert Smalls
9. First African American newspaper
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10. First black president
Oprah Winfrey
Barack Obama
Phillis Wheatley
Malcolm X
11. First black RNC chairman
Baltimore - Maryland
Michael Steele
Gone With The Wind
1965
12. First black star of a network TV show
Bill Cosby
MLK
Usain Bolt
Gone With The Wind
13. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
The Underground Railroad
Phillis Wheatley
Langston Hughes
The Harlem Renaissance
14. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Thomas Dorsey
1945
Michael Jordon
15. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
Gone With The Wind
The North Star
1865
1965
16. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
14
Whitney Houston
Nella Larsen
Jim Crow Laws
17. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Gone With The Wind
1965
Langston Hughes
1963
18. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Louis Armstrong
Freedom's Journal
Anne Bontemps
The Harlem Renaissance
19. First black major league baseball player
Michael Steele
One year
Jackie Robinson
Vermont
20. Queen Of Soul
Jesse Redman Fauset
Aretha Franklin
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Louis Armstrong
21. First African American newspaper
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22. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Wilma Rudolph
Gone With The Wind
Emlen Tunnell
TheFirst Black Nurse
23. First published black poet
Phillis Wheatley
1965
1986
1909
24. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
Bill Cosby
Ella Fitzgerald
The North Star
1945
25. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Anne Bontemps
Wilma Rudolph
The Underground Railroad
Colin Powell
26. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Vermont
Montgomery
TheFirst Black Nurse
Dr. Charles Drew
27. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
1963
Dr. Charles Drew
Coleman Hawkins
Usain Bolt
28. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
Jim Crow Laws
MLK
Quincy Jones
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
29. In what year was slavery abolished in America?
1865
1963
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Whitney Houston
30. 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?
Wilma Rudolph
Gwendolyn Benneth
The Cosby Show
Ella Fitzgerald
31. First black supreme court justice
Thurgood Marshall
Colin Powell
1986
Delany Martin
32. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Colin Powell
1965
Montgomery
Sojourner Truth
33. First black supreme court justice
Congressional Black Caucus
Thurgood Marshall
Jackie Robinson
Usain Bolt
34. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
1863
The Underground Railroad
Freedom's Journal
Emlen Tunnell
35. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Congressional Black Caucus
The Twist
Delany Martin
36. Where Is Morgan University Located?
The Harlem Renaissance
Vanessa Williams
1963
Baltimore - Maryland
37. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Sojourner Truth
1909
Gone With The Wind
Barack Obama
38. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
Montgomery
Barack Obama
Hattie McDaniel
Jim Crow Laws
39. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Bill Cosby
The Underground Railroad
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
40. In what year was the VRA passed?
Usain Bolt
Bill Cosby
Toni Morrison
1965
41. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Boston University
Emlen Tunnell
Jim Crow Laws
Ella Fitzgerald
42. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
1986
Phillis Wheatley
Barack Obama
Vanessa Williams
43. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
1865
Wilma Rudolph
The Pips
James Weldon Johnson
44. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Michael Steele
Usain Bolt
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
1963
45. First black billionaire
Aretha Franklin
Jesse Redman Fauset
Sojourner Truth
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
46. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
The Underground Railroad
1893
Boston University
MLK
47. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Phillis Wheatley
Countae Cullen
The Underground Railroad
Sojourner Truth
48. First black Miss America
Toni Morrison
A Rodeo Cowboy
Vanessa Williams
1909
49. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Sojourner Truth
Hattie McDaniel
1893
MLK
50. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
The Twist
Twice
1965
The North Star