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Black History Trivia
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1. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
Vanessa Williams
Montgomery
Countae Cullen
The Underground Railroad
2. The Character Sapphire Was Made Famous By
Jan E. Metzeliger
Michael Jackson
Whitney Houston
The Amos And Andy Show
3. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Jim Crow Laws
Countae Cullen
1986
4. 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?
The Harlem Renaissance
Dr. Charles Drew
The Pips
Joseph Hayne Rainey
5. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Brown v. Board of Education
One year
1865
Countae Cullen
6. First African American newspaper
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7. First black major league baseball player
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Michael Steele
Jackie Robinson
James Weldon Johnson
8. How long did the Montgomery Bus Boycott last?
One year
A Tribe Called Quest
The North Star
Anne Bontemps
9. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Sojourner Truth
Emlen Tunnell
1986
1965
10. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Colin Powell
Usain Bolt
Dr. Charles Drew
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
11. 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
Oprah Winfrey
Nella Larsen
Langston Hughes
12. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
1945
The Twist
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Malcolm X
13. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
Anne Bontemps
MLK
MLK
Twice
14. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
14
Willie Thrower
Gwendolyn Benneth
Delany Martin
15. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Congressional Black Caucus
1965
Quincy Jones
Boston University
16. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Quincy Jones
Congressional Black Caucus
1965
A Tribe Called Quest
17. In what year was the NAACP founded?
The North Star
Jim Crow Laws
1909
Jesse Redman Fauset
18. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
A Tribe Called Quest
Phillis Wheatley
Sojourner Truth
19. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Vermont
Vanessa Williams
Anne Bontemps
Usain Bolt
20. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Brown v. Board of Education
The Amos And Andy Show
Coleman Hawkins
The Pips
21. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Bill Cosby
James Weldon Johnson
Berry Gordy
James Weldon Johnson
22. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
The Twist
Colin Powell
The Pips
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
23. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
The Twist
Wilma Rudolph
1865
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
24. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Jesse Redman Fauset
Michael Steele
MLK
1893
25. First black billionaire
1965
Colin Powell
MLK
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
26. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
1865
Robert Smalls
The Harlem Renaissance
Jesse Redman Fauset
27. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Thomas Dorsey
Boston University
Robert Smalls
Vanessa Williams
28. First black Miss America
Vanessa Williams
Louis Armstrong
Freedom's Journal
Brown v. Board of Education
29. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
A Rodeo Cowboy
Nella Larsen
Gwendolyn Benneth
Ella Fitzgerald
30. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
1965
The Twist
Jesse Redman Fauset
1893
31. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
W. E. B. Du Bois
Langston Hughes
1893
1963
32. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
Emlen Tunnell
Aretha Franklin
A Tribe Called Quest
The Underground Railroad
33. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
1965
Toni Morrison
Wilma Rudolph
James Weldon Johnson
34. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
TheFirst Black Nurse
Jackie Robinson
Gone With The Wind
W. E. B. Du Bois
35. First black Miss America
1945
Jackie Robinson
Vanessa Williams
A Rodeo Cowboy
36. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
1893
1909
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
A Tribe Called Quest
37. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Michael Jordon
Emlen Tunnell
Toni Morrison
38. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
1963
1945
Boston University
The Twist
39. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Jim Crow Laws
Countae Cullen
14
Baltimore - Maryland
40. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
1863
W. E. B. Du Bois
Jackie Robinson
Jan E. Metzeliger
41. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Langston Hughes
Countae Cullen
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Toni Morrison
42. When Was TheFirst Open Heart Surgery Performed?
Colin Powell
Delany Martin
The North Star
1893
43. In what year was MLK assassinated?
Jan E. Metzeliger
1968
Willie Thrower
Michael Steele
44. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Whitney Houston
Langston Hughes
The North Star
Gone With The Wind
45. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Barack Obama
Aretha Franklin
Reggie Jackson
MLK
46. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
MLK
Vanessa Williams
Usain Bolt
Thurgood Marshall
47. First black NFL quarterback
Willie Thrower
Whitney Houston
1965
Dr. Charles Drew
48. American WriterWho Depicted The Lives And Struggles Of Black Americans?
Malcolm X
Montgomery
Anne Bontemps
The Twist
49. First black person to win an Oscar
Hattie McDaniel
Dr. Charles Drew
Willie Thrower
Jesse Redman Fauset
50. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
TheFirst Black Nurse
Freedom's Journal
Gone With The Wind
MLK
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