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Black History Trivia
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1. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Whitney Houston
Oprah Winfrey
Nella Larsen
2. In what year was the Million Man March?
1965
1995
Vanessa Williams
Twice
3. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
James Weldon Johnson
Congressional Black Caucus
1986
4. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
James Weldon Johnson
Baltimore - Maryland
1945
Jackie Robinson
5. In what year was MLK assassinated?
Coleman Hawkins
The Cosby Show
1968
1995
6. In what year was MLK assassinated?
1968
Colin Powell
Coleman Hawkins
Oprah Winfrey
7. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
14
Robert Smalls
1963
The Amos And Andy Show
8. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Coleman Hawkins
Colin Powell
Sojourner Truth
9. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
Wilma Rudolph
MLK
Twice
Colin Powell
10. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Jim Crow Laws
Brown v. Board of Education
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Countae Cullen
11. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
1968
1965
Baltimore - Maryland
Montgomery
12. 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?
14
Wilma Rudolph
One year
Sojourner Truth
13. First black billionaire
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
The Harlem Renaissance
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Brown v. Board of Education
14. First black person to win an Oscar
Michael Jordon
1909
Nella Larsen
Hattie McDaniel
15. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
1963
Vanessa Williams
The Underground Railroad
14
16. In what year was the VRA passed?
1965
One year
1893
Wilma Rudolph
17. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Vanessa Williams
Michael Steele
W. E. B. Du Bois
Ella Fitzgerald
18. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?
Michael Jordon
The Pips
Joseph Hayne Rainey
The Underground Railroad
19. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
1968
1945
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
1965
20. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
One year
A Tribe Called Quest
Anne Bontemps
Twice
21. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Langston Hughes
James Weldon Johnson
TheFirst Black Nurse
The Twist
22. Queen Of Soul
1865
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Aretha Franklin
Quincy Jones
23. Dr. Martain Luther King Jr Organized A Bus Boycot That Lasted 381 DaysIn ____
1963
Countae Cullen
Baltimore - Maryland
Montgomery
24. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Hattie McDaniel
1965
Usain Bolt
Aretha Franklin
25. First black female to host a TV show
The Underground Railroad
Oprah Winfrey
Anne Bontemps
1945
26. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Coleman Hawkins
1893
1965
Countae Cullen
27. First black president
Robert Smalls
Barack Obama
Usain Bolt
Brown v. Board of Education
28. What Motion Picture Mad Butterfly McQueen A Star?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Thomas Dorsey
Gone With The Wind
The Twist
29. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
Freedom's Journal
Brown v. Board of Education
Jan E. Metzeliger
Michael Steele
30. 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)
Bill Cosby
W. E. B. Du Bois
Michael Jackson
Aretha Franklin
31. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
Baltimore - Maryland
Hattie McDaniel
Langston Hughes
Michael Jordon
32. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
The North Star
Jim Crow Laws
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Underground Railroad
33. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
MLK
Gwendolyn Benneth
Toni Morrison
The North Star
34. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Berry Gordy
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Quincy Jones
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
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?
The Cosby Show
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Congressional Black Caucus
Dr. Charles Drew
36. Group That Accompanied Gladys Knight
The Pips
Oprah Winfrey
1986
Phillis Wheatley
37. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Langston Hughes
1986
Michael Jackson
The Twist
38. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Vermont
1893
Joseph Hayne Rainey
1965
39. First black secretary of state
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
1863
1986
Colin Powell
40. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
1965
1863
Reggie Jackson
Robert Smalls
41. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
1965
Louis Armstrong
Vermont
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
42. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Usain Bolt
Jackie Robinson
Coleman Hawkins
Sojourner Truth
43. African American Poet Essayist - Short Story Writer - And Artist Of The Harlem Renaissance .
Langston Hughes
Gwendolyn Benneth
TheFirst Black Nurse
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
44. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
Delany Martin
Twice
Countae Cullen
Wilma Rudolph
45. What Negro Slave Became A Naval HeroFor The Union?
Robert Smalls
Bill Cosby
One year
Vanessa Williams
46. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
Freedom's Journal
Whitney Houston
1968
The Underground Railroad
47. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that slaves were property - that blacks were not citizens - and that the MI Compromise was unconstitutional?
Coleman Hawkins
Phillis Wheatley
Wilma Rudolph
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
48. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Gone With The Wind
Toni Morrison
Colin Powell
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
49. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
Barack Obama
The North Star
A Tribe Called Quest
The Cosby Show
50. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Wilma Rudolph
Emlen Tunnell
Michael Jordon
Thurgood Marshall
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