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Black History Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. In what year did John Johnson begin publishing 'Ebony' magazine?
1945
Vanessa Williams
Jan E. Metzeliger
1968
2. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Bill Cosby
Sojourner Truth
MLK
14
3. First black president
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Vermont
Thomas Dorsey
Barack Obama
4. 'Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.'
The Twist
The Underground Railroad
MLK
Reggie Jackson
5. In what year was the Million Man March?
1995
James Weldon Johnson
1863
MLK
6. In what year was MLK assassinated?
1968
Sojourner Truth
MLK
Nella Larsen
7. 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?
A Tribe Called Quest
Bill Cosby
Wilma Rudolph
Langston Hughes
8. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Colin Powell
Michael Jordon
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Thomas Dorsey
9. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
1986
Delany Martin
TheFirst Black Nurse
1968
10. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Whitney Houston
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
Boston University
11. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
1865
Langston Hughes
Malcolm X
Ella Fitzgerald
12. First black Miss America
Vanessa Williams
1945
Quincy Jones
1986
13. What was the name of the abolitionist newspaper which Frederick Douglass founded?
1968
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
1865
The North Star
14. This hip hop group released the albums Midnight Marauders and The Low End Theory.
Reggie Jackson
Ella Fitzgerald
One year
A Tribe Called Quest
15. 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?
Hattie McDaniel
Dr. Charles Drew
1963
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
16. In What Sport Did Bill Packet Excel?
1995
Freedom's Journal
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
A Rodeo Cowboy
17. 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
The Cosby Show
Brown v. Board of Education
James Weldon Johnson
18. Father Of Gospel Music
One year
MLK
Thomas Dorsey
Vanessa Williams
19. In what year was the VRA passed?
The Underground Railroad
The North Star
Thurgood Marshall
1965
20. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
1909
James Weldon Johnson
The Amos And Andy Show
The Cosby Show
21. How Many Years Did Wilt Chamberlain Play Basketball?
Willie Thrower
14
Reggie Jackson
1945
22. What name was given to the escape system used by slaves in the late 1800s?
Reggie Jackson
Thurgood Marshall
The Underground Railroad
Louis Armstrong
23. First black female to win a Grammy
Thomas Dorsey
Colin Powell
Ella Fitzgerald
Coleman Hawkins
24. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?
Langston Hughes
Willie Thrower
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
25. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Baltimore - Maryland
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Brown v. Board of Education
Toni Morrison
26. Which of the 13 colonies was the first to abolish slavery?
Freedom's Journal
Vermont
A Rodeo Cowboy
Nella Larsen
27. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Sojourner Truth
1965
Barack Obama
Oprah Winfrey
28. First black secretary of state
Colin Powell
Joseph Hayne Rainey
The Underground Railroad
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
29. 'A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.'
Malcolm X
1893
Emlen Tunnell
Phillis Wheatley
30. In what year was the VRA passed?
Gwendolyn Benneth
1965
Jesse Redman Fauset
Willie Thrower
31. Laws that Forced Racial Segregation
1893
Jim Crow Laws
Barack Obama
The Harlem Renaissance
32. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Phillis Wheatley
W. E. B. Du Bois
Louis Armstrong
Berry Gordy
33. First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Dr. Charles Drew
Toni Morrison
Baltimore - Maryland
Langston Hughes
34. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
1965
Phillis Wheatley
Boston University
Hattie McDaniel
35. Who Was The U.S Black Abolitionist - Physician - And EditorIn The Pre-Civil War Period
Michael Jordon
The Twist
1865
Delany Martin
36. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
1965
Emlen Tunnell
Willie Thrower
1965
37. How many times did Jayne Jackson run for president?
Montgomery
Twice
A Tribe Called Quest
Vanessa Williams
38. Where Is Morgan University Located?
Baltimore - Maryland
The North Star
1995
Colin Powell
39. In what year was MLK's birthday first celebrated as a national holiday?
MLK
Willie Thrower
1986
The Amos And Andy Show
40. First black RNC chairman
Michael Steele
Usain Bolt
Quincy Jones
Aretha Franklin
41. What was the name of the iconic dance move created in the 1950s by Chubby Checker?
The Twist
Hattie McDaniel
Michael Jordon
Langston Hughes
42. WhoInvented A Machine That Could Produce Shoes Mechanically?
The Pips
Jan E. Metzeliger
Willie Thrower
Reggie Jackson
43. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Nella Larsen
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Jesse Redman Fauset
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
44. 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)
W. E. B. Du Bois
1893
Jackie Robinson
Michael Jackson
45. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Hattie McDaniel
TheFirst Black Nurse
A Rodeo Cowboy
Louis Armstrong
46. Queen Of Soul
Aretha Franklin
Vermont
Delany Martin
The Amos And Andy Show
47. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?
Michael Steele
Coleman Hawkins
Langston Hughes
Joseph Hayne Rainey
48. 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?
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
1945
Nella Larsen
Jesse Redman Fauset
49. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
1965
Colin Powell
Brown v. Board of Education
Wilma Rudolph
50. First black NFL quarterback
Willie Thrower
One year
Reggie Jackson
MLK