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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 was the Million Man March?
Anne Bontemps
Congressional Black Caucus
1995
1909
2. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
1865
Dr. Charles Drew
Berry Gordy
3. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Ella Fitzgerald
Freedom's Journal
Coleman Hawkins
Countae Cullen
4. This basketball player won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
Michael Jordon
Jim Crow Laws
MLK
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
5. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
Malcolm X
Wilma Rudolph
Jan E. Metzeliger
MLK
6. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Bill Cosby
Toni Morrison
Usain Bolt
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
7. 'What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?'
One year
Gwendolyn Benneth
1865
Langston Hughes
8. 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.
Delany Martin
Quincy Jones
Wilma Rudolph
Reggie Jackson
9. 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)
Louis Armstrong
1965
Michael Jackson
The Amos And Andy Show
10. In what year was Malcolm X assassinated?
1965
Wilma Rudolph
Aretha Franklin
Vanessa Williams
11. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
Langston Hughes
Louis Armstrong
MLK
Brown v. Board of Education
12. First black RNC chairman
A Tribe Called Quest
Michael Steele
Hattie McDaniel
1965
13. Former American Slave -Who Was TheFirst To ServeIn The House Of Representatives?
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Robert Smalls
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Gone With The Wind
14. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Colin Powell
MLK
TheFirst Black Nurse
Sojourner Truth
15. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that the segregation of public schools was in violation of the 14th Amendment?
Brown v. Board of Education
James Weldon Johnson
Louis Armstrong
MLK
16. First black billionaire
1986
Phillis Wheatley
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
James Weldon Johnson
17. In what landmark decision did the Supreme Court declare that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional?
Wilma Rudolph
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Gone With The Wind
Colin Powell
18. First African AmericanInducteeInto The Pro Football Hall Of Fame?
Montgomery
Emlen Tunnell
Boston University
Whitney Houston
19. This political group was created in 1971 by the twelve African-Americans elected to the House of Reps in 1970.
Congressional Black Caucus
1965
Gone With The Wind
James Weldon Johnson
20. In 2008 - this Jamaican sprinter became the first man in history to set three world records in a single Olympic games.
Twice
1963
Usain Bolt
A Tribe Called Quest
21. 'Man - if you gotta ask [what jazz is] you'll never know.'
Freedom's Journal
Louis Armstrong
Colin Powell
The Pips
22. This 1984 sitcom was the highest ranking sitcom for five consecutive years.
The Cosby Show
James Weldon Johnson
Robert Johnson (owner of BET)
Colin Powell
23. Finest Poets Of The Harlem Renaissance
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Countae Cullen
Phillis Wheatley
MLK
24. Father Of Gospel Music
Thomas Dorsey
Reggie Jackson
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Vanessa Williams
25. First black Miss America
A Tribe Called Quest
Delany Martin
Vanessa Williams
The Harlem Renaissance
26. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
Wilma Rudolph
1945
14
27. What singer/songwriter set the 2006 Guinness World Record for the most awarded female artist of all time?
Congressional Black Caucus
Berry Gordy
A Tribe Called Quest
Whitney Houston
28. ForemostInterpreters to the world of black experience in The United States
1995
Emlen Tunnell
1945
Langston Hughes
29. Who Was One Of The Most Eminent Human Right Leaders 19thn Century?
James Weldon Johnson
Thomas Dorsey
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
30. In what year was the NAACP founded?
Bill Cosby
Barack Obama
Hattie McDaniel
1909
31. What Jazz Musician Made ' Body And Soul ' Famous?
Malcolm X
Coleman Hawkins
A Tribe Called Quest
Whitney Houston
32. In what year did MLK deliver his famous 'dream' speech?
MLK
1963
Gwendolyn Benneth
Thomas Dorsey
33. First black RNC chairman
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Michael Steele
Nella Larsen
Countae Cullen
34. Who wrote 'A Letter from a Birmingham Jail?'
MLK
Emlen Tunnell
Berry Gordy
Dr. Charles Drew
35. Who Was Elizabeth Mahoney?
Phillis Wheatley
1995
TheFirst Black Nurse
Coleman Hawkins
36. First black star of a network TV show
W. E. B. Du Bois
1945
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Bill Cosby
37. Where did MLK receive his doctorate?
Boston University
Sojourner Truth
Wilma Rudolph
Nella Larsen
38. This music composer and producer is the most Grammy-nominated artist of all time?
MLK
W. E. B. Du Bois
Quincy Jones
1965
39. First black secretary of state
Dr. Charles Drew
Reggie Jackson
Quincy Jones
Colin Powell
40. 'Float like a butterfly - sting like a bee.'
Sojourner Truth
Oprah Winfrey
Delany Martin
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
41. Who Was The Black American Evangelist And Religious ReformerWho Applied Her Religious Fervor to the abolitionist and women's rights movement?
Michael Jackson
Michael Jordon
Sojourner Truth
Fredrick Augusta Washington Bailey
42. The Novelist And Short Story Writer Of The Harlem Renaissance
Nella Larsen
The Cosby Show
Muhammad Ali (a.k.a. Cassius Clay)
Hattie McDaniel
43. First black female to win a Grammy
1893
Colin Powell
Ella Fitzgerald
The Twist
44. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
The Twist
W. E. B. Du Bois
1963
Wilma Rudolph
45. 'The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.'
Jan E. Metzeliger
1863
W. E. B. Du Bois
Wilma Rudolph
46. What cultural movement took place in Harlem and lasted from the end of WWI to the 1930s?
Barack Obama
The Harlem Renaissance
Wilma Rudolph
The Amos And Andy Show
47. Who Was the Poet And Anthologist Of
Colin Powell
James Weldon Johnson
1865
Anne Bontemps
48. 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)
Quincy Jones
Vermont
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Michael Jackson
49. Who founded the world famous Motown Record Company?
MLK
Toni Morrison
Berry Gordy
Anne Bontemps
50. First black secretary of state
Colin Powell
Quincy Jones
Ella Fitzgerald
1909