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Which one of composer/pianist Anthony Davis' operas
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Since 1987, who has held the position of director of jazz
at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York
City?
Of what profession were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale
Hurston, and Countee Cullen, major contributors to the
Harlem Renaissance?
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Who wrote Clotel , or The President’s Daughter , the
first published novel by a Black American in 1833?
Who published The Escape , the first play written by a
Black American?
What is the given name of blues great W.C. Handy?
What aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville
native, served as editor of three African American
weeklies: the Indianapolis Recorder , the Freeman , and
the Indianapolis Ledger ?
Nat Love wrote what kind of stories?
Cartoonist Morrie Turner created what world famous
syndicated comic strip?
Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is
called “Father of the Blues”?
Georgia Douglas Johnson was a poet during the Harlem
Renaissance era. She often held writers’ workshops at her
home in what city?
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Growing up with a white Jewish mother and an AfricanAmerican father, who wrote Devil in a Blue Dress , A
Red Death , White Butterfly , and Black Betty ?
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Strongly influenced by Alice Walker's The Color Purple ,
what award-winning author created the enduring
character of Easy Rawlins featured in a series of novels?
Known for his social and political views, who published
The Souls of Black Folks in 1903?
Who was the first Black American woman chosen as
Miss America?
In addition to her outstanding career as a singer, what was
Marian Anderson appointed to by President Dwight D.
Eisenhower?
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Malcolm X
Wynton Marsalis
Writers
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown
William Christopher Handy
William Alexander
Chambers
Westerns
Wee Pals
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Washington, D.C.
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Name the three journalist sons of educator, poet, and
author Ephraim Poston?
What Hopkinsville natives and brothers owned and
edited The Detroit Contender ?
Gustavus Vassa was a slave who had written the first
autobiography. His African name was Olaudah Equiano.
How many volumes made up his narrative?
Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond was born in
Georgetown, British Guiana and penned what book that
consists of a collection of ten stories?
In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the
Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is a twotime winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which
became a motion picture, and in 1993 for Jazz . Name
her.
Ulysses, Robert, and Ted
Poston
Ulysses and Robert Poston
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Born in Hopkinsville, KY, what pianist and arranger
formed his own jazz band and recorded the albums Your
Daddy's Dogin' Around and Blues for the Red Boy?
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been a prominent figure
in jazz since the 1980s. He is the spokesperson for what
group, representing a younger generation of jazz
musicians?
This first Gloria Naylor novel consisted of tales from
seven black women who wound up on a dead-end street
in a ghetto in the North. It was made into a television
movie. What is the name of the novel?
What New York library houses rare collections of Black
culture?
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In the 1930s and early 1940s many female gospel groups
were founded. Which group started as a male gospel
The Roberta Martin Singers
ensemble but added female voices in the 1940s?
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The Young Lions
The Women of Brewster
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The Schomburg Center
What was the name of Charles W. Chestnut’s final novel? The Quarry
For what work did August Wilson win two Pulitzer
The Pittsburgh Cycle
Prizes for Drama?
Sallie Martin was the “mother of gospel music.” She and
Thomas A. Dorsey founded what group in 1933?
Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing what
Black American magazine?
George Shirley was a tenor and member of what opera
company?
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Gospel Choirs and Choruses
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the Metropolitan Opera
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What Broadway show became the longest running oneperson show in the history of Broadway?
What was the name of the first novel published by
Charles W. Chestnut?
What Ted Poston work was published after his death in
1974?
What is the name of the sculpture designed as a tribute to
the four Black girls killed during a church bombing in
Alabama in 1963?
What is the name of the newsletter which was originally
edited by W.E.B. Du Bois and published by the NAACP
in 1910?
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What is the name of the Harlem club where many famous
The Cotton Club
Black American entertainers began their careers?
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Popularized by the 1923 musical Runnin' Wild , what
1920s dance is believed to have started in a coastal city of
South Carolina?
What musical genre emerged from three heavily
populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the
Piedmont, and East Texas?
Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now , a platinum hit by Gene
McFadden & John Whitehead was known as what in
1979?
Vibraphone player Lionel Hampton started his career in
1936 with which band?
Ernest J. Gaines is a short story writer who wrote a 1971
historical novel turned television movie whose main
character was a 110 year-old woman who narrated her
Formerly the Virginia Theatre, what became the first
Broadway theater to bear the name of an African
American in 2005?
What Harlem theatre is a showcase for Black talent?
What author promoted her first novel, Mama , by
contacting colleges and universities?
What is the name of the Grammy award winning gospel a
cappella sextet whose hits include Spread Love and
David & Goliath ?
“Go Down, Moses” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble
I’ve Seen” are known as what type of songs?
Music historians refer to what type of music as the first
Black American music?
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The Lady and Her Music
The House Behind the
Cedars
The Dark Side of
Hopkinsville
The Crucifixion
The Crisis
the Charleston
The blues
the Black National Anthem
the Benny Goodman
Quartet
The Autobiography of Miss
Jane Pittman
the August Wilson Theatre
The Apollo
Terry McMillan
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This director, screenwriter and actor was born in Atlanta
but relocated to Brooklyn, where he later established a
film company. Whether working with a low-budget and
unknown actors or Hollywood heavyweights, his films
continue to be controversial and push racial boundaries.
Spike Lee
Name him.
Who directed an award-winning documentary about the
government's response to Hurricane Katrina and ways in
which the storm's aftermath affected African-Americans?
In 1938, who was the first gospel singer to record for a
major record label, Decca Records?
For what talent did Elizabeth Taylor-Greenfield receive
worldwide acclaim?
Spike Lee
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
Singing in a range of 27
octaves
Sidney Poitier, Dorothy
Dandridge, Pearl Bailey,
Sammy Davis, Jr.,
Brock Peters, Diahann
Carroll, Ivan Dixon,
Clarence Muse
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Porgy was a black musical play that had its debut in
1927. It became a film in 1959 entitled Porgy and Bess
and had an all-star black cast. Name two of the
actors/actresses that performed in this film?
Currently the pastor of a large congregation in Raleigh,
North Carolina, this well-known female singer worked
with the gospel group The Caravans established by
Albertina Walker. Name her.
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Born in Christian County, KY, in 1944, who later became
executive producer for the film, The Eye Can Story , a 30minute documentary created to promote the self-esteem
Shirley A. Bacon Nwangwa
of teenagers and to deter early sexual involvement?
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Elizabeth Catlett Mora is a graphic artist and printmaker.
For what other type of work is she best known?
Specializing in portraits of black leaders, Harlem
Renaissance arts educator Augusta Savage was what type
of artist?
Who wrote the song Maple Leaf Rag?
The operas A Guest of Honor and Treemonisha were
written by whom in the early 1900s?
What musical instrument does jazz musician Grover
Washington, Jr. play?
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What Black American took jazz vocals to a new level and
was called “The Divine One” because of her range and
Sarah Vaughan
effortless mastery of the intricacies of music?
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Sculpture
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Scott Joplin
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In 1926 the Soul Stirrers were the first gospel quartet to
add a second lead to solo over the usual four-part
harmony. In 1950 what singer joined this group?
Roots, the miniseries, was aired eight nights in 1977 with
nearly 130 million viewers. Its 1979 sequel was named
what?
Kunta Kinte was one the characters in what Alex Haley
book?
What Alex Haley novel was made into a television miniseries in 1977 and 1979?
What one-time Negro League professional baseball
player, turned-artist created collages on the lifestyles of
blacks in the 1960s?
What artist’s painting is entitled After Church?
Who was the first Black American painter to win national
recognition?
What famous Black American writer encouraged Ralph
Ellison’s efforts to become a writer?
What music is regarded by many as a form of street
poetry?
Published in 1982, Alice Walker’s novel The Color
Purple became a monumental bestseller and won what
coveted awards?
Joshua Johnson made his living in the early 1800s with
what profession?
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For what style of music were the Ward Singers famous?
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Published in 1771, what book brought Phillis Wheatley
wide acclaim?
Scott Joplin played his ragtime music on what
instrument?
Poems on Various Subjects,
Religious and Moral
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Roots: The Next Generation
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Romare Bearden
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Robert Scott Duncanson
Richard Wright
Rap
Pulitzer Prize and National
Book Award
Portrait painter
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What medium did Gordon Parks use to describe Black
Americans deprivation and racial discrimination?
Julian Abele was involved in the design of what
museum?
In 1905 the first black symphony was founded. What was
it called?
In what city was Marian Anderson born?
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Photography
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Concert
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Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally
recognized for his writing?
Who wrote the poem “A Negro Love Song”?
Creators of bebop known today as modern jazz, Charlie
Parker and Dizzy Gillespie played what musical
instruments?
What was the occupation of Laura Wheeler Waring?
The “father of gospel music” was Thomas A. Dorsey. He
composed how many songs?
For what profession is Leona Mitchell known?
Where was Ralph Ellison, the famous Black American
novelist, born?
Who is the controversial poet and author of My House is
Divided into Two Sections who emerged from the Black
Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became a
professor of English?
In 1955, Arthur Mitchell became the first black man to
dance for a major ballet company in 1955. Name the
company.
What city known for jazz music had great influence on
Mahalia Jackson?
“Bentwa” was a musical instrumental unique to Africa.
What kind of instrument was it?
Ralph Ellison turned to writing after his career in what
field was not successful?
What was the name of the newspaper started by Malcolm
X?
What Black American cartoonist created the world
famous “Wee Pals”?
In 1969 this photojournalist became the first black male
and the first black journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. Who
was he?
Born in Owensboro, KY, who was the first African
American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography?
In what state was Langston Hughes born?
In 1963, Katherine Dunham became the first Black
American choreographer to work at what New York City
Theater?
Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia , was the first
original script by a Black women to be produced?
This multifaceted author started her career as an
entertainer. She is also a poet who delivered her poem
“On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton’s
inauguration in 1993. What is her name?
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Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Parker (alto saxophone);
Gillespie (trumpet)
Painter
over 1000
Opera Singing
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Nikki Giovanni
New York City Ballet
New Orleans
Musical Bow
Music
Muhammad Speaks
Morrie Turner
Moneta Sleet, Jr.
Moneta Sleet, Jr.
Missouri
Metropolitan Opera House
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What famed opera singer was known as “The Lady from
Marian Anderson
Philadelphia”?
Who portrayed “Ulrica” in the Musket Ball, was named
to the US Delegation to the United Nations, and was
Marian Anderson
awarded the Freedom Medal?
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Who was the first Black American singer to be admitted
Marian Anderson
to the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York?
The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)
refused to let her perform at Constitution Hall in
Marian Anderson
Washington, D.C. in 1939. Who was she?
What is the name of the Marion Marche Perkins sculpture
that won the Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Award in
Man of Sorrow
1951?
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She was known as the “queen of gospel music.” Her first
recording “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold over a
Mahalia Jackson
million copies in 1945. What was her name?
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Brumsic Brandon, Jr. is best known for what comic strip? Luther
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Five years after acting in the television mini-series Roots,
he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in
Louis Gossett, Jr.
An Officer and A Gentleman. What is his name?
Who played the character “Fiddler” in the television miniLou Gossett, Jr.
series Roots in 1977.
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Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in The Sun ? Lorraine Hansberry
On January 21, 1973 where did opera singer Jessye
Norman perform to a sellout crowd in the Great
Lincoln Center
Performers series?
Published in 1907, what was the title of the first of six
Light and Shadows
Claybron Merriweather books?
Gordon Parks was voted “Photographer of the Year” in
1960 while working for what popular magazine?
Who was the first black to perform at the opening of the
new Metropolitan Opera House in 1966?
Who is the author of Before the Mayflower ?
Life
Leontyne Price
Leone Bennett, Jr.
This pastor and journalist was the religious editor at the
Leonard S. Grooms
Hopkinsville Globe Journal for six years. Name him.
Under what name did poet Amiri Baraka publish some of
Le Roi Jones
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What writer created the character Jesse B. Semple, the
quintessential middle-aged man in Harlem?
What is the name of the colorful fabric worn by African
royalty?
What city is known as the “jazz capital of the
Southwest?”
Robb Armstrong is the creator of what cartoon strip
which features the trials and tribulations of Joe and
Marcy?
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What Black American was acclaimed for his involvement
Julian Abele
in the design of the Philadelphia Museum of Art?
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Kenta Cloth
Kansas City, Missouri
Jump Start
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Who was best known for her role as Bloody Mary in the
1949 Broadway stage production of South Pacific?
Playwright August Wilson had two Broadway plays run
at the same time. Name them.
What was the name of the first publication of jazz
arrangements?
What form of music did Duke Ellington elevate into a
serious art form?
What type of music did Louis Armstrong revolutionize
and help establish as the nation’s first highly popular
Black art form?
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What type of music with an emphasis on improvisation
began in New Orleans around the 1900s?
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What is the name of the main character in the Zora Neale
Janie Crawford
Hurston novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God ?
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Joe Turner’s Come and
Gone and Fences
Jelly Roll Blues
Jazz
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This Grammy award winning gospel singer, arranger, and
composer who worked with many groups and large choirs
in the 1950s and 1960s is credited with being the most
significant driving force behind the creation of the
James Cleveland
contemporary gospel sound. Name him.
What famous Black author said, “Black writers do more
than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of
James Baldwin
racial oppression”?
In 1972 Kathleen Battle made her professional debut as
an opera singer at the Spoleto Festival in what country?
In 1953, Ralph Ellison received the National Book
Award for what book?
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Invisible Man
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The collection of William Alexander Chambers, writer
for the Indiana Herald and editor of three African
American weeklies, is housed where?
The first work authored by a black female former slave,
what was the name of Harriet A. Jacobs' 1861 work?
Nominated for a National Book Award, what is Maya
Angelou's first autobiography?
Who was the author of Black Metropolis written in
1945?
Incidents in the Life of a
Slave Girl
I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings
Horace Clayton
Who wrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin ? Harriet Beecher Stowe
Entited Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , whose 1861
work was the first to be authored by a black female
Harriet A. Jacobs'
former slave?
What term refers generally to the artistic and sociocultural awakening among black people in the 1920s and
Harlem Renaissance
early 1930s?
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Zora Neal Hurston became a leading figure in the Black
cultural movement known as what?
What section of New York City became the capital of
urban Black American culture?
Who was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer
Prize?
Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry
Annie Allen in 1949?
Who won a Tony Award for his performance in the
Broadway musical Jelly’s Last Jam ?
What type of folk art was seen on the New York subway
cars in the 1970s that was a phenomenon among the
urban youth?
Popular in the 1920s and 1930s, what type of musical
groups were the Harmonizing Four and the Dixie
Hummingbirds?
Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive
an Academy Award. She won for Best Supporting
Actress for what 1939 film?
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Who penned the 1982 novel The Women of Brewster
Place later made into a 1989 television miniseries
starring Oprah Winfrey, Jackee Harry, Robin Givens,
Lynn Whitfield, Larenz Tate, Moses Gunn, and Leon?
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Harlem
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks
Gregory Hines
Graffiti
Gospel quartets
Gone With the Wind
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Who made the stainless steel sculpture of two wing like
shapes framed by neon lights at the entrance of the Miami
Frederick Eversley
International Airport?
Who wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
Frederick Douglass
an American Slave in 1845?
Pulitzer Prize winning Black American playwright,
Frederick August Kittel, Jr.
August Wilson was born with what name?
Who was the first Black American woman to have a full Frances Ellen Watkins
Harper
length novel published?
for colored girls made its dramatic debut in 1974 and
was written by Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toefor colored girls who have
ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay). What is the full title of this
considered suicide/when the
rainbow is enuf
essay?
Who was the first Black American woman to be
Florence Price
recognized as an award-winning composer?
Who wrote the play All God’s Chillun Got Wings starring
Eugene O’Neill
Paul Robeson?
What Black American artist created the Peanut Man
Elmer Stoner
character for Planters Peanuts?
Who was the first Black American to achieve fame as a
Edmonia Leis
sculptress?
What Black American cartoonist became famous for the
E. Simms Campbell
cartoon “Cuties”?
What 1987 play, written by Alfred Unry, became a movie
Driving Miss Daisy
in 1989?
Who founded the DuSable Museum of African-American
Dr. Margaret Burroughs
History, located in Chicago, Illinois?
Frequently called The Fire Next Time , what was the
name of James Baldwin’s 1963 bestseller, which
Down at the Cross
electrified both Black and White Americans?
A painting of what African American performer was
unveiled in 1902 at the coronation of King Edward VII
Dora Dean
and exhibited at the Paris Expo?
After over forty years, who became the second black
actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
What is the name of the opera singer who sang at
President George W. Bush’s inauguration in 2005?
She is a dancer-choreographer who is also a director and
producer. She was involved with the television show
Fame. Name her.
Appeal , a book of anti-slavery literature, was written by
what Black American?
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Denyce Graves
Debbie Allen
David Walker
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What was the name of the movie that was based on the
life of Stephen Bantu Biko, a South African freedom
fighter?
Cry Freedom
Who wrote The Lost Zoo , a classic children’s book?
What was the name of the first published novel written by
a Black American, William Wells Brown?
Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson were writers
of the Harlem Renaissance period. Which one of them
was born in Jamaica?
Alice Walker’s Meridian is a novel about what?
James W.C. Pennington was a slave narrator born on the
eastern shore of Maryland. His story shows the
consequences of slavery on whom?
Countee Cullen
Who wrote The African Origin of Civilization in 1969?
Performing in evening attire, these stars of The Creole
Show were the first African American couple to perform
on Broadway. Name them.
Who is the author of “The Destruction of Black
Civilization”?
In 1982 what Kentucky State University museum became
a major repository for the collection of artifacts, books,
and records related to its history of educating black
citizens?
For what 1954 film was Dorothy Dandridge the first
black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination
for Best Actress ?
Beauford Delaney liked to paint what subjects?
Go Tell it on the Mountain , the first novel of James
Baldwin written in 1953 was about what?
Cheikh Anta Diop
Name at least three national renowned 20th Century tap
dancers.
Who wrote the book Born to Rebel ?
What prolific writer published twenty-three articles,
hundreds of shorter pieces, and ten books including The
Negro in the American Revolution in 1961 and Moorg
Against Tide & Patterns in 2005?
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Clotel (or The President's
Daughter)
Claude McKay
Civil Rights Movement
Children
Charles Johnson and Dora
Dean
Chancellor Williams
Center of Excellence for the
Study of Kentucky African
Americans (CESKAA)
Carmen Jones
Black writers and artists
Black ghetto life
Bill Bailey; Charles “Honi”
Coles; Sammy Davis, Jr.;
Savion Glover; Gregory
Hines; Maurice Hines;
Fayard Nicholas; Harold
Nicholas; Bill “Bojangles”
Robinson
Benjamin Mays
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In 1988 Black American author Toni Morrison was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for what novel?
What Hopkinsville native penned the children's books
Happy to be Nappy and Be Boy Buzz ?
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were innovators of
what type of music in the early 1940s?
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, graduated from
what high school in Hopkinsville, Kentucky?
In 1969, who founded the Dance Theater of Harlem, the
first professional all-black classical ballet company?
What is the name of the Pulitzer Prize winning book of
poetry written by Gwendolyn Brooks?
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Best Supporting Actor for his work in what film?
Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934, what poet and
playwright is nicknamed LeRoi Jones?
Dubbed by Maya Angelou as "the world's greatest living
poet," what controversial writer, college professor, and
political commentator lost his position as New Jersey's
poet laureate after fallout from his controversial 9/11related poem?
This dancer-choreographer founded his own dance
company in 1957 and developed Revelations one of the
best known, most often seen modern dance performances.
Name him.
What real life person did Halle Berry portray in the TV
miniseries Queen?
Who wrote “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”?
This writer won a Pulitzer Prize chronicling his sevengeneration family from West Africa in the story Roots.
Name him.
In 1979, Katherine Dunham received what prestigious
award?
What type of dance rhythm and movements did Katherine
Dunham introduce in America?
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Moneta Sleet, Jr., became the first African American to
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An Officer and A
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Amiri Baraka
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Alex Haley’s paternal
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Noted sports editor Edward Clayton was the first editor of
what popular magazine?
Historians report that there are about how many
published slave narratives in book length, newspapers, or
transcribed from interviews?
In what year did the first Broadway play written by a
Black American woman open in New York?
In what year did Marian Anderson debut as the first
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The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in what
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The first known slave narrative was A Narrative of the
Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of
Briton Hammon, a Negro Man . In what year was it
1760
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How many operas did the composer Scott Joplin write? 2
Miles Davis was a trumpeter of cool jazz, modal jazz, and
jazz rock. He served as a bandleader for how many
2
classic quintets in his career?
In 1975, who became the first African American to own
and operate a television station in the United States,
WGPR-TV in Detroit, MI?
William Venoid Banks
Born in Geneva, KY, who became the owner of the first
black radio station in Detroit, in 1964?
William Venoid Banks
Who built San Francisco’s first hotel and opened
California’s first public school?
Who was the first African American appointed to the
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What is the real name of Famous Amos?
Wally Amos
What colonial era crop had a significant shortage of
workers which demanded a large number of Africans to
be imported to the Americas?
Tobacco
What was the full name of Hopkinsville native Ted
Poston, New York Post reporter/author?
Theodore Roosevelt
Augustus Major Poston
What was the name of the enterprise Barney Ford formed The United States Hotel and
Restaurant
in Nicaragua?
While in New York, Ulysses Poston created what daily
African American newspapers?
The Negro World and The
New York Contender
In 1917 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen founded
The Messenger
a radical monthly magazine called what?
Who was a reporter for the New York Post and regarded
as journalism’s “Father of Minorities”?
Ted Poston
What Hopkinsville native was the first African American
reporter for The New York Post and covered many of the
Ted Poston
race disputes in the South?
Who was known as the “Dean of the Negro
Newspapermen”?
T. Thomas Fortune
Paul Cuffe owned what kind of company?
Ship building and shipping
What was Madame C.J. Walker’s real name?
Sara Breedlove Walker
Who was the founder of the National Negro Finance
Corporation?
Robert Moton
Who became the first African American billionaire in
2001?
Robert "Bob" Johnson
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Renee Shaw
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Negro Free Masonry?
Prince Hall
Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously
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Philadelphia Tribune
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P. G. Corbin & Company
Oprah Winfrey
What Hopkinsville native was elected to the Indiana
House of Representatives in 1956 and later became a
journalist for the Indianapolis Recorder and Hoosier
Herald ?
Opal L. Tandy
Born in 1810, who was William Leidesdorff?
One of the first Black
American millionaires
Dr. Louis C. Roudanez founded this first daily black
newspaper in 1864. Name it.
New Orleans Tribune
Created by John H. Johnson in 1943, what publication
similar in form to Reader’s Digest was later replaced by
Black World?
Negro Digest
What was the name of the first magazine published by
John H. Johnson?
Negro Digest
Generating revenues over $88 billion dollars annually,
how many black-owned businesses were there in the
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nearly 1.2 million
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What was the name of the first Black American radio
network?
National Negro Network
What Black American woman founded the National
Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls,
Inc.?
Nannie Helen Burroughs
What occupation do Iman, Beverly Johnson, and Naomi
Sims have in common?
Modeling
What company’s popular commercial featured a tape
recording of Ella Fitzgerald’s voice shattering a glass?
Memorex
Who was the first Black network television anchor?
Max Robinson
Who was the first Black American woman bank
president?
Maggie Lena Walker
Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold
throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her to
Madam C.J. Walker
become the first African American female millionaire?
Who is the current Chairman and CEO of Johnson
Publishing Company?
Linda Johnson Rice
Who published the first Black American women’s
newspaper in the US?
Josephine Ruffin
Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the
New York Stock Exchange?
Joseph L. Searles
Established in 1945, this publisher of Ebony and Jet
magazines is the world's largest black-owned publishing
company. Name it.
Johnson Publishing
Company
Baltimore’s newspaper, the Afro-American, was founded
John H. Murphy
by what former slave?
The Johnson Publishing Company was founded in
Chicago in 1945 by what person?
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Who founded the magazine Ebony ?
John H. Johnson
Freedom's Journal , the first black newspaper published
in America, was founded in 1827 in New York City by
whom?
John B. Russwurm and
Samuel E. Cornish
What company has a successful series of television
commercials that started in 1974 and features Bill Cosby? Jell-O
In 1981 Pam Johnson became the first black woman to
control which mainstream daily publication?
Ithaca Journal
Who was the founder and president of the first Black
American national labor union in 1869?
Isaac Myers
Opal Tandy, journalist and Hopkinsville native,
purchased the newspaper Hoosier Herald and changed
its name to what?
Indiana Herald
Who was the first Black American to become captain of
an American merchant marine ship?
Hugh Mulzac
During the first two-thirds of the seventeenth century
what two countries dominated the African slave trade?
Holland and Portugal
What is the name of Oprah Winfrey’s TV production
company?
Harpo Productions
What did Madam C.J. Walker invent in 1905 that was
sold door-to-door?
Hair care preparation
products
Returning to Kentucky after serving in the Union Army
during the Civil War, Peter Postel, Sr. opened what type
of business?
Grocery store
What periodical was the first black newspaper published
Freedom’s Journal
in the United States?
The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by
which abolitionist in 1847?
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What company was the largest slave-trading operation in
Franklin and Arnold
the south?
What 1915 natural disaster ruined crops and homes of
many farmers in the Mississippi Valley region?
Flooding
What was the name of Bill Cosby’s first bestselling
book?
Fatherhood
What magazine is called “The Magazine of Today’s
Black Woman”?
Essence
What country secured a monopoly over the slave trade to
England
the New World in 1713?
What famous Black American was a reporter on the CBS
Ed Bradley
television program 60 Minutes?
What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in
1945?
Ebony
Who founded the publication Black Enterprise in 1970?
Earl G. Graves, Sr.
Who was the founder of the first African-American
female-owned Wall Street financial services corporation. Patricia Garrison-Corbin
Blues artist Mamie Smith sold nearly a million copies of
Crazy Blues
what song in 1920?
From 1913 to 1915 price reductions of what crop hurt the
Southern farmers and brought on an economic
Cotton
depression?
What record company helped bring Mahalia Jackson’s
gospel music to a large audience?
Columbia Records
Bernard Shaw was the Chief Washington Correspondent
CNN
for what major television station?
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Claybron W. Merriweather
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Where was Ephraim Poston, owner and editor of the
newspaper Hopkinsville Contender , born?
Clarksville, TN
For what is Wally Amos famous?
Chocolate chip cookies
In 1954, Mahalia Jackson began a weekly radio program.
CBS
On what radio network was the show aired?
Who founded the National Negro Business League in
1900?
Booker T. Washington
What was the name of Marcus Garvey’s shipping
company that was owned and operated entirely by
Blacks?
Black Star Line
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
Black Newspaperwoman
Who was the first Black man to appear on the cover of
Life magazine?
Billy Eckstine
Bill Cosby, Tim Reid,
Debbie Allen, Quincy Jones,
Name at least two black 1980s television show producers. and Keenan Ivory Wayans
In 1924, Walter White published a best-selling novel The
Bigotry
Fire in the Flint , which covered what subject?
Who was the first Black American to appear on the cover
Beverly Johnson
of Vogue magazine?
In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company
BET
to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
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From 1893 until the 1950s, Nancy Green served as the
world's first living trademark as the image what product? Aunt Jemima pancake mix
What company was founded in Harlem in 1940 to
provide opportunities for black actors, writers and
directors as well as technicians?
American Negro Theatre
Created by Rodney J. Reynolds in 1994, this magazine
that focuses on black history and culture.
American Legacy
In 1910 about fifty percent of black labor force was
employed in what industry?
Agriculture
Slaves held a variety of tasks such as skilled craftsmen,
trappers, nurses, and house servants. What work did the
majority of slaves perform?
Agricultural labor in the
Southern colonies (They
worked in the fields.)
What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March on
A. Philip Randolph
Washington?
In the agricultural field some former slaves were
sharecroppers. What was meant by this term?
A tenant farmer would give
his share of crops raised to
the landlord as rent
Blues vocalist, song writer, and guitarist John Brim also
owned what businesses in Chicago?
a dry cleaning business and
a record store
Ed Bradley was a member of what news team?
60 Minutes
What was the name of Eddie Murphy first movie which
grossed over 100 million dollars and propelled him into
movie stardom?
48 hours
By 2002, revenues for black-owned businesses rose to
what amount, accounting for 5% of all nonfarm
businesses in the United States?
$88.6 billion
In what year did A. Philip Randolph organize the union,
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
1925
One of the first black organized labor unions, the
Associated Colored Employees of America was formed in
1917
what year?
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Northern industries experiencing an economic boom
during World War I contributed to the Great Migration
beginning in what year?
1915
In what year did Maggie Lena Walker become the first
Black American woman bank president?
1903
Born a slave in North Carolina, Peter Postel, Sr.'s estate
was later valued at $500,000 as owner of a merchant
business in Hopkinsville. In what year was he born?
1841
In what year did the first African indentured servants
arrive at Jamestown, Virginia?
1619
Before A. Philip Randolph established a successful labor
union for black train porters, approximately how much
$2.00
money were these workers paid per day?
Who was the first Black American woman to have her
own weekly television series, Julia?
Diahann Carroll
What organization helps fund over forty Black American
United Negro College Fund
colleges?
What is the name of the institute that was founded by
Booker T. Washington in 1881?
Tuskegee Institute
What Austin Peay State University building was named
for a civil rights activist and a pastor of the St. John
Missionary Baptist Church in Clarksville, TN?
the Wilbur N. Daniel
African American Culture
Center
Under what name was North Carolina Central University
founded in
The National Religious
Training School of Durham
1910 by James E. Shephard?
Originally named Ohio African University, Wilberforce
University in Ohio was founded in 1843 by members of
what church?
Raising $150,000 over seven years, this choir from
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Nashville traveled around the world singing spirituals and
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Elaine Farris became the first African American school
superintendent in Kentucky in 2004 over what school
district?
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Smith College
(Northampton,
Massachusetts - 1995) and
Brown University
(Providence, Rhode Island 2001)
Shelby County
Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of
being America's oldest historically black college for
Spelman College
women?
Who presented a bill to Congress in 1968 that would
enable Black Americans to control education, business,
and social services within Black American communities? Roy Innis
Cheyney University in Pennsylvania was funded by a will
Richard Humphreys
from what Philadelphia Quaker in 1832?
Who was the first Black American to receive a degree
from Harvard University?
Richard Greener
Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African
American student to be accepted at Austin Peay State
University in Clarksville, Tennessee?
Reverend Wilbur N. Daniel
Who was the first Black American to receive a doctorate
Patrick Healy
in Physics from Yale University?
In 1865, Fisk University was founded in what city?
Nashville, Tennessee
Centenary Biblical Institute was established in Baltimore,
Maryland, in 1865 by blacks after the Civil War. Under
Morgan State University
what name does it operate today?
What college, originally established as August Institute,
was organized by three ministers in the basement of a
Baptist church in 1867?
Morehouse College
From what college did Martin Luther King, Jr. graduate? Morehouse College
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The University of the District of Columbia was organized
Miner Normal School
by free black women in 1865 under what name?
In 1904 the Daytona Normal and Industrial School in
Daytona Beach, Florida was founded by whom?
Mary McLeod Bethune
Born in Trigg County, KY, what first African American
student at Murray State University had to be escorted to
class by the police and the university president?
Mary Ford Holland
Made to what is now Alcorn State University, the first
land grant for a black college was made in 1871 in what
in city?
Lorman, Mississippi
Founded in 1886, what Kentucky university was
originally named the State Normal School for Colored
Persons?
Kentucky State University
There is one Historically Black College and University
(HBCU) in Kentucky. Name it.
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Josh Brown
Who was the first Black American woman president of
Spelman College?
Johnetta Cole
Who was the first Black American to graduate from
college?
John Russwurm
Josh Brown correctly spelled what word in 1993 to
become the first African American to win the Kentucky
Education Association President's Spelling Bee?
jodhpurs
Who was the first black student to be admitted to the
University of Mississippi in 1962?
James Meredith
Who was refused admission to the University of
Mississippi in 1961, forcing US Marshals to escort him to
James Meredith
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Christian County native Elder Watson Diggs was the first
African American graduate from what university's School
Indiana State University
of Education?
Where did young Dr. Carter G. Woodson learn his
ABC’s?
In farm fields
In 1913 Delta Sigma Theta sorority was formed at what
university?
Howard University
What is the name of the famous Black college in
Washington, D.C. where Dr. Charles Drew taught
medicine?
Howard University
Who was the first African American woman admitted to
the University of Louisville Law School?
Hortense Houston Young
Receiving a doctorate in education in 1960, who was the
first African American to earn a Ph.D. at the University
Horace E. Tate
of Kentucky?
The United Negro College Fund was established in 1944
to provide financial support to students who are enrolled Historically black colleges
and universities (or HBCUs)
in what educational institutions?
W.E.B. Du Bois was the first Black American to receive
Harvard University
a Ph.D. from what prestigious university?
Rhodes Scholar and Hopkinsville native Raymond Burse
Harvard Law School
attended what law school graduating in 1978?
Hampton University in Virginia was originally
established under what name in 1868?
Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute
What state has the most black institutions of higher
learning?
Georgia
What US federal government agency founded over 4000
Freedmen’s Bureau
schools, including Howard University?
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African-Americans in higher education in the United
States.
David A. Brennen
Clark Atlanta University,
Spelman College,
Morehouse College, and
Morehouse School of
Medicine
What county had the first school libraries for Kentucky
Negro children in 1892 and the libraries first for Negro
teachers in 1898?
Christian County, KY
In 1981 Jewel Plummer Cobb became the first black
woman president of what major university?
California State University
at Fullerton
Who was the principal at Tuskegee Institute who
recruited and hired George Washington Carver?
Booker T. Washington
Who championed the principle of industrial/vocational
education for black people?
Booker T. Washington
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What great Black American educator influenced Marcus
Garvey’s commitment to self improvement?
Booker T. Washington
Mary McLeod Bethune practiced the philosophy of what
Booker T. Washington
prominent educator?
Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary
McLeod Bethune found?
Bethune-Cookman College
In 1866, what library was the first desegregated library in
Berea College Library
Kentucky and the South?
What Kentucky college was integrated with black and
white students in 1858, but discontinued the biracial mix
Berea College
in 1904?
Angus A. Burleigh was the first adult African American
to attend and graduate from what Kentucky college?
Berea College
Who was the first Black president of the school board in
Benjamin E. Mays
Atlanta, Georgia?
This, the first and only black college consortium, was
founded in 1929. Name it.
Atlanta University System
This graduate of Howard University Medical School was
the first African American woman to pass the medical
Artishia Garcia Gilbert
boards and become a doctor in Kentucky. Name her.
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Born free and later sold into slavery after his father's
death, who became the first adult African American to
Angus A. Burleigh
graduate from Berea College?
Charles W. Anderson is credited with a number of early
Civil Rights measures including what Act which
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Howard University?
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Alabama
Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, originally named
Ashmun Institute in honor of the first governor of Liberia,
a Presbyterian church
was founded by a pastor of what church in 1854?
In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court order school
integration?
1955
Xavier University was the first black Catholic college. It
opened in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1915 as a high
school. In what year was the college department added? 1925
In what year were the post-Civil War colleges Clark,
Claflin, Dillard, and Tougaloo founded?
1869
The African Methodist Episcopal Church founded
Edward Waters College in Live Oak, Florida in what
year?
1866
Fisk University was established in Nashville, Tennessee
as a liberal arts institution in what year?
1865
Cheyney State, the oldest Black American college, was
founded in what year?
1837
How many historically black colleges and universities are
105
there today in the United Sates?
How did Barney Ford make his fortune?
As a hotel and restaurant
owner
Where did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., get his doctorate? Boston University
What American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and
Entertai composer was the leader of the first Black American band
nment to play in Carnegie Hall?
William "Count" Basie
Entertai Who played the role of Celie in the movie version of
nment Alice Walker’s best-selling book, The Color Purple ?
Whoopi Goldberg
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Entertai What Black actress won a Academy Award for her
nment The
supporting
role in theActress
movie Ghost?
Best Supporting
award for this 1990
Whoopi Goldberg
411
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nment she?
Whoopi Goldberg
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What artist recorded the songs, “I Will Always Love You,
”The Greatest Love of All”, and “I Wanna Dance with
Somebody”?
Classic blues singers, Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie
Smith, Mamie Smith, and Alberta Hunter, were women
who came out of what performance tradition?
Who is the award-winning recording/performing/video
artist who recorded the platinum album called The
Comfort
Zone?
In 2001, for
what film did Denzel Washington become
the second African American man to win an Academy
Award for Best Actor?
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Entertai Harry Belafonte became the first black to receive an
nment Emmy for what show in 1959?
417
Entertai The Guinness Book of World Records lists what Michael
nment Jackson album as the best selling album of all times?
Thriller
419
Entertai What was Chubby Checker’s longest running hit song on
nment the Top 40 charts?
The Twist
420
Boasting twelve number one singles on the Billboard Hot
Entertai 100 charts, what female singing group was the most
nment successful American vocal group of all time?
The Supremes
Whitney Houston
Vaudeville
Vanessa Williams
Training Day
Tonight with Belafonte
422
The first rap song to achieve commercial success was
Entertai “Rapper’s Delight.” What was the name of the group who
nment Dionne
The Sugar Hill Gang
recordedWarwick
this single
1979? hits on the Billboard
hadinnumerous
Entertai music charts. Say A Little Prayer and I’ll Never Love
nment This Way Again went gold. She recorded Then Came
The Spinners
423
Entertai In the 1920s the Lindy Hop was made famous at this
nment Harlem dance venue.
421
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Entertai Gets in Your Eyes and was inducted into the Vocal
nment What
Grouptelevision
Hall of Fame
and Rock
and Rollover
Hall25ofEmmy
Fame.
program
has received
Entertai awards and has been the highest-rated talk show in
nment television history?
Entertai James Bland wrote “Oh Dem Golden Slippers” which is
nment the theme song for what group?
427
Entertai In what TV series was a character named “Buckwheat”
nment one of the stars?
424
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In what motion picture did Bill “Bo Jangles” Robinson
teach Shirley Temple the famous Stair Dance?
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992,
who recorded the song "Twist and Shout"?
The Platters
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Mummers
The Little Rascals
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three
dance stepswas
from
the Disco
“Boogie
Wonderland”
Earth,
Wind era?
& Fire’s only
the Hustle, the Bump, and
the Bus Stop
431
Entertai Disco song. What was the name of the group of ladies
nment that sang with them on this record?
The Emotions
432
Entertai Lena Horne began her career as a singer and dancer in
nment what New York entertainment club?
The Cotton Club
433
Entertai What producer/songwriter originated the New Jack
nment Swing?
Teddy Riley
434
Entertai In 1941, what jazz piece performed by Duke Ellington
nment and his orchestra became an instant hit?
Take the A Train
435
Entertai On the TV series Magnum, P.I., what was Roger
nment Mosely’s nickname?
T.C.
436
Entertai Who was the second black woman to be crowned Miss
nment America?
Suzette Charles
437
Entertai In his role in the movie Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,
nment Sidney Poitier practiced what profession?
Surgeon
438
Entertai What was the first record company to market rap music to
nment the national audience?
Sugar Hill Records
439
Entertai Alice Walker advised what movie director during the film
nment production of her best selling book, The Color Purple ?
Steven Spielberg
428
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Entertai
nment Who became Hollywood’s first Black millionaire actor?
Entertai Actress Nichelle Nichols is best known for her role in
nment what television series?
442
Entertai
nment What is MC Hammer’s real name?
440
The Little Colonel
The Isley Brothers
Stepin Fetchit
Star Trek
Stanley Kirk Burrell
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Entertai In 1972, Cicely Tyson was nominated for Best Actress
nment for her performance in what film?
Sounder
444
Entertai What will be the longest, continuously running, first-run
nment In
syndicated
television
program
least 2016?
1989, Rock
and Roll
Hall ofuntil
Fameatinductees
included
Soul Train
445
Entertai The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, and this
nment gospel quartet that once featured Sam Cooke. What is
Soul Stirrers
446
Entertai What was the name of the music and dance television
nment show hosted by Marilyn McCoo?
#
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These artists helped create the Funk music style were
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
Name the group.
During Paul Robeson’s appearance in Emperor Jones, he
was asked to whistle, but he did what instead?
Born in 1957, what is the full name of the director of the
movie Do the Right Thing?
What TV comedy show made Eddie Murphy a household
name?
Solid Gold
Sly & the Family Stone
Sing
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What multi-faceted
was Louis Armstrong’s
entertainernickname?
and 1960s star of
Satchmo
452
Entertai Broadway's Golden Boy began his career on the
nment vaudeville stage at age three?
Sammy Davis, Jr.
453
Entertai Who was the first black entertainer to sleep in the White
nment House?
Sammy Davis, Jr.
454
Entertai The popular sitcom Amos 'n' Andy originally aired as a
nment radio program with what name?
Sam 'n' Henry
455
Entertai Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986,
nment who
the number
one 1957
hit clothing
"You Send
Me"?
This recorded
hip-hop mogul
has a record
label,
line,
Sam Cooke
449
Shelton Jackson "Spike"
Lee
Saturday Night Live
457
beverage and
Entertai movie production companies. He initiated the careers of
nment LL Cool J
Russell Simmons
Entertai What was the name of the first hip-hop group to break
nment into the mainstream American culture in the early 1980s? Run-DMC
458
Entertai In 1986, Dexter Gordan was nominated for an Oscar for
nment his performance in what film?
456
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Entertai
nment What was John Elroy Stanford’s stage name?
Redd Foxx
463
Entertai Howard Rollins received an Oscar nomination for what
nment movie?
Ragtime
464
Entertai What is the stage name of female rapper and actress Dana
nment Owens?
Queen Latifah
465
Entertai In 2003 she was nominated for an Academy Award for
nment Which
Best Supporting
Actress in
the film
rap artist founded
Flavor
UnitChicago.
RecordsWho
and is she? Queen Latifah
466
Entertai Management that
nment handles rap and new-style rhythm and blues groups?
467
Entertai
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1984
movie
did artist
Prince have
a starring
hip-hop
group
that created
the theme
songrole? Purple Rain
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What actor and stand up comedian warned others of the
dangers of drug abuse after his own near death
ANSWER
What is Little Richard’s given name?
Richard Pennington
For what type of music was Bob Marley famous?
Reggae
Richard Pryor
Queen Latifah
“Fight the Power” to Spike Lee’s film Do The Right
Public Enemy
Thing.
What instrument did Count Basie play, while leading his
Piano (or organ)
group ”The Count Basie Orchestra”?
469
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470
Entertai
nment What musical instrument did Nat King Cole play?
Piano
471
Entertai What is the name of Debbie Allen’s sister who appeared
nment on the Cosby Show?
Phylicia Rashad
472
Entertai Bill Cosby, Will Smith and Kobe Bryant were born in
nment “the city of brotherly love.” What is the name of the city? Philadelphia
473
Entertai What song has become Count Basie’s theme song and
nment was later recorded by many different music groups?
One O’clock Jump
474
Entertai What was the name of the famous jazz band Louis
nment Armstrong joined in Chicago in 1922?
Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
475
Entertai In 1950 Sidney Poitier made his film debut in what
nment movie?
No Way Out
468
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477
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Entertai
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Who was the first Black American master of ceremonies
Nipsey Russell
of a nationally televised show?
The Cotton Club, The Savoy, and Small’s Paradise were
Nightclubs
major among what type of social venue during the
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Entertai
nment In what city was Louis Armstrong born?
New Orleans
479
Entertai Who won a Grammy Award in 1992 for “Unforgettable”,
nment a musical tribute to her late father?
Natalie Cole
480
Entertai What was the name of the first successful TV variety
nment show starring a Black American?
#
Nat King Cole Show
482
Initially popular with his jazz trio, he shifted to
mainstream pop music and achieved international acclaim
along with a bit of criticism for that shift and for playing
Entertai segregated clubs in the South. Name this popular
nment entertainer whose variety show aired in 1956.
Nat King Cole
Entertai Influenced by pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines, he was
nment interested in music early on and played piano and sang in Nat King Cole
483
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Who was the
star ofTamla
the 1977
movie
Greatest?
dubbed
Records
in The
1959,
what highly
481
successful record company did Berry Gordy, Jr.
incorporate in 1960?
What is the music-related nickname of Detroit,
Michigan?
Muhammad Ali
485
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486
Entertai
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What was
“Ma”
Rainey’s
nickname?
rapper
known
for such
albums as Black on Both
Mother of the Blues
487
Entertai Sides began rhyming at age nine in his hometown of
nment Brooklyn, New York?
Mos Def
488
Entertai The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin recorded how many
nment albums?
More than 50
489
Entertai For what film did Halle Berry win an Academy Award
nment for Best Actress in 2001?
Monster’s Ball
490
Entertai What is the name of the singer-dancer who performed the
nment “Moonwalk” in the 1980s?
Michael Jackson
491
Entertai Who played the role of the Scarecrow in the movie
nment version of The Wiz ?
492
Entertai What pop rock star devoted much of his life and music to
nment his belief that “children are our future”?
Michael Jackson
493
Entertai In 1984, what Black American singer won eight Grammy
nment Awards?
Michael Jackson
484
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Motown
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CATEG
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Entertai What movie is based on the events of the life of Navy
nment master diver Carl M. Brashear?
Men of Honor
495
Entertai In 1912, W.C. Handy, father of the blues, published what
nment song, one of the first to be published on sheet music?
Memphis Blues
496
Entertai
nment Who is called the “queen of hip-hop soul?”
Mary J. Blige
497
Entertai Who was the female lead singer of 5th Dimension, a
nment popular group of the 1960s and 1970s?
Marilyn McCoo
498
Entertai What early 20th century artist was the first blues singer to
nment have a recording contract?
Mamie Smith
499
Entertai What actor played the role of Bill Cosby’s son Theo on
nment The Cosby Show?
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
500
Entertai What musical artist released the hit album Power of
nment Love ?
Luther Vandross
501
This trumpet player was also a vocalist and was the first
Entertai to use a technique known as scat singing. What was his
nment name?
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong
502
Entertai What famous singer hosts the annual Parade of Stars in
nment order to raise money for the United Negro College Fund? Lou Rawls
503
Entertai What was the given name of popular comedienne and
nment pioneer of African-American vaudeville, Moms Mabley? Loretta Mary Aiken
504
Entertai James Todd Smith is the given name of what
nment rapper/actor?
LL Cool J
505
Entertai Who played the character of “Denise” in the Cosby
nment Show?
Lisa Bonet
506
Entertai What was the given name of Stepin Fetchit, the first black Lincoln Theodore Monroe
nment actor to become a millionaire?
Andrew Perry
507
Entertai In 1963 Sidney Poitier became the first Black American
nment to win the Best Actor Oscar for his role in what film?
508
Entertai Chic had five records during the Disco era. Three of them
nment went gold. Name the 1978 record that went platinum.
Le Freak
509
Entertai
nment Billie Holiday’s life was the subject of what famous film? Lady Sings the Blues
510
Entertai What does the nickname of rapper and actor LL Cool J
nment stand for?
Ladies Love Cool James
511
Entertai Who played the role of Dwayne Wayne on the TV series
nment A Different World?
Kadeem Hardison
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Entertai Who was regarded as a master guitar player and
nment She
developed
a program
the guitar?
witnessed
the EastforSt.learning
Louis riots
in 1917 and
Justin Howard
513
Entertai immigrated to France just six years later. She was a
nment singer, dancer, nightclub owner and a member of the
Josephine Baker
514
Entertai
nment Who was the leader of the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band? Joseph Oliver
515
Entertai Who was the first Black American musician to perform
nment Born
concert
in tours?
1968, who directed such films as Boyz N the
#
Joseph Douglass
517
Entertai Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Baby Boy, and 2
nment Fast 2 Furious?
Entertai
nment What was the given name of comedian Redd Foxx?
518
Entertai
nment What
was
Dizzy Gillespie’s
real name?
Born in
Hopkinsville,
Kentucky,
what guitar and
John Burks Gillespie
519
Entertai harmonica player worked with "Sonny Boy" Williamson
nment and Muddy Waters?
John Brim
520
Entertai What famous singer played guitar for Little Richard
nment before starting his solo career?
Jimi Hendrix
521
Entertai Cuba Gooding, Jr., a Bronx native, won the award for
nment Best Supporting Actor in 1996 for what film?
Jerry Maguire
522
Entertai
nment What was Ferdinand Morton’s nickname?
Jelly Roll
523
Entertai Who provided the voice for Darth Vader in the movie
nment Star
Wars?
His style
of funk music and dance led the way for Disco
James Earl Jones
524
Entertai and Hip Hop. Known as the “hardest working man in
nment show business” and "the godfather of soul," who is he?
James Brown
525
Entertai What Kentucky native and martial artist starred in the
nment films Enter the Dragon and Black Belt Jones?
James "Jim" Kelly
526
Entertai What is the surname of singers LaToya, Janet, and
nment Michael?
Jackson
527
Entertai What Black American female comic was known as
nment “Moms”?
Jackie Mabley
528
Entertai
nment Name the singer whose nickname is “Little Moses.”
Isaac Hayes
529
Entertai Keenan Ivory Wayans is the producer of what TV
nment comedy show?
In Living Color
516
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John Elroy Sanford
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Entertai Quincy Jones wrote a full length score for what
nment In
Hollywood
movie?
1991 there
were eight inductees to the Rock and Roll
In Cold Blood
531
Entertai Hall of Fame including a husband and wife duo who sang
nment “Proud Mary” in 1969. Who are they?
Ike and Tina Turner
532
Entertai What Gloria Gaynor hit won her a platinum record in
nment 1979?
I Will Survive
533
Entertai Bill Cosby won two Emmy Awards in the 1960s for his
nment performance in what TV series?
I Spy
534
Entertai Count Basie won his first Grammy Award in 1963 for
nment What
instrumental
arrangement
of what song?
Motown
song writer/producer
trio was inducted
I Can’t Stop Loving You
535
Entertai into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Rock
nment and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990?
Holland, Dozier, & Holland
536
Entertai What song recorded by Louis Armstrong became the
nment nation’s number on record in 1964?
Hello Dolly
537
Entertai What was the name of the group that sang the platinum
nment record “Boogie Nights” in 1977?
Heatwave
538
Entertai Who was the first Black American woman to win an
nment Academy Award?
Hattie McDaniel
539
Entertai In 1959, who became the first black to receive an Emmy
nment award?
Harry Belafonte
540
Entertai What company produced the 1989 television miniseries
nment The
Brewster
ThisWomen
former of
beauty
queenPlace
from?Ohio started her career as Harpo Productions
541
Entertai a model. In 2001 she won the Academy Award for Best
nment Actress. Who is she?
Halle Berry
542
Entertai Musician and Hopkinsville native John Brim taught
nment himself to play what two instruments?
Guitar and harmonica
543
Entertai Sidney Poitier starred in a famous movie about an
nment interracial marriage. What was the name of the movie?
Guess Who’s Coming to
Dinner
544
Entertai What was the name of the first screenplay produced by a
nment This
Blacktalented
American
woman?
blues
singer/artist was blind at an early age, Georgia, Georgia
545
Entertai raised chickens in his childhood, and taught himself to
nment play music. Fusing spirituals with folk music, he
Gary Davis
546
Entertai What actor played Charlie “Bird” Parker in the 1988
nment movie Bird?
Forest Whitaker
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Entertai Raised in Detroit's Brewster-Douglas housing project,
nment name two of the founding members of The Supremes,
ANSWER
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Wilson, Diana Ross, and
548
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nment Nell
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Flip Wilson
549
Entertai Misbehavin' whose title song was composed in 1929 by
nment whom?
Fats Waller
550
Entertai Whose well known songs include “Ain’t That a Shame,
nment “I’m Walkin”, and “Poor Me”?
Fats Domino
551
Entertai What is the nickname of pianist and singer-songwriter
nment Antoine Dominique Domino?
Fats
552
Entertai What song was the first hit for Gladys Knights and the
nment Pips?
Every Beat of My Heart
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554
What two actress played the roll of Beulah, a
Entertai housekeeper in the 1950s television spin-off of the radio Ethel Waters and Louise
nment What
Beavers
show Fibber
McGee and
Molly?
Black American
jazz
pianist and composer is
Entertai known for the ballad Misty and 1955 recording Concert
nment by the Sea ?
Erroll Louis Garner
556
Entertai Famed jazz singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915 with
nment what name?
Entertai
nment What was Duke Ellington’s given name?
557
Entertai
nment Who starred in the box office hit Trading Places?
558
Entertai
nment Who starred in the blockbuster movie Beverly Hills Cop? Eddie Murphy
559
Entertai
nment Who was a sidekick on The Jack Benny Show?
560
Entertai James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson were featured in what
nment dramatic series from 1963 to 1964?
East Side, West Side
561
Entertai What 1989 movie won several Academy Awards,
nment including Best Picture?
562
Entertai What was the name of the character played by Bill Cosby
nment in
Dr. Cliff Huxtable
The Cosby
Show? as "The Black Venus," what
Known
in vaudeville
563
Entertai Kentucky native created the Cake Walk dance with her
nment husband Charles?
Dora Dean
564
Entertai What was the birth name of international vaudeville
nment performer Dora Dean?
Dora Babbige
555
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Eleanora Fagan
Edward Kennedy Ellington
Eddie Murphy
Eddie “Rochester”
Anderson
Driving Miss Daisy
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CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
The
uncut versions of Donna Summer and Gloria
ANSWER
Donna Summer’s “Love to
Love You” was about
fourteen minutes. Gloria
565
Entertai Gaynor’s records are around fourteen minutes and
nment nineteen minutes, respectively. What are the names of
566
Entertai From 1975 to 1980 this Disco star had eight gold records
nment and two platinum records. Name her.
Donna Summer
567
Entertai Who was the creator, director, and host of the popular
nment television show Soul Train from 1971 to 2006?
Don Cornelius
569
Entertai What famous musician’s trademark was puffing cheeks
nment and a trumpet bell that pointed skyward?
Dizzy Gillespie
570
Entertai
nment Who is called “The Queen of the Blues”?
Dinah Washington
571
Entertai What Black American actress had roles in the movies A
nment Raisin in the Sun and Blues for Mr. Charlie ?
Diana Sands
572
Entertai What performer was nominated for an Academy Award
nment The
for Best
in the
1972
Lady Sings
filmActress
Glory was
based
onfilm
America’s
first the
unitBlues?
of black Diana Ross
573
Entertai soldiers in the Civil War. Who won the award for Best
nment Supporting Actor of this 1989 historical film?
Denzel Washington
574
Entertai What role did Jester Hairston play on the TV sitcom
nment Amen?
Deacon
575
Entertai What Saturday Night Live alumnus co-starred with Eddie
nment Murphy in the hit motion picture Trading Places?
Dan Akroyd
576
Entertai In the 1950s, Joe Williams's vocals were featured on what
nment Pianist
Count Basie Orchestra
band's albums
such as One
Jumpand
? a great
Duke Ellington
was O'Clock
a bandleader
577
Entertai composer who played at what famous New York City
nment club from 1927 to 1931?
578
Entertai Eddie Murphy played an African prince in what motion
nment picture?
The television production of The Autobiography of Miss Coming to America
Cotton Club
580
Entertai Jane Pittman starred what actress who traced her family
nment history from slavery to the Civil Rights era?
Entertai
nment Who starred in the movie A Woman Called Moses ?
581
Entertai
nment He
Who
the song
“Johnny BBandstand
Good” popular?
gotmade
his break
on American
in the 1960s for Chuck Berry
582
Entertai recording, dancing, and popularizing the twist. Name
nment him.
579
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Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson
Chubby Checker
#
583
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
Entertai Name the orchestra of which Ella Fitzgerald sang with
nment and eventually became the leader.
Chick Webb Orchestra
585
Herbie Hancock began studying piano at age seven and
Entertai performed with what orchestra in a young people’s
Chicago Symphony
nment concert?
Evelyn King received gold records for her songs Shame Orchestra
Entertai (1978) and I Don’t Know If It’s Right (1979). What was
nment this artist's nickname?
Champagne
586
Entertai
nment Eartha
played what
role in
thepianist
Batman
series?
Born inKitt
Princeton,
KY, what
jazz
played
with
584
Cat Woman
589
greats such as Woody Herman, Coleman Hawkins and
Entertai John Coltrane as well as for singers such as Diana Ross,
nment Big Maybelle, and Dinah Washington?
Bross Elvie Townsend, Jr.
In the mid-1970s what form of dancing where the dancer
Entertai flipped and spinned developed from the Disco scene in
nment the Bronx?
Breakdancing
Entertai Name the Grammy award-winning Philadelphia quartet
nment that sold over 4 million copies of their album Cooley
Boyz II Men
590
Entertai
nment B.B. King is noted for what type of music?
Blues
591
Entertai What New York City nightclub was named after Charlie
nment Parker?
Birdland
592
Entertai What was the nickname of renowned jazz musician
nment Charlie Parker?
Bird
593
Entertai Who composed Duke Ellington's orchestra’s theme song,
nment “Take
Billy Strayhorn
the by
A Train”
in 1941?
Portrayed
Diana Ross
in the film Lady Sings the
594
Entertai Blues, what was the name of the singer whose song
nment “Strange Fruit” became her signature piece?
Billie Holiday
595
Entertai What famous female vocalist toured with “The Count
nment Basie Orchestra”?
Billie Holiday
596
Entertai Considered the greatest blues singer of the 1920s, what
nment artist was known as the “empress of the blues”?
Bessie Smith
597
Entertai
nment “Ma” Rainey taught what singer how to sing the blues?
Bessie Smith
598
What non-performer, founder of Motown was inducted
Entertai into the hall of fame in 1988 with The Drifters and The
nment Supremes?
Berry Gordy, Jr.
599
Entertai
nment Robert Guillaume starred in what TV series?
Benson
587
588
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CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
600
Entertai What was the nickname of jazz saxophonist Coleman
nment Hawkins?
Bean
601
Birthplace of Billie Holiday, Pennsylvania Avenue
Entertai became the center of black life through the 1930s in what
nment city?
Baltimore
602
Entertai
nment Who is known as the “Queen of Soul”?
Aretha Franklin
603
What all-black situation comedy television show started
Entertai as a radio program in the 1920s to 1950s whose actors
nment were all white?
Amos ‘n’ Andy
604
Entertai
nment Vanessa Bell appeared on what soap opera?
All My Children
605
Entertai Who sang the theme song for the hit TV series
nment Moonlighting?
Al Jarreau
606
Entertai What platinum song was called the “Black National
nment In
Anthem”
1979?
1943, ininwhat
film did pianist Fats Waller perform and Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now
#
608
Entertai Stormy Weather portray Lena Horne singing the title
nment song?
Entertai
nment By what other name is jazz musician Fitz Jones known?
609
Entertai
nment What was Ira Aldridge’s profession?
607
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Ahmad Jamal
Actor
611
Hazel Payne and Janice Johnson sang the platinum record
Entertai “Boogie Oogie Oogie” in 1978. What is the name of
nment their group?
A Taste of Honey
Entertai Sang by Diahann Carroll, this song was made popular in
nment the film version of Porgy and Bess . Name it.
“Summertime”
612
Entertai
nment What is the name of B.B. King’s guitar?
“Lucille”
Entertai
nment Name at least three songs recorded by Donna Summer.
“Love to Love You” (1975),
“I Feel Love” (1977), “Last
Dance” (1978), “MacArthur
Park” (1978), “Heaven
Knows” (1979) with
Brooklyn Dreams, “Hot
Stuff” (1979), “Bad Girls”
(1979), “Dim All the
Lights” (1979), “On the
Radio” (1980), and “The
Wanderer” (1980).
610
613
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CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
What
recording, performed by Count Basie and sung by
ANSWER
614
Entertai Frank Sinatra, was played on the moon by US Astronauts
nment on July 20, 1969?
“Fly Me to the Moon”
615
Entertai What hit song made Ella Fitzgerald a national celebrity at
nment the age of 20?
“A Tisket, A Tasket”
616
Entertai Well-known Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley was
nment inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what year? 1994
In what year were Dinah Washington, Ruth Brown and
Etta James inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame? “Blue” Bland, Booker T. and the MG’s, The Jimi
Bobby
Hendrix
Experience, and The Isley Brothers were inducted into
the
Rockyear
andwere
Roll musical
Hall of Fame
whatArmstrong
year?
In what
artistsinLouis
and
Hank Ballard inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame.
In What year did Driving Miss Daisy win the Oscar for
Best Picture?
617
Entertai
nment
618
Entertai
nment
619
Entertai
nment
620
Entertai
nment
621
Entertai
nment In what year did the cartoon strip Herb and Jamaal debut? 1989
1993
1992
1990
1989
624
In what year were The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis
Entertai Redding, and the Soul Stirrers inducted into the Rock and
nment Roll Hall of Fame?
1989
In what year, were artists Marvin Gaye, B.B. King,
Entertai Smokey Robinson, Jackie Wilson, and Aretha Franklin
nment included
1987
into the Sam
RockCooke,
and Roll
Fame?were
Robert Johnson,
andHall
RayofCharles
Entertai inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what
nment year?
1986
625
Entertai
nment In what year did Quincy Jones win five Grammy awards? 1983
626
Entertai In what year did the cable network BET begin
nment Robert
broadcasting
videos?
"Bob"music
Johnson
founded Black Entertainment
1980
627
Entertai Television Cable
nment Network (BET) in what year?
1979
628
Entertai
nment The book Roots was made into a movie in what year?
1977
629
Entertai The “old school” rap group Grandmaster Flash and the
nment Furious Five was formed in what year?
1977
630
Entertai In what year did Lena Horne appear in the movie Stormy
nment Weather?
1943
622
623
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CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
631
Entertai In what year was the movie Off to the Bloomingdale
nment Asylum released?
1902
632
Entertai For how many weeks did Chubby Checker’s hit song,
nment The Twist, stay on the top 40 charts?
33
633
Entertai How many black artists were inducted into the Rock and
nment Roll Hall of Fame in 1987?
12
634
Entertai What was the amount of the first royalty check for Berry
nment Gordy, Jr., founder of Motown Records?
$3.40
#
Entertai What Clarksville, TN native won the Miss USA pageant
1760 nment in 2007
635
636
637
638
What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black
History youth?
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s executive
History assistant?
Rachel Smith
YMCA
Wyatt Tee Walker
History Where did the “sit-in” movement begin?
Woolworth’s store in
Greensboro, North Carolina
History How did Denmark Vessey gain his freedom in 1799?
Won money in a lottery and
purchased his freedom
641
This slave narrator was also an antislavery lecturer,
novelist, dramatist
History and historian. Name him.
William Wells Brown
Who was the first black born in colonial America at
History Who
Jamestown,
helped Virginia?
form the “American Moral Reform Society”, William Tucker
which helped Blacks acquire farms and aided runaway
History slaves in their escape to Canada?
William S. Whipper
642
History Who was honored as the pioneer of nonviolent protest?
639
640
643
History
644
History
645
History
646
History
647
History
Who was the first African American deputy sheriff in
Christian
County
in 1968?
The
modern
Pentecost
movement originated from the
Azusa Street
Revival held in Los Angeles in 1906 under the leadership
What influential Congressman became Executive
Director of the United Negro College Fund?
What was the full name of NAACP founder W.E.B. Du
Bois?
Who was the first Black American to receive the
Congressional Medal of Honor?
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William S. Whipper
William O. Dillard, Sr.
William J. Seymour
William H. Gray, III
William Edward Burghardt
Du Bois
William Carney
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ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
In 1624 what was the first black child born in English
America named?
Benjamin Banneker assisted in the survey of what major
US city? in 1905 to challenge Booker T. Washington’s
Initiated
leadership and to protest against the lynchings and
disenfranchisement of black voters, the Niagara
What civil rights leader was co-founder of the NAACP
and the Pan-African Movement?
648
History
649
History
650
History
651
History
652
653
What state's government passed a law that formally
History In
recognized
asTurner
an institution
in 1661?
what stateslavery
did Nat
lead a slave
revolt that killed Virginia's
History 55 white people?
Virginia
654
Who was President of the United Negro College Fund
and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban
History League?
655
History The
Whatfirst
state
was the
first to abolish
African
American
lawyerslavery?
for a New Jersey State Vermont
656
Farm Insurance firm, Ollen Hinnant was the first African University of Kentucky Law
History American inducted into what law school's Hall of Fame
School
657
658
659
What organization formed in 1914 by Marcus Garvey
History promoted racial pride and self improvement?
What was the name of the network of hiding places
History which helped slaves to escape to freedom?
The 1890s was called the “women’s era” in black history
because of the rise of the black women’s clubs and
movement. For what reasons were these clubs and
History associations formed?
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William Tucker
Washington, DC
W.E.B. Du Bois and
William Monroe Trotter
W.E.B Du Bois
Vernon Jordan, Jr.
Universal Negro
Improvement and
Association and African
Communities League
Underground Railroad
to provide social services
and promote racial and
gender equality for women
in their communities
#
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661
662
663
664
665
666
667
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
What attorney argued the case Abbington v Board of
Education of Louisville resulting in the Louisville School
Board agreeing to cease teacher salary discrimination if
History Ms. Abbington agreed to drop her lawsuit?
Thurgood Marshall
They were black people
who left the South after
Reconstruction who settled
in Kansas in 1879
The students waited and left
at the end of the day. The
next two days students from
the college and white
students from a local
women’s college
formed a “sit-in.” Since that
incident many sit-ins were
organized throughout the
South to protest segregated
seating at public institutions.
History Who were the Exodusters?
In February 1960 four students from Greensboro
Agricultural and
Technical College in North Carolina sat at a whites-only
lunch counter and asked to be served. The waitress
History What
refused.
What
happened
was
the first
seriousnext?
uprising among slaves took
place in 1739 and resulted in passage of the Negro Act,
History In
which
placed
restrictions
on themany
ability
of slaves
the early
nineteenth
century
slaves
were in South The Stono Rebellion
converted to Christianity during this national religious
revival during 1790-1830 that occurred throughout the
the Second Great
History plantations of the South.
Awakening
History
History
History
What anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick
Douglass?
In 1787 black Methodists Richard Allen and Absalom
Jones established what nondenominational religious
association first
and mutual
aidAfrican
society?
Nashville's
ordained
American minister,
Nelson Merry founded what church of more than 2,000
members,bythe
church
Tennessee
during
Inspired
thelargest
Atlanta
child in
murders
of the
early his
1980s,
what James Baldwin book-length essay was published in
1985?
668
History
669
On January 1, 1863 what significant declaration did
History President Lincoln issue?
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The North Star
the Free African Society of
Philadelphia
The First Colored Baptist
Church
The Evidence of Things Not
Seen
The Emancipation
Proclamation
#
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
671
What native American tribe named James Beckwourth a
History chief and called him “Bull’s Robe”?
In 1870 the third black Methodist denomination was
founded under what name later changed in 1954 to the
History Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in America?
672
James Forma wrote what document that demanded $500
million to be collected from White churches and
synagogues for payment of injustices suffered by Black
History Americans?
673
What was the first learned society specifically devoted to The Association for the
the professional study of black history by Carter G.
Study of Negro Life and
History Woodson in 1915?
History
674
the African Methodist
Episcopal Church (AME) in
1816 and the St. Thomas’s
Which two black churches emerged from the Free
African Episcopal Church in
History Founded
African Society?
before the American Revolution on the William 1794
670
Byrd plantation near the Bluestone River in
Mecklenburg, Virginia, the first known black church was
What term is used to describe the second leg of the
triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the
Americas between 1520 and 1860?
Who was the fourth chairman of the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee?
In 1960, what did four Black American students do at a
whites-only lunch counter to protest discrimination?
The Crow
the Colored Methodist
Episcopal Church in
America
The Black Manifesto
the African Baptist or
“Bluestone” Church
675
History
676
History
677
History
678
History
679
In 1972, Gordon Parks received what prestigious award
History presented by the NAACP?
680
What ancient statue in Egypt has the head of a human and
History the body of a lion?
Sphinx
681
Slaves were known to revolt against the slave system. In South Carolina (twenty
History 1739 the Stono Rebellion occurred in what colony?
miles west of Charleston)
682
What orator delivered a powerful anti-slavery speech in
History 1851 at a convention on women’s rights in Akron, Ohio? Sojourner Truth
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The “Middle Passage”
Stokely Carmichael
Staged a sit-in
Springarn Medal
#
683
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
What
preacher and abolitionist helped raise money for
ANSWER
gifts for Civil War soldiers; gave rousing, inspirational
History anti-slavery speeches working with both black and white Sojourner Truth
The black cowboys that came with white landowners who
settled in Texas were usually what class of people?
Paul Cuffe established a lucrative trade partnership with
what African
What
was the country?
name of the system in which Black
Americans farmed someone else’s land and received a
split ofwas
thethe
season’s
crop?
What
original
reason for establishing the Black
Panther Party?
What was the first southern city to integrate all of their
public facilities?
684
History
685
History
686
687
History
History
688
History
689
History Who was known as the “Black Daniel Webster”?
Slaves
Sierra Leone
Sharecropping
Self Defense
San Antonio, Texas
Samuel Ward
692
What Black American was Associate Director of the
History Peace Corps?
Who was the first African American woman admitted to
History the Kentucky Bar?
What Black American sparked the “Montgomery Bus
History Boycott”?
693
History Who started the first Black American church in Vermont? Rodney S. Patterson
694
History With whom did the term “Black Power” originate?
690
691
695
History
696
History
697
History
698
History
699
History
He was born a slave in Philadelphia and purchased his
freedom. He became the founder and bishop of the
African Methodist Episcopal church in 1816. Who was
he?
Hopkinsville native, Raymond Burse earned what
scholarship and attended the University of Oxford,
majoring
in organic
and graduating
in 1975?
This minister’s
givenchemistry
name is Frederick
Eikerenkoetter
(I´keren-cotter). He established the United Christian
Evangelistic Association in 1962 and was the first black
minister
with
a television
What
is theConvention
name he isin
Who
made
a speech
at theshow.
National
Negro
1843 that made people regard him as one of the most
militant abolitionists?
Known as the “dean of black preachers” he became
pastor of Concord Baptist Church in the BedfordStuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York in 1948?
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Samuel Proctor
Sally J. Seals White
Rosa Parks
Richard Wright
Richard Allen
Rhodes Scholarship
Rev. Ike
Rev. Henry Garnet
Rev. Gardner C. Taylor
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
700
The flag representing the Black Movement is comprised
History of what three colors?
Red, Black, and Green
701
What term describes the turbulent period of time marked
by twenty-five race riots that began in the summer of
History 1919 and lasted until the end of the year?
Red Summer
#
703
704
What do many historians call the period immediately
History Born
Reconstruction
following
the Civil War?
in Hopkinsville,
KY, the youngest of the twelve
children, what student athlete declined football
scholarships to attend Centre College, where he majored
History After
in chemistry
math
andJr’s
graduated
in 1973?
Martin and
Luther
King
death, who
succeeded him Raymond M. Burse
History as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership
Ralph Abernathy
705
What civil rights leader and clergyman organized the
History famous “poor people’s campaign” in Washington D.C.?
706
History What
associate
with the
“Jim Crow”?
Duringdid
themany
1960s,
what erupted
in term
Philadelphia,
Chicago, Racial segregation
707
and other major cities due to the turbulent social and
History political climate?
Race riots
708
History Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863?
President Abraham Lincoln
702
709
710
George Washington commended what Black American
History woman for her literary achievements?
In what city was the first National Negro Convention
History held?
Ralph Abernathy
Phillis Wheatley
Philadelphia
People who rode segregated
buses and trains
711
History Who were the “Freedom Riders”?
712
The "PUSH" in Operation PUSH, founded by Rev. Jesse People United to Serve
History Jackson, stand for what?
Humanity
713
What was the name of Father Divine’s movement, which
History emphasized social equality?
Peace Missions
714
History
715
History
716
717
History
History
Founded in 1923 by Charles S. Johnson, the official
publication
of the
Urban approximately
League is called
what?
Between
1915
andNational
the mid-1920s
how
many blacks left the rural South to urban areas of the
North and the West as part of the Great Migration?
In 1955 who became the first African American graduate
of the
University
Kentucky
Law School?
The
Black
PantherofParty
was founded
in what California
city?
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Opportunity
one million
Ollen B. Hinnant, II
Oakland
#
718
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first Black American to
History win what prestigious award?
ANSWER
Nobel Peace Prize
719
History What African country has the largest population?
Nigeria
720
History In what city was Malcolm X arrested?
New York City
721
723
724
What city located in the Mississippi Delta has a blend of
History French,
New Orleans
Spanish,slave
Creole,
African
andbecame
Englishthe
cultures?
What Kentucky
freed
in 1845
first
ordained African American minister in Nashville,
History Tennessee?
Nelson G. Merry
Whitney Young advocated civil rights reform through
History what organization?
National Urban League
National Council of Negro
Women
725
History Dorothy Height was the president of what organization?
726
Mary McLeod Bethune was the founder and president of National Council of Negro
History what national association?
Women
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored
People
NAACP) for the
National(orAssociation
728
In 1909 W.E.B. Du Bois co-founded what national
History organization?
What national organization was founded on President
History Lincoln’s Birthday?
729
History What does the acronym NAACP stand for?
Advancement of Colored
People
730
History In 1949, what religious movement did Malcolm X join?
Nation of Islam
727
Advancement of Colored
People
NAACP) for the
National(orAssociation
733
In 1841 Frederick Douglass began his career as an
History Who
abolitionist
in what American
town?
was theorator
first African
missionary worker Nantucket
History and an organizer of the Olivet Baptist Church, one of the Nancy Green
Booker T. Washington was opposed to the founding of
History what organization in 1909?
NAACP
734
History Who became the first woman to chair the NAACP?
Myrlie Evers-Williams
735
What famous narrative was written by Solomon
History Northrup, a fugitive slave?
My Bondage & My
Freedom
736
By the time Thurgood Marshall reached the age of 40,
History what nickname had he earned from the press?
Mr. Civil Rights
731
732
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739
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
What was the nickname given to Harriett Tubman
History Dr.
Moses
because
of her
efforts
to free
the slaves?
Martin
Luther
King,
Jr. addressed
a rally of about
20,000 people in front of the capitol building in what city
History in 1965?
Montgomery, Alabama
What law prohibited slavery north and west of the 36-30
History parallel within the Louisiana Territory?
Missouri Compromise
742
As of July 1, 2007, which state, at 38%, had the highest
History What
percentage
black leader
population?
civil rights
from Mississippi was slain in
History He
1963?
worked for the NAACP and became the first field
secretary in Jackson, Mississippi. He was shot in June
History 1963. Who was he?
743
History In what state was Black nationalist Paul Cuffe born?
Massachusetts
744
Who founded the National Council of Negro Women in
History 1935 after six years of planning?
Mary McLeod Bethune
745
Who was referred to as “Black Mary” or “Stagecoach
History Mary”?
Mary Fields
746
Who is known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights
History Struggle in California?”
Mary Ellen Plesant
740
741
“Lifting as we climb” was the slogan of the National
Association of Colored Women. Name the organization's
first president.
What
is the name of the memorial center of which Coretta
Scott King was Chairwoman and Chief Executive
Officer?
She
helped organize the National Federation of AfroAmerican Women in 1896 and was known as the “lady
principal” of Tuskegee. Who was this wife of Booker T.
Washington?
Who was the founder of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association?
Who founded the first major Black American nationalist
movement that called for Blacks to move back to Africa?
747
History
748
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749
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750
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751
History
752
What Black leader promoted a nationalist movement
History similar in concept to Paul Cuffe’s?
753
754
Mississippi
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers
Mary
Church
MartinEliza
Luther
King,Terrell
Jr.
Center for Nonviolent
Struggle
Margaret Murray
Washington
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey
What famous march helped influence the Voting Rights
History After
March on Selma
Acts passed
Augustin1965?
a trip toinMecca
1964, this Muslim leader
changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Who was
History he?
Malcolm X
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QUESTION
ANSWER
757
What devoted follower of Elijah Muhammad left the
Nation of Islam in 1964 to form a militant group called
History Muslim Mosque?
Malcolm X
History What
Who founded
the Organization
of Afro-American
Unity? Malcolm X
Black American
allowed Gordon
Parks and Life
magazine to publish a major story on the Black Muslim
History Movement?
Malcolm X
758
History What was Malcolm X’s given name?
755
756
759
History
760
History
762
History
Malcolm Little
The Bible called her “The Queen of Sheba”. What was
the African
Queen
her people?
What
was the
namecalled
of theby
Indian
leader who became a
model for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s non-violent and
peaceful
movement?
Many
rural
black Kentuckians came to what city in
Kentucky after the Civil War to escape white vigilante
groups?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was fatally shot on the
balcony of what hotel and city in 1968?
In 1831, the World Anti-Slavery Convention opened in
what city?
Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison published what
periodical in 1831?
Gabriel Prosser was arrested and executed in 1800 for
what reason?
Which
black town in New Jersey was originally named
Free Haven?
Makeda
Mahatma Gandhi
Louisville
Lorraine Motel in Memphis,
Tennessee
763
History
764
History
765
History
766
767
History
History
768
Who was the first African-American postmaster in
History Kentucky and the second in the United States?
Laura Young
769
History Jorno
leader
of what
WhichKenyatta
state waswas
the afirst
in the
Southcountry?
to have trained
Kenya
770
772
773
774
London
Liberator
Leading a slave revolt
Lawnside
African American librarians and the first to have a library
History training program for African American librarians in
Kentucky
What woman, born in Hancock County, KY, became the
first African American switchboard operator at the U.S.
History Post Office in South Bend, Indiana in 1959?
Julia E. Jackson Aikens
What dictator secretly attended one of Marion
History Anderson’s performances?
Joseph Stalin
What indentured servant testified at a trial of a white man
in 1624 after proving was a free man because he was
History baptized in England in 1612?
John Phillip
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CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
What
Chicago abolitionist led a 12 year campaign to
ANSWER
775
abolish the Illinois Black Laws that denied Black
History American the right to vote?
John Jones
776
Who wrote From Slavery to Freedom , a comprehensive
History book on the history of Black Americans?
John Hope Franklin
#
777
History
778
History
779
History
780
History
What White abolitionist urged Frederick Douglass to join
the attack
onthe
Harper’s
Ferry?Awards, later named for
Who
started
Gold Medal
him, which recognized the highest or noblest
achievement
by a Black
American?
In
the late nineteenth
century
there was a system of laws
that enforced racial discrimination in the United States.
What was it called?
Who founded an economic program called “The People
United to Save Humanity”?
John Brown
Joel E. Springarn
Jim Crow
Jesse Jackson
783
In 1984, who negotiated the release of Lieutenant Robert
History Goodman, a prisoner held captive in Syria?
Jesse Jackson
What famous Black American founded the National
History Rainbow Coalition and Operation PUSH?
Jesse Jackson
Who said, “Every race and every nation should be judged
History by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst?" James Weldon Johnson
784
785
Who was the founder of CORE, the Congress of Racial
History Equality?
Ordained in 1854, who was the first black Roman
History Catholic priest and bishop in the United States?
James Farmer
James Augustine Healy
786
Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association (UNIA), founded a monthly
History magazine entitled Black Man in what country?
Jamaica
787
History Where was Marcus Garvey born?
781
782
788
Jamaica
It was the headquarters of
all Black regiments
What is the significance of Fort Huachuca (Hoo´-a-chu´- including the Buffalo
History ka)?
Soldiers for 20 years
789
History What was significant about the slave ship “Amistad”?
790
History What was “Freedom Summer?”
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It was controlled by slave
mutineers
It was a campaign in the
South to register black
people to vote during the
summer of 1964.
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792
793
794
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
It demanded economic and
employment opportunities
as well as civil rights.
It banned the “white
primary” which prevented
What was the significance of the 1944 US Supreme Court Blacks in the south from
History ruling in Smith v. Allwright?
voting
It abolished slavery in the
What was the purpose of the 1963 March on
History Washington?
What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation rebel states but not in the
History issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863?
border states
Elijah Muhammad traveled throughout the United States
History spreading the teachings of what religious movement?
Islam
796
What was Sojourner Truth’s name when she was a slave
History in Ulster County, New York?
In 1990, Jesse Jackson negotiated the release of 300
History hostages held in what country?
797
Who lost her teaching job due to a lawsuit against her for
refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked
History “Whites Only”?
Ida B. Wells
798
What Jesse Jackson chant was repeated by his supporters
History with a feeling of pride?
I Am Somebody
795
799
800
801
802
803
804
805
History As
Who
wereof
thethe
founders
the Black Panther
Party?
leader
boycottof
organization
in Montgomery,
Isabella Baumfree
Iraq
Huey P. Newton and Bobby
Seale
Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his initial
civil rights address at what church in Montgomery in
History 1955?
Which Presbyterian minister delivered a militant speech Holt Street Baptist Church
entitled “An Address to the Slaves of the United States”
in 1843 at the National Negro Convention in Buffalo,
History New York?
Henry Highland Garnet
What happened to Denmark Vessey after he was
History convicted of raising an insurrection against slave owners? He was hanged
He is an essayist, public
speaker, social activist,
author, and professor.
History Who is Cornel West?
Why was army hero Colonel John Pershing called “Black He commanded a Black
History Jack”?
Unit
Who sang spiritual songs to communicate with slaves she
intended to take north to freedom on the Underground
History Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
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CATEG
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QUESTION
ANSWER
What New York City neighborhood was known as the
History “Negro capital of the world”?
Harlem
Nat Turner was executed on November 11, 1831, for his
participation in a slave revolt. What method of execution
History was used?
Hanging
808
History
809
History
810
History
811
History
812
History
813
History
In 1961, W.E.B. Du Bois renounced his US citizenship
and became a citizen of what country?
Located on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, what town
became the first African American community in Monroe
County,
KY, in of
1846?
In
1961 groups
black and white volunteers traveled
together on bus trips in the South to test desegregation of
buses and restaurants. By what name was this group
In 1865 Congress established a relief agency to
administer to the needs of former slaves. What was it
called?
What is the given name of Rev. Ike, the first black
minister
with a of
television
show?
“The Meaning
July Fourth
for the Negro” was a speech
delivered in Rochester, New York in 1852 by what
abolitionist orator?
Ghana
Freetown, Kentucky
Freedom Riders
Freedmen’s Bureau
Frederick Eikerenkoetter
(I´keren-cotter)
Frederick Douglass
815
Who is often called “The father of the Civil Rights
History Movement”?
Born in 1916, who served as the first president of the
History Hopkinsville civic group Pioneers, Inc.?
816
How many months would a slave ship usually stay on the
African coast to wait for available Africans, food
History supplies, and the health of the Africans and crew?
Four to six months
817
Who financed and built the “Emancipation Statue” in
History Washington, DC’s Lincoln Park in 1879?
Former Slaves
818
History Who was Joel E. Spingharn?
Former president of the
NAACP
819
History How many books did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. write?
Five
820
First black president of the
History Frederick
For what isDouglass
Gloria Dean
Randle
Scott remembered?
provided
a powerful
voice for human Girl Scouts of America
821
rights and fought for the ratification of what amendment
History that guaranteed all citizens the right to vote, regardless of Fifteenth Amendment
814
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Frederick Douglass
Francis E. Whitney
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
In
the 1930s this federal organization compiled
ANSWER
822
testimonies of over 2,500 former slaves in 17 states that
History were published in the 1970s. Name the organization.
Federal Writers Project
823
History Black History Month is celebrated during what month?
February
824
825
Who was the first American born Black man to be
History What
ordained
a Roman
Catholic
religious
leader
set uppriest?
“Peace Missions” throughout Father Tolton
History the country?
Father Divine
826
History Who was recognized as the “First Lady of Civil Rights”? Fannie Lou Hamer
827
History Kwanzaa describes what African celebration?
828
History Who was the first Black American Catholic Archbishop? Eugene A. Marino
829
What was the Indian name of Chicago at the time of Jean
History Baptiste Pointe du Sable’s settlement?
Eschikagou
#
Fall Harvest
Escaping to Chicago via the
Underground Railroad
Ephraim Poston
833
Barney Ford, a former slave, gained his freedom by doing
History Whose
what? series Political Satires were published in the
History The
Kentucky
Newof
Era
from
1908-1912?
first wife
W.C.
Handy,
what Kentucky native died
of a brain hemorrhage at New York City's Knickerbocker
History Hospital due to a clerk's hour-long delay in admitting
834
History What was Elijah Muhammad’s given name?
Elijah Poole
830
831
835
836
837
838
839
840
841
842
Elizabeth P. Handy
He was born Elijah Poole. What was this Muslim leader’s
History Islamic name?
Elijah Muhammad
Who was the spiritual leader of the Nation of Islam from
History 1934 to 1975?
Elijah Muhammad
How many Southern states seceded from the Union to
History form the Confederate States of America in 1861?
Eleven
Cleopatra was considered a beautiful queen of what
History What
country?
Louisville native penned three books in 1964: The Egypt
Negro politician, his success and failure ; Martin Luther
History King: the peaceful warrior ; and The SCLC Story ?
Edward T. Clayton
Hartshorn Memorial College was established in the
History basement of what Baptist church in 1883?
President Richard Nixon presented the Presidential
History He
Medal
of Freedom
inCanaan
1969 toBaptist
what great
musician?
became
pastor of
Church
in Harlem in
1967. In the 1960s he was Executive Director of the
History Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Who
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Ebenezer Baptist Church (in
Richmond, Virginia)
Duke Ellington
Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker
#
843
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
Who was the first Black American to receive the Nobel
History Peace Prize in 1950?
844
On January 3, 1964, who did Time Magazine name as the
History first Black American “Man of the Year”?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
845
History He
Who
founded
the minister
Southernand
Leadership
Conference?
was
a Baptist
civil rights
advocate of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
846
1950s and 1960s. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
History in 1964. Who was he?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
847
History Who received the NAACP Key of Life Award in 1988?
Dorothy Height
Dexter Avenue Baptist
Church
849
What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s first
History Rodeos
church? were common around the 1880s and black
cowboys were a part of it. The most famous of the black
History cowboys was Nat Love. He was known as who?
850
What would have been a typical dinner for frontier
History explorer James Beckwourth?
Course grained buffalo meat
851
History What is the name of Dr. Martin Luther King’s widow?
Coretta Scott King
852
What led to a significant exodus of African American
History residents from Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1904?
Collapse of the tobacco
market
848
853
History
854
History
855
History
What famous Black American woman dedicated her life
to finding her lost family, which had been separated by
slave owners?
The word “carpetbagger” was first used during the
aftermath
of what
Key provisions
of war?
what federal legislation include Equal
Employment Opportunity, Public Accommodation,
Desegregation of Public Facilities, Desegregation of
Public Education and Voting Rights?
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed by Congress. It
guaranteed
whatdid
to Denmark
the formerVessey
slaves?plan to launch an
In
1822, where
attack in an effort to release Blacks from bondage?
ANSWER
Dr. Ralph Bunche
Deadwood Dick
Clara Brown
Civil War
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Citizenship and “equal
benefits of all laws”
Charleston, South Carolina
856
857
History
History
858
During the transatlantic slave trade, which two cities had Charleston and New York
History the largest slave trade depots?
City
859
History Who founded the Church of God in Christ in 1907?
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Charles Harrison Mason
#
860
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
History From where did the term “Jim Crow” originate?
Character in popular
minstrel shows of the 19th
Century
862
This historian founded many journals, among them was
History Who
Carter G. Woodson
the Journal
of Negro
is known
as the History
“Father in
of1916.
Negro History”
documenting African-American stories and achievements
History through use of innovative research approaches including Carter G. Woodson
863
Name the founder of the quarterly publication Journal of
Negro History and Negro History Week (now Black
History Month) who also established the first historical
society devoted exclusively to research on the black
History American.
Carter G. Woodson
864
Who served on the board of directors of the NAACP for
History 36 years?
861
Henry Bibb was a fugitive slave narrator and journalist.
He emigrated
to what
country?
After
uncovering
stolen
evidence and crusading for
justice, Myrlie Evers-Williams was able to see whose
sentencing for the murder of Medgar Evers in 1994?
During the transatlantic slave trade, the largest numbers
of Africans were imported to what three countries?
Black revolutionary Crispus Attucks led colonial forces
during what conflict in 1770?
865
History
866
History
867
History
868
History
869
History In what city is the Crispus Attucks Monument located?
Carl J. Murphy
Canada
Byron De La Beckwith
Brazil, Jamaica, and Haiti
Boston Massacre
Boston
872
Who was the first black American to be depicted on a US
History A
postage
stamp?
50 cent
coin was introduced in 1946 that honored what Booker T. Washington
History famous
Booker T. Washington
Black
American?
This man
presented
the speech "Atlanta's Exposition
Address" at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta in
History 1895. Name him.
Booker T. Washington
873
History What was Marcus Garvey’s nickname?
Black Moses
874
History Prince Hall was the first Grand Master of what group?
Black Masons
875
What slogan called for recognition of the cultural
History achievements of Black Americans?
Black is Beautiful
History Who were John Horse and John Caesar?
Black Indians who lived
with the Seminole
870
871
876
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QUESTION
ANSWER
Black Codes
878
Enacted in 1865 and 1866 and restricting freed slaves
from renting or purchasing property, what laws limited
History the movement of the freed slaves?
What term referred to the large Black population in the
History Southern cotton growing states?
879
History Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984?
Bishop Desmond Tutu
880
Who retired as Executive Director of the NAACP in
History 1993?
Benjamin Hooks
881
Who did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. call “My Spiritual
History Advisor”?
Benjamin E. Mays
877
882
History
883
History
884
History
885
History
886
History
For what were George Washington and Sabrien Bates
remembered?
What
was the title of W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1946 address
delivered at the closing session of the Southern Youth
Legislature?
Fugitive slaves from Kentucky crossed the Ohio River
and arrived into the town of Ripley, Ohio to do what?
What were the holding pens which kept the enslaved
Africans until they were transported called?
Who was an early pioneer in Colorado and a conductor of
the Underground Railroad?
Who was the first black president of the prestigious legal
publication Harvard Law Review ?
What movement did Marcus Garvey believe to be the
answer
to the
problems
Black
Americans?
What date
is noted
as theofday
when
Western Kentucky
African Americans learned that slavery had ended and,
therefore, is a day of celebration for families in
communities such as Paducah and Crofton, Kentucky?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in what city in
1929?
Black Belt
Being cowboys who rode
with Billy the Kid
Behold the Land
Become free
Barracoons
Barney Ford
887
History
888
History
889
History
890
History
891
Who helped to organize the first “Negro Baptist” church
History in the American colonies in Savannah, Georgia?
Andrew Bryan
892
How many people attended the historic March on
History Washington held on August 28, 1963?
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Barack Hussein Obama, II
Back to Africa
August 8 (or 8th of August)
Atlanta, Georgia
an estimated 250,000 people
#
893
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
History What is a slave narrative?
An autobiographical
account dictated or written
by former slaves
896
What was the name of the first national Black convention
History This
that was
organized
by Richard
AllenininTheology.
1830?
former
slave received
a degree
He was
also appointed chaplain to the all-black Twenty-fourth
History Infantry by President Grover Cleveland in 1886. Who
In 1897, an organization called the American Negro
History Academy started under whose leadership?
897
Who became the first Black American awarded a Rhodes
History Scholarship in 1940?
Alain Leroy Locke
894
895
American Society of Free
Persons of Color
Allen Allensworth
Alexander Crummell
899
A slave ship called “Clothilde” (Clōtilda) was the last
History Richard
ship to arrive
American.
Where of
didwhat
it land?
Alleninwas
the first bishop
is now the
oldest Black established church in the United States.
History What is the name of the church?
900
He was a minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church, a
History congressman, and a civil rights advocate. Who was he?
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
901
History Who was the first Black minister ordained in America?
Absalom Jones
902
It is estimated that how many Africans survived the
transatlantic slave trade in the early sixteenth century to
History the mid-nineteenth century?
about ten million
904
905
What lawsuit, the third filed by the NAACP, was filed in
Federal District Court in 1940 on behalf of an African
American teacher who received 15% less salary than
History white teachers?
History Who was Martin R. Delaney?
Abbington v Board of
Education
of Louisville
a militant spokesman
for
Black liberation
906
What did Paul Cuffe want to establish for Black
History Americans in the early 1800s?
a homeland in Africa
907
908
History Who
was
“Big
Blacks
made
upJim”
moreSimpson?
than one-fourth of the population
History in how many states by July 1, 2007?
A
fiddle playing
cowboy
6 (Mississippi
38%,
Louisiana 32%, Georgia
910
History How many slaves were freed at the end of the Civil War? 4 million
898
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Alabama
African Methodist
Episcopal Church
#
912
913
914
915
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
History In what three years was Harlem hit with race riots?
1935, 1943 and 1964
When was Denmark Vessey’s army of Blacks organized
History Phillis
to fightWheatley
slavery? came to the US from west Africa at age
seven or eight. How long did it take her to learn the
History English language?
“Free at last, free at last; thank God almighty, ….”
Complete Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”
History speech.
1822 (forty years before the
Civil War)
16 months
“… we are free at last.”
918
In what year did all 50 states recognize Martin Luther
History Sparked
King Day?
by the state court acquittal of four police officers 1993
History involved in the Rodney King beating, the Los Angeles
1992
In what year was a national holiday proclaimed
History commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday? 1983
919
History The Miami Race Riot happened in what year?
920
History In what year did “Black History Month” officially begin? 1976
921
922
In what year was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
History assassinated?
Atlanta, Newark, Washington, D.C. and Detroit had race 1968
History riots in what year?
1967
923
History The infamous Watts race riots occurred in what year?
1965
924
History What year was Malcolm X assassinated?
1964
925
In what year was Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers
History assassinated?
1963
916
917
The historic “March on Washington” occurred in what
year?
Birmingham had race riot violence in the spring of what
year?
What year did Jesse Gray lead 30,000 people to strike for
needed apartment repairs in New York City?
In what year did the “Greensboro Four” stage their first
sit in?
926
History
927
History
928
History
929
History
930
931
932
In what year did the US Supreme Court outlaw
History The
segregation
of of
dining
cars?
Congress
Racial
Equality was founded in what
History year?
In what year did Alain Leroy Locke become the first
History Black American to be awarded the Rhodes Scholarship?
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1980
1963
1963
1963
1960
1950
1942
1940
CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
ANSWER
933
History In what year was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. born?
1929
934
History Chicago;
In what year
was the Tulsa
Riot? Texas;
Washington,
D.C.;Race
Longview,
1921
#
Knoxville, Tennessee; Omaha, Nebraska; and Elaine,
Arkansas
all faced
race Association
riots in whatfor
year?
The
NAACP,
National
the Advancement
of Colored People, was organized in what year with
In what year did Black attorney John Swett Rock practice
before the U.S. Supreme Court?
In what year did the United States abolish slavery?
In what year did the Emancipation Proclamation become
effective?
935
936
History
History
937
938
History
History
939
History
940
History In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law passed?
943
In what year did Macon B. Allen become the first Black
History American
lawyer?
In what year
did Congress pass the Missouri
Compromise, involving primarily the regulation of
History slavery in the western territories?
How old was Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was
History assassinated?
944
Carl J. Murphy served on the Board of Directors of the
History NAACP for how many years?
941
942
945
History
946
History
947
History
948
History
How many trips did Harriet Tubman make to the South to
rescue Black slaves?
In 1910 the black population made up what percentage of
the total United States population of nearly 93.5 million
people?
The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 destroyed what prosperous
black community?
When was the importation of slaves outlawed in the
U.S.?
What dispute led to the founding of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church?
1919
1909
1865
1865
1863
1850
1845
1820
39
36
19
10.70%
Greenwood
1808
Segregation of St. George's
Methodist Church
949
History
950
History At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?
About 1 million
History For what did Ralph Bunche win the Noble Peace Prize?
Mediating an end to an Arab
Israeli conflict
951
Who opened Clarksville, Tennessee's first and only
952 History hospital until 1916
953 History What poem did James Weldon Johnson write?
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Dr. Robert T. Burt
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"
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CATEG
ORY
QUESTION
954
History
955
956
History
957
History
958
History
959
History
History
ANSWER
In what year did James Weldon Johnson write the poem
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"?
What poem is widely considered the Black National
Anthem?
Who wrote the poem "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"
In what year was the first Civil Rights Movement sit-ins
held at the Woolworth in Greenboro, N.C.?
In what city and state was the first Civil Rights
Movement sit-ins held?
How many posthumus Grammy Awards did Ray Charles
win?
In what year did Bishop Desmond Tutu win a Nobel
Peace Prize for his anti-apartheid activism South Africa?
In 1984 Bishop Desmond Tutu won a Nobel Peace Prize
for his what?
Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for their Anit- Apartheid
Activism in South Africa?
In what year did the U.S. military desegregate?
What was Harriet Tubman's birth name
Araminta Ross was who's birth name
Who was the first black female to accept appointment as
the U.S.Attorney General?
In what year did Loretta Lynch accept appointment as the
U.S. Attorney General?
960
History
961
History
962
963
964
965
History
966
History
967
History
968
History
969
History
970
History
971
972
History
973
History
In 2015 Loretta Lynch was appointed to what position?
In what year did Phylicia Rashad become the first African
American woman to win a Tony Award for Best Lead
Actress in a play?
Who was the first African American woman to win a
Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a play?
What award was Phylicia Rashad given for the Best Lead
Actress in a play?
In what year was the Black Panther Party founded?
Who was the first Black justice appointed to the U.S.
Supreme Court?
974
History
In what year did Thurmond Marshall become the first
Black justice appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?
975
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Interracial marriage was legally banned from what years?
History
History
History
History
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1899
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"
James Weldon Johnson
1960
Greensboro, N.C.
5
1984
Anti-Apartheid Activism
Bishop Desmond Tutu
1948
Araminta Ross
Harriet Tubman
Loretta Lynch
2015
U.S. Attorney General
2004
Phylicia Rashad
Tony Award
1966
Thurgood Marshall
1967
1664 until 1967
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ANSWER
What type of marriages were legally banned from 1664
until the 1967 Loving vs. Virginia Supreme Court ruling?
Interracial marriages
What was Nat Turners death date
November 11, 1831
What African American male died leading a 1831 slave
revolt in Virginia?
Nat Turner
Who were the first group of African Americans ever
trained as fighter pilots?
the Tuskagee Airmen
The Tuskagee Airmen were the first group of African
Americans trained as what type of pilots?
Fighter
In what year did the Tuskagee Airmen take skies?
1940
Who released a industry-redefining exclusively digital
album 2013?
Beyonce
In what year did Beyonce release a industry-redefining
exclusively digital album?
2013
In what year did Astronomer Benjamin Banneker publish
his first almanac?
1792
Who published their first almanac in 1792?
Atronomer Benjamin Banneker
In what year was the Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
founded?
1837
What is the oldest HBCU of Pennyslyvania?
Cheyney University
What Black engineer holds three of IBM's personal
computer patents?
Mark Dean
What music program is the longest-running first run
nationally syndicated music program in television
history?
Soul Train
Who is the highest-grossing Black film director?
F. Gary Gray
Who was the first black woman ro receive a U.S. patent
in 1885?
Sarah E. Goode
In what year did Sarah E. Goode become the first woman
to receive a U.S. patent?
1885
In 1885 Sarah E. Goode was the first black woman to
receive what?
a U.S. patent
There are currently how many HBCUs?
106
Who was the first African American to write and direct a
major Hollywood motion picture in 1969?
Gordon Parks
In 1947 who became the first African American to play in
a Major League Baseball game?
Jackie Robinson
In what year did Jackie Robinson become the first
African American to play in a Major League Baseball
game?
1947
In what year did Oprah Winfrey Show end it 25-year run?
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2011
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In what year did Althea Gibson become the first African
American Wimbledon champion?
Who became the first African American Wimbledon
champion?
What type of film did Melvin Van Peebles pioneer?
What was the first war in which blacks served in every
branch of the U.S. armed forces?
Althea Gibson
Blaxploitation Films
World War II
President Jimmy Carter honored the 761st Tank Battalion,
World War II
an all black unit, for fighting in what war?
Politics
In May 1941, the 758th Tank Battalion was the first
&
1006 Military African American tank battalion to fight in which war?
Politics
&
1008 Military
1957
World War II
After his service in what war was Christian County native
Elder Watson Diggs instrumental in having the Indiana
constitution amended to permit Negro enlistment in the
World War I
Indiana National Guard?
What war led Colin Powell to conclude that an army
should not enter into combat unless it had a clear
Vietnam
objective?
Politics
&
1009 Military
Politics
In 1942, what branch of the U.S. armed forces became
&
1010 Military the last to admit blacks?
U.S. Marine Corps
Politics Inducted into the Kentucky Commission on Human
Rights Hall of Fame in 2005, Robert Coleman was a
&
1011 Military veteran of what branch of the U.S. armed services?
U.S. Air Force
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
They were distressed over
the high rate of casualties
among the black troops.
956
Many civil rights leaders were opposed to the war in
Vietnam for what reason?
Before the end of World War I, more than 4,000 black
women had enlisted in the Army to serve in support roles. the Women’s Army Corps
(or WAC)
They were known collectively as what?
Politics Born in Kentucky, Carl Maxie Brashear, the first African
American Navy master diver, lost the lower part of his
&
Military left leg in an accident on what naval ship?
the USS Hoist
957
Politics
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. was the first black general of
&
Military which branch of the U.S. Armed Forces?
the U.S. Army
958
Politics
&
Military What was the largest black unit in the Korean War?
The Twenty-fourth Infantry
Regiment
954
955
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What
black support unit drove supplies by truck to
ANSWER
959
Politics advancing American forces and also performed yeoman
service during the Battle of the
&
Military Dorie
Bulge Miller,
in 1944?
a mess man with the Navy, manned a
The Red Ball Express
960
Politics machine gun without experience and shot down four
enemy aircrafts during the attack on Pearl Harbor. In
&
Military 1942, he was awarded what honor for this heroic action?
the Navy Cross
#
961
962
963
964
965
966
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&
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&
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&
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&
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Politics
&
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Politics
&
Military
Under the command of Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the
332nd destroyed 111 planes in the air and 150 on the
ground while never losing a single bomber. They were
awarded what honor for the service?
What awards did the French government present to the
black soldiers and their battalions for bravery and
courage?
During the American Revolution, Black soldiers fought
with which two organizations as pilots, gunner’s mates,
boatswain’s mates, and manned the coastal galleys?
the Distinguished Flying
Cross
the Croix de Guerre, the
distinguished French
decoration, or Legions of
Merit
the Continental Navy and
the Continental Army
The NAACP pressured President Woodrow Wilson’s
administration to establish what officer’s training school The Colored Officers’
Training Camp (or COTC)
for blacks at Fort Dodge, in Des Moines, Iowa?
What was the only African American military women's
unit to go overseas during World War II?
the 6888th Postal Unit
Commissioned in 1943, the first group of black naval
officers were known as what?
the “Golden Thirteen”
What did Pompey Lamb do to help aid the American
Revolutionary War effort?
Spy
969
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
970
Politics During the Civil War, he was the black pilot who sailed a
Confederate steamer out of Charleston, South Carolina
&
Military and delivered it to the Union Navy in 1862.
Robert Smalls
967
968
971
972
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
William H. Carney received the Congressional Medal of
Spanish American War
Honor for his participation in what war?
Who was the first Black American admiral in the US
Navy?
Samuel L Gravely, Jr.
Born in Kentucky, who was the first African American to
die in World War II, during the bombing of Clark Field in
Robert H. Brooks
the Philippines?
Who was the only accredited Black American war
correspondent in World War I?
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Ralph Waldo Tyler
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Politics The last units of U.S. troops came home from Vietnam in
the spring of 1973. Who was the president of the United
&
Military Benjamin
President Richard M. Nixon
States at that
time? Jr., a member of the Tuskegee
O. Davis,
974
Politics Airmen, was the first black general of the Air Force. He
was instrumental in getting what president to end
&
Military segregation in the armed forces?
976
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
977
Politics Which black soldiers were with General George
Washington when he crossed the Delaware River on
&
Military Christmas Day in 1776?
975
What president initially rejected the service of Black
slaves in the Union Army during the Civil War?
President Harry S. Truman
President Abraham Lincoln
World War II began in Europe when Adolf Hitler invaded
Poland
what country in September 1939?
The first African American to die in World War II,
Robert H. Brooks passed for white when joining what
reserve military force?
Oliver Cromwell and Prince
Whipple
980
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
981
Politics
What abolitionist became the highest-ranking black of the
&
Military Civil War when he was commissioned as a field officer? Major Martin R. Delany
982
Politics In 1967, who became the first African American
Kentucky graduate from the United States Air Force
&
Military Academy?
Lt. Col. (Ret.) Thomas Lee
Cunningham
983
Politics
Who formed the all-black Ethiopian regiment in 1775
&
Military during the Revolutionary War?
Lord Dunmore
978
979
Who were the first African American women Army
officers stationed in Kentucky?
Who became the first Black American to hold the rank of
Martin Delany
major during the Civil War?
A West Point graduate and 25-year veteran of the U.S.
Army, who became the first African American general
post commander at Fort Knox in 1993?
986
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
987
Politics What Black American sailor won the Congressional
Medal of Honor in the Civil War Battle, the Battle of
&
Military Mobile Bay at Ft. Gaines?
984
985
National Guard
Myrtle Anderson and
Margaret Elizabeth Barnes
Jones
Larry Jordan
During what war did PFC William Thompson receive his
Korean War
Congressional Medal of Honor?
Who won the French Legion of Honor award for her
work in entertaining the Work War II allies?
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Josephine Baker
John Lawson
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ANSWER
988
Politics Born in Paducah, KY, who was the first African
American to receive a regular commission in the U.S.
&
Military Marine Corps in 1948?
John E. Rudder
989
Politics
Who was the Confederate president during the Civil
&
Military War?
Jefferson Davis
990
Politics Nominated by Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper
at the age of 19, who was the first African American from
&
Military Transferred
Kentucky toto
bethe
named
WestBattalion
Point Military
Academy?
758thtoTank
after an
incident James Phillips Holland
991
Politics in which he refused to move to the back of a civilian bus,
he was one of the more notable members of the first
&
Military United States Army armored unit to be made up of
Jackie Robinson
992
Politics Who was the first Black American to graduate from West
Point Military Academy and later became an advisor to
&
Military the U.S. Government?
Henry Flipper
#
993
994
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
Who was the first Black American to attend the US Naval
Henry Conyers
Academy?
What US President ended segregation in the US Armed
Forces by issuing an Executive Order?
Harry S. Truman
Who served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union
Army?
Harriet Tubman
Who was responsible for securing equal rights for Black
Troops during the Civil War?
George T. Downing
998
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
999
Politics
Who was the commander in chief of the Confederate
&
Military Army?
995
996
997
Which Union general is credited with burning Atlanta
during the Civil War?
In 1864 President Lincoln appointed this general as
commander in
chief of all Union forces. Who was he?
Although it was immediately disbanded, this general
Politics formed the First
South Carolina Volunteer Regiment for blacks in 1862.
&
1000 Military Name him.
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General William T.
Sherman
General Ulysses S. Grant
General Robert E. Lee
General David Hunter
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#
QUESTION
Politics
What was the name of the fort where Confederate
&
1001 Military soldiers attacked federal troops on April 12, 1861?
ANSWER
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
Politics
Who was the first Black American woman doctor in the
&
1002 Military US
WhoNavy?
was the first African American to be awarded the
Dr. Donna P. Davis
Politics Navy Cross, the third highest honor awarded by the US
Navy at the time, for bravery shown during the attack on
&
1003 Military Pearl Harbor?
Doris Miller
Politics
What African American naval cook shot down four
&
1004 Military enemy planes during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Dorie Miller
Politics
Which four states were border states during the Civil
&
1005 Military War?
Delaware, Maryland,
Kentucky, and Missouri
Politics
Who was the first Black American four star general in US
&
1006 Military military history?
Daniel James, Jr.
Politics
&
1007 Military
Politics
&
1008 Military
A casualty of the Boston Massacre in 1770, what was the
name of the Boston fugitive slave who was called the first
Crispus Attucks
martyr of the American Revolution?
Who was the first Black American to die in the
Revolutionary War?
Crispus Attucks
Politics During the Korean War, the Navy had 65% of black
soldiers in the Steward’s Branch where they worked as
&
1009 Military what?
Cooks and waiters
Politics In 1863 the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment
consisted of free blacks of the North led by what white
&
1010 Military abolitionist?
Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
Politics What author of My American Journey commanded the
2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division stationed at
&
1011 Military Ft. Campbell, KY in 1976?
Colin Powell
Politics
To what position was Colin Powell appointed, making
&
1013 Military him the highest ranking military officer?
Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff
Politics Who was the first African American master diver in the
U.S. Navy, the only amputee deep-sea diver to attain that
&
1014 Military level?
Carl Maxie Brashear
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ANSWER
Politics
On September 2, 1941 who became the first black officer Captain Benjamin O. Davis,
&
1015 Military to fly an aircraft alone?
Jr.
Established by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime allblack regiments in the regular U.S. Army, what soldiers
Politics were originally members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry
Regiment of the United States Army at Fort Leavenworth,
&
1016 Military Kansas?
Buffalo Soldiers
Politics What main parade ground in Fort Knox is named in
honor of Robert Brooks, the first African American to die
&
1017 Military in World War II?
Brooks Field
Politics In April, 1775, blacks in the military fought alongside
their white counterparts in what American Revolution
&
1018 Military battles?
Battles of Lexington and
Concord
Politics Peter Salem was a freed slave who fought in many battles
of the Revolutionary War. In June 1775 he shot Major
&
1019 Military John Pitcairn, a British leader, during what battle?
Battle of Bunker Hill
Politics
&
1020 Military
Politics
&
1021 Military
Politics
&
1022 Military
Politics
&
1023 Military
Politics
&
1024 Military
Doris Miller responded quickly during what attack,
making him the first American hero of World War II?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Roscoe Robinson, Jr. served as a Four Star General in
what branch of the military?
Army
Oliver Cromwell was a well-known freedom fighter in
what war?
American Revolution
When did Robert E. Lee encourage the recruitment of
Blacks?
After the Confederates
suffered huge loses
During the Civil War, Frederick Douglass served as an
Abraham Lincoln
adviser to what US President?
Politics General Benjamin Butler of the Union Army refused to
return runaway slaves to their masters. What term did he
&
1025 Military use to describe them?
“Contraband of war”
Politics
&
1026 Military
Politics
&
1027 Military
Politics
&
1028 Military
By when did the last all-black U.S. armed forces unit
disbanded?
June 1952
Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr. became the first black four1975
star general in what year?
In what year did the U.S. Navy commission its first group
1944
of black officers?
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Politics
In what year did the War Department grant equal pay for
&
1029 Military white and black soldiers after many protests?
ANSWER
1864
Politics
Black Americans were authorized to enlist in the US
&
1030 Military Navy in what year?
1861
Politics
How many Black Americans received the Congressional
&
1031 Military Medal of Honor during the Civil War?
23
Politics
Coleman Young and Thomas Bradley were elected
&
1032 Military mayors of which cities in 1973?
Young – Detroit (Michigan).
Bradley – Los Angeles
(California)
1033
1034
1035
1036
1037
1038
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
Military
Politics
&
1039 Military
Politics
&
1040 Military
Politics
&
1041 Military
Politics
&
1042 Military
Politics
&
1043 Military
Born in 1947, who became the first African American
judge to serve on the Louisville District Court in 1978?
William E. McAnulty, Jr.
What did security guard Frank Willis discover in 1972?
Watergate break-in
Washington, D.C.
In 1991 Sharon Pratt Kelly was the first black woman to
become mayor of what major city?
Washington, D.C.
L. Douglas Wilder, was elected the first Black American
Virginia
governor of what state in 1989?
What was the first Black American female lawyer to
practice before the Supreme Court?
Who ruled the “separate but equal” doctrine invalid in
1954?
John Mercer Langston was the first Black American
elected to Congress from Virginia. To what office was he
elected?
Robert Poston was assistant secretary-general of what
organization when went to Liberia in 1924 and died of
pneumonia on his return trip to the U.S.?
The first black elected to the Kentucky legislature,
Charles W. Anderson was also appointed alternate
delegate to what body?
Violette M. Anderson
US Supreme Court
US House of
Representatives
Universal Negro
Improvement Association
(UNIA)
United Nations
What constitutional amendment prohibited the
requirement of a poll tax or any other tax for the privilege
Twenty-fourth
to vote?
Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S.
Thurgood Marshall
Supreme Court?
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Politics
President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed what attorney as
&
1044 Military a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
Politics
What provision written in 1787 was included in the U.S.
&
1045 Military This
Constitution?
amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared
Three-fifths of all slaves
counted for representation
Politics "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist
within the United States". After initially being rejected by
&
1046 Military the House of Representatives, this amendment passed and The Thirteenth Amendment
Politics
Blanche Bruce went on to become the first black elected
&
1047 Military to a full term in the U.S. Senate. Who elected him?
The Mississippi Legislature
Ratified in 1870, what Amendment to the U.S.
Politics Constitution forbids the federal government and states
from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a
&
1048 Military slave as a qualification for voting?
the Fifteenth Amendment
Politics
&
1049 Military
Politics
&
1050 Military
Texas
What Christian County, KY, magisterial district has been
served by Black magistrates since it was formed in 1905? the 1st District
For what state did Barbara Jordan serve as state senator
and U.S. congresswoman?
Politics In 1986 Eddie Bernice Johnson was elected to the U.S.
Senate. She also served as secretary of the Congressional
&
1051 Military Black Caucus. What state did she represent?
Texas
Politics
In 1916, who was re-elected for the third time as
&
1052 Military Magistrate of the 1st District of Christian County?
Politics
&
1053 Military
Politics
&
1054 Military
Politics
&
1055 Military
T. H. Moore
Who was the first magistrate elected to serve residents of
T. H. Moore
the First Magisterial District in Christian County?
What African American currently serves as the U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations?
Susan Rice
U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis led his civil rights Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
movement through what organization?
Politics
In 1999, President Clinton named the first African
&
1056 Military American U.S. Attorney in Kentucky. Name him.
Steven S. Reed
Politics During the Reconstruction Era, twenty blacks served in
the House of Representatives, eight of whom were from
&
1057 Military what state.
South Carolina
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QUESTION
Politics
How many blacks served in the U.S. Congress during the
&
1058 Military Reconstruction era?
Sixteen
Politics
In 1972, who became the first woman candidate for
&
1059 Military After
President
of the
United States?
an early
childhood
spent in Barbabos and a
Shirley Chisholm
Politics successful career as a teacher, she was elected to the New
York Assembly. She then became the first black woman
&
1060 Military to serve in the U.S. Congress where she worked for 13
Shirley Chisholm
Politics
Bill Dillard became the first African American in
&
1061 Military Kentucky elected to what office in 1981?
Politics
&
1062 Military Who was Fannie Lou Hamer?
Sheriff
She was a civil rights
advocate who helped
register black people to vote
Politics In 1990, who was elected mayor of Washington DC,
becoming the first Black American woman mayor of a
&
1063 Military major US city?
Sharon Pratt Kelly
Politics
&
1064 Military
Politics
&
1065 Military
With 20 years' service, who was the longest serving
African American member of the Kentucky General
Assembly?
Senator Georgia Powers
What was Robert Weaver’s title when he became a
presidential cabinet member?
Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development
Politics
Who was the first Black American Chosen to lead a
&
1066 Military major
He waspolitical
the firstparty?
black to serve as chairman of the
Politics
&
1067 Military
Politics
&
1068 Military
Politics
&
1069 Military
Politics
&
1070 Military
Ronald Brown
Democratic National Committee in 1989. He was also the
first black U.S. secretary of commerce. What was his
Ronald Brown
name?
Who was the first Black American member of a
presidential cabinet?
Who became a justice of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania in 1972?
Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, this civil rights activist
was the first African American president of the Paducah
Local of the National Association of Letter Carriers and
Politics
Many blacks held political offices in the South during
&
1071 Military Reconstruction as members of what political party?
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Robert Weaver
Robert N.C. Nix, Jr.
Robert Alfonzo Coleman
Republican
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Politics Who advanced legislation to make Juneteenth (June 19),
the celebration of the freedom of African American
&
1072 Military slaves, a holiday in Kentucky?
Representative Reginald
Meeks
Politics
What president swore in, Robert Weaver, the first black
&
1073 Military member of a presidential cabinet, in 1966?
President Lyndon B.
Johnson
Politics
&
1074 Military
Politics
&
1075 Military
On June 12, 1963 what president delivered a nationwide
television address that outlined a proposition to Congress
that would prohibit segregation in public facilities and
President John F. Kennedy
schools?
In 1994, which president named Eddie Jordan, Jr. as the
first African American to hold the post of U.S. Attorney
President Bill Clinton
in the state of Louisiana?
Politics
What president vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau bill and
&
1076 Military the Civil Rights bill?
President Andrew Johnson
Politics Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to be elected
to Congress. She also campaigned for what office in
&
1077 Military 1972?
President
Politics
What 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld racial
&
1078 Military segregation in its “separate but equal” doctrine?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Politics Selected by Governor Paul Patton to serve as Circuit
Court Judge in 1999, who became the first African
&
1079 Military American woman appointed to the bench in Kentucky?
Pamela R. Goodwine
Politics
&
1080 Military In 1871 who became the first Black American governor? P.B.S. Pinchback
Politics
Shirley Chisholm was elected to the House of
&
1081 Military Representatives to represent what state?
New York
Politics One of the first two African Americans to practice law in
the Louisville courts, who was the first African American
&
1082 Military judge in Kentucky?
Nathaniel R. Harper
Politics What landmark Supreme Court ruling required all
railroad companies to provide equal accommodations for Mitchell v. US Interstate
&
1083 Military Blacks?
Commerce Act
Politics
&
1084 Military
Politics
&
1085 Military
What candidate defeated Jesse Jackson in the 1988
Democratic Presidential race?
Michael Dukakis
Who led voter registration efforts in Mississippi in the
late 1960s?
Medgar Evers
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Politics
On November 7, 1967, Carl B. Stokes and Richard
&
1086 Military Hatcher were elected to what office?
Politics
&
1087 Military
Politics
&
1088 Military
In 1973 James Dulin became the first African American
man appointed to what office in Earlington, Kentucky?
He became Atlanta’s first and youngest black mayor in
1974, a position he held for three terms. Name him.
Politics In 1997 she became the third woman to chair the
Congressional Black Caucus. Who is this
&
1089 Military Congresswoman from California?
ANSWER
Mayor
Mayor
Maynard Jackson, Jr.
Maxine Waters
Politics In 1865 John S. Rock became the first black admitted to
practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. His practice was
&
1090 Military in what state?
Massachusetts
Politics
&
1091 Military
Politics
&
1092 Military
Politics
&
1093 Military
Politics
&
1094 Military
Politics
&
1095 Military
What Black American educator also served as an advisor
Mary McLeod Bethune
to five U.S. presidents?
Who served as Director of Minority Affairs for President
Mary McLeod Bethune
Roosevelt?
Who was the first Black American lawyer to be admitted
Macon B. Allen
to the bar?
Who was the first Black American municipal judge?
M.W. Gibbs
Who appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme
Court?
Lyndon B. Johnson
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In 1987, who became the first African American woman
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Luevenia Watkins
Politics P.B.S. Pinchback became the first black governor in U.S.
history, lieutenant governor and served in the U.S.
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1097 Military Senate. What state did he represent?
Louisiana
Politics What test was given to potential Black voters to
determine whether they understood the U.S. Constitution
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Literacy test
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Virginia?
L. Douglas Wilder
In 2005, William E. McAnulty, Jr., became the first
African American to serve on what Kentucky court?
Kentucky Supreme Court
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Keep hope alive
Politics A celebration of the freedom of African American slaves,
Kentucky Representative Reginald Meeks led the push
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Freedom Day
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What Black American was a vice presidential candidate
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Julian Bond
Who was the first Black American elected to the US
House of Representatives?
Joseph H. Rainey
Who was the first Black American to preside over a
national political convention?
John Roy Lynch
Politics In 1888, this great-uncle of writer Langston Hughes
became the first Black American elected to Congress
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John Mercer Langston
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John F. Kennedy
Who was the founder of the National Democratic Party in
John L Cashin, Jr.
Alabama?
In 1960, Andrew Hatcher was named Associate Press
Secretary to what US President?
Politics In 1976, Barbara Jordan gave a rousing keynote address
at the Democratic National Convention for what US
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What U.S. President appointed Andrew Young
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1111 Military Ambassador to the United Nations?
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In 1983, this minister announced his candidacy for
president of the Democratic Party. Name him.
Who was the United States ambassador to Sweden from
1970 to 1972?
Politics In 1867, an interracial jury was selected in Richmond,
Virginia to try the case of what former Confederacy
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Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
Jesse Jackson
Jerome Holland
Jefferson Davis
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Hiram Revels, the first black elected to serve in the U.S.
Senate in 1870, was selected to fill in the unexpired term
Jefferson Davis
of whom?
Who was the second African American mayor in
Kentucky?
What Christian County native worked in the coal mines
and became the first African American elected to the
Earlington, KY, City Council in 1972?
He became the first African American since 1897 to
represent South Carolina in the U.S. Congress. Name
him.
James W. Dulin
James W. Dulin
James Clyburn
Politics Appointed by Governor Steve Beshear in 2007, who was
the first African American to be appointed Secretary of
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J. Michael Brown
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Who was the first Black American female judge in the
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J. Matilda Bolin
Politics Born in Hopkinsville, KY, who, in 1972, had held public
office longer than any other African American elected
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J. Daniel S. Massie
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In 1964, Carl T. Rowan was named Director of what US
agency?
Information Agency
In 1996 Jesse Jackson, Jr. became a U.S. representative
Illinois
from what state?
Politics Carol Moseley-Braun was one of six women who was
sworn in to the 103rd Congress on January 3, 1993. What
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Illinois
Politics Barack Obama was a keynote speaker at the 2004
Democratic National Convention and later won a U.S.
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Illinois
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Hiram Revels
Politics Richard Hatcher and Carl Stokes were among the first
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Stokes – Cleveland, Ohio
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In 1983 who became the first black mayor of Chicago,
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Gerald A. Neal
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Kentucky
AfricanSenate?
American to earn a Ph.D. at the
Politics University of Kentucky and the first African American to
run for mayor of Atlanta, Horace Tate was elected to
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Georgia State Senate
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Serving five four-year terms, who was the first African
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Georgia D. Powers
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Elected in Washington County in 1973, who became the
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George Melwood Hocker
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What U.S. President developed a coalition of Black
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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In 1969 James Evers was elected the first black mayor of
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Pamela R. Goodwine served as Circuit Court Judge
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Fayette County
Politics Born in Florida, who became the first African American
chief prosecutor in Kentucky when he was elected
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Ernest A. Jasmin, Sr.
Politics In 2009, who became the first African American U.S.
attorney general and head of the Justice Department and
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Eric H. Holder Jr.
Politics Re-elected continuously until 1907, who was the first
African American elected to Hopkinsville City Council
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Edward Glass
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In January 1967 what Republican was the first black to be
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Politics Who was the first Black American to be appointed as a
member of the United States delegation to the United
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Edith Sampson
Politics Appointed to fill a vacancy in 1974 and later elected, who
was the only African American woman in Kentucky
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Dorothy Morrow
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American elected to what position in New Orleans,
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District Attorney
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Who became New York City’s first black mayor on
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David Dinkins
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Who was the first Black American woman elected to a
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Crystal Bird Fauset
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Who was the first Black American female national
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Condoleezza Rice
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Who was the first Black American national security
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Colin Powell
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Who was President Ronald Reagan’s national security
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Colin Powell
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Who was the first Black American to be Chairman of the
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Colin Powell
Politics Who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in
1989 and appointed as Secretary of State in 2001 in
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Colin Powell
Politics
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Coleman Young
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When Thurgood Marshall retired from the U.S. Supreme
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Clarence Thomas
Citizenship to all persons
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This city in Ohio elected three black mayors between
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Cincinnati
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Harold Washington became what city’s first Black
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Chicago
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Who was the first Black American woman to be elected
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Charlotte Hawkins Brown
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Charlotte E. Ray
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Who was the first Black American female senator to
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Carol E. Mosley Braun
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Carl B. Stokes
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In May 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a
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Brown vs. Board of
Education of Topeka
A mischievous child, Thurgood Marshall was forced to
read the U.S. Constitution as punishment and, by high
school, had it memorized. As lawyer for the NAACP,
Politics before his appointment as the first black Supreme Court
justice, he argued and won what case challenging public
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Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka
Born in Louisville, KY, this graduate of Wilberforce
Politics University received his law degree from Howard
University School of Law. He was elected to the
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Who was the first former Black Panther Party member
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elected to Congress representing Illinois’s 1 st
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Bobby Rush
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Who was the first Black American to serve a full term in
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Blanche Bruce
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Black Panther Party
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became the oldest elected and serving official in
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Bernice Dickerson
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Why did the U.S. Supreme Court rule for a new trial in
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Because blacks were
excluded from the jury
Politics She was the first woman to be elected to the Senate in
Texas and the first Southern black woman to serve in the
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Barbara Jordan
Politics What is the name of the first Black American woman to
give the keynote address at a national political
&
1168 Military convention?
Barbara Jordan
Politics Inaugurated as the 44th president on January 20, 2009,
who became the first African American president of the
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Barack Hussein Obama, II
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Maynard Jackson became the first Black American mayor
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1170 Military of what city?
Atlanta
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After serving as city council member from 1972-1983,
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1171 Military who was elected mayor of Earlington, KY, in 1984?
Arthur T. Johnson
Politics This former mayor of Atlanta in the 1980s was appointed
US Ambassador to the United Nations in 1977. Name
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1172 Military him.
Andrew Young
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Who was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
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Andrew Young
Politics Civil rights activist and Cassius Clay's first attorney, who
became the first African American woman prosecutor in
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Alberta Odell Jones
Politics Shortly after becoming the first woman prosecutor in
1964, what former civil rights activist's August 1965
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Alberta Odell Jones
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Elected to Congress in 1944, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
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Abyssinian Baptist Church
Politics Barbara Jordan was a member of the 1974 House
Judiciary Committee chosen to hear Watergate testimony
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Richard M. Nixon
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Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher were elected as mayor's
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November 7, 1967
Politics Condoleezza Rice was appointed by President George W.
Bush as the first black female Secretary of State in what
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2005
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In what year did Thurgood Marshall retire from the US
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1991
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Gerald Neal, the first African American man elected to
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1990
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In what year did Jesse Jackson run for President of the
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1988
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In what year was Thurgood Marshall, becoming its first
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1183 Military black justice, nominated to the US Supreme Court?
1967
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In what year was Robert Weaver sworn in as Secretary of
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1966
Politics Blanche K. Bruce was born a slave. He became the first
black to be elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate. In
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1874
Politics Born in 1900, for how many years did Hopkinsville
native J. Daniel Massie serve as magistrate of the First
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27
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For how many years did F.E. Whitney serve as a member
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21
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Bernice Dickerson, the oldest elected and serving official
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11
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Who invented a patent for his invention of a mass release
Wilson Hull
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In 1803 the Lewis and Clark expedition explored the
Louisiana Territory. Which of the two brought along his
slave? Name the slave.
William Clark. He took his
slave, York.
What scientist experimented with injections of Vitamin C
Wendell Belfield
in cats and dogs in order to find a cure for epilepsy?
What system did Robert Shurney develop that was used
aboard a Skylab space mission?
Waste management system
Who invented the riding saddle for horses?
W.D. David
What Black American physician was referred to as “The
principal historian of the Negro in medicine” in 1970?
W. Montague Cobb
St. Elmo Brady, the first African American to earn a
Ph.D. in chemistry in America, received his degree from
University of Illinois
what school in 1916?
Prior to Joseph Lee’s bread making invention, how many
people were needed to produce the same amount of
Twelve
loaves per day?
Where was George Washington Carver’s laboratory?
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
These black soldiers were trained to become pilots in
World War II. They were mostly assigned to Italy where
Tuskegee Airmen
they destroyed enemy planes. Who were they?
Donald E. Jefferson invented what mechanism used by
construction crews?
Triggered exploding wire
device
What was the name of Paul Cuffe’s ship, which made an
Traveler
expedition to Africa?
What famous inventor did Lewis Latimer work with in
the development of the electric light bulb?
Thomas Edison
What measuring instrument was invented by Frederick
Jones?
Thermostat
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What famous dermatologist treated leprosy and syphilis? Theodore K. Lawless
What famous aviator brothers helped promote Paul
Laurence Dunbar’s poetry and became his good friend?
The Wright Brothers
A pediatrician and founder of what medical facility,
Grace Marilynn James was the first African American
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Tuskegee Airmen, Tuskegee Institute established what
training program for black pilots?
The Tuskegee Army Air
Field
Lewis Latimer prepared the drawings for what invention
patented by Alexander Graham Bell?
The telephone
What did Benjamin Banneker’s book Almanac examine? The sun, moon, and planets
Dr. Ronald McNair was a black astronaut who made his
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The space shuttle that Dr.
McNair and six other
astronauts were in exploded
after takeoff in Cape
Canaveral, Florida.
What did Elijah McCoy patent in 1872 that drastically
improved the speed and efficiency of industrial
machinery?
The lubricator cup
What was Leonard Julien’s sugar cane planter invention
called?
The Julien Planter
Who invented the common dust mop?
T.W. Steward
In 1872, what inventor received a patent for an apparatus
T.J. Boyd
for detaching horses for carriages?
Dr. William Hinton is credited with developing a test to
detect what disease?
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What did George Washington Carver use to develop
postage stamp glue?
Sweet potatoes
Who was the first female Black American to enter the
medical profession?
Susan McKinney
Who was the first African American cave explorer and
the first guide and explorer of Mammoth Cave, the
world's longest cave system?
Stephen Bishop
Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African
American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United
States?
St. Elmo Brady
Dr. Percy L. Julian achieved his accomplishments in what
Soybean chemist
occupation?
The Stargell Foundation is recognized for what area of
research?
Sickle Cell Anemia
Philadelphia and Massachusetts cobbler, Jan E.
Matzeliger invented what?
Shoe lasting machine
At the age of fifteen, Elijah McCoy traveled to what
country in order to study engineering?
Scotland
The ironing board was invented by what Black American
Sarah Boone
woman?
Who was the first Black American member of the US
Atomic Energy Commission?
Samuel Nabrit
What invention made James Forten one of the wealthiest
Sail controls for ships
men in America?
What Black American invented an exhaust purifier?
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Robert Peary
Who invented the automatic car washer?
Richard Spikes
What noted inventor patented an improvement for the
automatic gearshift?
Richard Spikes
Who invented directional signals for the automobile?
Richard Spike
Who was the first black female awarded a medical
degree?
Rebecca Lee Crumpier
Who was the first Black American woman doctor?
Rebecca Lee
Who patented the envelope seal in 1897?
R.W. Leslie
What Black American inventor received a patent for the
guitar?
R.F. Fleming
Mary Eliza Merritt, the first African American nurse
licensed in Kentucky, was awarded a certificate of merit
from what U.S. President?
President Woodrow Wilson
Hyram S. Thomas was a chef who created what popular
snack?
Potato chip
Shirley Ann Jackson was the first Black American to earn
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a PhD from M.I.T. in what subject?
Owner and operator of Brooks Memorial Hospital, Phillip
Physician and surgeon
C. Brooks served in what capacities?
Who invented the disposable syringe?
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St. Elmo Brady was the first African American admitted
to what chemistry honor society?
Phi Lambda Upsilon
What was the profession of Garland H. Brooks,
Hopkinsville native and Howard University graduate?
Pharmacist
George Washington Carver made paint and ink from what
Peanuts
common food item?
What did George Washington Carver use to develop
shaving cream, paper, ink, rubbing oil, synthetic rubber,
and instant coffee?
Peanuts
What Black American designed homes for celebrities
such as Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra?
Paul Williams
Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African
American female Sloan Fellow at MIT?
Patricia Garrison-Corbin
Who developed the first airborne radar system that was
used for locating downed aircraft?
Ozzie Williams
Who invented the control unit for the artificial heart
stimulator?
Otis Boykin
What breakthrough medical procedure was performed by
Open heart surgery
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?
Matthew Henson was with the first expedition to reach
what destination?
North Pole
What engineer from New Orleans patented the sugar
refinery?
Norbert Rillieux
What Black American invented an inexpensive method of
Norbert Rillieux
refining sugar?
What father and son team served as guides at Mammoth
Cave for 49 and 19 years respectively?
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In what city was Robert Rillieux, inventor and scientist
born in 1806?
New Orleans
In 1978, Ronald McNair was accepted by NASA for its
astronaut candidate program. What is NASA’s full
name?
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
What famous cowboy involved in gun battles with
bandits and Indians earned the nickname “Deadwood
Dick” for his expert marksmanship?
Nat Love
Where is Meharry Medical College located?
Nashville, Tennessee
George Washington Carver’s mule-drawn wagon often
went to area farmers to teach them about improving crop
Moveable School
yields. What was this wagon called?
What did J.R. Pickering patent in 1900?
Modified airship
As a member of the Challenger space shuttle team, what
was Dr. Ronald McNair’s responsibility?
Mission Science Specialist
Who published the Black American medical journal in
1892?
Miles Vandahurst Lynk
Who is responsible for inventing the method of
converting gas into electricity?
Meredith Gourdine
James Glass, Hopkinsville native and long-time
Henderson doctor, received his medical degree from what
Meharry Medical College
school in 1906?
What was the name of the first all Black Medical school? Meharry Medical College
In 1909 what black explorer accompanied Admiral
Robert Peary to the North Pole?
Matthew Henson
Who was the first man to discover the North Pole?
Matthew Henson
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What explorer departed fro a famous expedition aboard
the ship “Roosevelt” on July 6, 1908?
Matthew Henson
Who provided life-saving heroics to help his group of
explorers reach the North Pole?
Matthew Henson
Who was first woman assigned by the US Navy to study
underwater acoustics?
Mary Middleton
Who was the first Black American professionally trained
Mary Mahoney
as a registered nurse in the United States?
Born in 1881, who was the first African American nurse
licensed in Kentucky?
Mary Eliza Merritt
Earnest Everett Just, a biologist, was known for what type
Marine eggs
of research?
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Born a slave, Stephen Bishop, the first African American
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cave explorer made a published map of what cave?
Who was the first Black American to pilot a space shuttle
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What Black American woman used the trial and error
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Sarah Breedlove Walker developed special hair care
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Madam C.J. Walker
Who invented the burglar alarm?
Louis Alexander
Paul Williams served as co-architect for what major
international airport?
Los Angeles
Who was the first Black American astronaut to fly in
space?
Lieutenant Colonel Guion S.
Bluford, Jr.
Who prepared the blueprints for Alexander Graham
Bell’s telephone?
Lewis Latimer
What Black American inventor worked for both General
Lewis Latimer
Electric and Westinghouse?
Who became the only Black American member of the
famous “Edison Pioneers,” a group of people who had
worked with Edison before 1885?
Lewis Latimer
Resigning in 1940, who was the last African American
guide for Mammoth Cave, eight years before the cave
was turned over to the federal government?
Lewis Bransford
Who designed and patented the dustpan?
L.P. Ray
Who invented the folding bed?
L.C. Bailey
Who invented the bread crumbing machine and the breadJoseph Lee
making machine?
The Holland Tunnel was designed and constructed by
what Black American?
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James Beckwourth became chief scout for what explorer
John Freemont
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Who invented the electron microscope?
John Coleman
What Black slave helped Cyrus McCormick invent his
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and trading post?
Who made the first practical shoe-making machine?
Jan Matzeliger
Who patented corrosion resistant alloy steels?
James Parsons
Born in Hopkinsville, this physician and surgeon
practiced in Henderson, Kentucky, for 50 years. Name
him.
James G. Glass
Who invented the device that made it easier to handle the
James Forten
sails of large ships?
Who was the first accredited Black American physician
in the United States?
James Derham
What Black American became General John C.
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Norbert Rillieux’s invention made obsolete?
Jamaica Train
What famous sports figure received a patent on an
improved monkey wrench?
Jack Johnson
Who revolutionized the baking industry with the
invention of the dough roller?
J.W. Reed
Who invented the pencil sharpener?
J.L. Love
Who invented the lawn mower?
J.A. Burr
Who invented the oil stove and the refrigerator?
J. Standard
What was the significance of Granville T. Woods
“telephone transmitter,” which he invented in 1884?
It carried voices longer
distances
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Is it the real McCoy?
inventor?
What household item was invented by Sarah Boone?
Ironing board
Darnley E. Howard, Sr. and Darnley M. Howard, Jr.,
father and son, shared what same profession?
Inventors
What profession was held by Garrett Morgan and Lloyd
Hall?
Inventor
Matthew Henson learned the language and skills of what
Inuit
Indian tribe?
What did Lewis Howard Latimer and Hiram S. Maxim
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August Jackson created what well-known desert?
Ice Cream
What was the name of the flamboyant pilot known as
Black Eagle?
Hubert Julian
What Black American inventor received a patent for an
airplane safety device in 1921?
Hubert Julian
Brothers and Hopkinsville natives, Garland and Phillip
Brooks received advance degrees from what school?
Howard University
What Black American patented the corn harvester?
Henry Blair
What Black American inventor patented the cotton
planter and seed planter?
Thomas L. Jennings
Who was the first Black American to obtain a patent for a
Henry Blair
dry cleaning process called "dry scouring?"
Who invented the first corn husker?
Henry Blair
Harry C. Hopkins received a patent for enhancing what
medical device?
Hearing Aid
What Black American inventor patented the hearing aid? Harry Hopkins
In 1953, Soloman Harper invented what thermostatically
Hair Curlers
controlled device?
What Attucks High School graduate, founded Kirkwood
General Hospital, the last Black hospital to close in
Detroit Michigan?
Guy Otha Saulsberry
Who was known as the “Black Edison”?
Granville T. Woods
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What Black American invented the railway telegraph?
Granville T. Woods
Who invented the incubator?
Granville T. Woods
What Black American invented the air brake?
Granville T. Woods
Known as the “Black Edison,” what famous inventor was
responsible for developing the third rail used in modern
Granville T. Woods
subway systems?
G.F. Grant received a patent in 1899 for what sports
item?
Golf tee
Who discovered over 300 uses for the peanut?
George Washington Carver
What famous scientist and biologist said, “God gave them
to me, why should I claim to own them” with regard to
George Washington Carver
his discoveries and inventions?
He was interested in plants at an early age and was an
agriculturist who developed peanut products. Who was
he?
George Washington Carver
In 1927, what Black American scientist and inventor
received a patent for his process of producing paint?
George Washington Carver
Born into slavery in Missouri, who worked his way
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George E. Carruthers
The Minnesota Territory had many black trappers. Which
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Who invented the three way traffic light?
Garrett Morgan
Who invented the gas mask?
Garrett Morgan
What Black American was called in to assist a rescue
effort for six workers trapped by a gas explosion using
his patented smoke mask?
Garrett Morgan
What brothers returned to Hopkinsville, Kentucky to
practice pharmacy and medicine after receiving advanced
Garland and Phillip Brooks
degrees from Howard University?
Who invented the clothes dryer?
G.T. Sampson
Who invented the golf tee?
G.F. Grant
What is James Beckwourth recognized as?
Frontiersman
Who invented a ticket dispensing machine?
Frederick McKinley Jones
Who invented portable refrigeration?
Frederick McKinley Jones
Whose invention completely changed the way food could
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be transported?
Bessie Coleman was the first black female aviator in
1921. Because of racism in the United States, she was
refused entry into aeronautics schools. She was trained
and received her pilot’s license in what country?
France
In 1854, to what country did Norbert Rillieux go when he
could no longer tolerate the discrimination and prejudice
France
he experienced in America?
What was particularly noteworthy about the first shuttle First space shuttle launch at
flight flown by Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr.? night
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Prejudice was a major factor of Elijah McCoy’s inability
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Fireman
with the railroad did he eventually choose?
What did Benjamin Banneker publish for farmers which
became the first scientific book published by a Black
American?
Farmers’ Almanac
The cash register was invented by what Black American? F.A. Hilyer
Meredith Gourdine invented what automobile device?
Exhaust Purification System
Who is famous as the “Black Apollo of Science”?
Ernest Just
Dr. Mae Jemison was the first female black astronaut.
What was the name of the space shuttle that took her and
Endeavor
her crew members into space in 1992?
Who invented the bullet resistant Plexiglas?
Emmanuel L. Logan
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Elijah McCoy
the lubricating cup?
The oil lubricating cup was invented by what Black
American?
A. Miles patented what mechanical device used in many
Elevator
office buildings and skyscrapers?
Granville T. Woods was best remembered for what type
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What invention by Granville T. Woods helped farmers
improve productivity?
Electrically Heated Egg
Incubator
Lewis Latimer was known as a pioneer in the
development of what device?
Electric light bulb
Who was the first Black American to obtain a Ph.D. in
Physics?
Edward Bouchet
In 1890, Lewis Latimer became the chief draftsman of
what company?
Edison Electric Light
Company
Who developed the test used to detect the disease
syphilis?
Dr. William Hinton
Who was the first Black American professor at Harvard
University?
Dr. William Hinton
Who developed the largest research and training center
for kidney transplants in the country?
Dr. Samuel L. Koontz
What Black American astronaut died in the 1986
Challenger space shuttle disaster?
Dr. Ronald McNair
Who is famous for his research on sickle cell anemia?
Dr. Roland Scott
Who discovered a soybean oil extract that gave relief to
arthritis sufferers?
Dr. Percy Julian
What Black American developed a treatment for arthritis? Dr. Percy Julian
Who developed a drug used to treat glaucoma, an eye
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Who saved the lives of thousands of soldiers in World
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Dr. Percy Julian
Who invented the smallpox vaccine?
Dr. Louis Wright
Who performed the first surgical implantation of the
automatic defibrillator in the human heart?
Dr. Levi Watkins
Who was the first accredited Black American woman
dentist in America?
Dr. Ida Gray
Who is a pioneer in tooth transplantation research and a
graduate of Howard University?
Dr. Harold Fleming
What physicist and Morehouse College graduate received
the first Professor Arturo Miolati Prize for outstanding
scientific achievement for his work on fragment
Dr. Dolphus Milligan
molecules known as free radicals?
Who was the first African American woman admitted to
the University of Louisville Medical School?
Dr. Delores Gordon Alleyne
Who performed the world’s first open heart surgery?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
What doctor attended President James Garfield after he
was shot?
Dr. Charles Purvis
What doctor, a pioneer in blood transfusion, died in 1950
following a car accident when he was turned away from a
Dr. Charles Drew
hospital because of his race?
Who convinced doctors to use blood plasma for
transfusions?
Dr. Charles Drew
Who was credited with setting up the first blood bank in
England and the United States?
Dr. Charles Drew
Who was responsible for performing the technique of
preserving for blood banks?
Dr. Charles Drew
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What Black American scientist developed a way of
separating blood plasma?
Dr. Charles Drew
Who invented the technique of using dye to detect liver
disease and evaluate blood?
Dr. Carol M. Leevy
What Black American woman invented fungicide?
Dorothy McClendon
W.A. Martin patented what security device?
Door lock
Who was the first Black American to fly with the Blue
Angels?
Donnie Cochran
Where was George Washington Carver born?
Diamond, Missouri
What Black American inventor received a patent in 1970
Dewey Sanderson
for a urinalysis machine?
Who was the director of the National Swine Flu
Immunization Program?
Delano Meriwether
Who was the first Black American to graduate from
medical school in 1847?
David J. Peck
Who was the first Black American member of the
National Academy of Sciences?
David H. Blackwell
Who received a patent for the invention of an optical
apparatus that helped to position tooling?
D. E. Howard
Dr. Percy Lavon Julian played an important role in
bringing what arthritis drug to the public?
Cortisone
In 1834, Henry Blair received a patent for what kind of
planting device?
Corn planter
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Who invented a method for growing oxide?
Corland Dugger
Conversion of gas into
What process was introduced by Dr. Meredith Gourdine? electricity
G.T. Sampson invented what popular home appliance in
1892?
Clothes dryer
What Black American inventor received a patent for the
lawn mower and Venetian blind restringer?
Clarence Nokes
What famous Black pioneer assisted Barney Ford upon
his arrival in Colorado?
Clara Brown
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the world’s first
open heart surgery at what hospital?
Chicago’s Provident
Hospital
Robert S. Abbott supported the great migration to
Northern cities as editor and publisher of what
periodical?
Chicago Defender
Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trapper and trader, was the
first black explorer in North America. In 1772 he
Chicago
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city?
Rush
Medical
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in this
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city.
What Black American scientist is known for his work
with insects?
Charles Turner
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Charles Spurgeon Fletcher
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In 1978 Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr. became
the first black astronaut in space. On August 30, 1983 he
and his crew members launched into space on what space
Challenger
shuttle?
On January 28, 1986, what space shuttle exploded 73
seconds after lift-off, killing Dr. Ronald McNair and six
of his colleagues?
Challenger
Who in 1977 became the first African American architect
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James Beckwourth, a former slave turned trapper,
discovered Beckwourth Pass through the Sierra Nevada
mountains in 1850. The passage allowed pioneers to
reach what state more safely and quickly ?
California
Who received an award from the Army for developing a
technique to decontaminate missiles?
Bruce Lee
Upon completing his education at Howard University,
Phillip C. Brooks returned to Hopkinsville, Kentucky,
where he owned and operated what medical facility
beginning in 1944?
Brooks Memorial Hospital
What device used by fire fighters was invented by Garrett
Breathing Device
Morgan?
Who invented the fuel mixture for the Polaris Missile?
Booker T. Hoagan
Lewis Temple invented the toggle harpoon used by the
whaling industry. What was his occupation?
Blacksmith
What slave-born nurse was the first female to own
property in Los Angeles?
Biddy Bridget Mason
What is the name of the California Hotel designed by
Paul Williams?
Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Who trained in France and received her pilot’s license in
Bessie Coleman
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Being the first black female
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What was the name of the route that James Beckwourth
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began inventing in 1885. His
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Automatic air brakes and
steam
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Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, pharmacist Garland H.
Brooks attended what local high school?
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Attucks High School
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Archie Alexander
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Who invented a life-saving device for coupling railroad
cars?
Andrew J. Beard
Who invented the rotary engine?
Andrew Beard
Dr. Charles Drew served as director for what
organization’s blood bank?
American Red Cross
Who is explorer Matthew Henson buried next to?
Admiral Robert E. Peary
Who invented the door lock?
A.W. Johnson
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What Black American inventor received a patent to the
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Paul Cuffe was considered a true pioneer. What form of
a ship
transportation did he use to reach his destination?
Albert Y. Garner received a patent for what invention
used to help save lives?
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In 1884, the “Medico-Chirurgical Society” was formed.
What kind of association is this?
A flame retardant
a dry scouring device for
clothing
a Black medical association
According to the Organization of Black Airline Pilots,
how many of the nation’s 70,000 commercial pilots were
600 or less than 1%
black in 1992?
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Science
&
Explora When Guion Bluford orbited earth aboard the Challenger
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300 miles per minute
space shuttle, how fast did the space craft move?
1453
1454
1455
1456
1457
Science
&
Explora
tion
Science
&
Explora
tion
Science
&
Explora
tion
Science
&
Explora
tion
Science
&
Explora
tion
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams served as professor of clinical
surgery at what medical facility?
Meharry Medical College in
Nashville, Tennessee
Major Frederick D. Gregory made his first space flight in
1985. In what year did he become the first black space
1989
commander?
In what year did G.T. Sampson invent the clothes dryer? 1892
In what year was the first all Black medical school
Meharry Medical College established?
1876
In what year was George Washington Carver born?
1864
Science
In 1901, Garrett Morgan’s first invention was a belt
&
Explora fastener for sewing machines which he sold for how
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much money?
$50
Science
How many members of the Bransford family served as
&
Explora guides at Mammoth Cave before it was turned over the
1459 tion
federal government in 1948?
4
Science
&
Explora
1755 tion
Who was the first black astronaut to walk in space?
Bernard Harris, Jr.
What was the name of Wilma Rudolph’s relay team,
1460 Sports which finished first at the 1960 Olympics?
Tennessee Tigerbelles
What former two-time heavyweight boxing champion
won a Gold Medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City
1461 Sports and went on to become a minister?
George Foreman
Who was the first Black American teenager to win the
1462 Sports Junior Girls Singles Title at Wimbledon?
Zina Garrison
What Tennessee State University student became the first
woman to win the 100-meter dash twice at both the 1964
1463 Sports and
games?
Who1968
holdsOlympic
the record
for most points scored in a single Wyomia Tyus
1464 Sports basketball game (100)?
Wilt Chamberlain
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At
the 1960 Olympics in Rome, this sprinter was the first ANSWER
1465 Sports
1466 Sports
1467 Sports
1468 Sports
1469 Sports
1470 Sports
1471 Sports
American woman to win three Gold Medals. Who was
she?
Who was the first Black American to qualify and race in
the Indianapolis 500?
Who was named NBA rookie of the year in 1965, his first
yearplayed
as a center
for Negro
the New
York team
Knicks?
He
with the
League
Black Barons in
Birmingham when he was 17 years old. Shortly after, in
1950, he signed with the New York Giants. He ranks
Who was the first Black National League baseball player
to hit 600 home runs?
Olympic star Bob Hayes played what position for the
Dallas Cowboys?
Dwight Smith and Clem Haskins became the first two
African American basketball players at what university?
Wilma Rudolph
Willy T. Ribbs
Willis Reed
Willie Mays
Willie Mays
Wide receiver
Western Kentucky
University (WKU)
At the age of 29, Bernie Bickerstaff became the youngest
assistant coach in NBA history when he joined what team
1472 Sports now
Washington Bullets
Washington
This known
athlete as
wasthe
a running
backWizards?
for the Chicago Bears.
He ran 1,852 yards to help the team reach the playoffs for
1473 Sports the first time in 14 years. What was his name?
Walter Payton
What running back surpassed Jim Brown’s rushing
1474 Sports record of 12,312 yards?
1475 Sports
Walter Payton
What was boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson’s real name? Walker Smith, Jr.
Who was the first Black American pitcher to win the Cy
1476 Sports Young award in the American League?
These two sisters were born in 1980 and 1981,
respectively. They are champions of Wimbledon and
1477 Sports other major tennis tournaments. Name them.
Vida Blue
Venus and Serena Williams
Who was the first Black American to play in the National
1478 Sports Hockey League?
Val James
NBA superstar Michael Jordan played college basketball
1479 Sports Born
at what
in university?
Lexington, KY, Derek Bryant was the first
African American baseball player at what school, where
1480 Sports One
he played
of thefrom
first 1971-1973?
African American players in the
Southeastern Conference, football standout Wilbur
1481 Sports Hackett, Jr. was the first African American to start in any
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University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Kentucky
University of Kentucky
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University of California at
Los Angeles (UCLA)
1488 Sports
Jackie Robinson excelled in four sports at what
university?
Jackie Joyner-Kersee was awarded a basketball
scholarship to what university?
In 1968, Arthur Ashe became the first Black American to
win what major tennis tournament?
How many times did Archie Griffin win the Heisman
trophy?
In 1907, whom did Jack Johnson defeat to win the
heavyweight championship?
At the age of 24, this golfer won the 82nd PGA
Championship, beating Bob May in a three-hole playoff
at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, on August
20, 2000. Name him.
What is the name of the baseball stadium in Pittsburgh
that opened in 1979?
1489 Sports
What professional boxer is named “The Hit Man”?
Thomas Hearns
1482 Sports
1483 Sports
1484 Sports
1485 Sports
1486 Sports
1487 Sports
Who holds the record for the most touchdowns scored
1490 Sports from kick-off returns?
What do Mike Garret, Ernie Davis and Billy Simms have
1491 Sports in common?
What nickname did Ozzie Smith earn due to his amazing
1492 Sports acrobatics at shortstop?
University of California at
Los Angeles (UCLA)
U.S. Open
Two
Tommy Burns
Tiger Woods
Three Rivers Stadium
Thomas Allen "Timmy"
Brown
They all won the Heisman
Trophy
The Wizard of Oz
The Say Hey Kid
What was Willie May’s nickname?
What was Earl Monroe’s nickname during his basketball
1494 Sports career?
The Pearl
1493 Sports
1495 Sports
1496 Sports
1497 Sports
1498 Sports
1499 Sports
1500 Sports
For what
did Jackie
playMedal
in 1947?
The
men’steam
basketball
teamRobinson
won a Gold
at the 1992
Olympics in
Barcelona,
Spain.
team
was known
as what?
Born
in 1946,
Jim The
Kelly,
martial
artist and
star of the
films Enter the Dragon and Black Belt Jones, currently
practices what profession?
In 1956 Althea Gibson become the first African
American woman to win a Grand Slam title in what
sport? the Rome Olympics in 1960, Wilma Rudolph
During
became the fastest woman on earth. What was she
called?
In
1992, what prestigious award did Arthur Ashe receive,
making him the first person to attain this honor after
retiring from a professional sport?
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The Brooklyn Dodgers
the “Dream Team”
Tennis coach
Tennis
Tennessee Tornado
Sportsman of the Year
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Who did Muhammad Ali defeat on February 25, 1964 to
1501 Sports win the heavyweight title?
Sonny Liston
1502 Sports
1503 Sports
1505 Sports
1506 Sports
1510 Sports
1511 Sports
1513 Sports
1514 Sports
1515 Sports
1516 Sports
1517 Sports
Whowas
did aFloyd
Patterson
lose his
title
in 1962?
She
forward
who scored
47 boxing
points in
thetofinal
game
of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
tournament
in 1993.
She ledNBA
Texashead
Tech
to the
national
The
first African
American
coach
from
Kentucky, Bernie Bickerstaff coached what team from
Before being christened the Harlem Globetrotters, what
was this
basketball team’s
name?
Born
in Louisville,
KY, who
went on to become an
assistant basketball coach at LSU in 1976, the first
African
American
basketball
hired full-time
Jesse
Stahl
competed
and wascoach
discriminated
againstatinthe
an
Oregon rodeo in the early 1900s. What did he do when
the judges did not award him first prize which he thought
On October 26, 1951, Joe Louis was knocked out in his
final professional boxing fight by whom?
While playing football for Notre Dame, what nickname
did Raghib
Ramadian
What
famous
baseball Ismail
player earn?
who played for the Oakland
A’s and New York Yankees earned the nickname “Mr.
October"?
What
famous Olympic champion was standing at Senator
Robert Kennedy’s side when Kennedy was fatally shot by
Sirhan Sirhan?
What Black American lit the Olympic torch at the 1984
Summer Games?
Sonny Liston
Sheryl Swoopes
Seattle SuperSonics
Savoy Big Five
Ronald L. Abernathy
Rode his next horse in
protest by facing backward
Rocky Marciano
Rocket
Reggie Jackson
Rafer Johnson
Rafer Johnson
What position did Doug Williams play in the 1988 Super
1518 Sports Bowl?
Quarterback
1520 Sports
1521 Sports
1522 Sports
1523 Sports
1524 Sports
Willie Stargell began and ended his professional baseball
career
with
what National
League
team? Bulls to their
In 1993,
Michael
Jordan led
the Chicago
third straight NBA championship with a victory in the
final
over
whathis
team?
Juliusseries
Erving
began
career with the ABA’s Virginia
Squires. He
played in the NBA in 1976 until he retired. For what
NBA
team
he play?player was a center that helped his
In
1960
thisdid
basketball
U.S. Olympic team win a Gold Medal. He became an allstar in the NBA with nearly 10,000 assists during his
career. Name him.
In 1997 who became the first African American
basketball coach at the University of Kentucky?
Who was the first Black American jockey to win the
1525 Sports Kentucky Derby?
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Phoenix Suns
Philadelphia 76ers
Oscar Robertson
Orlando "Tubby" Smith
Oliver Lewis
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ANSWER
For what professional football team did Carl Weathers
1526 Sports Derek
play? Bryant, the first African American baseball player Oakland Raiders
at the University of Kentucky, was drafted by what
1527 Sports professional team?
Oakland Athletics
1528 Sports
1529 Sports
1531 Sports
1532 Sports
1534 Sports
Who won the 1968 Heisman Trophy?
What football star became the first to rush for over 2,000
yards in a single season?
How many Gold Medals did track and field athlete Carl
Lewis win in his career?
Julius Erving began his professional basketball career
with what team?
Basketball star Willie Reed became the coach of what
team in 1977?
Willie Mays began his professional career with what
1535 Sports major league baseball team?
1536 Sports
1538 Sports
1539 Sports
1540 Sports
1542 Sports
1544 Sports
1545 Sports
1546 Sports
1547 Sports
1549 Sports
For what team was Willie Mays playing when his famous
over-the-shoulder
catch
Willis
Reed became
the occurred?
general manager of what
professional basketball team?
Satchel Paige played for 22 years in what baseball
league?
Bill Russell was the first Black American player in what
professional
league?
He
was born sports
Cassius
Clay but changed his name after he
joined the Nation of Islam. Who is this former Olympic
Gold Medal prizefighter?
Known for his lyrical boasts, athletic grace, and postboxing philanthropy, what heavyweight champion lit the
torch for the Atlanta Olympic Games?
A three-time heavyweight champion, who was stripped of
his first championship title because he refused to fight in
the Vietnam War?
After being denied service at a Louisville, Kentucky,
lunch counter, this heavyweight fighter threw his
Olympic medal into the river in protest. Name him.
Frank Robinson became the first baseball player to
receive what award in both the National and American
Leagues?
This
American Major League Baseball player is credited
with being the first African American to play at the major
league level in 1884. Name him.
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O.J. Simpson
O.J. Simpson
Nine
New York Nets
New York Knicks
New York Giants
New York Giants
New Jersey Nets
Negro League
NBA
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali
Most Valuable Player
Moses Fleetwood Walker
#
CATEG
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QUESTION
ANSWER
Between 1972 and 1980 blacks won how many Olympic
1550 Sports medals in track and field events?
more than 75
Who was the youngest boxer to win the heavyweight
1551 Sports title?
Mike Tyson
What college basketball team did Magic Johnson lead to
1552 Sports the NCAA championship?
Michigan State Spartans
Earvin “Magic” Johnson played for what college
1553 Sports Who
basketball
team?
are the
only two brothers that ever held the
1554 Sports heavyweight boxing title?
1555 Sports
1556 Sports
1557 Sports
1558 Sports
1559 Sports
For what professional football team did Mercury Morris
play?
Who was the first major league baseball player to steal
more than 100 bases in a single season?
When Ricky Henderson stole his 929th base on May 1,
1991, whose record did he break?
What Black American player broke Ty Cobb’s stolen
bases record with 893 steals?
Art Shell became the second Black football coach of what
team?
Michigan State Spartans
Michael and Leon Spinks
Miami Dolphins
Maury Wills
Lou Brock
Lou Brock
Los Angeles Raiders
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron became the all time home run
th
1560 Sports king when he hit his 715 homer against what team?
Los Angeles Dodgers
1561 Sports
1562 Sports
1565 Sports
1566 Sports
1567 Sports
1569 Sports
1570 Sports
1571 Sports
In 1968, Bob Beamon set an Olympic record in what
event?
What team played against Biddle College in the first
Black American college football game?
Who was the first Black American pitcher in the
American League?
Who became a major league rookie at the age of 42 in
1948?Black American served three times as a Head
What
Linesman in a Super Bowl, positions reserved for the
highest-rated NFL officials?
Who was the second Black American to manage a major
league baseball team?
Who was the first African American player from
Kentucky
draftedplayer
into the
WNBA?
Which
baseball
began
his career at the age of 19
and played in the majors at the same time as his father
who shares his name?
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Long Jump
Livingstone College
Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Leroy "Satchel" Paige
Leo Miles
Larry Doby
Kym Hampton
Ken Griffey, Jr.
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QUESTION
ANSWER
Karl Malone
What basketball star is referred to as “The Mailman”?
What basketball star center perfected a shot known as the
1573 Sports “skyhook”?
Kareem Abdul-Jabar
1572 Sports
In 1988, what basketball player became the first NBA
1575 Sports player to reach 37,000 career points?
1576 Sports
Jackie Robinson played for what Negro League team?
Kareem Abdul Jabar
Kansas City Monarchs
Otis Taylor was a standout player for what football team
1577 Sports in the late 1930s?
Kansas City Chiefs
Julius Erving
What basketball great is known as Dr. J?
Who was admitted to the Hall of Fame for being the best
1579 Sports hitter in the Negro League?
Josh Gibson
Who was the first Black American to lead an NFL
1580 Sports officiating crew?
Johnny Grier
1578 Sports
Who was the first Black American to complete the US
1581 Sports Open tennis tournament?
John Shippen
What professional basketball star returned to the NBA
after successfully combating drug addiction, and
commented, “People say you almost lost
1582 Sports basketball…Well, I almost lost my life”?
John Lucas
1583 Sports
1584 Sports
1585 Sports
1586 Sports
1587 Sports
1588 Sports
1589 Sports
Who became the first Black American running back to
rush more than 1,000 yards in a single season?
Who was Muhammad Ali’s opponent in the famous
“Thrilla in Manila” fight?
What boxer gave Muhammad Ali his first professional
loss?
What heavyweight boxing champion defended his title
against Muhammad Ali in 1971?
Who knocked heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali to the
canvas in the 15th round of their first boxing match?
Who did Arthur Ashe defeat in 1975 to become the first
Black American to win the singles title at Wimbledon?
Who was the first Black American to lead professional
football in rushing?
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Joe Perry
Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier
Joe Frazier
Jimmy Connors
Jim Brown
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QUESTION
ANSWER
Who led the NFL in rushing in eight of his nine seasons
1590 Sports (for a total of 12,312 yards) and scored 126 touchdowns? Jim Brown
James Cleveland Owens, a track and field athlete, won
four Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. By
1591 Sports what name was he known?
Jesse Owens
Who was the first Black American quarterback to lead the
1592 Sports NFL in passing?
James Harris
In 1947 who was the first black to join the major leagues
1593 Sports since Moses Fleetwood Walker played in 1885?
Jackie Robinson
Who was the first Black American elected to the Baseball
1594 Sports Hall of Fame?
Jackie Robinson
What Black American sports legend was commemorated
1595 Sports by a postage stamp in 1982?
Jackie Robinson
In 1949, who became the first Black American to win
1596 Sports baseball’s Most Valuable Player award?
1607 Sports
Who was the first Black American heavyweight boxing
champion?
Cornelius Johnson, Melvin Walker, and Derived
Albritton excelled in what track and field event?
What famous football star danced with a Fort Worth
ballet company?
In 1979, what forced Arthur Ashe to retire from
professional
tennis?KY, what Western Kentucky
Born in Princeton,
University standout was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks
in 1968 and ended his career with the Portland Trail
Blazers in 1976?
After retiring from professional tennis, Althea Gibson
launched what new professional sports career?
1608 Sports
What professional sport did Lee Elder play?
1597 Sports
1598 Sports
1599 Sports
1600 Sports
1606 Sports
Jackie Robinson
Jack Johnson
High Jump
Herschel Walker
Heart Attack
Gregory D. Smith
Golf
Golf
Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics
1609 Sports hosted by what country?
Germany
Who was the first Black American to win an Olympic
1611 Sports medal in the 200 and 400 meter hurdles?
Who was the first Black American to compete in the
1612 Sports Olympics?
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George C. Poage
George C. Poage
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QUESTION
1613 Sports
1615 Sports
1616 Sports
1617 Sports
ANSWER
Who was the first Black American professional football
player? as the first Black manager in baseball’s American
Chosen
League, who managed the Cleveland Indians beginning in
1974?
What baseball great played basketball with Bill Russell at
McClymonds High School in Oakland, California?
Who was the first baseball player to win the honor of
“Most Valuable Player” in both the National and
American baseball leagues?
1624 Sports
How many gold metals did Jesse Owens win during the
1936 Summer Olympics?
Carl Lewis won how many gold medals in the 1984
Summer Olympics?
What female track star has held world records in the 100
meter and 200 meter dash since 1988?
Magic Johnson led the Los Angeles Lakers to how many
NBA
championships?
In 1988,
Debi Thomas became the first Black American
to win a medal in the Winter Olympic Games. In what
event did she win her medal?
1626 Sports
Who is the NFL’s all-time career rushing leader?
1619 Sports
1620 Sports
1621 Sports
1623 Sports
Fritz Pollard
Frank Robinson
Frank Robinson
Frank Robinson
Four
Four
Florence “FloJo” GriffithJoyner
Five
Figure Skating
Emmitt Smith
What football star led the NFL in rushing during the 199293 season and led his team to victory in Super Bowl
1627 Sports XXII?
Emmitt Smith
Who was the first Black American to become a major
1628 Sports league umpire?
Who was the first African American to play football for
1629 Sports the New York Giants?
Who was the first Black American inducted into the Pro
1630 Sports Football Hall of Fame?
Emmett Ashford
Emlen Tunnell
Emlen Tunnell
Who was the first Black American to play for the New
1631 Sports Starting
Elston Howard
York Yankees?
in 1959, Bill Russell led the Boston Celtics to
1633 Sports What
how many
straight
NBA championships,
an player and Eight
Western
Kentucky
University basketball
valedictorian of his Princeton, KY high school graduating
1634 Sports class was drafted by the LA Lakers in 1967?
Dwight Smith
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QUESTION
1636 Sports
1637 Sports
1638 Sports
1639 Sports
1640 Sports
ANSWER
Who coined Muhammad Ali’s slogan, “Float like a
butterfly, sting like a bee”?
Who became the first Black player to quarterback a Super
Bowl team to victory?
Who was the National League’s first Black American
pitcher?
Who was the National League’s first Black American Cy
Young Award winner?
Who was the first African American baseball player at
the University of Kentucky?
Bernie Bickerstaff served as president and general
1641 Sports manager of what NBA team from 1990-1997?
Marlin Briscoe was the first Black starting quarterback
1642 Sports for what football team?
Who was named coach of the Minnesota Vikings in
1643 Sports 1992?
1644 Sports
1645 Sports
1646 Sports
1647 Sports
1649 Sports
1650 Sports
1651 Sports
1652 Sports
Daryl Bishop had a successful career playing what
football
position player
at the University
Kentucky?
What
basketball
was namedofNBA
Rookie of the
Year while leading the Detroit Pistons to their first NBA
Championship
playoff?
Born
in Louisville,
KY, playing a few games as a walkon, then withdrawing from the team, who was the first
African American
to play
for the
University
Despite
only playing
threebasketball
seasons, who
holds
the UK of
career record for most pass interceptions (14), most
return yardage (376), and making more tackles (348) than
Satchel Paige was the first Black American to pitch major
league baseball for what team?
Frank Robinson became the first Black American
manager in major league baseball for what team?
Jim Brown began his professional football career with
what team in 1957?
Jim Brown rushed for 12,312 yards during his nine-year
career with what team?
Drew “Bundini” Brown
Doug Williams
Don Newcombe
Don Newcombe
Derek Bryant
Denver Nuggets
Denver Broncos
Dennis Green
Defensive back
Dave Bing
Daryl Bishop
Daryl Bishop
Cleveland Indians
Cleveland Indians
Cleveland Browns
Cleveland Browns
Who became Western Kentucky University's first African
1653 Sports American
Clem S. Haskins
basketball
coach in 1980?
This sportshead
editor
of The Louisville
Defender and
associate editor of Ebony magazine won the Wilkie
1654 Sports Award in 1947 for revealing illegal taxicab services in
Edward T. Clayton
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QUESTION
ANSWER
Frank Robinson was voted National League Rookie of
1655 Sports the Year while playing for what team?
What baseball team did Frank Robinson help win the
1656 Sports pennant in 1961?
With what professional baseball team did Ernie Banks
1660 Sports start and end his career?
1661 Sports
The Harlem Globetrotters got their start in what city?
Who was the first Black American to join the
1662 Sports Professional Golf Association?
1664 Sports
1666 Sports
1667 Sports
1670 Sports
What track star won four gold medals at the 1984
Summer
Olympics?
Bill Pickett
was a rodeo star who chased down a steer on
horseback, jumped off, and wrestled the animal to the
ground.
invented
this style
of steer
wrestling.
By what
For whatHe
skill
did Charles
Sampson
become
the first
black to win the Professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association championship in 1982?
Jackie Robinson was the first American to play major
league baseball for what team?
Jackie Robinson began and ended his major league
1671 Sports baseball career with what team?
Cincinnati Reds
Cincinnati Reds
Chicago Cubs
Chicago
Charles Siffrord
Carl Lewis
Bulldogging
Bull riding
Brooklyn Dodgers
Brooklyn Dodgers
At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, Dehart Hubbard became
the first Black American to win the gold medal in what
1672 Sports event?
Broad jump
What major league baseball team was the last to integrate
1674 Sports its team?
Boston Red Sox
In 1951, Charles Cooper became the first Black American
to play NBA basketball. With what team did he make his
1676 Sports debut?
Boston Celtics
What former all-star first baseman became the highest
ranking Black baseball executive in 1989 as president of
1677 Sports the National League?
Bill White
Who was the first Black American president of the
1678 Sports National Baseball League?
What basketball superstar became the first Black
1679 Sports American to manage a major league sports team?
Bill White
Bill Russell
Who was regarded as the “Father of Modern Prize
1680 Sports Known
Bill Richmond
Fighting"?
as “Dusty Demon”, he became the first Black
American cowboy admitted to the National Rodeo Hall of
1681 Sports Fame in Oklahoma City. Who is he?
Bill Pickett
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QUESTION
ANSWER
What Black
cowboy
invented
bull dogging?
Olympic
goldAmerican
medal winner
Oscar
Robertson
became an Bill Picket
all-star in the NBA with nearly 10,000 assists during his
1683 Sports career. What was his nickname?
Big O
1682 Sports
Born in Benham, KY, who, at the age of 25, became head
coach at the University of San Diego and the youngest
1685 Sports Ranking
college coach
at that
time? coaches list, who
33rd in
onthe
theU.S.
NBA's
winningest
was the Charlotte Bobcats general manager and first
1686 Sports coach?
Arthur Ashe remains the only Black American to gain
1687 Sports recognition for what accomplishment?
1690 Sports
1691 Sports
1694 Sports
1695 Sports
1697 Sports
1698 Sports
In what four sports did Jackie Robinson win varsity
letters, becoming UCLA's first athlete to do so in 1939?
What baseball team did Frank Robinson help win the
World Series in 1966?
For what sport are Charles Wiltshire and Wendell Scott
famous?
Sonny
Collins was selected by what professional team in
the 2nd
of the
1976toNFL
draft?
Who
wasround
the first
athlete
receive
Sports Illustrated’s
Sportsmen of the Year award after retiring from his
professional career?
Who was the first Black American to play on the Davis
Cup tennis team?
What Black American was once ranked as the number
1699 Sports one tennis player in the world?
Who was the first Black American to become a head
1700 Sports coach for professional football?
What pitcher won 51 out of 55 games in the Negro
1701 Sports League in 1905?
1702 Sports
1703 Sports
1704 Sports
1705 Sports
1706 Sports
Popular during the Harlem Renaissance, what was the
Big Five?
The first black female tennis player to win major
tournaments in the 1950s, she was inducted into the
International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971. What was her
name?
Who became the first Black woman to win the prestigious
Wimbledon singles title?
In 1989 he became head coach at the University of
Tennessee, the first African American head coach in the
Southeastern Conference. Name him.
Who became the University of Tennessee's all-time
leading scorer in 1994?
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Bernard T. "Bernie"
Bickerstaff, Sr.
Bernard T. "Bernie"
Bickerstaff, Sr.
Being ranked number 1 in
men’s tennis
Baseball, basketball,
football, and track
Baltimore Orioles
Auto Racing
Atlanta Falcons
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe
Art Shell
Andrew “Rube” Foster
an all-black professional
basketball team of the 1920s
and 1930s
Althea Gibson
Althea Gibson
Allan W. Houston, Sr.
Allan W. Houston, Jr.
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QUESTION
ANSWER
What University of Kentucky career rush leader was
inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in
1707 Sports 2002?
1708 Sports What is basketball star Michael Jordan’s nickname?
What was Joe Louis’s overall professional boxing
1709 Sports record?
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How many teams has Tubby Smith led to the NCAA
Sweet Sixteen?
In what two events in the 1936 Olympics did Jesse
Owens set new world records?
George C. Poage was the first Black American to win an
Olympic medal in what two events?
What sports team was referred to by many as the “Dream
Team”?
What
consecutive years did Althea Gibson win the
Wimbledon
Tennis Singles
Sugar Ray Robinson
ended Championship?
his 200 professional bout
boxing career with a total of how many wins and
knockouts?
Jackie Robinson appeared on what value US postage
stamp?
At Willie Stargell’s request, the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates
adopted what song on their way to winning the World
Series?
Leroy Paige was a great pitcher in the Negro Leagues
who also played in the major leagues in 1949. By what
name was he known?
Willie Mays received a bonus of how much money when
he signed with the New York Giants?
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron ended his career with how
many RBIs?
In what year did Doug Williams became the first Black
player to quarterback a Super Bowl victory?
In what year did Mike Tyson become the youngest
heavyweight boxing champion in history?
In what year did the US Postal Service issue a Jackie
Robinson commemorative postage stamp?
In what year did Frank Robinson become the first Black
manager in major league basketball?
Satchel Paige was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in
what year?
In what year did Emmit Ashford become the first Black
American to umpire a major league baseball game?
In what year did Althea Gibson become the first Black
1733 Sports American to win a major tennis title?
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Alfred "Sonny" Collins
Air Jordan
68 wins, 3 loses
3 (the University of Tulsa,
the University of Georgia
and the University of
Kentucky)
200 meter dash and broad
jump
200 and 400 meter hurdles
1992 Olympic basketball
team
1957, 1958
175 wins, 110 KOs
15 cent
“We Are Family”
"Satchel”
$5,000
2202
1988
1986
1982
1974
1971
1966
1957
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CATEG
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QUESTION
In
what year did the first Black Americans Charles
ANSWER
Cooper, Early Lloyd, and Nathaniel Clifton play in the
1734 Sports NBA?
1950
In what year did Jackie Robinson become the first Black
1735 Sports American to win the MVP award in baseball?
1949
When did Jackie Robinson break the color barrier by his
1736 Sports entrance into baseball’s National League?
1947
Congressman Ralph Metcalfe won a gold medal at the
1737 Sports Berlin Olympics in what year?
Milt Campbell became the first Black American to win
1738 Sports the
decathlon
during
what
year ofbecome
the Olympic
games?
In what
year did
Dehart
Hubbard
the first
Black
American to win the Olympic gold medal in the broad
1740 Sports jump?
1747 Sports
In what year did Charles W. Follis become the first Black
American to play professional football?
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron ended his career with how
many home runs?
Willie Mays finished his baseball career with how many
home runs?
How many times did Joe Louis defend his heavyweight
boxing title?
How many of the 15 jockeys participating in the first
Kentucky Derby in 1875 were black?
What was Bob Gibson’s earned run average in 1968?
University of Kentucky football standout, Sonny Collins
played how many seasons of professional football?
1748 Sports
What was Jackie Robinson’s lifetime batting average?
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1746 Sports
1936
1936
1924
1902
755
660
26
14
1.12
1
0.311
Whatmany
was Hank
batting
average? were 0.310
How
of theAaron’s
originallifetime
five Harlem
Globetrotters
0
from Harlem?
In the NBA's inaugural 1949-1950 season, how many
1751 Sports Black American basketball players were in the league?
0
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