Black History Trivia

Question 1

Harriet Tubman led the Underground Railroad.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

What landmark legislation is known as the Voting Rights Act?

Accepted Answer

Voting Rights Act

Question 3

Which movie featured Black Panther Party's story?

Accepted Answer

Judas and the Black Messiah

Question 4

Which university was founded by Booker T. Washington?

Accepted Answer

Tuskegee University

Question 5

What is Malcolm X's real last name?

Accepted Answer

Little

Question 6

The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1965.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 8

Complete the title: 'The Souls of Black ___'

Accepted Answer

Folk

Question 9

Who was the first African American to serve as President of the United States?

Accepted Answer

Barack Obama

Question 10

Who was the African American scientist who discovered over 300 uses for peanuts?

Accepted Answer

George Washington Carver

Question 11

Which state first abolished slavery?

Accepted Answer

Massachusetts

Question 12

Who was the African American athlete who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball?

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson

Question 13

Who is known as the 'Father of Black History'?

Accepted Answer

Carter G. Woodson

Question 14

Who was the first Black woman elected to Congress?

Accepted Answer

Shirley Chisholm

Question 15

Who was the first Black Secretary of State?

Accepted Answer

Colin Powell

Question 16

Was Martin Luther King Jr. a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Who wrote 'Beloved'?

Accepted Answer

Toni Morrison

Question 18

Which Supreme Court case ended segregation in schools?

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education

Question 19

Which city was central to the Jazz Age?

Accepted Answer

New Orleans

Question 20

Who was the first African American to win a Nobel Prize?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King Jr.

Question 21

Which artist recorded 'What's Going On'?

Accepted Answer

Marvin Gaye

Question 22

Who was the first African American woman to be appointed to the United States Supreme Court?

Accepted Answer

Clarence Thomas

Question 23

Which African American woman refused to give up her seat on a bus, sparking the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 24

What year was the NAACP founded?

Accepted Answer

1909

Question 25

Who was the first Black woman in space?

Accepted Answer

Mae Jemison

Question 26

Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?

Accepted Answer

Sidney Poitier

Question 27

Which year did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat?

Accepted Answer

1955

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