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1
Who was the first black artist to win a VMA?
Micheal Jackson
Wizkid
Beyonce
Jay-Z
2
Who won the first R&B album of the year?
Arthea Franklin
Erykah Badu 5
TLC
Boyz II Men
3
Who was the first black artist to ever have a number-one album?
Marvin Gaye
Tommy Edwards
Jay-Z
Ray Charles
4
Who was the first black artist to become a billionaire?
Dr. Dre
Jay-Z
Kanye West
P. Diddy
5
Maya Angelou wrote the famous autobiography, "I know why _____ _____ ______ ______"
the Caged Bird Sings
They Hold Us Back
the Locked Bird Flies
My Skin Is Different
6
Barry Jenkins directed the movie adaption of the book "If Beale Street Could Talk" by James Baldwin
False
True
7
An agricultural chemist who gave acclaim for his discovery of farming methods
Dercy Lavon Julian
George Washington Carver
Otis Boykin
Neil de Grasse Tyson
8
Who was the first rapper to win Pulitzer Prize?
Tupac Shakur
Jay-Z
Kendrick Lamar
Snoop Dogg
9
What is the significance of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)
It was a major supporter of the Underground Railroad
It played a key role in the Haitian Revolution
It was a major force in the early 20th century for Pan-Africa
It was a leading organization in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's
10
1st African American female neurosurgeon in the U.S.
Gladys West
Valerie Thomas
Annie Easley
Alexa Canady
11
The IBM PC Monitor and Gigahertz Chip, were Co-invented by?
Mark Dean
Katherine Johnson
Don Estridge
Don Cornelius
12
Stevie Wonder was the first black artist to ever win "Album of the Year" at the Grammy's
True
False
13
Who was the first black actor to win the academy award for best actor in 1964? lead role "Guess whos coming to Dinner"
Eddie Murphy
Sidney Portier
Debbie Allen
Roxie Poker
14
What was the significance of the Greensboro sit-ins in 1960's
It led to the integration of Greensboro, North Carolinas lunch counters
Resulted in the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
It was a catalyst for the larger Civil Rights Movement
It was a key event in the fight for desegregation of public transportation
15
Whitey Houston was the first female black artist to have a number one album
False
True
16
Who invented a home security system while also being a nurse?
Mary Van Brittany
Shirley Chisholm
Bayard Rustin
Annie Lee Cooper
17
Who was the first woman athlete to win five medals at one Olympics?
Marion Jones
Gail Devers
Jackie Robinson
Jackie JoynerKersee
18
Thomas Edison created the light bulb but Lewis _________ created the carbon filament in the light bulb to make it longer
And Clark
Pullman
Capaldi
Latimer
19
Who invented the improved ironing board?
George Washington carver
Sarah Boone
Garret Morgan
Patricia bath
20
Human-computer who did mathematical calculations to help launch satellites with NASA becoming the first manager
Bettye Washington Greene
Dorthy Vaughn
Mary Jackson
Alice Ball
21
The purpose of Green Book, a travel guide was to provide safe travel information for African American during segregation
True
False
22
Madam C.J. Walker is the first female self-made millionaire in America
False
True
23
Usain Bolt was a track and field star that overcame childhood polio to become one of the greatest athletes
False
True
24
Beyonce was the first female artist to win album of the year at the Grammy's.
True
False
25
The Sun is Not a Star and Everything Everything, are romance novels written by...
Angela Davis
Octavia E. Butler
Nicola Yoon
Zora Neale Hurston
26
Spike Lee wrote and produced "Do The Right Thing"
False
True
27
The all-black basketball team the Harlem Globetrotters was formed in what year?
1927
1960
1959
1938
28
Robert Abbott invented the three-light traffic signal
False
True
29
The Morna is considered a symbol of Cape Verdean national identity and cultural heritage
False
True
30
Refrigerated trucks weren’t invented until 1940 by…?
Frederick McKinley Jones
George Washington Carve
Marsha P. Johnson
Bayard Rustin
31
Alice Coachmen was the first African American woman to win an Olympic medal
True
False
32
James E. West and Gerhard M. Sessler invented the electric microphone
True
False
33
Victoria Mahoney was the first women to direct a Star Wars film
False
True
34
Ezra Jack Keats wrote The Snowy Day, a famous children picture book
True
False
35
Barack Obama was the 45th president
False
True
36
Chemist who was the 1st African American woman to get a Ph.D. in the U.S.
Glodys West
Valerie Thomas
Marie Maynard Daly
Alma L. Hayden
37
Jackie Robinson played Baltimore Orioles
False
True
38
Samuel Sharpe was an enslaved Jamaican who led the 1831 Christmas Rebellion, also known as the Baptist War
True
False
39
The name of the slave revolt that occurred in Haiti in 1791, leading to Haiti's independence from France in 1804
The Santo Domingo Uprising
The Haitian War of Independence
The French Colonial Wars
The Haitian Revolution
40
Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American fighter pilots to fly in World War II
False
True
41
Female Physcian that was known for being the 1st black woman to travel in space
Mary Jackson
Marie Maynard Daly
Katherine G Johnson
Mae C Jemison
42
Who was the first female black musician to be a billionaire?
Alicia Keys
Rhianna
Beyonce
Mariah Carey
43
Rachel Renee Russell was the author of Dork Diaries
True
False
44
What do African-American football players Ernie Davis, Archie Griffin, and Tony Dorsett have in common?
They all played for Pitsburgh
They all won the Heisman Trophy
Nothiing
They all led their teams to the Super Bowl tittles
45
Alexander Miles invented the automatic elevator doors
False
True
46
Female mathematician who performed complex calculations that let humans achieve successful space flight working at NASA
Katherine G Johnson
Maya Angelou
Lisa Gelobter
Mae C Jemison
47
Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls' six Championships in the 1990s.
False
True
48
Soybean chemist who had a big success in making innovative drugs and industrial chemicals from natural products
Mark E. Dean
Percy L. Julian
Sarah Breedlove Walker
Roger Arliner Young
49
Inventor who made a plastic coating for telephone wires that made universal service possible
Walter Lincoln Hawkins
Lloyd Hall
George Washington Carver
Harolds Anos
50
What famous abolitionist wrote and delivered the speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852?
Toni Morrison
Maya Angelou
Angela Davis.
Frederick Douglass
