2022 FCPS vs. KCP Black History Quiz Bowl: Round 2

Who is the only African American author to win the Pulizter Prize for fiction twice?

What play by Lorraine Hansberry became the first written by a Black woman to appear on Broadway in 1959?

Who was the first Black official to serve as a United States Senator?

Which American athlete won four gold medals and broke two world records at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin?

Who is the first known Black American to have a novel published: Clotel or The President’s Daughter?

Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction, Ibram X Kendi is perhaps best known for what best-selling work?

Who is quoted as saying: “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”?

What pitcher followed Jackie Robinson into the MLB when he was 42-years-old and was later elected to the Hall of Fame?

What city was home to Black Wall Street, known for over 200 Black owned business before it was destoyed?

Which of the following was invented by African American, Alice H. Parker?

Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice and winning lawyer in Brown V. Board of Education?

Who is the American agricultural scientist and inventor, perhaps best known for also being a peanut farmer?

Which recording artist has the most Grammy awards for a female artist of all time?

Born in Florence, Alabama in 1873, who is thought of as the “Father of the Blues”?

Which poet is known for reciting the poem, “The Hill We Climb” during a presidential inauguration?

What movie, based on a book, documents the work racial justice work of civil rights lawyer, Bryan Stevenson?

In what year did the the first African American indentured servants arrive in the American colonies?

Known for his highly naturalistic paintings, who was the first Black artist to paint an official presidental portait?

Which of the colleges below is NOT known as a Historically Black College or University?

What Supreme Court case ruling is known for legalizing segregation under the belief of “separate but equal”?