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Question 1

What year did Ernie Banks join the 500 Home Run Club?

Accepted Answer

1970

Question 2

Who was a largely self-educated mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs and writer?

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Banneker

Question 3

What team did Jackie Robinson play for?

Accepted Answer

Brooklyn Dodgers

Question 4

What are the books that Anna Arnold Hedgeman wrote?

Accepted Answer

“The Gift of Chaos” and “The Trumpet Sounds”

Question 5

Nelson Mandela became President of what country?

Accepted Answer

South Africia

Question 6

On May 17, 1954, what was the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education?

Accepted Answer

Segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment.

Question 7

What song did Louis Armstrong write?

Accepted Answer

Baby It’s Cold Outside

Question 8

What were the years that Anna Arnold Hedgeman was alive?

Accepted Answer

1899 - 1990

Question 9

Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Academy Award for this movie.

Accepted Answer

Gone With the Wind

Question 10

To where did Harriet Tubman lead the runaway slaves?

Accepted Answer

She brought them to northern free states and Canada.

Question 11

Which of these about Martin Luther King, Jr. is true?

Accepted Answer

Won a Nobel Peace Prize, Gave the famous "I have a dream" speech, Believer in nonviolent resistance, was a Christian minister

Question 12

What is the name of Stephen Curry's all star dad?

Accepted Answer

Dell

Question 13

What was Michael Jackson's only daughter's name?

Accepted Answer

Paris

Question 14

What year did Madam C.J. Walker become the first female African American multi-millionaire?

Accepted Answer

1910

Question 15

Who was the first African American to serve as a United States Supreme Court Justice?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 16

What award did Septima Poinsette Clark win?

Accepted Answer

Living Legacy

Question 17

Frederick Douglass escaped slavery in South Carolina.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 18

Who said this famous quote?

Accepted Answer

Coretta Scott King

Question 19

How long did Matthew A. Henson explore the Arctic?

Accepted Answer

2 decades

Question 20

What college did Ernie Davis go to?

Accepted Answer

Syracuse

Question 21

Who was the first African American to serve as a United States Senator in 1870?

Accepted Answer

Hiram Revels

Question 22

Who was the first African American man to play Major League Baseball?

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson

Question 23

When did Deion Sanders retire from playing football?

Accepted Answer

2005

Question 24

Who was the first African American to serve as Secretary of State?

Accepted Answer

Colin Powell

Question 25

At what age did Ernie Davis die?

Accepted Answer

23

Question 26

Who did Coretta Scott marry?

Accepted Answer

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Question 27

In 1831, who was the leader of the only effective slave rebellion in United States history?

Accepted Answer

Nat Turner

Question 28

What did Nelson Mandela die from?

Accepted Answer

Lung Infection

Question 29

Mae Jemison was a doctor on what mission?

Accepted Answer

Endeavour

Question 30

What is the most points that Kobe Bryant scored in one game?

Accepted Answer

81

Question 31

When was Black History Week first celebrated?

Accepted Answer

1926

Question 32

How did Gordon Parks die?

Accepted Answer

High blood pressure and prostate cancer

Question 33

How many medals did Willma Rudolph win in the 1960 Olympics?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 34

Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?

Accepted Answer

the first African-American pilots to serve in the Air Force

Question 35

What was Jackie Robinson’s baseball number?

Accepted Answer

42

Question 36

What was Martin Luther King, Sr.’s name at birth?

Accepted Answer

Michael King

Question 37

What was Maya Angelou famous for?

Accepted Answer

her poetry

Question 38

What is the basketball number of Stephen Curry?

Accepted Answer

30

Question 39

Who did Kobe Bryant pass to become third on the all time scoring list?

Accepted Answer

Michael Jordan

Question 40

At its peak, how many African Americans were living as slaves in the United States?

Accepted Answer

4 million

Question 41

How do you spell this person´s name?

Accepted Answer

Frederick Douglass

Question 42

How tall was Kareem Abdul Jabbar?

Accepted Answer

7' 2", 6' 14"

Question 43

What did Marie Maynard Daly accomplish first as an African American woman?

Accepted Answer

earn a Ph.D. in chemistry.

Question 44

The Civil Rights Movement occurred in the mid-1920s.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 45

What Year did Coretta Scott King die?

Accepted Answer

2006

Question 46

How many times did Gordon Parks get married?

Accepted Answer

3

Question 47

What year was it when Mae C. Jemison became the first African American woman in space?

Accepted Answer

1992

Question 48

Fannie Lou Hamer is responsible for which of these famous quotes?

Accepted Answer

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired

Question 49

What is Michael Jackson's song about equality called?

Accepted Answer

Black or White

Question 50

When did John Lee Hooker die?

Accepted Answer

2001

Question 51

For what was George Washington Carver known?

Accepted Answer

He made important discoveries in agriculture., His research helped poor farmers in the South.

Question 52

When was Black History Month celebrated for the first time?

Accepted Answer

1976

Question 53

What did Wilma Rudolph suffer from at a young age?

Accepted Answer

Polio

Question 54

In what year did Harriet Tubman flee Maryland?

Accepted Answer

1849

Question 55

What did Louis Armstrong do for a living?

Accepted Answer

All the Above

Question 56

Why did Ralph Bunche, the first African American Nobel Peace Prize recipient, win the award?

Accepted Answer

mediation during the Arab–Israeli conflict

Question 57

The ratification of the 15th Amendment legally gave some African Americans the right to vote.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 58

How old was Jimmy Butler when he got kicked out of his parent’s house?

Accepted Answer

13

Question 59

Which U.S. president officially integrated the United States armed forces on July 26, 1948?

Accepted Answer

Harry S. Truman

Question 60

Why was Rosa Parks significant?

Accepted Answer

Her actions help initiate the Civil Rights Movement., She refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man.

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