Black Excellence- Black History Trivia & Career Showcase

Question 1

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment that discriminates based on…

Accepted Answer

race, creed, color, and religion

Question 2

Against which NBA team did Kobe Bryant score his career-high 81 points in a single game?

Accepted Answer

Toronto Raptors

Question 3

What was the name of the 1960s political movement that advocated for Black self-determination and community control?

Accepted Answer

The Black Panther Party

Question 4

Who was one of the lawyers behind the Brown v. Board of Education ruling?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 5

Which famous African American singer became the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?

Accepted Answer

Aretha Franklin

Question 6

Which American lawyer became the first African American female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?

Accepted Answer

Ketanji Brown Jackson

Question 7

Which African American mathematician calculated the trajectories for NASA's early space missions?

Accepted Answer

Katherine Johnson

Question 8

Until 1965, the civil rights movement focused on…

Accepted Answer

segregation and voting rights rather than economic and social problems

Question 9

Who was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Toni Morrison

Question 10

Why is Black History Month in February?

Accepted Answer

It coincides with the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

Question 11

Which African American artist won the 2020 Grammy for Best New Artist?

Accepted Answer

Megan Thee Stallion

Question 12

It was difficult, but all schools in the South were successfully integrated by 1960.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

Which African American boxer became a world heavyweight champion and was known for his charismatic personality?

Accepted Answer

Muhammad Ali

Question 14

Who was the first African American and Native American woman to hold a pilot license?

Accepted Answer

Bessie Coleman

Question 15

What year did the first African American astronaut, Guion S. Bluford Jr., travel into space?

Accepted Answer

1983

Question 16

Which speech did Malcom X write?

Accepted Answer

The Ballot or the Bullet

Question 17

Who became the first African American President of the United States in 2009?

Accepted Answer

Barack Obama

Question 18

Which civil rights leader promoted Black self-defense, economic independence, and community autonomy?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 19

Which African American inventor created the first successful gas mask and the three-position traffic signal?

Accepted Answer

Garrett Morgan

Question 20

On Aug. 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of what location?

Accepted Answer

The Lincoln Memorial

Question 21

Which African American athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics?

Accepted Answer

Jesse Owens

Question 22

What was one of the issues the Black Panthers were concerned about?

Accepted Answer

Police brutality

Question 23

Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era?

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson

Question 24

In what year did Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court Justice, take office?

Accepted Answer

1967

Question 25

Which African American author wrote "Native Son" (1940), dealing with racism and social issues in 1930s Chicago?

Accepted Answer

Richard Wright

Question 26

Who was the first African American woman to win an Academy Award?

Accepted Answer

Hattie McDaniel

Question 27

Which African American writer is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God?

Accepted Answer

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 28

Jim Crow laws were Southern U.S. statues that enforced racial segregation and discrimination against Black Americans.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

The court case establishing separate but equal was?

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 30

Frederick Douglass wrote the famous autobiography "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave"?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 31

False Which grassroots movement was established by MLK and his followers?

Accepted Answer

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

Question 32

Who was the first African American billionaire?

Accepted Answer

Robert L. Johnson

Question 33

Madam C.J. Walker founded the first black-owned insurance company and became America's first black millionaire.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

The Freedom Riders were organized to draw attention to the South’s refusal to…

Accepted Answer

integrate bus terminals

Question 35

Which of the following is Maya Angelou's first body of work?

Accepted Answer

I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing

Question 36

Who was the first African American to receive a PhD from Harvard University?

Accepted Answer

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 37

Who was the first African American woman to receive a medical degree in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Question 38

Who was the first African American woman to headline Coachella?

Accepted Answer

Beyonce

Question 39

Which president stepped in so the Little Rock Nine could attend the white high school?

Accepted Answer

Eisenhower

Question 40

Who was the first African American to win a Nobel Peace Prize and in what year?

Accepted Answer

Ralph Bunche

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