Civil Rights Quiz Bowl Round 1

Question 1

At the age of 24, this golfer won the 82nd PGA Championship, beating Bob May in Louisville, KY in 2000

Accepted Answer

Tiger Woods

Question 2

She refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus and her stance prompted a year-long boycott.

Accepted Answer

Rosa Park

Question 3

Musical genre emerged from 3 heavily populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, Piedmont, and East Texas?

Accepted Answer

The Blues

Question 4

Who is called the “queen of hip-hop soul?”

Accepted Answer

Mary J. Blige

Question 5

What institution of the government that first desegrated?

Accepted Answer

Armed Forces

Question 6

What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in 1945?

Accepted Answer

Ebony

Question 7

Who was the president who signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 to help protect voters' rights?

Accepted Answer

Dwight Eisenhower

Question 8

What city located in the Mississippi Delta has a blend of French, Spanish, Creole, African and English cultures?

Accepted Answer

New Orleans

Question 9

What is the name of the school in the South where 9 black students were blocked from integrating?

Accepted Answer

Central High School, Little Rock Arkansas

Question 10

A famous black director, screenwriter, and Atlanta-born actor, and created films that pushed racial boundaries.

Accepted Answer

Spike Lee

Question 11

In 1984, what Black American singer won eight Grammy Awards?

Accepted Answer

Michael Jackson

Question 12

How many books did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. write?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 13

What civil rights leader was co-founder of the NAACP and the Pan-African Movement?

Accepted Answer

W. E. B. Du Bois

Question 14

Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 15

Who is the current black U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations?

Accepted Answer

Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Question 16

In what state is Tuskegee experiment conducted?

Accepted Answer

Alabama

Question 17

A devoted follower of Elijah Muhammad and left the Nation of Islam in 1964 to form a militant group Muslim Mosque?

Accepted Answer

Malcolm X

Question 18

Barney Ford, a former slave, gained his freedom by doing what?

Accepted Answer

Escaping to Chicago via the Underground Railroad

Question 19

NBA superstar Michael Jordan played college basketball at what university?

Accepted Answer

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Question 20

Who championed the principle of industrial/vocational education for black people?

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 21

Music historians refer to what type of music as the first Black American music?

Accepted Answer

Spiritual

Question 22

The name of the 6-year-old girl inspired by Norman Rockwell's painting "The Problem We All Live"

Accepted Answer

Ruby Bridges

Question 23

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame includes a husband-and-wife duo who sang “Proud Mary” in 1969. Who are they?

Accepted Answer

Ike and Tina Turner

Question 24

A ruling that held separate facilities were inherently unequal and unconstitutional.

Accepted Answer

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka

Question 25

A test given to potential Black voters to determine whether they understood the U.S. Constitution and could read it.

Accepted Answer

Literacy Test

Question 26

What militant group embodied the term “Black Power”?

Accepted Answer

Black Panther Party

Question 27

Who is called the "Queen of Blues?"

Accepted Answer

Dinah Washington

Question 28

A 14-year-old boy from Chicago murdered in Mississippi for allegedly flirting with a white woman in 1955.

Accepted Answer

Emmett Till

Question 29

In the late 19th century, a system of laws enforced racial discrimination in the United States. What was it called?

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow

Question 30

Ascribed to the 4 African American college students, nonviolently protesting to leave Woolworth's lunch counter.

Accepted Answer

Greensboro Four

Civil Rights Quiz Bowl Round 1

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Civil Rights Quiz Bowl Round 1

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