BHM Quiz Bowl 2023

Question 1

This Chicago Bears player was lovingly known as The Refridgerator and played defensive tackle for 10 years in the NFL

Accepted Answer

William Perry

Question 2

What year was the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) founded?

Accepted Answer

1909

Question 3

The Fair Housing Act was passed in April 1968, swiftly following this American tragedy

Accepted Answer

Assasination of Martin Luther King, Jr

Question 4

Writer of "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston," "Meridian," and "The Color Purple"

Accepted Answer

Alice Walker

Question 5

For the 1958-1959 school year, what local city approved 17 students to be the first black students to integrate?

Accepted Answer

Norfolk

Question 6

Which came first, the Emancipation Proclamation or the 13th Amendment?

Accepted Answer

Emancipation Proclamation

Question 7

Recently, LeBron James set a record for this?

Accepted Answer

Points Scored

Question 8

Improvisation is the most distrinctive piece of jazz…pioneered "free jazz"

Accepted Answer

John Coltrane (1926 – 1967)

Question 9

Author of "Beloved, " she won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Accepted Answer

Toni Morrison

Question 10

One reason there is still cities with "black areas" in housing.

Accepted Answer

Redlining

Question 11

What school did the "Little Rock Nine" attend?

Accepted Answer

Central High School

Question 12

A Depression era style of music with uplifting sounds forms the basic rhythm of jazz

Accepted Answer

Swing

Question 13

This person is known as the first black woman to work for NASA. Her story was depicted in Hidden Figures.

Accepted Answer

Katherine Johnson

Question 14

What was the name of the first abolistionist newspaper?

Accepted Answer

The Liberator

Question 15

Founded by Adams and Booker T. Washington and home to George Washington Carver

Accepted Answer

Tuskeegee University

Question 16

Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Max Roach, and others created a new kind of jazz called ____?

Accepted Answer

Bebop

Question 17

Her most popular novel, " Their Eyes Were Watching God" (1937).

Accepted Answer

Zora Neale Hurston

Question 18

With the 15th Amendment in 1870, African Americans got what rights?

Accepted Answer

freedom to vote

Question 19

The Supreme Court case of Brown v. The Board of Education overturned this case that established "separate but equal"

Accepted Answer

Plessy v. Fergusson

Question 20

What year did the Supreme Court hand down their decision in Scott v. Sanford, also known as the Dred Scott Case?

Accepted Answer

1857

Question 21

In 2013, African-American created activist movement against violence and systemic racism

Accepted Answer

Black Lives Matter

Question 22

Master music composer, one of the creators of the big band sound

Accepted Answer

Duke Ellington (1899 – 1974)

Question 23

Who was the first African American woman elected to US Congress?

Accepted Answer

Shirley Chisholm

Question 24

This artist, born Eunice Waymon, attended Julliard & is known as a classically trained pianist and civil rights activist

Accepted Answer

Nina Simone

Question 25

In what year did slaves arrive to the colonies?

Accepted Answer

1619

Question 26

Garrett Morgan invented which of the following?

Accepted Answer

All the above

Question 27

Who signed The Emancipation Act?

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 28

In 2013, he was the first African-American U.S. Senator from New Jersey.

Accepted Answer

Corey Booker

Question 29

1940s, a new jazz with fast tempos, intricate melodies and harmonies; "jazz for intellectuals"

Accepted Answer

Bebop

Question 30

Most gold medals won by a female gymnast in World Championships history

Accepted Answer

Simone Biles

BHM Quiz Bowl 2023

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