PMEA BHM Trivia

Question 1

What was Purdue’s first black graduate’s (David Robert Lewis) major?

Accepted Answer

Civil Engineering

Question 2

Ursula Burns was the first African-American woman CEO of what Fortune 500 company?

Accepted Answer

Xerox

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

Benjamin Banneker

Question 4

What award did Septima Poinsette Clark win?

Accepted Answer

Living Legacy

Question 5

Where was NSBE founded?

Accepted Answer

Purdue University

Question 6

What player hit 73 home runs in a season and earned Major League Baseball’s Silver Slugger Award 12 times?

Accepted Answer

Barry Bonds

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

1992

Question 8

How Did Nelson Mandela Die?

Accepted Answer

Lung Infection

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

1910

Question 10

What two historically black colleges played in the first college football game between black schools in 1892?

Accepted Answer

Biddle University vs. Livingstone College

Question 11

What Was Maya Angelou Famous For?

Accepted Answer

Poetry

Question 12

Who was the First Black Mechanical Engineer to Graduate from Purdue University?

Accepted Answer

1913, David Nelson Crosthwait Jr.

Question 13

What Country Was Nelson Mandela President Of?

Accepted Answer

South Africa

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired

Question 15

What Mission Was Mae C. Jemison a Doctor On?

Accepted Answer

Endeavor

Question 16

Which Purdue building’s stairwell did students block by laying bricks to protest racism in 1968?

Accepted Answer

Hovde Hall

Question 17

What are the books that Anna Arnold Hedgeman wrote?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

1970

Question 19

What did Wilma Rudolph suffer from at a young age?

Accepted Answer

Polio

Question 20

Why was February chosen as Black History month?

Accepted Answer

It coincides with Frederick Douglass' and Abraham Lincoln's Birthday

Question 21

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

Accepted Answer

Earn a P.H.D. in Chemistry

Question 22

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

Accepted Answer

3

Question 23

Who was the first African American Woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?

Accepted Answer

Lauryn Hill

Question 24

When Was Black History Month First Created?

Accepted Answer

1976

Question 25

Which one of these inventions was NOT made by a black inventor?

Accepted Answer

None Of The Above

Question 26

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

Accepted Answer

Michael King

Question 27

When did Purdue's Black Cultural Center (BCC) first open?

Accepted Answer

1970

Question 28

How long did Matthew A. Henson explore the Arctic?

Accepted Answer

2 Decades

Question 29

Who Said This Famous Quote?

Accepted Answer

Coretta Scott King

Question 30

What year was the first black president of the Purdue Student Body elected?

Accepted Answer

1990

Question 31

In what year did Harriet Tubman flee Maryland?

Accepted Answer

1849

Question 32

In what year did Purdue hire their first black faculty member, Helen Bass Williams?

Accepted Answer

1968

Question 33

When was Black History Week first celebrated?

Accepted Answer

1926

Question 34

What was Jackie Robinson’s Baseball number?

Accepted Answer

42

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