Black History Month Quiz

Question 1

Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race

Accepted Answer

Racism

Question 2

Montgomery ____ _____ was a political & social protest to oppose the policy of segregated buses

Accepted Answer

Bus Boycott

Question 3

This woman was a former slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist

Accepted Answer

Sojourner Truth

Question 4

This man was the youngest player to be drafted by the NBA number 1 at the age of 18?

Accepted Answer

LeBron James

Question 5

Who holds the female record for the highest annual earnings for a pop star?

Accepted Answer

Beyonce

Question 6

She was the first African American to publish her writings

Accepted Answer

Phillis Wheatley

Question 7

Which of these influential people were assassinated?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 8

A literary, art & musical cultural movement in the 1920s after WWI?

Accepted Answer

The Harlem Renaissance

Question 9

Where is LeBron James originally from?

Accepted Answer

Akron, OH

Question 10

What name has been given to the speech Martin Luther King, Jr. gave at the March on Washington?

Accepted Answer

I Have a Dream

Question 11

Who was the 1st black NFL hockey player?

Accepted Answer

Willie O’Ree

Question 12

This woman has been ranked No 1 in the world by The Womens Tennis Association 8 different times

Accepted Answer

Serena Williams

Question 13

Who was the first black NFL quarterback?

Accepted Answer

Willie Thrower

Question 14

TRUE or FALSE President Eisenhower sent in the National Guard to enforce integration of schools

Accepted Answer

True - at Little Rock High School

Question 15

In June 2015 the legalization of same-sex marriage was approved under which U.S. President?

Accepted Answer

Barack Obama

Question 16

TRUE or FALSE Shaquille O’Neal wears a size 22 shoe?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

This man played the trumpet, sang, & is considered one of the world's best jazz artists

Accepted Answer

Louis Armstrong

Question 18

Jackie Robinson was the first African American to do what?

Accepted Answer

Play major league baseball

Question 19

TRUE or FALSE: The 14th Amendment guarantees all African-Americans the rights of full citizens

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

After the Civil War, these laws kept black people separate from white people:

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow Laws

Question 21

In 1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American ____ _____ _____ ?

Accepted Answer

Supreme Court Justice

Question 22

He was an American poet, novelist, and playwright during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's

Accepted Answer

Langston Hughes

Question 23

What is Michael Jordan's nickname?

Accepted Answer

Air Jordan

Question 24

TRUE or FALSE: The hair brush, cellphone, refrigerator were all invented by African Americans

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

This man was the first African-American man on a U.S. postage stamp

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 26

What was it called when people had to pay a fee to vote?

Accepted Answer

Poll tax

Question 27

Which of the laws said that citizens could not be denied the right to vote based on their race?

Accepted Answer

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 28

This Supreme Court Case outlawed segregated public education facilities for at the state level

Accepted Answer

Brown vs. Board of Education

Question 29

This woman refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus and was arrested

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 30

US civil rights organization to oppose racial segregation & discrimination by nonviolent means

Accepted Answer

NAACP

Question 31

Who was the youngest prizefighter ever to win the heavyweight championship of the world?

Accepted Answer

Mike Tyson

Question 32

At the age of 6 she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school

Accepted Answer

Ruby Bridges

Question 33

The "First Lady of Song", who sang jazz and who interpreted much of the Great American Songbook

Accepted Answer

Ella Fitzgerald

Question 34

Who was the first black player in the NBA?

Accepted Answer

Earl Lloyd

Question 35

What historic campaign did Martin Luther King Jr. lead in Montgomery, Alabama?

Accepted Answer

March to Washington, D.C., for civil rights

Question 36

TRUE or FALSE: Which amendment was passed that abolishing slavery in the United States?

Accepted Answer

Thirteenth Amendment

Question 37

The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality

Accepted Answer

Civil and Political

Question 38

He was a boxer & activist who is regarded as one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century

Accepted Answer

Muhammad Ali

Question 39

TRUE or FALSE? The Greensboro Sit-Ins were an act of nonviolent protest.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 40

The Birmingham Campaign, caused MLK to be arrested and wrote his famous ____ in jail?

Accepted Answer

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Question 41

Who was the 1st black gold champion in golf?

Accepted Answer

Tiger Woods

Question 42

He holds the record for the highest earnings for a pop star & most Grammy Awards won in a year?

Accepted Answer

Michael Jackson

Question 43

What Black football player won the Heisman Trophy twice?

Accepted Answer

Archie Griffin

Question 44

This athlete was also known as "The Buckeye Bullet” & he was an American track & field athlete

Accepted Answer

Jesse Owens

Question 45

Which president was in office when The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law?

Accepted Answer

Lyndon Johnson

Black History Month Quiz

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Black History Month Quiz

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