Black History Month Trivia Night

Question 1

What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?

Accepted Answer

CORE - Congress of Racial Equality

Question 2

Fritz Pollard holds a double "first" distinction. What were they?

Accepted Answer

NFLs first black player and co-coach

Question 3

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Quincy Jones

Question 4

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Thurgood Marshall

Question 5

Who wrote the famous song "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud"?

Accepted Answer

James Brown

Question 6

Who won an Oscar for his role in the 1989 film Glory?

Accepted Answer

Denzel Washington

Question 7

Which of the following songs is NOT a song by TLC?

Accepted Answer

Say My Name

Question 8

Who was the first African American recipient of the "Miss America" title?

Accepted Answer

Vanessa Williams

Question 9

Who invented peanut butter?

Accepted Answer

George Washington Carver

Question 10

Which chef accidentally created the potato chips in 1853 after slicing potatoes too thin?

Accepted Answer

George Crum

Question 11

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Queen Latifah

Question 12

Who was the first African-American to appear on a U.S. postage stamp?

Accepted Answer

Booker T. Washington

Question 13

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 14

As a student at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts, rapper Tupac Shakur took these classes...

Accepted Answer

Ballet and Poetry

Question 15

Who provided the voice for Darth Vader in the original Star Wars movie?

Accepted Answer

James Earl Jones

Question 16

What are the next lyrics to this song?

Accepted Answer

“Didn't even notice, no punches left to roll with”

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

Hattie McDaniel

Question 18

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Rihanna

Question 19

Who was the first Black female gymnast to win a gold medal at the Olympics?

Accepted Answer

Dominique Dawes

Question 20

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Althea Gibson

Question 21

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

Accepted Answer

Biddle University vs Livingstone College

Question 22

Who was the first female athlete to be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated?

Accepted Answer

Jackie Joyner Kersee

Question 23

Which black musician led the campaign to have Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday designated as a national holiday?

Accepted Answer

Stevie Wonder

Question 24

What was the first historically black college in America?

Accepted Answer

Cheyney University

Question 25

What was Muhammad Ali's original name?

Accepted Answer

Cassius Clay

Question 26

Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson

Question 27

Which city is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of Hip Hop?

Accepted Answer

The Bronx, New York City

Question 28

At the Academy Awards held in 2002, which actors won Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars?

Accepted Answer

Denzel Washington and Halle Berry

Question 29

Who was the first African American woman to go to space in 1992?

Accepted Answer

Mae Jemison

Question 30

What song is this and who is singing it?

Accepted Answer

“The Bigger Picture” - Lil Baby

Question 31

Before Barack Obama became President, he served as what?

Accepted Answer

U.S. Senator

Question 32

Who was the first African American male to win an Oscar for Best Actor?

Accepted Answer

Sidney Poitier

Question 33

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Question 34

Which scientist loved to study plants and developed over 300 ways to use peanuts?

Accepted Answer

George Washington Carver

Question 35

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Marian Anderson

Question 36

In 1875, Oliver Lewis, a black jockey, won the first running of the Kentucky Derby. True or False?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 37

At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?

Accepted Answer

Department store seamstress

Question 38

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Future

Question 39

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Question 40

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Eddie Murphy

Question 41

Who invented a device that revolutionized sugar processing?

Accepted Answer

Norbert Rillieux

Question 42

Where did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous ‘I have a dream’ speech?

Accepted Answer

Washington, D.C.

Question 43

Thomas L. Jennings was the first African-American to receive a patent. What was the patent for?

Accepted Answer

A dry cleaning process

Question 44

Charles Drew is responsible for which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Blood banks

Question 45

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Marian Anderson

Question 46

What pioneering role did Katherine Johnson play during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo Programs?

Accepted Answer

Human Computer

Question 47

Who worked at NASA, built spacecrafts, and is famous for inventing the super soaker water gun?

Accepted Answer

Lonnie G. Johnson

Question 48

When did Rosa Parks’ bus boycott happen?

Accepted Answer

December 1955

Question 49

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton’

Question 50

Who was the first African American woman to own a cable network?

Accepted Answer

Oprah Winfrey

Question 51

What are the next lyrics to this song?

Accepted Answer

“If I'm shining, everybody gonna shine”

Question 52

Which African-American entertainer was the first to star in his own television series?

Accepted Answer

Nat King Cole

Question 53

What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s father's church?

Accepted Answer

Ebenezer Baptist

Question 54

Who was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize?

Accepted Answer

Gwendolyn Brooks

Question 55

Which President officially recognized Black History Month?

Accepted Answer

President Gerald Ford

Question 56

When did the celebration of Black History Month begin?

Accepted Answer

1926

Question 57

Who invented the pencil sharpener?

Accepted Answer

John Lee Love

Question 58

Who was the American singer and civil rights leader who got her start singing at the Cotton Club in New York City?

Accepted Answer

Lena Horne

Question 59

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

Accepted Answer

Lauryn Hill

Question 60

Who is known as the "Queen of Soul"?

Accepted Answer

Aretha Franklin

Question 61

Who wrote the bestselling memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?

Accepted Answer

Maya Angelou

Question 62

When did Martin Luther King Jr. give his “I Have A Dream Speech”?

Accepted Answer

Sept. 9, 1965

Question 63

The Harlem Renaissance, a period of artistic flowering among African-Americans, occurred roughly during which decade?

Accepted Answer

1920s

Question 64

Who am I?

Accepted Answer

Ralph Bunche

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