A-Quiz bowl Round #1-Official

Question 1

Who was the youngest boxer to win the heavy weight title?

Accepted Answer

Mike Tyson

Question 2

Jackie Robinson excelled in four sports at what university?

Accepted Answer

University of California at los angeles

Question 3

How many Volumes made up Gustavus Vassa's Narritive? Gustavus was a slave that wrote the 1st autobiography!

Accepted Answer

2

Question 4

Since 1987, ___ was the director of jazz at The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York city!

Accepted Answer

Wynton Marsalis

Question 5

Who was the fourth chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee?

Accepted Answer

Stokely Carmichael

Question 6

What was Earl Monroe's nickname

Accepted Answer

Earl the Pearl

Question 7

Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?

Accepted Answer

Maya Angelou

Question 8

What is Clerow Willsnon Jr.''s stage name

Accepted Answer

Flip Wilson

Question 9

Who signed the Emancipation proclamation 1863?

Accepted Answer

President Lincoln

Question 10

Georgia Douglas Johnson was a poet during the Harlem Renaissance era. She often workshops at her home in?

Accepted Answer

Washington D.C

Question 11

How did Denmark Vessey gain his freedom in 1799

Accepted Answer

Won money in a lottery and purchased his freedom

Question 12

The modern Pentecostal movement originated from the Azusa street Revival under the leadership of?

Accepted Answer

Rev. William j. Seymour

Question 13

What was the full name of NAACP founder W.E.B. Du Bois?

Accepted Answer

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois

Question 14

What famous march helped influence the voting rights acts passed in August 1965

Accepted Answer

March on Selma

Question 15

What Professional Boxer is named the hit man?

Accepted Answer

Thomas Hearns

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