CPSS Kappa League Quiz Bowl Round III/Bonus

Question 1

What amendment to the Constitution states "Slavery shall not exist in any part of the U.S."?

Accepted Answer

13th Amendment

Question 2

What major league baseball team was the last to integrate its team?

Accepted Answer

Boston Red Sox

Question 3

Who was accused of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Accepted Answer

James Earl Ray

Question 4

Owner and operator of Brooks Memorial Hospital, Phillip C. Brooks served in what capacities?

Accepted Answer

Physician and surgeon

Question 5

Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. was the first black general of which branch of the U.S. Armed Forces?

Accepted Answer

Army

Question 6

BONUS-He became the first African American to play Major League Baseball when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Accepted Answer

Jackie Robinson

Question 7

Granville T. Woods' contributions were in the field of electricity. What inventions did he receive patents?

Accepted Answer

Automatic air brakes and steam

Question 8

BONUS-Barack Obama received his undergraduate degree from this ivy league university

Accepted Answer

Columbia University

Question 9

BONUS-What African American scientist developed 300 derivative products from peanuts

Accepted Answer

George Washington Carver

Question 10

BONUS-What is the oldest conference college basketball tournament?

Accepted Answer

CIAA

Question 11

Which U.S. President awarded a certificate of merit to Mary Eliza Merritt, a nurse in Kentucky

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 12

BONUS-In 1940, she was the first African American performer to win an Academy Award for Gone With the Wind.

Accepted Answer

Hattie McDaniel

Question 13

Who is the founder of the United Negro College Fund?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Frederick D. Patterson

Question 14

Shirley Ann Jackson was the first Black American to earn a PhD from M.I.T. in what subject?

Accepted Answer

Physics

Question 15

Who was the first Black American President of the National Baseball League?

Accepted Answer

Bill White

Question 16

BONUS-She is credited for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus in 1955—inspiring the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Accepted Answer

Rosa Parks

Question 17

BONUS-These two states are tied for the most HBCUs in the country.

Accepted Answer

North Carolina and Alabama

Question 18

In what state did Nat Turner lead a slave revolt that killed 55 white people?

Accepted Answer

Virginia

Question 19

These two HBCU's played in the first college football game between black schools in 1892.

Accepted Answer

Biddle and Livingstone

Question 20

Dorothy Height was the president of what organization?

Accepted Answer

National Council of Negro Women

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