Black History Month Quiz

Question 1

Whoopi Goldberg was a ____.

Accepted Answer

Comedian

Question 2

Who is known as the father of Black History Month?

Accepted Answer

Carter Woodson

Question 3

What did Langston Hughes do?

Accepted Answer

Poet

Question 4

Maya Angelou was a ____.

Accepted Answer

Poet, Novelist

Question 5

What is the last name of a powerful pair of tennis twins?

Accepted Answer

Williams

Question 6

What is the name of one of Misty Copeland's books?

Accepted Answer

Firebird, Ballerina Body

Question 7

What was the name of a prominent African American architect?

Accepted Answer

Philip Freelon

Question 8

Who has the first African American woman to own a production Company?

Accepted Answer

Oprah Winfrey

Question 9

What was the original length of black history month?

Accepted Answer

A week.

Question 10

What was Jacob Lawrence's favorite art style?

Accepted Answer

Social Realism

Question 11

What one of Jean Michel Basquiat's most famous motif in his art?

Accepted Answer

A crown

Question 12

Did Morgan Freeman win an academy award?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

Was Westley Wallace Law a civil rights leader?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Is Neil deGrasse Tyson a scientist?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Is Toni Morrison a Historian?

Accepted Answer

False

Question 16

Who was the first African American president?

Accepted Answer

Barack Obama

Question 17

What year was Melbra D. Liston born?

Accepted Answer

1926

Question 18

How many GRAMMY's has Alicia Keys won?

Accepted Answer

15

Question 19

What corporation did Katherine Johnson work for?

Accepted Answer

NASA

Questions 19