Black History Matters

Question 1

This enslaved African preacher traveled between plantations. He led a revolt to overthrow and kill his oppressors.

Accepted Answer

Nat Turner

Question 2

In 1960 four Black friends sat at a "Whites Only" lunch counter to protest segregation. They were...

Accepted Answer

The Greensboro Four

Question 3

There would be no history with out Black History

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

What is Ruby Bridges known for?

Accepted Answer

Being the first Black student to desegregate an all-white school.

Question 5

Where and when was the earliest brain surgery conducted?

Accepted Answer

in Egypt 4,300 years ago

Question 6

The oldest known language still in use dates back 60,000 years in Africa

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

During oil boom of 1910s white supremacists destroyed the flourishing Black Community of Greenwood, a suburb of...

Accepted Answer

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Question 8

Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised gloved fists in the 1968 Olympics to

Accepted Answer

protest against political and racial injustice

Question 9

Madam C.J. Walker was the first woman to become a self-made millionaire.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

Claudette Colvin was arrested for not giving up her bus seat 9 months before Rosa Parks refused to move her seat.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

This first great civilization of the Americas, thrived in Mexico and Central America 3,200 to 2,400 years ago.

Accepted Answer

The Olmec

Question 12

This group brought street lighting, 50 hospitals, 300 public baths and 70 libraries to Spain in the 10th Century

Accepted Answer

The Moors

Question 13

This daughter of a sharecropper was the first African American to earn an international pilots license.

Accepted Answer

Bessie Coleman

Question 14

This man's music is associated with the movement toward Black political independence in the US, Africa and South America

Accepted Answer

Bob Marley

Question 15

Hattie McDaniel, first African American to receive an Oscar couldn't attend the movie premiere in an whites-only theater

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

This heavyweight boxer converted to Islam and protested the Vietnam war. He promoted racial pride for African Americans.

Accepted Answer

Muhammad Ali

Question 17

Who is the richest person in history?

Accepted Answer

Mansa Musa

Question 18

This was the practice of marking a map to indicate areas banks would not make loans, frequently in Black communities.

Accepted Answer

redlining

Question 19

This drink was discovered by an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi in the 9th century.

Accepted Answer

Coffee

Question 20

Maya Angelou was both a talented poet and civil rights actvist. What is the title of her most famous poem?

Accepted Answer

Still I Rise

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