Quiz 2 / 2023

Question 1

2013: How many Alabama school districts are supervised by the court & U.S. Department of Justice? {Lee vs Macon County}

Accepted Answer

50

Question 2

In what year was the first African American Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) appointed?

Accepted Answer

1919

Question 3

In 2022, who became the first Black artist since 2008, to win album of the year?

Accepted Answer

Jon Batiste

Question 4

Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar. For which movie did she win it?

Accepted Answer

Gone With the Wind

Question 5

Which President officially recognized Black History Month?

Accepted Answer

Gerald Ford

Question 6

What TV show is &#x27;The Jeffersons&#x27; a spin-off of?

Accepted Answer

All in the Family

Question 7

1845: Who was the first African American to pass the bar and practice law in the U.S.?

Accepted Answer

Macon Bolling Allen

Question 8

Red Summer 1919: What southern state had race riots that caused the death of at least 100 Black Sharecroppers?

Accepted Answer

Arkansas

Question 9

Who was the first African American to be nominated for a best director Academy Award?

Accepted Answer

John Singleton

Question 10

Which southern born U.S. President set back race relations by decades when he re-segregated the federal government?

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 11

In the movie 'Soul Food', what name did Simuel call Bird back in the day?

Accepted Answer

Cola

Question 12

1863: Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves in how many Confederacy states?

Accepted Answer

10

Question 13

Which famous singer/songwriter composed a song in 1962 titled, 'The Death of Emmett Till'?

Accepted Answer

Bob Dylan

Question 14

What was the 2020 Black History Month theme?

Accepted Answer

African Americans and the Vote

Question 15

What city/state did Ophthalmologist Patricia Bath establish the American Institute for the prevention of Blindness?

Accepted Answer

Washington, D.C.

Question 16

Before Barack Obama became President, he served as what?

Accepted Answer

U.S. Senator

Question 17

Who was basketball’s leading scorer of the 1992 &#x27;Dream Team&#x27; during the Barcelona Olympics?

Accepted Answer

Charles Barkley

Question 18

What African American woman was the first to be a competitor on the World Tennis Tour?

Accepted Answer

Althea Neale Gibson

Question 19

1966: This college basketball team was the first to start 5 black players, beat Kentucky,and win the NCAA championship.

Accepted Answer

Texas Western

Question 20

Africa: What are the colors of the African National Congress Party?

Accepted Answer

Green, yellow and black

Question 21

What state did Denmark Vesey plan a full-scale slave rebellion?

Accepted Answer

South Carolina

Question 22

Founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and known as the &#x27;1st Lady of the Civil Rights Movement&#x27;.

Accepted Answer

Fannie Lou Hamer

Question 23

What was comedian Michael Colyar’s name in House Party 3?

Accepted Answer

Showboat

Question 24

Who is the author of the novel 'Invisible Man'?

Accepted Answer

Ralph Ellison

Question 25

When was A. ‘Rube’ Foster added to the National Baseball Hall of Fame making him the 1st of the Negro leagues elected?

Accepted Answer

1981

Question 26

Africa: Where in west Africa would you find Ewe people?

Accepted Answer

Togo, Benin, Ghana, Nigeria

Question 27

In 1996, Kofi Annan became the first African Secretary General of what international organization?

Accepted Answer

United Nations

Question 28

Who wrote 'Clotel,' or 'The President’s Daughter' , the first published novel by an African American in 1833?

Accepted Answer

William Wells Brown

Question 29

1794: Who founded the first national Black church?

Accepted Answer

Richard Allen

Question 30

What year did Britain pass an official act to outlaw the institution of slavery?

Accepted Answer

1833

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