Black History Month Trivia

Who is the acclaimed director and producer known for films like “Fruitvale Station,” “Black Panther,” and “Creed”?

Serena Williams won her first U.S. Open at 17

Malcolm X created the phrase "Black Power"

What is the name of the fictional country Black Panther is set in?

What baseball team signed Michael Jordan after he retired from basketball the first time?

Alpha Kappa Alpha was the first historically black sorority to be founded

Who won the first Grammy Award for rap performance but boycotted because they wouldn’t show the category on TV?

Which classic movie has the iconic line, "Ain't nobody coming to see you, Otis?"

English is the most commonly spoken language in Africa

Which black woman is responsible for polio vaccines and cancer medicines?

Simone Biles was the first Black gymnast to win the individual All-Around at the Olympics

Black History Month was placed in February because it was the shortest month

Who is the King of Pop?

According to DMX: There was Brenda, Latisha, Linda, Felicia, Dawn, Leshaun, Ines and Who?

What was the first widely distributed label to be owned, operated, and marketed to African Americans?

Claudette Colvin was the first person who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus

Jay-Z was the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize

Virgil Abloh was best known for being the artistic director of which brand?

Ella Fitzgerald was the first African American Grammy Winner

Barack Obama was a senator of Hawaii before his presidency

Juneteenth is celebrated on June 19th

Which Ivy League college was the first to employ an African American as president?

Clarence Thomas was the first African American Supreme Court Justice

Where was Black Wall Street located?

The United States is the only country who celebrates BHM

Which President officially recognized Black History Month?

What is the first direction you go in the Cha-Cha Slide?

1999 was the year that the first rap song won Grammy Awards for Song and Record of the Year

The most money ever paid for an American painting was painted by a Black Artist

How many Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are there?

Fifteen jockeys rode in the very first Kentucky Derby. How many of the fifteen were African-American?

Which of these was NOT invented by a Black inventor?

Who was the Youngest African American to win a Nobel Prize?

Flo Jo was a prominent athlete in which sport?

What city was the first black mayor elected into?

What was Jackie Robinson's (the first African American to play Major League Baseball) number?

Maya Angelou wrote "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

How many times do you have to say Candyman's name in the mirror for him to appear?