BHM trivia

Which popular rap artist’s real name is Nayvadius Wilburn?

Who became the first U.S. track and field athlete to win four gold medals in a single Olympiad.

In 1849, a Virginia slave named Henry Brown decided to mail himself to freedom. Did he succeed or fail?

Who invented the gas mask?

Which city is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of Hip Hop?

What player hit 73 home runs in a season and earned Major League Baseball’s Silver Slugger Award 12 times?

In what Midwestern city did Dr. Hale Williams establish the first African-American hospital?

What book by Richard Wright was a main selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club in 1940?

Who invented a vertical spring that made it possible for cars to have convertible tops

What was Muhammad Ali's original name?

She was a mathematician and physicist who helped send John Glenn around the Earth.

Who was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1966?

The founder of Negro History Week, which eventually became Black History Month.

Who is considered by many to be the greatest tennis player of all time.

Which of the following songs is NOT a song by TLC?

Who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard University and become a U.S. senator?

Guion Stewart Bluford, Jr., spent six days in space in 1983. Was he a member of a Challenger, Apollo or Gemini mission?

Members of what labor union helped to build the nation’s black middle class and civil rights movement?

Who was the first African American to win a singles title at Wimbledon

In 1939, she wasn't able to perform at Constitution Hall. She eventually performed at Lincoln Memorial.

Who was the first black woman ever named to the cabinet of a U.S. president?

Did the first black lawyer in America receive his license before or after the Civil War?

As a student at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts, rapper Tupac Shakur took these classes

Taraji P. Henson played Katherine G. Johnson in the movie Hidden Figures. What was Johnson known for?

Which U.S. president signed Executive Order 9981, ending official racial discrimination in the U.S. armed forces?

What is James St. Patrick's nickname on the show Power?

This Renaissance man has a gift for producing, composing, arranging and performing!

What did Parliament Funkadelic begin as?

SNCC member Stokely Carmichael was instrumental in forming the Lowndes County Freedom Organization What was its symbol?

What famous baseball player said, "Today's black athletes have no idea what we had to endure.”

Which gospel singer would go on to be called the “Godmother of Rock-N-Roll?”

In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.

Who invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light?

Who was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year?

In 1953, the song “Hound Dog” was released by this blues singer before Elvis Presley’s 1956 version.

Whose 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial broke racial barriers ?

What was the first historically black college in America?

Which distinguished gospel singer performed at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961?

What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?

Colin Powell was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and later served as.

At the time of her historic bus incident, what was Rosa Parks' occupation?