CPSS Kappa League Quiz Bowl

Question 1

What is the name of the record label started by Berry Gordy, Jr.?

Accepted Answer

Motown

Question 2

Who was the Black actress to win an Oscar in 2001 for her performance in Monster's Ball?

Accepted Answer

Halle Berry

Question 3

What form of music did Duke Ellington elevate into a serious art form?

Accepted Answer

Jazz

Question 4

Who was the Ladies World Figure Skating Champion in 1986?

Accepted Answer

Debbie Thomas

Question 5

Which 1964 act declared that people must be treated fairly, no matter the color of their skin?

Accepted Answer

Civil Rights Law

Question 6

Who was the youngest boxer to win the heavyweight title?

Accepted Answer

Mike Tyson

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

Ballet and Poetry

Question 8

Who was the first African-American woman astronaut?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Mae Jemison

Question 9

Which American actor played the part of Nelson Mandela in the movie Invictus?

Accepted Answer

Morgan Freeman

Question 10

On October 26, 1951, Joe Louis was knocked out in his final professional boxing fight by whom?

Accepted Answer

Rocky Marciano

Question 11

What do Mike Garret, Ernie Davis and Billy Simms have in common?

Accepted Answer

Heisman Trophy Winners

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

Future

Question 13

Who was the first African-American to win a gold medal at the Olympics?

Accepted Answer

John Taylor

Question 14

What African American scientist recently discovered new information on how genes are linked together?

Accepted Answer

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams

Question 15

Where is the historically black college/university, Claflin University located?

Accepted Answer

Orangeburg, South Carolina

Question 16

Who wrote the famous song "Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud"?

Accepted Answer

James Brown

Question 17

Dr. William Hinton is credited with developing a test to detect what disease?

Accepted Answer

Syphilis

Question 18

What state was the first to elect a black governor, doing so in 1989?

Accepted Answer

Virginia

Question 19

What female track star set world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter dash?

Accepted Answer

Florence Griffith-Joyner

Question 20

What 3 African American Men have won an Oscar for Best Actor?

Accepted Answer

Forrest Whitaker, Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier

Question 21

Which Black woman invented a line of Black hair care products in 1905?

Accepted Answer

Madame CJ Walker

Question 22

Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in The Sun ?

Accepted Answer

Lorraine Hansberry

Question 23

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

Accepted Answer

James A. Jones

Question 24

Who invented automatically opening and closing elevator doors?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Miles

Question 25

Who was last black actress to win the Academy Award’s Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2006?

Accepted Answer

Jennifer Holiday

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