2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY
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2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 1 2 Arts Arts 3 Arts 4 Arts 5 Arts 6 Arts 7 8 Arts Arts 9 10 Arts Arts 11 Arts 12 Arts 13 Arts 14 Arts 15 Arts 16 Arts 17 Arts 18 Arts 19 Arts 20 Arts 21 Arts 22 Arts QUESTION Along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, what type of music is played with the accordion? Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" ? Which one of composer/pianist Anthony Davis' operas premiered in Philadelphia in 1985 and was performed by the New York City Opera in 1986? Since 1987, who has held the position of director of jazz at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City? Of what profession were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen, major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance? Who wrote Clotel , or The President’s Daughter , the first published novel by a Black American in 1833? Who published The Escape , the first play written by a Black American? What is the given name of blues great W.C. Handy? What aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville native, served as editor of three African American weeklies: the Indianapolis Recorder , the Freeman , and the Indianapolis Ledger ? Nat Love wrote what kind of stories? Cartoonist Morrie Turner created what world famous syndicated comic strip? Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is called “Father of the Blues”? Georgia Douglas Johnson was a poet during the Harlem Renaissance era. She often held writers‟ workshops at her home in what city? Growing up with a white Jewish mother and an AfricanAmerican father, who wrote Devil in a Blue Dress , A Red Death , White Butterfly , and Black Betty ? Strongly influenced by Alice Walker's The Color Purple , what award-winning author created the enduring character of Easy Rawlins featured in a series of novels? Known for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903? Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America? In addition to her outstanding career as a singer, what was Marian Anderson appointed to by President Dwight D. Eisenhower? Name the three journalist sons of educator, poet, and author Ephraim Poston? What Hopkinsville natives and brothers owned and edited The Detroit Contender ? Gustavus Vassa was a slave who had written the first autobiography. His African name was Olaudah Equiano. How many volumes made up his narrative? Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond was born in Georgetown, British Guiana and penned what book that consists of a collection of ten stories? Page 1 of 72 ANSWER Zydeco Zora Neale Hurston X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X Wynton Marsalis Writers William Wells Brown William Wells Brown William Christopher Handy William Alexander Chambers Westerns Wee Pals WC Handy Washington, D.C. Walter Mosley Walter Mosley W.E.B. Du Bois Vanessa Williams US Delegate to the United States Ulysses, Robert, and Ted Poston Ulysses and Robert Poston Two Tropic Death 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 23 Arts 24 Arts 25 Arts 26 Arts 28 Arts 29 30 Arts Arts 31 Arts 32 Arts 33 Arts 34 Arts 35 Arts 36 Arts 37 Arts 38 Arts 39 Arts 40 Arts 41 Arts 42 Arts 43 Arts 44 Arts QUESTION In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which became a motion picture, and in 1993 for Jazz . Name her. Born in Hopkinsville, KY, what pianist and arranger formed his own jazz band and recorded the albums Your Daddy's Dogin' Around and Blues for the Red Boy? Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been a prominent figure in jazz since the 1980s. He is the spokesperson for what group, representing a younger generation of jazz musicians? This first Gloria Naylor novel consisted of tales from seven black women who wound up on a dead-end street in a ghetto in the North. It was made into a television movie. What is the name of the novel? ANSWER What New York library houses rare collections of Black culture? In the 1930s and early 1940s many female gospel groups were founded. Which group started as a male gospel ensemble but added female voices in the 1940s? What was the name of Charles W. Chestnut‟s final novel? For what work did August Wilson win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama? The Schomburg Center Sallie Martin was the “mother of gospel music.” She and Thomas A. Dorsey founded what group in 1933? Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing what Black American magazine? George Shirley was a tenor and member of what opera company? What Broadway show became the longest running one-person show in the history of Broadway? What was the name of the first novel published by Charles W. Chestnut? What Ted Poston work was published after his death in 1974? What is the name of the sculpture designed as a tribute to the four Black girls killed during a church bombing in Alabama in 1963? What is the name of the newsletter which was originally edited by W.E.B. Du Bois and published by the NAACP in 1910? What is the name of the Harlem club where many famous Black American entertainers began their careers? Popularized by the 1923 musical Runnin' Wild , what 1920s dance is believed to have started in a coastal city of South Carolina? What musical genre emerged from three heavily populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East Texas? Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now , a platinum hit by Gene McFadden & John Whitehead was known as what in 1979? Vibraphone player Lionel Hampton started his career in 1936 with which band? Page 2 of 72 Toni Morrison Todd Washington Rhodes The Young Lions The Women of Brewster Place The Roberta Martin Singers The Quarry The Pittsburgh Cycle the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses The Nation the Metropolitan Opera The Lady and Her Music The House Behind the Cedars The Dark Side of Hopkinsville The Crucifixion The Crisis The Cotton Club the Charleston The blues the Black National Anthem the Benny Goodman Quartet 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 45 Arts 46 47 Arts Arts 48 Arts 49 Arts 50 Arts 51 Arts 55 Arts 56 Arts 57 Arts 58 Arts 59 Arts 60 Arts 61 Arts 62 Arts 63 Arts 64 65 Arts Arts 66 Arts 67 Arts QUESTION Ernest J. Gaines is a short story writer who wrote a 1971 historical novel turned television movie whose main character was a 110 year-old woman who narrated her personal Formerly the Virginia Theatre, what became the first Broadway theater to bear the name of an African American in 2005? What Harlem theatre is a showcase for Black talent? What author promoted her first novel, Mama , by contacting colleges and universities? Who is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Waiting to Exhale ? What is the name of the Grammy award winning gospel a cappella sextet whose hits include Spread Love and David & Goliath ? “Go Down, Moses” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I‟ve Seen” are known as what type of songs? Music historians refer to what type of music as the first Black American music? This director, screenwriter and actor was born in Atlanta but relocated to Brooklyn, where he later established a film company. Whether working with a low-budget and unknown actors or Hollywood heavyweights, his films continue to be controversial and push racial boundaries. Name him. Who directed an award-winning documentary about the government's response to Hurricane Katrina and ways in which the storm's aftermath affected African-Americans? In 1938, who was the first gospel singer to record for a major record label, Decca Records? For what talent did Elizabeth Taylor-Greenfield receive worldwide acclaim? Porgy was a black musical play that had its debut in 1927. It became a film in 1959 entitled Porgy and Bess and had an allstar black cast. Name two of the actors/actresses that performed in this film? Currently the pastor of a large congregation in Raleigh, North Carolina, this well-known female singer worked with the gospel group The Caravans established by Albertina Walker. Name her. Born in Christian County, KY, in 1944, who later became executive producer for the film, The Eye Can Story , a 30minute documentary created to promote the self-esteem of teenagers and to deter early sexual involvement? Elizabeth Catlett Mora is a graphic artist and printmaker. For what other type of work is she best known? Specializing in portraits of black leaders, Harlem Renaissance arts educator Augusta Savage was what type of artist? Who wrote the song Maple Leaf Rag? The operas A Guest of Honor and Treemonisha were written by whom in the early 1900s? What musical instrument does jazz musician Grover Washington, Jr. play? Page 3 of 72 ANSWER The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman the August Wilson Theatre The Apollo Terry McMillan Terry McMillan Take 6 Spirituals Spiritual Spike Lee Spike Lee Sister Rosetta Tharpe Singing in a range of 27 octaves Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey, Sammy Davis, Jr., Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Ivan Dixon, Clarence Muse Shirley Caesar Shirley A. Bacon Nwangwa Sculpture Sculptor Scott Joplin Scott Joplin Saxophone 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 68 Arts 69 Arts 70 71 Arts Arts 72 Arts 73 74 Arts Arts 75 Arts 77 78 Arts Arts 79 Arts 80 81 Arts Arts 82 83 Arts Arts 84 85 Arts Arts 86 87 88 Arts Arts Arts 89 90 Arts Arts 91 92 Arts Arts 93 94 Arts Arts 95 Arts 96 Arts QUESTION What Black American took jazz vocals to a new level and was called “The Divine One” because of her range and effortless mastery of the intricacies of music? In 1926 the Soul Stirrers were the first gospel quartet to add a second lead to solo over the usual four-part harmony. In 1950 what singer joined this group? Roots, the miniseries, was aired eight nights in 1977 with nearly 130 million viewers. Its 1979 sequel was named what? Kunta Kinte was one the characters in what Alex Haley book? What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini-series in 1977 and 1979? What one-time Negro League professional baseball player, turned-artist created collages on the lifestyles of blacks in the 1960s? What artist‟s painting is entitled After Church? Who was the first Black American painter to win national recognition? What famous Black American writer encouraged Ralph Ellison‟s efforts to become a writer? What music is regarded by many as a form of street poetry? Published in 1982, Alice Walker‟s novel The Color Purple became a monumental bestseller and won what coveted awards? Joshua Johnson made his living in the early 1800s with what profession? For what style of music were the Ward Singers famous? Published in 1771, what book brought Phillis Wheatley wide acclaim? Scott Joplin played his ragtime music on what instrument? What medium did Gordon Parks use to describe Black Americans deprivation and racial discrimination? Julian Abele was involved in the design of what museum? In 1905 the first black symphony was founded. What was it called? In what city was Marian Anderson born? What actor appeared in the play Emperor Jones in 1925? Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally recognized for his writing? Who wrote the poem “A Negro Love Song”? Creators of bebop known today as modern jazz, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie played what musical instruments? What was the occupation of Laura Wheeler Waring? The “father of gospel music” was Thomas A. Dorsey. He composed how many songs? For what profession is Leona Mitchell known? Where was Ralph Ellison, the famous Black American novelist, born? Who is the controversial poet and author of My House is Divided into Two Sections who emerged from the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became a professor of English? Page 4 of 72 ANSWER Sarah Vaughan Sam Cooke Roots: The Next Generation Roots Roots Romare Bearden Romare Bearden Robert Scott Duncanson Richard Wright Rap Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Portrait painter Po-Gospel Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral Piano Photography Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia Concert Orchestra Philadelphia Paul Robeson Paul Lawrence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar Parker (alto saxophone); Gillespie (trumpet) Painter over 1000 Opera Singing Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Nikki Giovanni 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 97 Arts 98 Arts 99 Arts 100 Arts 101 Arts 102 Arts 103 Arts 104 105 Arts Arts 106 Arts 107 Arts 108 Arts 109 Arts 110 Arts 111 Arts 112 Arts 113 Arts 114 115 Arts Arts 116 Arts 117 118 Arts Arts 119 Arts 120 Arts QUESTION ANSWER In 1955, Arthur Mitchell became the first black man to dance for a major ballet company in 1955. Name the company. What city known for jazz music had great influence on Mahalia Jackson? “Bentwa” was a musical instrumental unique to Africa. What kind of instrument was it? Ralph Ellison turned to writing after his career in what field was not successful? What was the name of the newspaper started by Malcolm X? What Black American cartoonist created the world famous “Wee Pals”? In 1969 this photojournalist became the first black male and the first black journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. Who was he? Born in Owensboro, KY, who was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography? In what state was Langston Hughes born? In 1963, Katherine Dunham became the first Black American choreographer to work at what New York City Theater? Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia , was the first original script by a Black women to be produced? This multifaceted author started her career as an entertainer. She is also a poet who delivered her poem “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton‟s inauguration in 1993. What is her name? What famed opera singer was known as “The Lady from Philadelphia”? Who portrayed “Ulrica” in the Musket Ball, was named to the US Delegation to the United Nations, and was awarded the Freedom Medal? Who was the first Black American singer to be admitted to the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York? The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) refused to let her perform at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. in 1939. Who was she? What is the name of the Marion Marche Perkins sculpture that won the Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Award in 1951? She was known as the “queen of gospel music.” Her first recording “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold over a million copies in 1945. What was her name? Brumsic Brandon, Jr. is best known for what comic strip? Five years after acting in the television mini-series Roots, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in An Officer and A Gentleman. What is his name? Who played the character “Fiddler” in the television mini-series Roots in 1977. Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in The Sun ? On January 21, 1973 where did opera singer Jessye Norman perform to a sellout crowd in the Great Performers series? Published in 1907, what was the title of the first of six Claybron Merriweather books? Page 5 of 72 New York City Ballet New Orleans Musical Bow Music Muhammad Speaks Morrie Turner Moneta Sleet, Jr. Moneta Sleet, Jr. Missouri Metropolitan Opera House Maya Angelou Maya Angelou Marian Anderson Marian Anderson Marian Anderson Marian Anderson Man of Sorrow Mahalia Jackson Luther Louis Gossett, Jr. Lou Gossett, Jr. Lorraine Hansberry Lincoln Center Light and Shadows 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 121 Arts 122 123 Arts Arts 124 Arts 125 Arts 126 Arts 127 128 Arts Arts 129 Arts 130 Arts 131 Arts 132 Arts 133 Arts 134 Arts 136 Arts 137 Arts 138 Arts 139 Arts 140 Arts 141 Arts 142 Arts 143 Arts 144 Arts 145 146 147 Arts Arts Arts QUESTION Gordon Parks was voted “Photographer of the Year” in 1960 while working for what popular magazine? Who was the first black to perform at the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House in 1966? Who is the author of Before the Mayflower ? This pastor and journalist was the religious editor at the Hopkinsville Globe Journal for six years. Name him. Under what name did poet Amiri Baraka publish some of his books? What writer created the character Jesse B. Semple, the quintessential middle-aged man in Harlem? ANSWER What is the name of the colorful fabric worn by African royalty? What city is known as the “jazz capital of the Southwest?” Robb Armstrong is the creator of what cartoon strip which features the trials and tribulations of Joe and Marcy? What Black American was acclaimed for his involvement in the design of the Philadelphia Museum of Art? Who was best known for her role as Bloody Mary in the 1949 Broadway stage production of South Pacific? Playwright August Wilson had two Broadway plays run at the same time. Name them. What was the name of the first publication of jazz arrangements? What form of music did Duke Ellington elevate into a serious art form? What type of music did Louis Armstrong revolutionize and help establish as the nation‟s first highly popular Black art form? What type of music with an emphasis on improvisation began in New Orleans around the 1900s? What is the name of the main character in the Zora Neale Hurston novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God ? This Grammy award winning gospel singer, arranger, and composer who worked with many groups and large choirs in the 1950s and 1960s is credited with being the most significant driving force behind the creation of the contemporary gospel sound. Name him. What famous Black author said, “Black writers do more than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of racial oppression”? In 1972 Kathleen Battle made her professional debut as an opera singer at the Spoleto Festival in what country? In 1953, Ralph Ellison received the National Book Award for what book? The collection of William Alexander Chambers, writer for the Indiana Herald and editor of three African American weeklies, is housed where? The first work authored by a black female former slave, what was the name of Harriet A. Jacobs' 1861 work? Nominated for a National Book Award, what is Maya Angelou's first autobiography? Who was the author of Black Metropolis written in 1945? Who wrote the anti-slavery novel Page Uncle Cabin ? 6 ofTom’s 72 Kenta Cloth Kansas City, Missouri Life Leontyne Price Leone Bennett, Jr. Leonard S. Grooms Le Roi Jones Langston Hughes Jump Start Julian Abele Juanita Hall Joe Turner‟s Come and Gone and Fences Jelly Roll Blues Jazz Jazz Jazz Janie Crawford James Cleveland James Baldwin Italy Invisible Man Indiana Historical Society Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Horace Clayton Harriet Beecher Stowe 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 148 Arts 149 Arts 150 Arts 151 152 Arts Arts 153 Arts 154 Arts 155 Arts 156 Arts 157 Arts 158 Arts 159 Arts 160 Arts 161 Arts 162 Arts 163 Arts 164 Arts 165 Arts 166 Arts 167 Arts 168 Arts 169 Arts 170 Arts QUESTION Entited Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , whose 1861 work was the first to be authored by a black female former slave? What term refers generally to the artistic and socio-cultural awakening among black people in the 1920s and early 1930s? Zora Neal Hurston became a leading figure in the Black cultural movement known as what? What section of New York City became the capital of urban Black American culture? Who was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer Prize? Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry Annie Allen in 1949? Who won a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway musical Jelly’s Last Jam ? What type of folk art was seen on the New York subway cars in the 1970s that was a phenomenon among the urban youth? Popular in the 1920s and 1930s, what type of musical groups were the Harmonizing Four and the Dixie Hummingbirds? Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive an Academy Award. She won for Best Supporting Actress for what 1939 film? Who penned the 1982 novel The Women of Brewster Place later made into a 1989 television miniseries starring Oprah Winfrey, Jackee Harry, Robin Givens, Lynn Whitfield, Larenz Tate, Moses Gunn, and Leon? Who made the stainless steel sculpture of two wing like shapes framed by neon lights at the entrance of the Miami International Airport? Who wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in 1845? Pulitzer Prize winning Black American playwright, August Wilson was born with what name? Who was the first Black American woman to have a full length novel published? for colored girls made its dramatic debut in 1974 and was written by Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe-ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay). What is the full title of this essay? Who was the first Black American woman to be recognized as an award-winning composer? Who wrote the play All God’s Chillun Got Wings starring Paul Robeson? What Black American artist created the Peanut Man character for Planters Peanuts? Who was the first Black American to achieve fame as a sculptress? What Black American cartoonist became famous for the cartoon “Cuties”? What 1987 play, written by Alfred Unry, became a movie in 1989? Who founded the DuSable Museum of African-American History, located in Chicago, Illinois? Page 7 of 72 ANSWER Harriet A. Jacobs' Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance Harlem Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks Gregory Hines Graffiti Gospel quartets Gone With the Wind Gloria Naylor Frederick Eversley Frederick Douglass Frederick August Kittel, Jr. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf Florence Price Eugene O‟Neill Elmer Stoner Edmonia Leis E. Simms Campbell Driving Miss Daisy Dr. Margaret Burroughs 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 171 Arts 172 Arts 173 Arts 174 Arts 175 Arts 176 Arts 177 178 Arts Arts 179 Arts 180 182 Arts Arts 183 184 Arts Arts 185 186 Arts Arts 187 Arts 188 189 Arts Arts 190 Arts 191 192 Arts Arts 193 Arts QUESTION Frequently called The Fire Next Time , what was the name of James Baldwin‟s 1963 bestseller, which electrified both Black and White Americans? A painting of what African American performer was unveiled in 1902 at the coronation of King Edward VII and exhibited at the Paris Expo? After over forty years, who became the second black actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor? What is the name of the opera singer who sang at President George W. Bush‟s inauguration in 2005? She is a dancer-choreographer who is also a director and producer. She was involved with the television show Fame. Name her. Appeal , a book of anti-slavery literature, was written by what Black American? What was the name of the movie that was based on the life of Stephen Bantu Biko, a South African freedom fighter? Who wrote The Lost Zoo , a classic children‟s book? What was the name of the first published novel written by a Black American, William Wells Brown? Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson were writers of the Harlem Renaissance period. Which one of them was born in Jamaica? Alice Walker‟s Meridian is a novel about what? James W.C. Pennington was a slave narrator born on the eastern shore of Maryland. His story shows the consequences of slavery on whom? Who wrote The African Origin of Civilization in 1969? Performing in evening attire, these stars of The Creole Show were the first African American couple to perform on Broadway. Name them. Who is the author of “The Destruction of Black Civilization”? In 1982 what Kentucky State University museum became a major repository for the collection of artifacts, books, and records related to its history of educating black citizens? For what 1954 film was Dorothy Dandridge the first black actress to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress ? Beauford Delaney liked to paint what subjects? Go Tell it on the Mountain , the first novel of James Baldwin written in 1953 was about what? Name at least three national renowned 20th Century tap dancers. Who wrote the book Born to Rebel ? What prolific writer published twenty-three articles, hundreds of shorter pieces, and ten books including The Negro in the American Revolution in 1961 and Moorg Against Tide & Page 8 of 72 Patterns in 2005? ANSWER Down at the Cross Dora Dean Denzel Washington Denyce Graves Debbie Allen David Walker Cry Freedom Countee Cullen Clotel (or The President's Daughter) Claude McKay Civil Rights Movement Children Cheikh Anta Diop Charles Johnson and Dora Dean Chancellor Williams Center of Excellence for the Study of Kentucky African Americans (CESKAA) Carmen Jones Black writers and artists Black ghetto life Bill Bailey; Charles “Honi” Coles; Sammy Davis, Jr.; Savion Glover; Gregory Hines; Maurice Hines; Fayard Nicholas; Harold Nicholas; Bill “Bojangles” Robinson Benjamin Mays Benjamin Arthur Quarles 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 194 Arts 196 Arts 197 Arts 198 Arts 199 Arts 200 Arts 201 Arts 202 Arts 203 Arts 204 Arts 205 206 Arts Arts 207 Arts 208 Arts 209 Arts 210 Arts 211 Arts 213 Arts 214 Arts 215 Arts 216 Arts 217 218 Arts Arts QUESTION In 1988 Black American author Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for what novel? What Hopkinsville native penned the children's books Happy to be Nappy and Be Boy Buzz ? Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were innovators of what type of music in the early 1940s? bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, graduated from what high school in Hopkinsville, Kentucky? In 1969, who founded the Dance Theater of Harlem, the first professional all-black classical ballet company? What is the name of the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry written by Gwendolyn Brooks? In 1982, Louis Gossett, Jr. won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in what film? Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934, what poet and playwright is nicknamed LeRoi Jones? Dubbed by Maya Angelou as "the world's greatest living poet," what controversial writer, college professor, and political commentator lost his position as New Jersey's poet laureate after fallout from his controversial 9/11-related poem? This dancer-choreographer founded his own dance company in 1957 and developed Revelations one of the best known, most often seen modern dance performances. Name him. What real life person did Halle Berry portray in the TV miniseries Queen? Who wrote “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”? ANSWER Beloved bell hooks Bebop Attucks High School Arthur Mitchell Annie Allen An Officer and A Gentleman Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka Alvin Ailey Alex Haley‟s paternal grandmother Alex Haley This writer won a Pulitzer Prize chronicling his seven-generation family from West Africa in the story Roots. Name him. Alex Haley Albert Schweitzer Music In 1979, Katherine Dunham received what prestigious award? Award What type of dance rhythm and movements did Katherine Dunham introduce in America? African and Caribbean a photo of Coretta Scott King and her daughter, Moneta Sleet, Jr., became the first African American to win a Bernice, at Dr. Martin Luther Pulitzer Prize in photography for what picture? King, Jr.'s funeral Director, producer, writer, and actor Spike Lee has released over 35 films since 1983 through his production company. 40 Acres & A Mule Name it. Filmworks Noted sports editor Edward Clayton was the first editor of what popular magazine? Jet Historians report that there are about how many published slave narratives in book length, newspapers, or transcribed from interviews? 6,000 In what year did the first Broadway play written by a Black American woman open in New York? 1959 In what year did Marian Anderson debut as the first Black American singer at the Metropolitan Opera? 1955 The New Orleans Tribune, the first black daily newspaper was founded in New Orleans in what year? 1864 The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in what year? 1852 Page 9 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 219 Arts 220 221 Arts Arts 222 Arts 223 224 225 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education QUESTION The first known slave narrative was A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man . In what year was it published? How old was Langston Hughes when his poetry was first published? How many operas did the composer Scott Joplin write? Miles Davis was a trumpeter of cool jazz, modal jazz, and jazz rock. He served as a bandleader for how many classic quintets in his career? In 1975, who became the first African American to own and operate a television station in the United States, WGPR-TV in Detroit, MI? Born in Geneva, KY, who became the owner of the first black radio station in Detroit, in 1964? Who built San Francisco‟s first hotel and opened California‟s first public school? Who was the first African American appointed to the executive board of the Hopkinsville Chamber of Commerce and also the first to chair the Area Development District in Kentucky? ANSWER What is the real name of Famous Amos? What colonial era crop had a significant shortage of workers which demanded a large number of Africans to be imported to the Americas? What was the full name of Hopkinsville native Ted Poston, New York Post reporter/author? What was the name of the enterprise Barney Ford formed in Nicaragua? While in New York, Ulysses Poston created what daily African American newspapers? In 1917 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen founded a radical monthly magazine called what? Who was a reporter for the New York Post and regarded as journalism‟s “Father of Minorities”? What Hopkinsville native was the first African American reporter for The New York Post and covered many of the race disputes in the South? Wally Amos Who was known as the “Dean of the Negro Newspapermen”? T. Thomas Fortune Paul Cuffe owned what kind of company? Ship building and shipping What was Madame C.J. Walker‟s real name? Who was the founder of the National Negro Finance Corporation? Sara Breedlove Walker Who became the first African American billionaire in 2001? Whose career with Kentucky Educational Television (KET) began in 1997 with the launch of the first statewide minority affairs program and continues as producer of KET's longest running public affairs program, Comment on Kentucky ? What successful businessman was also the founder of Negro Free Masonry? Page 10 of 72 Robert "Bob" Johnson 1760 19 2 2 William Venoid Banks William Venoid Banks William Leidesdorff Walton N. Smith Tobacco Theodore Roosevelt Augustus Major Poston The United States Hotel and Restaurant The Negro World and The New York Contender The Messenger Ted Poston Ted Poston Robert Moton Renee Shaw Prince Hall 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 CATEGORY Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education QUESTION Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States ? In the late 19th century, what Hopkinsville businessman was known as "The Richest Negro in the South?" Patricia Garrison-Corbin, was the founder, chair, and chief executive officer of what company, which became the first African American female-owned Wall Street financial services corporation? Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004? What Hopkinsville native was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1956 and later became a journalist for the Indianapolis Recorder and Hoosier Herald ? Born in 1810, who was William Leidesdorff? Dr. Louis C. Roudanez founded this first daily black newspaper in 1864. Name it. Created by John H. Johnson in 1943, what publication similar in form to Reader‟s Digest was later replaced by Black World? What was the name of the first magazine published by John H. Johnson? Generating revenues over $88 billion dollars annually, how many black-owned businesses were there in the United States in 2002? ANSWER Philadelphia Tribune Peter Postel (or Postell), Sr. P. G. Corbin & Company Oprah Winfrey Opal L. Tandy One of the first Black American millionaires New Orleans Tribune Negro Digest Negro Digest nearly 1.2 million What was the name of the first Black American radio network? What Black American woman founded the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, Inc.? What occupation do Iman, Beverly Johnson, and Naomi Sims have in common? What company‟s popular commercial featured a tape recording of Ella Fitzgerald‟s voice shattering a glass? National Negro Network Who was the first Black network television anchor? Max Robinson Who was the first Black American woman bank president? Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her to become the first African American female millionaire? Who is the current Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company? Who published the first Black American women‟s newspaper in the US? Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange? Established in 1945, this publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines is the world's largest black-owned publishing company. Name it. Baltimore‟s newspaper, the Afro-American, was founded by what former slave? The Johnson Publishing Company was founded in Chicago in 1945 by what person? Maggie Lena Walker Page 11 of 72 Nannie Helen Burroughs Modeling Memorex Madam C.J. Walker Linda Johnson Rice Josephine Ruffin Joseph L. Searles Johnson Publishing Company John H. Murphy John H. Johnson 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 CATEGORY Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education QUESTION ANSWER Who founded the magazine Ebony ? Freedom's Journal , the first black newspaper published in America, was founded in 1827 in New York City by whom? What company has a successful series of television commercials that started in 1974 and features Bill Cosby? In 1981 Pam Johnson became the first black woman to control which mainstream daily publication? Who was the founder and president of the first Black American national labor union in 1869? Opal Tandy, journalist and Hopkinsville native, purchased the newspaper Hoosier Herald and changed its name to what? Who was the first Black American to become captain of an American merchant marine ship? During the first two-thirds of the seventeenth century what two countries dominated the African slave trade? John H. Johnson John B. Russwurm and Samuel E. Cornish What is the name of Oprah Winfrey‟s TV production company? What did Madam C.J. Walker invent in 1905 that was sold doorto-door? Returning to Kentucky after serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Peter Postel, Sr. opened what type of business? What periodical was the first black newspaper published in the United States? The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847? What company was the largest slave-trading operation in the south? What 1915 natural disaster ruined crops and homes of many farmers in the Mississippi Valley region? Harpo Productions Hair care preparation products What was the name of Bill Cosby‟s first bestselling book? What magazine is called “The Magazine of Today‟s Black Woman”? What country secured a monopoly over the slave trade to the New World in 1713? What famous Black American was a reporter on the CBS television program 60 Minutes? Fatherhood What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in 1945? Ebony Who founded the publication Black Enterprise in 1970? Who was the founder of the first African-American femaleowned Wall Street financial services corporation. Blues artist Mamie Smith sold nearly a million copies of what song in 1920? From 1913 to 1915 price reductions of what crop hurt the Southern farmers and brought on an economic depression? What record company helped bring Mahalia Jackson‟s gospel music to a large audience? Bernard Shaw was the Chief Washington Correspondent for what major television station? Earl G. Graves, Sr. Page 12 of 72 Jell-O Ithaca Journal Isaac Myers Indiana Herald Hugh Mulzac Holland and Portugal Grocery store Freedom‟s Journal Frederick Douglass Franklin and Arnold Flooding Essence England Ed Bradley Patricia Garrison-Corbin Crazy Blues Cotton Columbia Records CNN 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 CATEGORY Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education QUESTION ANSWER This person was born in Christian County, Kentucky, in 1874, was the son of former slaves, saved enough money to attend school, became a school teacher, founded three newspapers, was a painter, a poet, and a lawyer. Who was he? Claybron W. Merriweather Where was Ephraim Poston, owner and editor of the newspaper Hopkinsville Contender , born? Clarksville, TN For what is Wally Amos famous? In 1954, Mahalia Jackson began a weekly radio program. On what radio network was the show aired? Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary? Who was the first Black man to appear on the cover of Life magazine? Business & Education Business & Education 314 Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Ed Bradley was a member of what news team? 315 Business & Education 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education CBS Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900? Booker T. Washington What was the name of Marcus Garvey‟s shipping company that was owned and operated entirely by Blacks? Black Star Line Name at least two black 1980s television show producers. In 1924, Walter White published a best-selling novel The Fire in the Flint , which covered what subject? Who was the first Black American to appear on the cover of Vogue magazine? In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange? From 1893 until the 1950s, Nancy Green served as the world's first living trademark as the image what product? What company was founded in Harlem in 1940 to provide opportunities for black actors, writers and directors as well as technicians? Created by Rodney J. Reynolds in 1994, this magazine that focuses on black history and culture. In 1910 about fifty percent of black labor force was employed in what industry? Slaves held a variety of tasks such as skilled craftsmen, trappers, nurses, and house servants. What work did the majority of slaves perform? What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March on Washington? 303 Chocolate chip cookies Black Newspaperwoman Billy Eckstine Bill Cosby, Tim Reid, Debbie Allen, Quincy Jones, and Keenan Ivory Wayans Bigotry Beverly Johnson BET Aunt Jemima pancake mix American Negro Theatre American Legacy Agriculture Agricultural labor in the Southern colonies (They worked in the fields.) A. Philip Randolph A tenant farmer would give In the agricultural field some former slaves were sharecroppers. his share of crops raised to What was meant by this term? the landlord as rent Blues vocalist, song writer, and guitarist John Brim also owned a dry cleaning business and what businesses in Chicago? a record store 60 Minutes What was the name of Eddie Murphy first movie which grossed over 100 million dollars and propelled him into movie stardom? 48 hours Page 13 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 328 Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education 329 Business & Education 330 Business & Education QUESTION By 2002, revenues for black-owned businesses rose to what amount, accounting for 5% of all nonfarm businesses in the United States? In what year did A. Philip Randolph organize the union, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters? One of the first black organized labor unions, the Associated Colored Employees of America was formed in what year? Northern industries experiencing an economic boom during World War I contributed to the Great Migration beginning in what year? In what year did Maggie Lena Walker become the first Black American woman bank president? Born a slave in North Carolina, Peter Postel, Sr.'s estate was later valued at $500,000 as owner of a merchant business in Hopkinsville. In what year was he born? In what year did the first African indentured servants arrive at Jamestown, Virginia? Before A. Philip Randolph established a successful labor union for black train porters, approximately how much money were these workers paid per day? Who was the first Black American woman to have her own weekly television series, Julia? What organization helps fund over forty Black American colleges? What is the name of the institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881? What Austin Peay State University building was named for a civil rights activist and a pastor of the St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Clarksville, TN? Under what name was North Carolina Central University founded in 1910 by James E. Shephard? 331 Business & Education Originally named Ohio African University, Wilberforce University the Methodist Episcopal in Ohio was founded in 1843 by members of what church? church 333 Business & Education 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 327 CATEGORY Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education 336 Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education 337 Business & Education 334 335 ANSWER $88.6 billion 1925 1917 1915 1903 1841 1619 $2.00 Diahann Carroll United Negro College Fund Tuskegee Institute the Wilbur N. Daniel African American Culture Center The National Religious Training School of Durham Raising $150,000 over seven years, this choir from Nashville traveled around the world singing spirituals and work songs to the Fisk Jubilee Singers raise money for their college. What was the name of the choir? (from Fisk University) Smith College (Northampton, In 1995 and 2001 respectively, Dr. Ruth J. Simmons became Massachusetts - 1995) and the first black president and black woman president of two top- Brown University ranked colleges. One is a “Seven Sisters” school, and the other (Providence, Rhode Island is an Ivy League school. Name the institutions. 2001) Elaine Farris became the first African American school superintendent in Kentucky in 2004 over what school district? Shelby County Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women? Spelman College Who presented a bill to Congress in 1968 that would enable Black Americans to control education, business, and social services within Black American communities? Roy Innis Page 14 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 338 339 CATEGORY Business & Education Business & Education 342 Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education 343 Business & Education 340 341 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 361 Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education QUESTION Cheyney University in Pennsylvania was funded by a will from what Philadelphia Quaker in 1832? Who was the first Black American to receive a degree from Harvard University? Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African American student to be accepted at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee? Who was the first Black American to receive a doctorate in Physics from Yale University? ANSWER In 1865, Fisk University was founded in what city? Centenary Biblical Institute was established in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1865 by blacks after the Civil War. Under what name does it operate today? What college, originally established as August Institute, was organized by three ministers in the basement of a Baptist church in 1867? Nashville, Tennessee From what college did Martin Luther King, Jr. graduate? The University of the District of Columbia was organized by free black women in 1865 under what name? In 1904 the Daytona Normal and Industrial School in Daytona Beach, Florida was founded by whom? Born in Trigg County, KY, what first African American student at Murray State University had to be escorted to class by the police and the university president? Made to what is now Alcorn State University, the first land grant for a black college was made in 1871 in what in city? Founded in 1886, what Kentucky university was originally named the State Normal School for Colored Persons? There is one Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Kentucky. Name it. In 1993, what 13-year old from Sturgis, KY, became the first African American student to win the Kentucky Education Association President's Spelling Bee in Frankfort, KY? Who was the first Black American woman president of Spelman College? Morehouse College Who was the first Black American to graduate from college? Josh Brown correctly spelled what word in 1993 to become the first African American to win the Kentucky Education Association President's Spelling Bee? Who was the first black student to be admitted to the University of Mississippi in 1962? Who was refused admission to the University of Mississippi in 1961, forcing US Marshals to escort him to class? Christian County native Elder Watson Diggs was the first African American graduate from what university's School of Education? John Russwurm Where did young Dr. Carter G. Woodson learn his ABC‟s? In 1913 Delta Sigma Theta sorority was formed at what university? Page 15 of 72 In farm fields Richard Humphreys Richard Greener Reverend Wilbur N. Daniel Patrick Healy Morgan State University Morehouse College Miner Normal School Mary McLeod Bethune Mary Ford Holland Lorman, Mississippi Kentucky State University Kentucky State University Josh Brown Johnetta Cole jodhpurs James Meredith James Meredith Indiana State University Howard University 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 363 CATEGORY Business & Education Business & Education QUESTION What is the name of the famous Black college in Washington, D.C. where Dr. Charles Drew taught medicine? Who was the first African American woman admitted to the University of Louisville Law School? 364 Business & Education Receiving a doctorate in education in 1960, who was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky? The United Negro College Fund was established in 1944 to provide financial support to students who are enrolled in what educational institutions? W.E.B. Du Bois was the first Black American to receive a Ph.D. from what prestigious university? Rhodes Scholar and Hopkinsville native Raymond Burse attended what law school graduating in 1978? Hampton University in Virginia was originally established under what name in 1868? 362 370 Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education 371 Business & Education 372 Business & Education 365 366 367 368 369 373 374 Business & Education Business & Education 376 Business & Education Business & Education 377 Business & Education 378 Business & Education 375 379 380 Business & Education Business & Education What state has the most black institutions of higher learning? What US federal government agency founded over 4000 schools, including Howard University? Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland was established in 1900 and named after what slave who became one of the leading black women educators of the nineteenth century? Born in Falmouth, KY, what man developed the Black Man Think Tank and is the national president of the John D. O'Bryant Think Tank for Black Professionals in Higher Education on Predominantly White Campuses (JDOTT)? What Christian Couny native was a founding member of Kappa Alpha Psi, established in 1911, served as the fraternity's president during the first six years and was awarded the organization's first Laurel Wreath in 1924? At age 49, she became the first African American school superintendent in Kentucky. Name her. ANSWER Howard University Hortense Houston Young Horace E. Tate Historically black colleges and universities (or HBCUs) Harvard University Harvard Law School Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute Georgia Freedmen‟s Bureau Fanny Jackson Coppin Eric P. Abercrumbie Elder Watson Diggs Elaine Farris Having studied eight languages, this pastor, author, and member of the Kentucky Board of Education served in the U.S. Army as a multilingual interpreter and taught foreign languages? Dr. Clyde B. Akins, Sr. In 2009, who became the first African American male school superintendent in Kentucky? Donald Smith In 2009, who became the dean of the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Law, making him the state's first African American law school dean since the desegregation of Kentucky higher education? David A. Brennen Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College, Name 2 of the 4 colleges that make up the Atlanta University Morehouse College, and Center, the largest contiguous consortium of African-Americans Morehouse School of in higher education in the United States. Medicine What county had the first school libraries for Kentucky Negro children in 1892 and the libraries first for Negro teachers in 1898? Christian County, KY In 1981 Jewel Plummer Cobb became the first black woman California State University at president of what major university? Fullerton Page 16 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 391 CATEGORY Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education 392 Business & Education 393 Business & Education 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 389 390 394 396 397 398 399 400 402 403 404 405 406 Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education Business & Education QUESTION Who was the principal at Tuskegee Institute who recruited and hired George Washington Carver? Who championed the principle of industrial/vocational education for black people? What great Black American educator influenced Marcus Garvey‟s commitment to self improvement? Mary McLeod Bethune practiced the philosophy of what prominent educator? Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune found? In 1866, what library was the first desegregated library in Kentucky and the South? What Kentucky college was integrated with black and white students in 1858, but discontinued the biracial mix in 1904? Angus A. Burleigh was the first adult African American to attend and graduate from what Kentucky college? Who was the first Black president of the school board in Atlanta, Georgia? This, the first and only black college consortium, was founded in 1929. Name it. This graduate of Howard University Medical School was the first African American woman to pass the medical boards and become a doctor in Kentucky. Name her. Born free and later sold into slavery after his father's death, who became the first adult African American to graduate from Berea College? ANSWER Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington Bethune-Cookman College Berea College Library Berea College Berea College Benjamin E. Mays Atlanta University System Artishia Garcia Gilbert Angus A. Burleigh Charles W. Anderson is credited with a number of early Civil Rights measures including what Act which provided funding for African Americans to seek higher education out of state Anderson-Mayer State Aid because Kentucky enforced higher education segregation laws? Act In 1908, what was the first black sorority founded at Howard University? Alpha Kappa Alpha In what state is Tuskegee Institute located? Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, originally named Ashmun Institute in honor of the first governor of Liberia, was founded by a pastor of what church in 1854? In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court order school integration? Xavier University was the first black Catholic college. It opened in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1915 as a high school. In what year was the college department added? In what year were the post-Civil War colleges Clark, Claflin, Dillard, and Tougaloo founded? The African Methodist Episcopal Church founded Edward Waters College in Live Oak, Florida in what year? Fisk University was established in Nashville, Tennessee as a liberal arts institution in what year? Cheyney State, the oldest Black American college, was founded in what year? How many historically black colleges and universities are there today in the United Sates? Page 17 of 72 Alabama a Presbyterian church 1955 1925 1869 1866 1865 1837 105 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 407 CATEGORY Business & Education 408 Entertainment 409 Entertainment 410 Entertainment 411 Entertainment 412 Entertainment 413 Entertainment 414 Entertainment 415 Entertainment 416 Entertainment 417 Entertainment 419 Entertainment 420 Entertainment 421 Entertainment 422 Entertainment 423 Entertainment 424 Entertainment 425 Entertainment 426 Entertainment 427 Entertainment 428 Entertainment QUESTION How did Barney Ford make his fortune? What American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer was the leader of the first Black American band to play in Carnegie Hall? Who played the role of Celie in the movie version of Alice Walker‟s best-selling book, The Color Purple ? What Black actress won a Academy Award for her supporting role in the movie Ghost? The Best Supporting Actress award for this 1990 thriller/fantasy film went to a comedienne who had a one-woman show on Broadway in the mid-1980s. Who is she? What artist recorded the songs, “I Will Always Love You, ”The Greatest Love of All”, and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”? Classic blues singers, Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mamie Smith, and Alberta Hunter, were women who came out of what performance tradition? Who is the award-winning recording/performing/video artist who recorded the platinum album called The Comfort Zone? In 2001, for what film did Denzel Washington become the second African American man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor? Harry Belafonte became the first black to receive an Emmy for what show in 1959? The Guinness Book of World Records lists what Michael Jackson album as the best selling album of all times? What was Chubby Checker‟s longest running hit song on the Top 40 charts? Boasting twelve number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, what female singing group was the most successful American vocal group of all time? The first rap song to achieve commercial success was “Rapper‟s Delight.” What was the name of the group who recorded this single in 1979? Dionne Warwick had numerous hits on the Billboard music charts. Say A Little Prayer and I’ll Never Love This Way Again went gold. She recorded Then Came You with a popular male group and it went gold as well. What is the name of the group? In the 1920s the Lindy Hop was made famous at this Harlem dance venue. Name the group who performed the 1970s hit Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. What television program has received over 25 Emmy awards and has been the highest-rated talk show in television history? James Bland wrote “Oh Dem Golden Slippers” which is the theme song for what group? In what TV series was a character named “Buckwheat” one of the stars? In what motion picture did Bill “Bo Jangles” Robinson teach Shirley Temple the famous Stair Dance? Page 18 of 72 ANSWER As a hotel and restaurant owner William "Count" Basie Whoopi Goldberg Whoopi Goldberg Whoopi Goldberg Whitney Houston Vaudeville Vanessa Williams Training Day Tonight with Belafonte Thriller The Twist The Supremes The Sugar Hill Gang The Spinners The Savoy Ballroom The Platters The Oprah Winfrey Show The Mummers The Little Rascals The Little Colonel 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 CATEGORY QUESTION Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, who Entertainment recorded the song "Twist and Shout"? Entertainment Name three dance steps from the Disco era? “Boogie Wonderland” was Earth, Wind & Fire‟s only Disco song. What was the name of the group of ladies that sang with them Entertainment on this record? Lena Horne began her career as a singer and dancer in what Entertainment New York entertainment club? Entertainment What producer/songwriter originated the New Jack Swing? In 1941, what jazz piece performed by Duke Ellington and his Entertainment orchestra became an instant hit? On the TV series Magnum, P.I., what was Roger Mosely‟s Entertainment nickname? Who was the second black woman to be crowned Miss Entertainment America? In his role in the movie Guess Who‟s Coming to Dinner, Sidney Entertainment Poitier practiced what profession? What was the first record company to market rap music to the Entertainment national audience? Alice Walker advised what movie director during the film Entertainment production of her best selling book, The Color Purple ? Entertainment Who became Hollywood‟s first Black millionaire actor? Actress Nichelle Nichols is best known for her role in what Entertainment television series? Entertainment What is MC Hammer‟s real name? In 1972, Cicely Tyson was nominated for Best Actress for her Entertainment performance in what film? What will be the longest, continuously running, first-run Entertainment syndicated television program until at least 2016? In 1989, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees included The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, and this gospel quartet that once featured Sam Cooke. What is the name of the Entertainment gospel group? What was the name of the music and dance television show Entertainment hosted by Marilyn McCoo? These artists helped create the Funk music style were inducted Entertainment into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Name the group. During Paul Robeson‟s appearance in Emperor Jones, he was Entertainment asked to whistle, but he did what instead? Born in 1957, what is the full name of the director of the movie Entertainment Do the Right Thing? What TV comedy show made Eddie Murphy a household Entertainment name? Entertainment What was Louis Armstrong‟s nickname? What multi-faceted entertainer and 1960s star of Broadway's Golden Boy began his career on the vaudeville stage at age Entertainment three? Who was the first black entertainer to sleep in the White Entertainment House? The popular sitcom Amos 'n' Andy originally aired as a radio Entertainment program with what name? Page 19 of 72 ANSWER The Isley Brothers the Hustle, the Bump, and the Bus Stop The Emotions The Cotton Club Teddy Riley Take the A Train T.C. Suzette Charles Surgeon Sugar Hill Records Steven Spielberg Stepin Fetchit Star Trek Stanley Kirk Burrell Sounder Soul Train Soul Stirrers Solid Gold Sly & the Family Stone Sing Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee Saturday Night Live Satchmo Sammy Davis, Jr. Sammy Davis, Jr. Sam 'n' Henry 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 455 Entertainment 456 Entertainment 457 Entertainment 458 Entertainment 459 460 461 462 463 Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment 464 Entertainment 465 Entertainment 466 467 Entertainment Entertainment 468 Entertainment 469 470 Entertainment Entertainment 471 Entertainment 472 Entertainment 473 Entertainment 474 475 Entertainment Entertainment 476 Entertainment 477 478 Entertainment Entertainment 479 Entertainment 480 Entertainment 481 Entertainment QUESTION Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, who recorded the number one 1957 hit "You Send Me"? This hip-hop mogul has a record label, clothing line, beverage and movie production companies. He initiated the careers of LL Cool J and Will Smith. Who is he? What was the name of the first hip-hop group to break into the mainstream American culture in the early 1980s? In 1986, Dexter Gordan was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in what film? What actor and stand up comedian warned others of the dangers of drug abuse after his own near death experience? What is Little Richard‟s given name? For what type of music was Bob Marley famous? What was John Elroy Stanford‟s stage name? Howard Rollins received an Oscar nomination for what movie? What is the stage name of female rapper and actress Dana Owens? In 2003 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Chicago. Who is she? Which rap artist founded Flavor Unit Records and Management that handles rap and new-style rhythm and blues groups? In what 1984 movie did artist Prince have a starring role? Name the hip-hop group that created the theme song “Fight the Power” to Spike Lee‟s film Do The Right Thing. What instrument did Count Basie play, while leading his group ”The Count Basie Orchestra”? What musical instrument did Nat King Cole play? What is the name of Debbie Allen‟s sister who appeared on the Cosby Show? Bill Cosby, Will Smith and Kobe Bryant were born in “the city of brotherly love.” What is the name of the city? What song has become Count Basie‟s theme song and was later recorded by many different music groups? What was the name of the famous jazz band Louis Armstrong joined in Chicago in 1922? In 1950 Sidney Poitier made his film debut in what movie? Who was the first Black American master of ceremonies of a nationally televised show? The Cotton Club, The Savoy, and Small‟s Paradise were major among what type of social venue during the Harlem Renaissance? In what city was Louis Armstrong born? Who won a Grammy Award in 1992 for “Unforgettable”, a musical tribute to her late father? What was the name of the first successful TV variety show starring a Black American? Initially popular with his jazz trio, he shifted to mainstream pop music and achieved international acclaim along with a bit of criticism for that shift and for playing segregated clubs in the South. Name this popular entertainer whose variety show aired in 1956. Page 20 of 72 ANSWER Sam Cooke Russell Simmons Run-DMC Round Midnight Richard Pryor Richard Pennington Reggae Redd Foxx Ragtime Queen Latifah Queen Latifah Queen Latifah Purple Rain Public Enemy Piano (or organ) Piano Phylicia Rashad Philadelphia One O‟clock Jump Oliver‟s Creole Jazz Band No Way Out Nipsey Russell Nightclubs New Orleans Natalie Cole Nat King Cole Show Nat King Cole 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 482 483 Entertainment Entertainment 484 485 486 Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment 487 Entertainment 488 Entertainment 489 Entertainment 490 Entertainment 491 Entertainment 492 Entertainment 493 Entertainment 494 Entertainment 495 496 Entertainment Entertainment 497 Entertainment 498 Entertainment 499 500 Entertainment Entertainment 501 Entertainment 502 Entertainment 503 504 505 Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment 506 Entertainment 507 Entertainment 508 509 Entertainment Entertainment QUESTION Influenced by pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines, he was interested in music early on and played piano and sang in the church choir. His first hit was "Straighten Up and Fly Right", based on one of his father's sermons. Name him. Who was the star of the 1977 movie The Greatest? Originally dubbed Tamla Records in 1959, what highly successful record company did Berry Gordy, Jr. incorporate in 1960? What is the music-related nickname of Detroit, Michigan? What was “Ma” Rainey‟s nickname? Which rapper known for such albums as Black on Both Sides began rhyming at age nine in his hometown of Brooklyn, New York? The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin recorded how many albums? For what film did Halle Berry win an Academy Award for Best Actress in 2001? What is the name of the singer-dancer who performed the “Moonwalk” in the 1980s? Who played the role of the Scarecrow in the movie version of The Wiz ? What pop rock star devoted much of his life and music to his belief that “children are our future”? In 1984, what Black American singer won eight Grammy Awards? What movie is based on the events of the life of Navy master diver Carl M. Brashear? In 1912, W.C. Handy, father of the blues, published what song, one of the first to be published on sheet music? Who is called the “queen of hip-hop soul?” Who was the female lead singer of 5th Dimension, a popular group of the 1960s and 1970s? What early 20th century artist was the first blues singer to have a recording contract? What actor played the role of Bill Cosby‟s son Theo on The Cosby Show? What musical artist released the hit album Power of Love ? This trumpet player was also a vocalist and was the first to use a technique known as scat singing. What was his name? What famous singer hosts the annual Parade of Stars in order to raise money for the United Negro College Fund? What was the given name of popular comedienne and pioneer of African-American vaudeville, Moms Mabley? James Todd Smith is the given name of what rapper/actor? Who played the character of “Denise” in the Cosby Show? What was the given name of Stepin Fetchit, the first black actor to become a millionaire? In 1963 Sidney Poitier became the first Black American to win the Best Actor Oscar for his role in what film? Chic had five records during the Disco era. Three of them went gold. Name the 1978 record that went platinum. Billie Holiday‟s life was the subject of what famous film? Page 21 of 72 ANSWER Nat King Cole Muhammad Ali Motown Records Motown Mother of the Blues Mos Def More than 50 Monster‟s Ball Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Michael Jackson Men of Honor Memphis Blues Mary J. Blige Marilyn McCoo Mamie Smith Malcolm-Jamal Warner Luther Vandross Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Lou Rawls Loretta Mary Aiken LL Cool J Lisa Bonet Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry Lillie‟s of the Field Le Freak Lady Sings the Blues 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 510 Entertainment 511 Entertainment 512 Entertainment 513 514 Entertainment Entertainment 515 Entertainment 516 517 518 Entertainment Entertainment Entertainment 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 QUESTION What does the nickname of rapper and actor LL Cool J stand for? Who played the role of Dwayne Wayne on the TV series A Different World? Who was regarded as a master guitar player and developed a program for learning the guitar? She witnessed the East St. Louis riots in 1917 and immigrated to France just six years later. She was a singer, dancer, nightclub owner and a member of the French resistance during World War II. Name this popular entertainer. Who was the leader of the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band? Who was the first Black American musician to perform concert tours? Born in 1968, who directed such films as Boyz N the Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Baby Boy, and 2 Fast 2 Furious? What was the given name of comedian Redd Foxx? What was Dizzy Gillespie‟s real name? Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, what guitar and harmonica Entertainment player worked with "Sonny Boy" Williamson and Muddy Waters? What famous singer played guitar for Little Richard before Entertainment starting his solo career? Cuba Gooding, Jr., a Bronx native, won the award for Best Entertainment Supporting Actor in 1996 for what film? Entertainment What was Ferdinand Morton‟s nickname? Who provided the voice for Darth Vader in the movie Star Entertainment Wars? His style of funk music and dance led the way for Disco and Hip Hop. Known as the “hardest working man in show business” Entertainment and "the godfather of soul," who is he? What Kentucky native and martial artist starred in the films Entertainment Enter the Dragon and Black Belt Jones? Entertainment What is the surname of singers LaToya, Janet, and Michael? Entertainment What Black American female comic was known as “Moms”? Entertainment Name the singer whose nickname is “Little Moses.” Keenan Ivory Wayans is the producer of what TV comedy Entertainment show? Quincy Jones wrote a full length score for what Hollywood Entertainment movie? In 1991 there were eight inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame including a husband and wife duo who sang “Proud Mary” Entertainment in 1969. Who are they? Entertainment What Gloria Gaynor hit won her a platinum record in 1979? Bill Cosby won two Emmy Awards in the 1960s for his Entertainment performance in what TV series? Count Basie won his first Grammy Award in 1963 for Entertainment instrumental arrangement of what song? What Motown song writer/producer trio was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Entertainment Fame in 1990? What song recorded by Louis Armstrong became the nation‟s Entertainment number on record in 1964? Page 22 of 72 ANSWER Ladies Love Cool James Kadeem Hardison Justin Howard Josephine Baker Joseph Oliver Joseph Douglass John Singleton John Elroy Sanford John Burks Gillespie John Brim Jimi Hendrix Jerry Maguire Jelly Roll James Earl Jones James Brown James "Jim" Kelly Jackson Jackie Mabley Isaac Hayes In Living Color In Cold Blood Ike and Tina Turner I Will Survive I Spy I Can‟t Stop Loving You Holland, Dozier, & Holland Hello Dolly 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 CATEGORY QUESTION What was the name of the group that sang the platinum record Entertainment “Boogie Nights” in 1977? Who was the first Black American woman to win an Academy Entertainment Award? ANSWER Entertainment In 1959, who became the first black to receive an Emmy award? What company produced the 1989 television miniseries The Entertainment Women of Brewster Place ? This former beauty queen from Ohio started her career as a model. In 2001 she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Entertainment Who is she? Musician and Hopkinsville native John Brim taught himself to Entertainment play what two instruments? Sidney Poitier starred in a famous movie about an interracial Entertainment marriage. What was the name of the movie? What was the name of the first screenplay produced by a Black Entertainment American woman? This talented blues singer/artist was blind at an early age, raised chickens in his childhood, and taught himself to play music. Fusing spirituals with folk music, he developed his own style of guitar playing with unusual chord progressions – partially due to a hand injury – that became his trademark. Entertainment Name him. Harry Belafonte Entertainment What actor played Charlie “Bird” Parker in the 1988 movie Bird? Raised in Detroit's Brewster-Douglas housing project, name two of the founding members of The Supremes, Motown Records' Entertainment most commercially successful act to date. Entertainment What is Clerow Wilson, Jr.‟s stage name? Nell Carter appeared in the 1980s version of Ain't Misbehavin' Entertainment whose title song was composed in 1929 by whom? Whose well known songs include “Ain‟t That a Shame, “I‟m Entertainment Walkin”, and “Poor Me”? What is the nickname of pianist and singer-songwriter Antoine Entertainment Dominique Domino? Entertainment What song was the first hit for Gladys Knights and the Pips? What two actress played the roll of Beulah, a housekeeper in the 1950s television spin-off of the radio show Fibber McGee Entertainment and Molly? What Black American jazz pianist and composer is known for Entertainment the ballad Misty and 1955 recording Concert by the Sea ? Famed jazz singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915 with what Entertainment name? Entertainment What was Duke Ellington‟s given name? Entertainment Who starred in the box office hit Trading Places? Entertainment Who starred in the blockbuster movie Beverly Hills Cop? Forest Whitaker Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown Flip Wilson Heatwave Hattie McDaniel Harpo Productions Halle Berry Guitar and harmonica Guess Who‟s Coming to Dinner Georgia, Georgia Gary Davis Fats Waller Fats Domino Fats Every Beat of My Heart Ethel Waters and Louise Beavers Erroll Louis Garner Eleanora Fagan Edward Kennedy Ellington Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy Entertainment Who was a sidekick on The Jack Benny Show? Eddie “Rochester” Anderson James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson were featured in what Entertainment dramatic series from 1963 to 1964? East Side, West Side What 1989 movie won several Academy Awards, including Best Entertainment Picture? Driving Miss Daisy Page 23 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 562 563 564 565 566 567 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What was the name of the character played by Bill Cosby in The Entertainment Cosby Show? Dr. Cliff Huxtable Known in vaudeville as "The Black Venus," what Kentucky Entertainment native created the Cake Walk dance with her husband Charles? Dora Dean What was the birth name of international vaudeville performer Entertainment Dora Dean? Dora Babbige Donna Summer‟s “Love to Love You” was about The uncut versions of Donna Summer and Gloria Gaynor‟s fourteen minutes. Gloria records are around fourteen minutes and nineteen minutes, Gaynor‟s “Never Can Say respectively. What are the names of these Disco divas‟ records Goodbye” was about Entertainment that lasted so long? nineteen minutes. From 1975 to 1980 this Disco star had eight gold records and Entertainment two platinum records. Name her. Donna Summer Who was the creator, director, and host of the popular television Entertainment show Soul Train from 1971 to 2006? Don Cornelius What famous musician‟s trademark was puffing cheeks and a Entertainment trumpet bell that pointed skyward? Dizzy Gillespie Entertainment Who is called “The Queen of the Blues”? Dinah Washington What Black American actress had roles in the movies A Raisin Entertainment in the Sun and Blues for Mr. Charlie ? Diana Sands What performer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Entertainment Actress in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues? Diana Ross The film Glory was based on America‟s first unit of black soldiers in the Civil War. Who won the award for Best Entertainment Supporting Actor of this 1989 historical film? Denzel Washington Entertainment What role did Jester Hairston play on the TV sitcom Amen? Deacon What Saturday Night Live alumnus co-starred with Eddie Entertainment Murphy in the hit motion picture Trading Places? Dan Akroyd In the 1950s, Joe Williams's vocals were featured on what Entertainment band's albums such as One O'Clock Jump ? Count Basie Orchestra Pianist Duke Ellington was a bandleader and a great composer who played at what famous New York City club from 1927 to Entertainment 1931? Cotton Club Entertainment Eddie Murphy played an African prince in what motion picture? Coming to America The television production of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman starred what actress who traced her family history from Entertainment slavery to the Civil Rights era? Cicely Tyson Entertainment Who starred in the movie A Woman Called Moses ? Cicely Tyson Entertainment Who made the song “Johnny B Good” popular? Chuck Berry He got his break on American Bandstand in the 1960s for Entertainment recording, dancing, and popularizing the twist. Name him. Chubby Checker Name the orchestra of which Ella Fitzgerald sang with and Entertainment eventually became the leader. Chick Webb Orchestra Herbie Hancock began studying piano at age seven and Chicago Symphony Entertainment performed with what orchestra in a young people‟s concert? Orchestra Evelyn King received gold records for her songs Shame (1978) and I Don’t Know If It’s Right (1979). What was this artist's Entertainment nickname? Champagne Entertainment Eartha Kitt played what role in the Batman series? Cat Woman Page 24 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Born in Princeton, KY, what jazz pianist played with greats such as Woody Herman, Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane as well as for singers such as Diana Ross, Big Maybelle, and Entertainment Dinah Washington? Bross Elvie Townsend, Jr. In the mid-1970s what form of dancing where the dancer flipped Entertainment and spinned developed from the Disco scene in the Bronx? Breakdancing Name the Grammy award-winning Philadelphia quartet that sold Entertainment over 4 million copies of their album Cooley High Harmony? Boyz II Men Entertainment B.B. King is noted for what type of music? Blues Entertainment What New York City nightclub was named after Charlie Parker? What was the nickname of renowned jazz musician Charlie Entertainment Parker? Who composed Duke Ellington's orchestra‟s theme song, “Take Entertainment the A Train” in 1941? Portrayed by Diana Ross in the film Lady Sings the Blues, what was the name of the singer whose song “Strange Fruit” became Entertainment her signature piece? What famous female vocalist toured with “The Count Basie Entertainment Orchestra”? Considered the greatest blues singer of the 1920s, what artist Entertainment was known as the “empress of the blues”? Entertainment “Ma” Rainey taught what singer how to sing the blues? What non-performer, founder of Motown was inducted into the Entertainment hall of fame in 1988 with The Drifters and The Supremes? Entertainment Robert Guillaume starred in what TV series? Birdland Entertainment What was the nickname of jazz saxophonist Coleman Hawkins? Birthplace of Billie Holiday, Pennsylvania Avenue became the Entertainment center of black life through the 1930s in what city? Entertainment Who is known as the “Queen of Soul”? What all-black situation comedy television show started as a radio program in the 1920s to 1950s whose actors were all Entertainment white? Entertainment Vanessa Bell appeared on what soap opera? Entertainment Who sang the theme song for the hit TV series Moonlighting? What platinum song was called the “Black National Anthem” in Entertainment 1979? In 1943, in what film did pianist Fats Waller perform and Stormy Entertainment Weather portray Lena Horne singing the title song? Entertainment By what other name is jazz musician Fitz Jones known? Entertainment What was Ira Aldridge‟s profession? Hazel Payne and Janice Johnson sang the platinum record “Boogie Oogie Oogie” in 1978. What is the name of their Entertainment group? Sang by Diahann Carroll, this song was made popular in the Entertainment film version of Porgy and Bess . Name it. Entertainment What is the name of B.B. King‟s guitar? Bean Page 25 of 72 Bird Billy Strayhorn Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Bessie Smith Bessie Smith Berry Gordy, Jr. Benson Baltimore Aretha Franklin Amos „n‟ Andy All My Children Al Jarreau Ain‟t No Stoppin‟ Us Now Ain‟t Misbehavin‟ Ahmad Jamal Actor A Taste of Honey “Summertime” “Lucille” 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 CATEGORY QUESTION Entertainment Name at least three songs recorded by Donna Summer. What recording, performed by Count Basie and sung by Frank Sinatra, was played on the moon by US Astronauts on July 20, Entertainment 1969? What hit song made Ella Fitzgerald a national celebrity at the Entertainment age of 20? Well-known Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley was inducted in Entertainment the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what year? In what year were Dinah Washington, Ruth Brown and Etta Entertainment James inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Bobby “Blue” Bland, Booker T. and the MG‟s, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, and The Isley Brothers were inducted into the Rock Entertainment and Roll Hall of Fame in what year? In what year were musical artists Louis Armstrong and Hank Entertainment Ballard inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In What year did Driving Miss Daisy win the Oscar for Best Entertainment Picture? Entertainment In what year did the cartoon strip Herb and Jamaal debut? In what year were The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, and the Soul Stirrers inducted into the Rock and Roll Entertainment Hall of Fame? In what year, were artists Marvin Gaye, B.B. King, Smokey Robinson, Jackie Wilson, and Aretha Franklin included into the Entertainment Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Robert Johnson, Sam Cooke, and Ray Charles were inducted Entertainment into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what year? Entertainment In what year did Quincy Jones win five Grammy awards? In what year did the cable network BET begin broadcasting Entertainment music videos? Robert "Bob" Johnson founded Black Entertainment Television Cable Entertainment Network (BET) in what year? Entertainment The book Roots was made into a movie in what year? The “old school” rap group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Entertainment Five was formed in what year? In what year did Lena Horne appear in the movie Stormy Entertainment Weather? In what year was the movie Off to the Bloomingdale Asylum Entertainment released? For how many weeks did Chubby Checker‟s hit song, The Twist, Entertainment stay on the top 40 charts? How many black artists were inducted into the Rock and Roll Entertainment Hall of Fame in 1987? Page 26 of 72 ANSWER “Love to Love You” (1975), “I Feel Love” (1977), “Last Dance” (1978), “MacArthur Park” (1978), “Heaven Knows” (1979) with Brooklyn Dreams, “Hot Stuff” (1979), “Bad Girls” (1979), “Dim All the Lights” (1979), “On the Radio” (1980), and “The Wanderer” (1980). “Fly Me to the Moon” “A Tisket, A Tasket” 1994 1993 1992 1990 1989 1989 1989 1987 1986 1983 1980 1979 1977 1977 1943 1902 33 12 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 634 635 636 QUESTION What was the amount of the first royalty check for Berry Gordy, Entertainment Jr., founder of Motown Records? History What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black youth? History Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‟s executive assistant? 637 History Where did the “sit-in” movement begin? 638 History 639 History 640 History 641 642 History History 643 History 644 History 645 History How did Denmark Vessey gain his freedom in 1799? This slave narrator was also an antislavery lecturer, novelist, dramatist and historian. Name him. Who was the first black born in colonial America at Jamestown, Virginia? Who helped form the “American Moral Reform Society”, which helped Blacks acquire farms and aided runaway slaves in their escape to Canada? Who was honored as the pioneer of nonviolent protest? Who was the first African American deputy sheriff in Christian County in 1968? The modern Pentecost movement originated from the Azusa Street Revival held in Los Angeles in 1906 under the leadership of the black Holiness preacher? What influential Congressman became Executive Director of the United Negro College Fund? 646 History 647 History 648 History 649 History $3.40 YMCA Wyatt Tee Walker Woolworth‟s store in Greensboro, North Carolina Won money in a lottery and purchased his freedom William Wells Brown William Tucker William S. Whipper William S. Whipper William O. Dillard, Sr. William J. Seymour William H. Gray, III William Edward Burghardt Du Bois What was the full name of NAACP founder W.E.B. Du Bois? Who was the first Black American to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor? William Carney In 1624 what was the first black child born in English America named? William Tucker Benjamin Banneker assisted in the survey of what major US city? Washington, DC 650 History 651 History 652 History 653 History 654 655 History History Initiated in 1905 to challenge Booker T. Washington‟s leadership and to protest against the lynchings and disenfranchisement of black voters, the Niagara Movement was organized in Canada by what black middle-class intellectuals? What civil rights leader was co-founder of the NAACP and the Pan-African Movement? What state's government passed a law that formally recognized slavery as an institution in 1661? In what state did Nat Turner lead a slave revolt that killed 55 white people? Who was President of the United Negro College Fund and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban League? What state was the first to abolish slavery? History The first African American lawyer for a New Jersey State Farm Insurance firm, Ollen Hinnant was the first African American inducted into what law school's Hall of Fame in 1997? 656 ANSWER Page 27 of 72 W.E.B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter W.E.B Du Bois Virginia's Virginia Vernon Jordan, Jr. Vermont University of Kentucky Law School 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 657 History 658 History 659 History 660 History 661 History 662 History 663 History 664 History 665 History 666 History 667 History 668 History 669 History 670 History 671 History QUESTION ANSWER Universal Negro Improvement and What organization formed in 1914 by Marcus Garvey promoted Association and African racial pride and self improvement? Communities League What was the name of the network of hiding places which helped slaves to escape to freedom? Underground Railroad to provide social services The 1890s was called the “women‟s era” in black history and promote racial and because of the rise of the black women‟s clubs and movement. gender equality for women For what reasons were these clubs and associations formed? in their communities What attorney argued the case Abbington v Board of Education of Louisville resulting in the Louisville School Board agreeing to cease teacher salary discrimination if Ms. Abbington agreed to drop her lawsuit? Thurgood Marshall They were black people who left the South after Reconstruction who settled Who were the Exodusters? in Kansas in 1879 The students waited and left at the end of the day. The next two days students from the college and white students from a local women‟s college formed a “sit-in.” Since that In February 1960 four students from Greensboro Agricultural incident many sit-ins were and Technical College in North Carolina sat at a whites-only organized throughout the lunch counter and asked to be served. The waitress refused. South to protest segregated What happened next? seating at public institutions. What was the first serious uprising among slaves took place in 1739 and resulted in passage of the Negro Act, which placed restrictions on the ability of slaves in South Carolina to assemble and move freely? The Stono Rebellion In the early nineteenth century many slaves were converted to Christianity during this national religious revival during 1790the Second Great 1830 that occurred throughout the plantations of the South. Awakening What anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick Douglass? The North Star In 1787 black Methodists Richard Allen and Absalom Jones established what nondenominational religious association and the Free African Society of mutual aid society? Philadelphia Nashville's first ordained African American minister, Nelson Merry founded what church of more than 2,000 members, the The First Colored Baptist largest church in Tennessee during his time? Church Inspired by the Atlanta child murders of the early 1980s, what The Evidence of Things Not James Baldwin book-length essay was published in 1985? Seen On January 1, 1863 what significant declaration did President The Emancipation Lincoln issue? Proclamation What native American tribe named James Beckwourth a chief and called him “Bull‟s Robe”? The Crow In 1870 the third black Methodist denomination was founded the Colored Methodist under what name later changed in 1954 to the Christian Episcopal Church in Methodist Episcopal Church in America? America Page 28 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 672 History 673 History 674 History 675 History 676 History 677 History 678 History 679 History 680 History 681 History 682 History 683 History 684 History 685 History 686 History 687 History 688 689 History History 690 History 691 692 693 694 History History History History QUESTION James Forma wrote what document that demanded $500 million to be collected from White churches and synagogues for payment of injustices suffered by Black Americans? What was the first learned society specifically devoted to the professional study of black history by Carter G. Woodson in 1915? Which two black churches emerged from the Free African Society? Founded before the American Revolution on the William Byrd plantation near the Bluestone River in Mecklenburg, Virginia, the first known black church was of what origin? What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas between 1520 and 1860? Who was the fourth chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee? In 1960, what did four Black American students do at a whitesonly lunch counter to protest discrimination? In 1972, Gordon Parks received what prestigious award presented by the NAACP? What ancient statue in Egypt has the head of a human and the body of a lion? Slaves were known to revolt against the slave system. In 1739 the Stono Rebellion occurred in what colony? What orator delivered a powerful anti-slavery speech in 1851 at a convention on women‟s rights in Akron, Ohio? What preacher and abolitionist helped raise money for gifts for Civil War soldiers; gave rousing, inspirational anti-slavery speeches working with both black and white abolitionists; and helped African-Americans relocate to the North? The black cowboys that came with white landowners who settled in Texas were usually what class of people? Paul Cuffe established a lucrative trade partnership with what African country? What was the name of the system in which Black Americans farmed someone else‟s land and received a split of the season‟s crop? What was the original reason for establishing the Black Panther Party? What was the first southern city to integrate all of their public facilities? Who was known as the “Black Daniel Webster”? What Black American was Associate Director of the Peace Corps? Who was the first African American woman admitted to the Kentucky Bar? What Black American sparked the “Montgomery Bus Boycott”? Who started the first Black American church in Vermont? With whom did the term “Black Power” originate? Page 29 of 72 ANSWER The Black Manifesto The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in 1816 and the St. Thomas‟s African Episcopal Church in 1794 the African Baptist or “Bluestone” Church The “Middle Passage” Stokely Carmichael Staged a sit-in Springarn Medal Sphinx South Carolina (twenty miles west of Charleston) Sojourner Truth Sojourner Truth Slaves Sierra Leone Sharecropping Self Defense San Antonio, Texas Samuel Ward Samuel Proctor Sally J. Seals White Rosa Parks Rodney S. Patterson Richard Wright 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 695 History 696 History 697 History 698 History 699 History 700 History 701 History 702 History 703 History 704 History 705 706 History History 707 708 History History 709 710 History History 711 History 712 History 713 History 714 History 715 History 716 History QUESTION He was born a slave in Philadelphia and purchased his freedom. He became the founder and bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church in 1816. Who was he? Hopkinsville native, Raymond Burse earned what scholarship and attended the University of Oxford, majoring in organic chemistry and graduating in 1975? This minister‟s given name is Frederick Eikerenkoetter (I´kerencotter). He established the United Christian Evangelistic Association in 1962 and was the first black minister with a television show. What is the name he is known by? Who made a speech at the National Negro Convention in 1843 that made people regard him as one of the most militant abolitionists? Known as the “dean of black preachers” he became pastor of Concord Baptist Church in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York in 1948? The flag representing the Black Movement is comprised of what three colors? What term describes the turbulent period of time marked by twenty-five race riots that began in the summer of 1919 and lasted until the end of the year? What do many historians call the period immediately following the Civil War? Born in Hopkinsville, KY, the youngest of the twelve children, what student athlete declined football scholarships to attend Centre College, where he majored in chemistry and math and graduated in 1973? After Martin Luther King Jr‟s death, who succeeded him as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference? What civil rights leader and clergyman organized the famous “poor people‟s campaign” in Washington D.C.? What did many associate with the term “Jim Crow”? During the 1960s, what erupted in Philadelphia, Chicago, and other major cities due to the turbulent social and political climate? Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863? George Washington commended what Black American woman for her literary achievements? In what city was the first National Negro Convention held? Who were the “Freedom Riders”? The "PUSH" in Operation PUSH, founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson, stand for what? What was the name of Father Divine‟s movement, which emphasized social equality? Founded in 1923 by Charles S. Johnson, the official publication of the National Urban League is called what? Between 1915 and the mid-1920s approximately how many blacks left the rural South to urban areas of the North and the West as part of the Great Migration? In 1955 who became the first African American graduate of the University of Kentucky Law School? Page 30 of 72 ANSWER Richard Allen Rhodes Scholarship Rev. Ike Rev. Henry Garnet Rev. Gardner C. Taylor Red, Black, and Green Red Summer Reconstruction Raymond M. Burse Ralph Abernathy Ralph Abernathy Racial segregation Race riots President Abraham Lincoln Phillis Wheatley Philadelphia People who rode segregated buses and trains People United to Serve Humanity Peace Missions Opportunity one million Ollen B. Hinnant, II 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 717 CATEGORY History 718 719 720 History History History 721 History 723 History 724 History 725 History 726 History 727 History 728 History 729 730 History History 731 History 732 History 733 734 History History 735 History 736 History 737 History 738 History 739 History 740 741 History History 742 743 History History 744 745 History History QUESTION The Black Panther Party was founded in what California city? Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first Black American to win what prestigious award? What African country has the largest population? In what city was Malcolm X arrested? What city located in the Mississippi Delta has a blend of French, Spanish, Creole, African and English cultures? What Kentucky slave freed in 1845 became the first ordained African American minister in Nashville, Tennessee? Whitney Young advocated civil rights reform through what organization? ANSWER Oakland Nobel Peace Prize Nigeria New York City New Orleans Nelson G. Merry National Urban League National Council of Negro Dorothy Height was the president of what organization? Women Mary McLeod Bethune was the founder and president of what National Council of Negro national association? Women National Association for the Advancement of Colored In 1909 W.E.B. Du Bois co-founded what national organization? People (or NAACP) National Association for the What national organization was founded on President Lincoln‟s Advancement of Colored Birthday? People (or NAACP) National Association for the Advancement of Colored What does the acronym NAACP stand for? People In 1949, what religious movement did Malcolm X join? Nation of Islam In 1841 Frederick Douglass began his career as an abolitionist orator in what town? Nantucket Who was the first African American missionary worker and an organizer of the Olivet Baptist Church, one of the largest African American churches in Chicago? Nancy Green Booker T. Washington was opposed to the founding of what organization in 1909? NAACP Who became the first woman to chair the NAACP? Myrlie Evers-Williams What famous narrative was written by Solomon Northrup, a fugitive slave? My Bondage & My Freedom By the time Thurgood Marshall reached the age of 40, what nickname had he earned from the press? Mr. Civil Rights What was the nickname given to Harriett Tubman because of her efforts to free the slaves? Moses Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed a rally of about 20,000 people in front of the capitol building in what city in 1965? Montgomery, Alabama What law prohibited slavery north and west of the 36-30 parallel within the Louisiana Territory? Missouri Compromise As of July 1, 2007, which state, at 38%, had the highest percentage black population? Mississippi What civil rights leader from Mississippi was slain in 1963? Medgar Evers He worked for the NAACP and became the first field secretary in Jackson, Mississippi. He was shot in June 1963. Who was he? Medgar Evers In what state was Black nationalist Paul Cuffe born? Massachusetts Who founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935 after six years of planning? Mary McLeod Bethune Page 31 of 72 Who was referred to as “Black Mary” or “Stagecoach Mary”? Mary Fields 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 746 CATEGORY History 747 History 748 History 749 History 750 History 751 History 752 History 753 History 754 History 755 756 History History 757 758 History History 759 History 760 History 762 History 763 History 764 History 765 History 766 History 767 History 768 769 History History 770 History QUESTION Who is known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Struggle in California?” ANSWER Mary Ellen Plesant “Lifting as we climb” was the slogan of the National Association of Colored Women. Name the organization's first president. Mary Eliza Church Terrell Martin Luther King, Jr. What is the name of the memorial center of which Coretta Scott Center for Nonviolent King was Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer? Struggle She helped organize the National Federation of Afro-American Women in 1896 and was known as the “lady principal” of Margaret Murray Tuskegee. Who was this wife of Booker T. Washington? Washington Who was the founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association? Marcus Garvey Who founded the first major Black American nationalist movement that called for Blacks to move back to Africa? Marcus Garvey What Black leader promoted a nationalist movement similar in concept to Paul Cuffe‟s? Marcus Garvey What famous march helped influence the Voting Rights Acts passed in August 1965? March on Selma After a trip to Mecca in 1964, this Muslim leader changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Who was he? Malcolm X What devoted follower of Elijah Muhammad left the Nation of Islam in 1964 to form a militant group called Muslim Mosque? Malcolm X Who founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity? Malcolm X What Black American allowed Gordon Parks and Life magazine to publish a major story on the Black Muslim Movement? What was Malcolm X‟s given name? The Bible called her “The Queen of Sheba”. What was the African Queen called by her people? What was the name of the Indian leader who became a model for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‟s non-violent and peaceful movement? Many rural black Kentuckians came to what city in Kentucky after the Civil War to escape white vigilante groups? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was fatally shot on the balcony of what hotel and city in 1968? In 1831, the World Anti-Slavery Convention opened in what city? Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison published what periodical in 1831? Gabriel Prosser was arrested and executed in 1800 for what reason? Which black town in New Jersey was originally named Free Haven? Who was the first African-American postmaster in Kentucky and the second in the United States? Jorno Kenyatta was a leader of what country? Which state was the first in the South to have trained African American librarians and the first to have a library training program for African American librarians in 1912? Page 32 of 72 Malcolm X Malcolm Little Makeda Mahatma Gandhi Louisville Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee London Liberator Leading a slave revolt Lawnside Laura Young Kenya Kentucky 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY QUESTION What woman, born in Hancock County, KY, became the first African American switchboard operator at the U.S. Post Office in South Bend, Indiana in 1959? What dictator secretly attended one of Marion Anderson‟s performances? What indentured servant testified at a trial of a white man in 1624 after proving was a free man because he was baptized in England in 1612? 772 History 773 History 774 History 775 History 776 History 777 History 778 History 779 History 780 History 781 History 782 History 783 History 784 History 785 History 786 787 History History What Chicago abolitionist led a 12 year campaign to abolish the Illinois Black Laws that denied Black American the right to vote? Who wrote From Slavery to Freedom , a comprehensive book on the history of Black Americans? What White abolitionist urged Frederick Douglass to join the attack on Harper‟s Ferry? Who started the Gold Medal Awards, later named for him, which recognized the highest or noblest achievement by a Black American? In the late nineteenth century there was a system of laws that enforced racial discrimination in the United States. What was it called? Who founded an economic program called “The People United to Save Humanity”? In 1984, who negotiated the release of Lieutenant Robert Goodman, a prisoner held captive in Syria? What famous Black American founded the National Rainbow Coalition and Operation PUSH? Who said, “Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst?" Who was the founder of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality? Ordained in 1854, who was the first black Roman Catholic priest and bishop in the United States? Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), founded a monthly magazine entitled Black Man in what country? Where was Marcus Garvey born? 788 History What is the significance of Fort Huachuca (Hoo´-a-chu´-ka)? 789 History What was significant about the slave ship “Amistad”? 790 History What was “Freedom Summer?” 791 History What was the purpose of the 1963 March on Washington? Page 33 of 72 ANSWER Julia E. Jackson Aikens Joseph Stalin John Phillip John Jones John Hope Franklin John Brown Joel E. Springarn Jim Crow Jesse Jackson Jesse Jackson Jesse Jackson James Weldon Johnson James Farmer James Augustine Healy Jamaica Jamaica It was the headquarters of all Black regiments including the Buffalo Soldiers for 20 years It was controlled by slave mutineers It was a campaign in the South to register black people to vote during the summer of 1964. It demanded economic and employment opportunities as well as civil rights. 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER 792 History 793 History 794 History 795 History 796 History 797 History 798 History 799 History 800 History 801 History 802 History 803 History It banned the “white primary” What was the significance of the 1944 US Supreme Court ruling which prevented Blacks in in Smith v. Allwright? the south from voting It abolished slavery in the What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation issued rebel states but not in the by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863? border states Elijah Muhammad traveled throughout the United States spreading the teachings of what religious movement? Islam What was Sojourner Truth‟s name when she was a slave in Ulster County, New York? Isabella Baumfree In 1990, Jesse Jackson negotiated the release of 300 hostages held in what country? Iraq Who lost her teaching job due to a lawsuit against her for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked “Whites Only”? Ida B. Wells What Jesse Jackson chant was repeated by his supporters with a feeling of pride? I Am Somebody Huey P. Newton and Bobby Who were the founders of the Black Panther Party? Seale As leader of the boycott organization in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his initial civil rights address at what church in Montgomery in 1955? Holt Street Baptist Church Which Presbyterian minister delivered a militant speech entitled “An Address to the Slaves of the United States” in 1843 at the National Negro Convention in Buffalo, New York? Henry Highland Garnet What happened to Denmark Vessey after he was convicted of raising an insurrection against slave owners? He was hanged He is an essayist, public speaker, social activist, Who is Cornel West? author, and professor. 804 History Why was army hero Colonel John Pershing called “Black Jack”? He commanded a Black Unit 805 History 806 History 807 History 808 History 809 History 810 History 811 History 812 History Who sang spiritual songs to communicate with slaves she intended to take north to freedom on the Underground Railroad? What New York City neighborhood was known as the “Negro capital of the world”? Nat Turner was executed on November 11, 1831, for his participation in a slave revolt. What method of execution was used? In 1961, W.E.B. Du Bois renounced his US citizenship and became a citizen of what country? Located on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, what town became the first African American community in Monroe County, KY, in 1846? In 1961 groups of black and white volunteers traveled together on bus trips in the South to test desegregation of buses and restaurants. By what name was this group known? In 1865 Congress established a relief agency to administer to the needs of former slaves. What was it called? What is the given name of Rev. Ike, the first black minister with a television show? Page 34 of 72 Harriet Tubman Harlem Hanging Ghana Freetown, Kentucky Freedom Riders Freedmen‟s Bureau Frederick Eikerenkoetter (I´keren-cotter) 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 813 814 History History 815 History 816 History 817 History QUESTION “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” was a speech delivered in Rochester, New York in 1852 by what abolitionist orator? Who is often called “The father of the Civil Rights Movement”? Born in 1916, who served as the first president of the Hopkinsville civic group Pioneers, Inc.? How many months would a slave ship usually stay on the African coast to wait for available Africans, food supplies, and the health of the Africans and crew? Who financed and built the “Emancipation Statue” in Washington, DC‟s Lincoln Park in 1879? 818 819 History History Who was Joel E. Spingharn? How many books did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. write? 820 History 821 History 822 823 History History 824 History 825 826 827 828 History History History History 829 History For what is Gloria Dean Randle Scott remembered? Frederick Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights and fought for the ratification of what amendment that guaranteed all citizens the right to vote, regardless of race? In the 1930s this federal organization compiled testimonies of over 2,500 former slaves in 17 states that were published in the 1970s. Name the organization. Black History Month is celebrated during what month? Who was the first American born Black man to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest? What religious leader set up “Peace Missions” throughout the country? Who was recognized as the “First Lady of Civil Rights”? Kwanzaa describes what African celebration? Who was the first Black American Catholic Archbishop? What was the Indian name of Chicago at the time of Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable‟s settlement? 830 History 831 History 833 834 History History 835 History 836 History 837 838 History History 839 History 840 History ANSWER Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass Francis E. Whitney Four to six months Former Slaves Former president of the NAACP Five First black president of the Girl Scouts of America Fifteenth Amendment Federal Writers Project February Father Tolton Father Divine Fannie Lou Hamer Fall Harvest Eugene A. Marino Eschikagou Escaping to Chicago via the Barney Ford, a former slave, gained his freedom by doing what? Underground Railroad Whose series Political Satires were published in the Kentucky New Era from 1908-1912? Ephraim Poston The first wife of W.C. Handy, what Kentucky native died of a brain hemorrhage at New York City's Knickerbocker Hospital due to a clerk's hour-long delay in admitting her? Elizabeth P. Handy What was Elijah Muhammad‟s given name? Elijah Poole He was born Elijah Poole. What was this Muslim leader‟s Islamic name? Elijah Muhammad Who was the spiritual leader of the Nation of Islam from 1934 to 1975? Elijah Muhammad How many Southern states seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America in 1861? Eleven Cleopatra was considered a beautiful queen of what country? Egypt What Louisville native penned three books in 1964: The Negro politician, his success and failure ; Martin Luther King: the peaceful warrior ; and The SCLC Story ? Edward T. Clayton Hartshorn Memorial College was established in the basement of Ebenezer Baptist Church (in what Baptist church in 1883? Richmond, Virginia) Page 35 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 841 History 842 History 843 History 844 845 History History 846 847 History History 848 History 849 History 850 851 History History 852 History 853 History 854 History 855 History 856 History 857 History 858 859 History History 860 History 861 History 862 History QUESTION President Richard Nixon presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 to what great musician? He became pastor of Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem in 1967. In the 1960s he was Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Who is he? Who was the first Black American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950? On January 3, 1964, who did Time Magazine name as the first Black American “Man of the Year”? Who founded the Southern Leadership Conference? He was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate of the 1950s and 1960s. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Who was he? Who received the NAACP Key of Life Award in 1988? ANSWER Duke Ellington Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker Dr. Ralph Bunche Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dorothy Height Dexter Avenue Baptist What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.‟s first church? Church Rodeos were common around the 1880s and black cowboys were a part of it. The most famous of the black cowboys was Nat Love. He was known as who? Deadwood Dick What would have been a typical dinner for frontier explorer James Beckwourth? Course grained buffalo meat What is the name of Dr. Martin Luther King‟s widow? Coretta Scott King What led to a significant exodus of African American residents Collapse of the tobacco from Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1904? market What famous Black American woman dedicated her life to finding her lost family, which had been separated by slave owners? Clara Brown The word “carpetbagger” was first used during the aftermath of what war? Civil War Key provisions of what federal legislation include Equal Employment Opportunity, Public Accommodation, Desegregation of Public Facilities, Desegregation of Public Education and Voting Rights? Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed by Congress. It Citizenship and “equal guaranteed what to the former slaves? benefits of all laws” In 1822, where did Denmark Vessey plan to launch an attack in an effort to release Blacks from bondage? Charleston, South Carolina During the transatlantic slave trade, which two cities had the Charleston and New York largest slave trade depots? City Who founded the Church of God in Christ in 1907? Charles Harrison Mason Character in popular minstrel shows of the 19th From where did the term “Jim Crow” originate? Century This historian founded many journals, among them was the Journal of Negro History in 1916. Carter G. Woodson Who is known as the “Father of Negro History” documenting African-American stories and achievements through use of innovative research approaches including legal records, diaries and oral histories – methods that have since been widely adopted by historians? Carter G. Woodson Page 36 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 863 History 864 History 865 History 866 History 867 History 868 869 History History 870 History 871 History 872 873 874 History History History 875 History 876 History 877 History 878 879 880 881 History History History History 882 History 883 History 884 History 885 History 886 History 887 History 888 History QUESTION Name the founder of the quarterly publication Journal of Negro History and Negro History Week (now Black History Month) who also established the first historical society devoted exclusively to research on the black American. Who served on the board of directors of the NAACP for 36 years? Henry Bibb was a fugitive slave narrator and journalist. He emigrated to what country? After uncovering stolen evidence and crusading for justice, Myrlie Evers-Williams was able to see whose sentencing for the murder of Medgar Evers in 1994? During the transatlantic slave trade, the largest numbers of Africans were imported to what three countries? Black revolutionary Crispus Attucks led colonial forces during what conflict in 1770? In what city is the Crispus Attucks Monument located? Who was the first black American to be depicted on a US postage stamp? A 50 cent coin was introduced in 1946 that honored what famous Black American? This man presented the speech "Atlanta's Exposition Address" at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta in 1895. Name him. What was Marcus Garvey‟s nickname? Prince Hall was the first Grand Master of what group? What slogan called for recognition of the cultural achievements of Black Americans? Who were John Horse and John Caesar? Enacted in 1865 and 1866 and restricting freed slaves from renting or purchasing property, what laws limited the movement of the freed slaves? What term referred to the large Black population in the Southern cotton growing states? Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984? Who retired as Executive Director of the NAACP in 1993? Who did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. call “My Spiritual Advisor”? For what were George Washington and Sabrien Bates remembered? What was the title of W.E.B. Du Bois‟s 1946 address delivered at the closing session of the Southern Youth Legislature? Fugitive slaves from Kentucky crossed the Ohio River and arrived into the town of Ripley, Ohio to do what? What were the holding pens which kept the enslaved Africans until they were transported called? Who was an early pioneer in Colorado and a conductor of the Underground Railroad? Who was the first black president of the prestigious legal publication Harvard Law Review ? What movement did Marcus Garvey believe to be the answer to the problems of Black Americans? Page 37 of 72 ANSWER Carter G. Woodson Carl J. Murphy Canada Byron De La Beckwith Brazil, Jamaica, and Haiti Boston Massacre Boston Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington Booker T. Washington Black Moses Black Masons Black is Beautiful Black Indians who lived with the Seminole Black Codes Black Belt Bishop Desmond Tutu Benjamin Hooks Benjamin E. Mays Being cowboys who rode with Billy the Kid Behold the Land Become free Barracoons Barney Ford Barack Hussein Obama, II Back to Africa 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 889 890 History History 891 History 892 History 893 History 894 History 895 History 896 History 897 History 898 History QUESTION What date is noted as the day when Western Kentucky African Americans learned that slavery had ended and, therefore, is a day of celebration for families in communities such as Paducah and Crofton, Kentucky? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in what city in 1929? Who helped to organize the first “Negro Baptist” church in the American colonies in Savannah, Georgia? How many people attended the historic March on Washington held on August 28, 1963? What is a slave narrative? What was the name of the first national Black convention that was organized by Richard Allen in 1830? This former slave received a degree in Theology. He was also appointed chaplain to the all-black Twenty-fourth Infantry by President Grover Cleveland in 1886. Who was he? In 1897, an organization called the American Negro Academy started under whose leadership? Who became the first Black American awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in 1940? A slave ship called “Clothilde” (Clōtilda) was the last ship to arrive in American. Where did it land? Richard Allen was the first bishop of what is now the oldest Black established church in the United States. What is the name of the church? He was a minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church, a congressman, and a civil rights advocate. Who was he? Who was the first Black minister ordained in America? It is estimated that how many Africans survived the transatlantic slave trade in the early sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century? What lawsuit, the third filed by the NAACP, was filed in Federal District Court in 1940 on behalf of an African American teacher who received 15% less salary than white teachers? ANSWER August 8 (or 8th of August) Atlanta, Georgia Andrew Bryan an estimated 250,000 people An autobiographical account dictated or written by former slaves American Society of Free Persons of Color Allen Allensworth Alexander Crummell Alain Leroy Locke Alabama African Methodist Episcopal Church 899 History 900 901 History History 902 History 904 History 905 History 906 907 History History 908 910 912 History History History 913 History a homeland in Africa A fiddle playing cowboy 6 (Mississippi 38%, Louisiana 32%, Georgia 31%, Maryland 30%, South Blacks made up more than one-fourth of the population in how Carolina 29%, and Alabama many states by July 1, 2007? 27%) How many slaves were freed at the end of the Civil War? 4 million In what three years was Harlem hit with race riots? 1935, 1943 and 1964 When was Denmark Vessey‟s army of Blacks organized to fight 1822 (forty years before the slavery? Civil War) 914 History Phillis Wheatley came to the US from west Africa at age seven or eight. How long did it take her to learn the English language? 16 months Who was Martin R. Delaney? What did Paul Cuffe want to establish for Black Americans in the early 1800s? Who was “Big Jim” Simpson? Page 38 of 72 Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Absalom Jones about ten million Abbington v Board of Education of Louisville a militant spokesman for Black liberation 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 915 History 916 History 917 History 918 919 920 921 History History History History 922 923 924 History History History 925 926 927 History History History 928 929 History History 930 931 History History 932 933 934 History History History 935 History 936 History 937 938 History History 939 940 History History 941 History 942 History 943 History 944 History QUESTION ANSWER “Free at last, free at last; thank God almighty, ….” Complete Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‟s “I Have a Dream” speech. “… we are free at last.” In what year did all 50 states recognize Martin Luther King Day? Sparked by the state court acquittal of four police officers involved in the Rodney King beating, the Los Angeles Riot were sparked in what year? In what year was a national holiday proclaimed commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.‟s birthday? The Miami Race Riot happened in what year? In what year did “Black History Month” officially begin? In what year was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated? Atlanta, Newark, Washington, D.C. and Detroit had race riots in what year? The infamous Watts race riots occurred in what year? What year was Malcolm X assassinated? In what year was Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers assassinated? The historic “March on Washington” occurred in what year? Birmingham had race riot violence in the spring of what year? What year did Jesse Gray lead 30,000 people to strike for needed apartment repairs in New York City? In what year did the “Greensboro Four” stage their first sit in? In what year did the US Supreme Court outlaw segregation of dining cars? The Congress of Racial Equality was founded in what year? In what year did Alain Leroy Locke become the first Black American to be awarded the Rhodes Scholarship? In what year was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. born? In what year was the Tulsa Race Riot? Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Longview, Texas; Knoxville, Tennessee; Omaha, Nebraska; and Elaine, Arkansas all faced race riots in what year? The NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was organized in what year with blacks and whites as members? In what year did Black attorney John Swett Rock practice before the U.S. Supreme Court? In what year did the United States abolish slavery? In what year did the Emancipation Proclamation become effective? In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law passed? In what year did Macon B. Allen become the first Black American lawyer? In what year did Congress pass the Missouri Compromise, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories? 1993 1992 1983 1980 1976 1968 1967 1965 1964 1963 1963 1963 1963 1960 1950 1942 1940 1929 1921 1919 1909 1865 1865 1863 1850 1845 1820 How old was Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was assassinated? 39 Carl J. Murphy served on the Board of Directors of the NAACP for how many years? 36 Page 39 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 945 History 946 History Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military 947 948 949 952 Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military 953 Politics & Military 954 Politics & Military 955 Politics & Military 950 951 958 Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military 959 Politics & Military 960 Politics & Military 961 Politics & Military 962 Politics & Military 963 Politics & Military 956 957 QUESTION How many trips did Harriet Tubman make to the South to rescue Black slaves? In 1910 the black population made up what percentage of the total United States population of nearly 93.5 million people? What was the first war in which blacks served in every branch of the U.S. armed forces? President Jimmy Carter honored the 761st Tank Battalion, an all black unit, for fighting in what war? In May 1941, the 758th Tank Battalion was the first African American tank battalion to fight in which war? After his service in what war was Christian County native Elder Watson Diggs instrumental in having the Indiana constitution amended to permit Negro enlistment in the Indiana National Guard? What war led Colin Powell to conclude that an army should not enter into combat unless it had a clear objective? In 1942, what branch of the U.S. armed forces became the last to admit blacks? Inducted into the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights Hall of Fame in 2005, Robert Coleman was a veteran of what branch of the U.S. armed services? ANSWER 19 10.70% World War II World War II World War II World War I Vietnam U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Air Force They were distressed over Many civil rights leaders were opposed to the war in Vietnam for the high rate of casualties what reason? among the black troops. Before the end of World War I, more than 4,000 black women had enlisted in the Army to serve in support roles. They were the Women‟s Army Corps known collectively as what? (or WAC) Born in Kentucky, Carl Maxie Brashear, the first African American Navy master diver, lost the lower part of his left leg in an accident on what naval ship? the USS Hoist Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. was the first black general of which branch of the U.S. Armed Forces? the U.S. Army The Twenty-fourth Infantry What was the largest black unit in the Korean War? Regiment What black support unit drove supplies by truck to advancing American forces and also performed yeoman service during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944? The Red Ball Express Dorie Miller, a mess man with the Navy, manned a machine gun without experience and shot down four enemy aircrafts during the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942, he was awarded what honor for this heroic action? the Navy Cross Under the command of Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the 332nd destroyed 111 planes in the air and 150 on the ground while never losing a single bomber. They were awarded what honor the Distinguished Flying for the service? Cross the Croix de Guerre, the distinguished French What awards did the French government present to the black decoration, or Legions of soldiers and their battalions for bravery and courage? Merit During the American Revolution, Black soldiers fought with which two organizations as pilots, gunner‟s mates, boatswain‟s the Continental Navy and mates, and manned the coastal galleys? the Continental Army Page 40 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 969 Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military 970 Politics & Military 964 965 966 967 968 972 Politics & Military Politics & Military 973 Politics & Military 971 976 Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military 977 Politics & Military 978 Politics & Military 974 975 983 Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military 984 Politics & Military 979 980 981 982 QUESTION The NAACP pressured President Woodrow Wilson‟s administration to establish what officer‟s training school for blacks at Fort Dodge, in Des Moines, Iowa? What was the only African American military women's unit to go overseas during World War II? Commissioned in 1943, the first group of black naval officers were known as what? What did Pompey Lamb do to help aid the American Revolutionary War effort? William H. Carney received the Congressional Medal of Honor for his participation in what war? ANSWER Who was the first Black American admiral in the US Navy? During the Civil War, he was the black pilot who sailed a Confederate steamer out of Charleston, South Carolina and delivered it to the Union Navy in 1862. Born in Kentucky, who was the first African American to die in World War II, during the bombing of Clark Field in the Philippines? Who was the only accredited Black American war correspondent in World War I? The last units of U.S. troops came home from Vietnam in the spring of 1973. Who was the president of the United States at that time? Samuel L Gravely, Jr. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, was the first black general of the Air Force. He was instrumental in getting what president to end segregation in the armed forces? What president initially rejected the service of Black slaves in the Union Army during the Civil War? World War II began in Europe when Adolf Hitler invaded what country in September 1939? Which black soldiers were with General George Washington when he crossed the Delaware River on Christmas Day in 1776? The first African American to die in World War II, Robert H. Brooks passed for white when joining what reserve military force? Who were the first African American women Army officers stationed in Kentucky? Who became the first Black American to hold the rank of major during the Civil War? What abolitionist became the highest-ranking black of the Civil War when he was commissioned as a field officer? In 1967, who became the first African American Kentucky graduate from the United States Air Force Academy? Who formed the all-black Ethiopian regiment in 1775 during the Revolutionary War? A West Point graduate and 25-year veteran of the U.S. Army, who became the first African American general post commander at Fort Knox in 1993? Page 41 of 72 The Colored Officers‟ Training Camp (or COTC) the 6888th Postal Unit the “Golden Thirteen” Spy Spanish American War Robert Smalls Robert H. Brooks Ralph Waldo Tyler President Richard M. Nixon President Harry S. Truman President Abraham Lincoln Poland Oliver Cromwell and Prince Whipple National Guard Myrtle Anderson and Margaret Elizabeth Barnes Jones Martin Delany Major Martin R. Delany Lt. Col. (Ret.) Thomas Lee Cunningham Lord Dunmore Larry Jordan 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 986 CATEGORY Politics & Military Politics & Military 987 Politics & Military 985 989 Politics & Military Politics & Military 990 Politics & Military 991 Politics & Military 988 992 993 994 995 996 997 998 999 Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & 1000 Military Politics & 1001 Military Politics & 1002 Military Politics & 1003 Military Politics & 1004 Military Politics & 1005 Military QUESTION During what war did PFC William Thompson receive his Congressional Medal of Honor? Who won the French Legion of Honor award for her work in entertaining the Work War II allies? What Black American sailor won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Civil War Battle, the Battle of Mobile Bay at Ft. Gaines? ANSWER Korean War Josephine Baker John Lawson Born in Paducah, KY, who was the first African American to receive a regular commission in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1948? John E. Rudder Who was the Confederate president during the Civil War? Nominated by Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper at the age of 19, who was the first African American from Kentucky to be named to West Point Military Academy? Transferred to the 758th Tank Battalion after an incident in which he refused to move to the back of a civilian bus, he was one of the more notable members of the first United States Army armored unit to be made up of African American soldiers. Name him. Who was the first Black American to graduate from West Point Military Academy and later became an advisor to the U.S. Government? Who was the first Black American to attend the US Naval Academy? What US President ended segregation in the US Armed Forces by issuing an Executive Order? Jefferson Davis Who served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Army? Who was responsible for securing equal rights for Black Troops during the Civil War? Which Union general is credited with burning Atlanta during the Civil War? In 1864 President Lincoln appointed this general as commander in chief of all Union forces. Who was he? Harriet Tubman Who was the commander in chief of the Confederate Army? Although it was immediately disbanded, this general formed the First South Carolina Volunteer Regiment for blacks in 1862. Name him. What was the name of the fort where Confederate soldiers attacked federal troops on April 12, 1861? Who was the first Black American woman doctor in the US Navy? Who was the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the third highest honor awarded by the US Navy at the time, for bravery shown during the attack on Pearl Harbor? What African American naval cook shot down four enemy planes during the attack on Pearl Harbor? General Robert E. Lee Which four states were border states during the Civil War? Page 42 of 72 James Phillips Holland Jackie Robinson Henry Flipper Henry Conyers Harry S. Truman George T. Downing General William T. Sherman General Ulysses S. Grant General David Hunter Fort Sumter, South Carolina Dr. Donna P. Davis Doris Miller Dorie Miller Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY Politics & 1006 Military 1007 1008 1009 1010 Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & 1011 Military Politics & 1013 Military Politics & 1014 Military Politics & 1015 Military Politics & 1016 Military Politics & 1017 Military Politics & 1018 Military Politics & 1019 Military Politics & 1020 Military Politics & 1021 Military Politics & 1022 Military Politics & 1023 Military Politics & 1024 Military Politics & 1025 Military Politics & 1026 Military Politics & 1027 Military Politics & 1028 Military Politics & 1029 Military QUESTION Who was the first Black American four star general in US military history? A casualty of the Boston Massacre in 1770, what was the name of the Boston fugitive slave who was called the first martyr of the American Revolution? Who was the first Black American to die in the Revolutionary War? During the Korean War, the Navy had 65% of black soldiers in the Steward‟s Branch where they worked as what? In 1863 the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment consisted of free blacks of the North led by what white abolitionist? What author of My American Journey commanded the 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY in 1976? To what position was Colin Powell appointed, making him the highest ranking military officer? Who was the first African American master diver in the U.S. Navy, the only amputee deep-sea diver to attain that level? On September 2, 1941 who became the first black officer to fly an aircraft alone? Established by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime allblack regiments in the regular U.S. Army, what soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas? What main parade ground in Fort Knox is named in honor of Robert Brooks, the first African American to die in World War II? In April, 1775, blacks in the military fought alongside their white counterparts in what American Revolution battles? Peter Salem was a freed slave who fought in many battles of the Revolutionary War. In June 1775 he shot Major John Pitcairn, a British leader, during what battle? Doris Miller responded quickly during what attack, making him the first American hero of World War II? Roscoe Robinson, Jr. served as a Four Star General in what branch of the military? ANSWER Daniel James, Jr. Crispus Attucks Crispus Attucks Cooks and waiters Colonel Robert Gould Shaw Colin Powell Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Carl Maxie Brashear Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Buffalo Soldiers Brooks Field Battles of Lexington and Concord Battle of Bunker Hill Attack on Pearl Harbor Army Oliver Cromwell was a well-known freedom fighter in what war? American Revolution After the Confederates When did Robert E. Lee encourage the recruitment of Blacks? suffered huge loses During the Civil War, Frederick Douglass served as an adviser to what US President? Abraham Lincoln General Benjamin Butler of the Union Army refused to return runaway slaves to their masters. What term did he use to describe them? “Contraband of war” By when did the last all-black U.S. armed forces unit disbanded? June 1952 Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr. became the first black four-star general in what year? 1975 In what year did the U.S. Navy commission its first group of black officers? 1944 In what year did the War Department grant equal pay for white and black soldiers after many protests? 1864 Page 43 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY Politics & 1030 Military Politics & 1031 Military Politics & 1032 Military Politics & 1033 Military Politics & 1034 Military Politics & 1035 Military Politics & 1036 Military Politics & 1037 Military Politics & 1038 Military Politics & 1039 Military Politics & 1040 Military Politics & 1041 Military Politics & 1042 Military Politics & 1043 Military Politics & 1044 Military Politics & 1045 Military Politics & 1046 Military Politics & 1047 Military Politics & 1048 Military Politics & 1049 Military Politics & 1050 Military Politics & 1051 Military QUESTION ANSWER Black Americans were authorized to enlist in the US Navy in what year? 1861 How many Black Americans received the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Civil War? 23 Young – Detroit (Michigan). Coleman Young and Thomas Bradley were elected mayors of Bradley – Los Angeles which cities in 1973? (California) Born in 1947, who became the first African American judge to serve on the Louisville District Court in 1978? William E. McAnulty, Jr. Watergate break-in What did security guard Frank Willis discover in 1972? Washington, D.C. In 1991 Sharon Pratt Kelly was the first black woman to become mayor of what major city? Washington, D.C. L. Douglas Wilder, was elected the first Black American governor of what state in 1989? Virginia What was the first Black American female lawyer to practice before the Supreme Court? Violette M. Anderson Who ruled the “separate but equal” doctrine invalid in 1954? John Mercer Langston was the first Black American elected to Congress from Virginia. To what office was he elected? Robert Poston was assistant secretary-general of what organization when went to Liberia in 1924 and died of pneumonia on his return trip to the U.S.? The first black elected to the Kentucky legislature, Charles W. Anderson was also appointed alternate delegate to what body? What constitutional amendment prohibited the requirement of a poll tax or any other tax for the privilege to vote? Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court? President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed what attorney as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court? What provision written in 1787 was included in the U.S. Constitution? This amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States". After initially being rejected by the House of Representatives, this amendment passed and was ratified in 1865, outlawing slavery. This amendment was Blanche Bruce went on to become the first black elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate. Who elected him? Ratified in 1870, what Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the federal government and states from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a slave as a qualification for voting? What Christian County, KY, magisterial district has been served by Black magistrates since it was formed in 1905? For what state did Barbara Jordan serve as state senator and U.S. congresswoman? In 1986 Eddie Bernice Johnson was elected to the U.S. Senate. She also served as secretary of the Congressional Black Caucus. What state did she represent? Page 44 of 72 US Supreme Court US House of Representatives Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) United Nations Twenty-fourth Thurgood Marshall Thurgood Marshall Three-fifths of all slaves counted for representation The Thirteenth Amendment The Mississippi Legislature the Fifteenth Amendment the 1st District Texas Texas 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 1052 1053 1054 1055 1056 CATEGORY Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & 1057 Military Politics & 1058 Military Politics & 1059 Military Politics & 1060 Military Politics & 1061 Military 1062 1063 1064 1065 1066 Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & 1067 Military Politics & 1068 Military Politics & 1069 Military Politics & 1070 Military Politics & 1071 Military Politics & 1072 Military Politics & 1073 Military QUESTION In 1916, who was re-elected for the third time as Magistrate of the 1st District of Christian County? Who was the first magistrate elected to serve residents of the First Magisterial District in Christian County? What African American currently serves as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations? U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis led his civil rights movement through what organization? In 1999, President Clinton named the first African American U.S. Attorney in Kentucky. Name him. During the Reconstruction Era, twenty blacks served in the House of Representatives, eight of whom were from what state. How many blacks served in the U.S. Congress during the Reconstruction era? In 1972, who became the first woman candidate for President of the United States? After an early childhood spent in Barbabos and a successful career as a teacher, she was elected to the New York Assembly. She then became the first black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress where she worked for 13 years. Name her. Bill Dillard became the first African American in Kentucky elected to what office in 1981? Who was Fannie Lou Hamer? In 1990, who was elected mayor of Washington DC, becoming the first Black American woman mayor of a major US city? With 20 years' service, who was the longest serving African American member of the Kentucky General Assembly? What was Robert Weaver‟s title when he became a presidential cabinet member? Who was the first Black American Chosen to lead a major political party? He was the first black to serve as chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1989. He was also the first black U.S. secretary of commerce. What was his name? Who was the first Black American member of a presidential cabinet? Who became a justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1972? Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, this civil rights activist was the first African American president of the Paducah Local of the National Association of Letter Carriers and Mayor Pro Tem for 6 years. Name him. Many blacks held political offices in the South during Reconstruction as members of what political party? Who advanced legislation to make Juneteenth (June 19), the celebration of the freedom of African American slaves, a holiday in Kentucky? What president swore in, Robert Weaver, the first black member of a presidential cabinet,Page in 1966? 45 of 72 ANSWER T. H. Moore T. H. Moore Susan Rice Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Steven S. Reed South Carolina Sixteen Shirley Chisholm Shirley Chisholm Sheriff She was a civil rights advocate who helped register black people to vote in Mississippi. Sharon Pratt Kelly Senator Georgia Powers Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ronald Brown Ronald Brown Robert Weaver Robert N.C. Nix, Jr. Robert Alfonzo Coleman Republican Representative Reginald Meeks President Lyndon B. Johnson 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY Politics & 1074 Military Politics & 1075 Military Politics & 1076 Military Politics & 1077 Military Politics & 1078 Military Politics & 1079 Military Politics & 1080 Military Politics & 1081 Military 1082 1083 1084 1085 1086 1087 1088 Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & 1089 Military Politics & 1090 Military Politics & 1091 Military Politics & 1092 Military Politics & 1093 Military Politics & 1094 Military Politics & 1095 Military Politics & 1096 Military QUESTION On June 12, 1963 what president delivered a nationwide television address that outlined a proposition to Congress that would prohibit segregation in public facilities and schools? In 1994, which president named Eddie Jordan, Jr. as the first African American to hold the post of U.S. Attorney in the state of Louisiana? What president vetoed the Freedmen‟s Bureau bill and the Civil Rights bill? Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to be elected to Congress. She also campaigned for what office in 1972? What 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld racial segregation in its “separate but equal” doctrine? Selected by Governor Paul Patton to serve as Circuit Court Judge in 1999, who became the first African American woman appointed to the bench in Kentucky? ANSWER In 1871 who became the first Black American governor? Shirley Chisholm was elected to the House of Representatives to represent what state? One of the first two African Americans to practice law in the Louisville courts, who was the first African American judge in Kentucky? What landmark Supreme Court ruling required all railroad companies to provide equal accommodations for Blacks? What candidate defeated Jesse Jackson in the 1988 Democratic Presidential race? Who led voter registration efforts in Mississippi in the late 1960s? On November 7, 1967, Carl B. Stokes and Richard Hatcher were elected to what office? In 1973 James Dulin became the first African American man appointed to what office in Earlington, Kentucky? He became Atlanta‟s first and youngest black mayor in 1974, a position he held for three terms. Name him. P.B.S. Pinchback In 1997 she became the third woman to chair the Congressional Black Caucus. Who is this Congresswoman from California? In 1865 John S. Rock became the first black admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. His practice was in what state? What Black American educator also served as an advisor to five U.S. presidents? Who served as Director of Minority Affairs for President Roosevelt? Who was the first Black American lawyer to be admitted to the bar? Who was the first Black American municipal judge? President John F. Kennedy President Bill Clinton President Andrew Johnson President Plessy v. Ferguson Pamela R. Goodwine New York Nathaniel R. Harper Mitchell v. US Interstate Commerce Act Michael Dukakis Medgar Evers Mayor Mayor Maynard Jackson, Jr. Maxine Waters Massachusetts Mary McLeod Bethune Mary McLeod Bethune Macon B. Allen M.W. Gibbs Who appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court? Lyndon B. Johnson In 1987, who became the first African American woman to serve on the Hopkinsville, KY, City Council? Luevenia Watkins Page 46 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY Politics & 1097 Military Politics & 1098 Military Politics & 1099 Military Politics & 1100 Military Politics & 1101 Military Politics & 1102 Military Politics & 1103 Military Politics & 1104 Military Politics & 1106 Military Politics & 1107 Military Politics & 1108 Military Politics & 1109 Military Politics & 1110 Military Politics & 1111 Military Politics & 1112 Military Politics & 1113 Military Politics & 1114 Military Politics & 1115 Military Politics & 1116 Military Politics & 1117 Military Politics & 1118 Military Politics & 1119 Military QUESTION ANSWER P.B.S. Pinchback became the first black governor in U.S. history, lieutenant governor and served in the U.S. Senate. What state did he represent? Louisiana What test was given to potential Black voters to determine whether they understood the U.S. Constitution and could read? Literacy test Who was the first elected Black American governor in Virginia? In 2005, William E. McAnulty, Jr., became the first African American to serve on what Kentucky court? In his speech at the Democratic Convention in 1984, Rev. Jesse Jackson‟s dramatic call was to do what? A celebration of the freedom of African American slaves, Kentucky Representative Reginald Meeks led the push for the creation of what holiday in Kentucky? What Black American was a vice presidential candidate at the 1968 Democratic National Convention? Who was the first Black American elected to the US House of Representatives? Who was the first Black American to preside over a national political convention? In 1888, this great-uncle of writer Langston Hughes became the first Black American elected to Congress from Virginia. Name him. Who was the founder of the National Democratic Party in Alabama? In 1960, Andrew Hatcher was named Associate Press Secretary to what US President? In 1976, Barbara Jordan gave a rousing keynote address at the Democratic National Convention for what US presidential candidate? What U.S. President appointed Andrew Young Ambassador to the United Nations? In 1983, this minister announced his candidacy for president of the Democratic Party. Name him. Who was the United States ambassador to Sweden from 1970 to 1972? In 1867, an interracial jury was selected in Richmond, Virginia to try the case of what former Confederacy president? L. Douglas Wilder Kentucky Supreme Court Keep hope alive Juneteenth National Freedom Day Julian Bond Joseph H. Rainey John Roy Lynch John Mercer Langston John L Cashin, Jr. John F. Kennedy Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter Jesse Jackson Jerome Holland Jefferson Davis Hiram Revels, the first black elected to serve in the U.S. Senate in 1870, was selected to fill in the unexpired term of whom? Jefferson Davis Who was the second African American mayor in Kentucky? What Christian County native worked in the coal mines and became the first African American elected to the Earlington, KY, City Council in 1972? He became the first African American since 1897 to represent South Carolina in the U.S. Congress. Name him. Appointed by Governor Steve Beshear in 2007, who was the first African American to be appointed Secretary of the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet? Page 47 of 72 James W. Dulin James W. Dulin James Clyburn J. Michael Brown 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY Politics & 1120 Military Politics & 1121 Military Politics & 1122 Military Politics & 1123 Military Politics & 1124 Military Politics & 1125 Military Politics & 1126 Military Politics & 1127 Military Politics & 1128 Military Politics & 1129 Military Politics & 1130 Military Politics & 1131 Military Politics & 1132 Military Politics & 1133 Military Politics & 1134 Military Politics & 1135 Military Politics & 1136 Military Politics & 1137 Military Politics & 1138 Military Politics & 1139 Military Politics & 1140 Military Politics & 1141 Military QUESTION Who was the first Black American female judge in the United States? Born in Hopkinsville, KY, who, in 1972, had held public office longer than any other African American elected official in Kentucky? In 1964, Carl T. Rowan was named Director of what US agency? In 1996 Jesse Jackson, Jr. became a U.S. representative from what state? Carol Moseley-Braun was one of six women who was sworn in to the 103rd Congress on January 3, 1993. What state did she represent? Barack Obama was a keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and later won a U.S. Senate seat in what state? ANSWER Who was the first Black American senator in Congress? Richard Hatcher and Carl Stokes were among the first two blacks to be elected mayor of which major U.S. cities in 1967? Hiram Revels Hatcher – Gary, Indiana and Stokes – Cleveland, Ohio In 1983 who became the first black mayor of Chicago, Illinois? Elected to represent Senate District 33 of Jefferson County, who was the first African American man elected to the Kentucky The first African American to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky and the first African American to run for mayor of Atlanta, Horace Tate was elected to what body in 1974? Serving five four-year terms, who was the first African American and first woman in the Kentucky Senate? Elected in Washington County in 1973, who became the first African American jailer in Kentucky? What U.S. President developed a coalition of Black advisors call the Black Cabinet? In 1969 James Evers was elected the first black mayor of a Mississippi town since Reconstruction. Name the town. Pamela R. Goodwine served as Circuit Court Judge beginning in 1999 in what Kentucky county? Born in Florida, who became the first African American chief prosecutor in Kentucky when he was elected Commonwealth Attorney in 1987? In 2009, who became the first African American U.S. attorney general and head of the Justice Department and its 110,000 employees? Re-elected continuously until 1907, who was the first African American elected to Hopkinsville City Council beginning in 1885? In January 1967 what Republican was the first black to be elected to the Senate for a full term since Reconstruction? Who was the first Black American to be appointed as a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations? Appointed to fill a vacancy in 1974 and later elected, who was the only African American woman in Kentucky holding a city council post in 1977? Harold Washington Page 48 of 72 J. Matilda Bolin J. Daniel S. Massie Information Agency Illinois Illinois Illinois Gerald A. Neal Georgia State Senate Georgia D. Powers George Melwood Hocker Franklin D. Roosevelt Fayette, Mississippi Fayette County Ernest A. Jasmin, Sr. Eric H. Holder Jr. Edward Glass Edward Brooke Edith Sampson Dorothy Morrow 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 1142 1143 1144 1145 1146 1147 1148 CATEGORY Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & 1149 Military Politics & 1150 Military Politics & 1151 Military Politics & 1152 Military Politics & 1153 Military Politics & 1154 Military Politics & 1155 Military Politics & 1156 Military 1157 1158 1159 1160 Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & 1161 Military Politics & 1162 Military Politics & 1163 Military QUESTION In 2002, Eddie Jordan, Jr. became the first African American elected to what position in New Orleans, Louisiana? Who became New York City‟s first black mayor on January 1, 1990? Who was the first Black American woman elected to a state legislature? Who was the first Black American female national security advisor? ANSWER Who was the first Black American national security advisor? Colin Powell District Attorney David Dinkins Crystal Bird Fauset Condoleezza Rice Who was President Ronald Reagan‟s national security advisor? Colin Powell Who was the first Black American to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Colin Powell Who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 1989 and appointed as Secretary of State in 2001 in President George W. Bush‟s first term? Colin Powell Who was the first Black American mayor of Detroit? When Thurgood Marshall retired from the U.S. Supreme Court, who was appointed to fill his position? Ratified in 1868, what did the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution grant? This city in Ohio elected three black mayors between 1972 and 1991. Name it. Harold Washington became what city‟s first Black mayor? Who was the first Black American woman to be elected to the 20th Century Club of Boston? Coleman Young Clarence Thomas Citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States Cincinnati Chicago Charlotte Hawkins Brown Who was the first Black American female lawyer? Charlotte E. Ray Born in Louisville, KY, this graduate of Wilberforce University received his law degree from Howard University School of Law. He was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives, making him the first African American Kentucky legislator. Name him. Charles W. Anderson, Jr. Who was the first Black American female senator to Congress? Carol E. Mosley Braun Who was the first Black mayor of a major US city? In May 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a monumental decision in what famous case? A mischievous child, Thurgood Marshall was forced to read the U.S. Constitution as punishment and, by high school, had it memorized. As lawyer for the NAACP, before his appointment as the first black Supreme Court justice, he argued and won what case challenging public school segregation? Who was the first former Black Panther Party member elected to Congress representing Illinois‟s 1st Congressional District? Who was the first Black American to serve a full term in the US Senate? Page 49 of 72 Carl B. Stokes Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Bobby Rush Blanche Bruce 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY Politics & 1164 Military Politics & 1165 Military Politics & 1166 Military Politics & 1167 Military Politics & 1168 Military Politics & 1169 Military Politics & 1170 Military Politics & 1171 Military Politics & 1172 Military Politics & 1173 Military Politics & 1174 Military Politics & 1175 Military Politics & 1176 Military 1177 1178 1179 1180 1181 1182 1183 1184 Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & Military Politics & 1185 Military QUESTION ANSWER What militant group embodied the term “Black Power”? This candidate won her first city council race in 1983 at the age of 70. After going on to win 10 re-elections, who became the oldest elected and serving official in Kentucky? Why did the U.S. Supreme Court rule for a new trial in the “Scottsboro case”? She was the first woman to be elected to the Senate in Texas and the first Southern black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress. Name her. What is the name of the first Black American woman to give the keynote address at a national political convention? Inaugurated as the 44th president on January 20, 2009, who became the first African American president of the United States? Maynard Jackson became the first Black American mayor of what city? After serving as city council member from 1972-1983, who was elected mayor of Earlington, KY, in 1984? This former mayor of Atlanta in the 1980s was appointed US Ambassador to the United Nations in 1977. Name him. Who was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1977 to 1979? Civil rights activist and Cassius Clay's first attorney, who became the first African American woman prosecutor in Kentucky in 1964? Shortly after becoming the first woman prosecutor in 1964, what former civil rights activist's August 1965 murder case remains unsolved? Elected to Congress in 1944, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. also became pastor of what Harlem church? Barbara Jordan was a member of the 1974 House Judiciary Committee chosen to hear Watergate testimony which led to the resignation of what US President? Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher were elected as mayor's of US cities on what date? Condoleezza Rice was appointed by President George W. Bush as the first black female Secretary of State in what year? In what year did Thurgood Marshall retire from the US Supreme Court? Gerald Neal, the first African American man elected to the Kentucky Senate was first elected in what year? In what year did Jesse Jackson run for President of the United States? In what year was Thurgood Marshall, becoming its first black justice, nominated to the US Supreme Court? In what year was Robert Weaver sworn in as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development? Blanche K. Bruce was born a slave. He became the first black to be elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate. In what year was he elected to the Senate? Black Panther Party Page 50 of 72 Bernice Dickerson Because blacks were excluded from the jury Barbara Jordan Barbara Jordan Barack Hussein Obama, II Atlanta Arthur T. Johnson Andrew Young Andrew Young Alberta Odell Jones Alberta Odell Jones Abyssinian Baptist Church Richard M. Nixon November 7, 1967 2005 1991 1990 1988 1967 1966 1874 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY Politics & 1186 Military Politics & 1187 Military Politics & 1188 Military Politics & 1189 Military Science & 1190 Exploration 1191 1192 1193 1194 1195 Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & 1196 Exploration Science & 1197 Exploration Science & 1198 Exploration Science & 1199 Exploration Science & 1200 Exploration Science & 1201 Exploration Science & 1202 Exploration Science & 1203 Exploration Science & 1204 Exploration Science & 1205 Exploration Science & 1206 Exploration Science & 1207 Exploration QUESTION Born in 1900, for how many years did Hopkinsville native J. Daniel Massie serve as magistrate of the First Magisterial District in Christian County? For how many years did F.E. Whitney serve as a member of Hopkinsville City Council? Bernice Dickerson, the oldest elected and serving official in Kentucky, won how many city council elections? For how many terms was T. H. Moore elected to serve as magistrate of the First Magisterial District in Christian County? Who invented a patent for his invention of a mass release mechanism for satellites? In 1803 the Lewis and Clark expedition explored the Louisiana Territory. Which of the two brought along his slave? Name the slave. What scientist experimented with injections of Vitamin C in cats and dogs in order to find a cure for epilepsy? What system did Robert Shurney develop that was used aboard a Skylab space mission? ANSWER Who invented the riding saddle for horses? What Black American physician was referred to as “The principal historian of the Negro in medicine” in 1970? St. Elmo Brady, the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in America, received his degree from what school in 1916? W.D. David 27 21 11 3 Wilson Hull William Clark. He took his slave, York. Wendell Belfield Waste management system W. Montague Cobb University of Illinois Prior to Joseph Lee‟s bread making invention, how many people were needed to produce the same amount of loaves per day? Twelve Where was George Washington Carver‟s laboratory? These black soldiers were trained to become pilots in World War II. They were mostly assigned to Italy where they destroyed enemy planes. Who were they? Donald E. Jefferson invented what mechanism used by construction crews? What was the name of Paul Cuffe‟s ship, which made an expedition to Africa? What famous inventor did Lewis Latimer work with in the development of the electric light bulb? Tuskegee Institute, Alabama What measuring instrument was invented by Frederick Jones? Thermostat What famous dermatologist treated leprosy and syphilis? What famous aviator brothers helped promote Paul Laurence Dunbar‟s poetry and became his good friend? A pediatrician and founder of what medical facility, Grace Marilynn James was the first African American woman member of the Jefferson County Medical Society and the first African American woman admitted to the University of Louisville School of Medicine? Used by the 99th Pursuit Squadron, also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, Tuskegee Institute established what training program for black pilots? Page 51 of 72 Theodore K. Lawless Tuskegee Airmen Triggered exploding wire device Traveler Thomas Edison The Wright Brothers the West Louisville Medical Center The Tuskegee Army Air Field 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY Science & 1208 Exploration Science & 1209 Exploration Science & 1210 Exploration Science & 1211 Exploration Science & 1212 Exploration Science & 1213 Exploration Science & 1214 Exploration Science & 1215 Exploration Science & 1216 Exploration Science & 1217 Exploration Science & 1218 Exploration Science & 1219 Exploration Science & 1220 Exploration Science & 1221 Exploration Science & 1222 Exploration Science & 1223 Exploration Science & 1224 Exploration Science & 1225 Exploration Science & 1226 Exploration Science & 1227 Exploration Science & 1228 Exploration Science & 1229 Exploration Science & 1230 Exploration Science & 1231 Exploration QUESTION Lewis Latimer prepared the drawings for what invention patented by Alexander Graham Bell? ANSWER What did Benjamin Banneker‟s book Almanac examine? The sun, moon, and planets The space shuttle that Dr. McNair and six other astronauts were in exploded after takeoff in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Dr. Ronald McNair was a black astronaut who made his first space shuttle mission in 1984. Unfortunately, his last space mission was never completed. What happened to him and his crew members on January 28, 1986? What did Elijah McCoy patent in 1872 that drastically improved the speed and efficiency of industrial machinery? The telephone The lubricator cup What was Leonard Julien‟s sugar cane planter invention called? The Julien Planter Who invented the common dust mop? In 1872, what inventor received a patent for an apparatus for detaching horses for carriages? Dr. William Hinton is credited with developing a test to detect what disease? What did George Washington Carver use to develop postage stamp glue? Who was the first female Black American to enter the medical profession? Who was the first African American cave explorer and the first guide and explorer of Mammoth Cave, the world's longest cave system? Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States? Dr. Percy L. Julian achieved his accomplishments in what occupation? The Stargell Foundation is recognized for what area of research? Philadelphia and Massachusetts cobbler, Jan E. Matzeliger invented what? At the age of fifteen, Elijah McCoy traveled to what country in order to study engineering? The ironing board was invented by what Black American woman? Who was the first Black American member of the US Atomic Energy Commission? What invention made James Forten one of the wealthiest men in America? T.W. Steward T.J. Boyd Syphilis Sweet potatoes Susan McKinney Stephen Bishop St. Elmo Brady Soybean chemist Sickle Cell Anemia Shoe lasting machine Scotland Sarah Boone Samuel Nabrit Sail controls for ships What Black American invented an exhaust purifier? Rufus Stokes Matthew Henson traveled with what famous explorer during the expedition to the North Pole? Robert Peary Who invented the automatic car washer? Richard Spikes What noted inventor patented an improvement for the automatic gearshift? Richard Spikes Who invented directional signals for the automobile? Page 52 of 72 Richard Spike 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 1232 1233 1234 1235 CATEGORY Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & 1236 Exploration Science & 1237 Exploration Science & 1238 Exploration Science & 1239 Exploration Science & 1240 Exploration Science & 1241 Exploration Science & 1242 Exploration Science & 1243 Exploration Science & 1244 Exploration Science & 1245 Exploration Science & 1246 Exploration Science & 1247 Exploration Science & 1248 Exploration Science & 1249 Exploration Science & 1250 Exploration Science & 1251 Exploration Science & 1252 Exploration Science & 1253 Exploration Science & 1254 Exploration Science & 1255 Exploration Science & 1256 Exploration QUESTION ANSWER Who was the first black female awarded a medical degree? Rebecca Lee Crumpier Who was the first Black American woman doctor? Rebecca Lee Who patented the envelope seal in 1897? R.W. Leslie What Black American inventor received a patent for the guitar? R.F. Fleming Mary Eliza Merritt, the first African American nurse licensed in Kentucky, was awarded a certificate of merit from what U.S. President? President Woodrow Wilson Hyram S. Thomas was a chef who created what popular snack? Potato chip Shirley Ann Jackson was the first Black American to earn a PhD from M.I.T. in what subject? Physics Owner and operator of Brooks Memorial Hospital, Phillip C. Brooks served in what capacities? Physician and surgeon Who invented the disposable syringe? St. Elmo Brady was the first African American admitted to what chemistry honor society? What was the profession of Garland H. Brooks, Hopkinsville native and Howard University graduate? George Washington Carver made paint and ink from what common food item? What did George Washington Carver use to develop shaving cream, paper, ink, rubbing oil, synthetic rubber, and instant coffee? What Black American designed homes for celebrities such as Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra? Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African American female Sloan Fellow at MIT? Who developed the first airborne radar system that was used for locating downed aircraft? Phil Brooks Who invented the control unit for the artificial heart stimulator? What breakthrough medical procedure was performed by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams? Matthew Henson was with the first expedition to reach what destination? Otis Boykin What engineer from New Orleans patented the sugar refinery? What Black American invented an inexpensive method of refining sugar? What father and son team served as guides at Mammoth Cave for 49 and 19 years respectively? In what city was Robert Rillieux, inventor and scientist born in 1806? In 1978, Ronald McNair was accepted by NASA for its astronaut candidate program. What is NASA‟s full name? What famous cowboy involved in gun battles with bandits and Indians earned the nickname “Deadwood Dick” for his expert marksmanship? Page 53 of 72 Norbert Rillieux Phi Lambda Upsilon Pharmacist Peanuts Peanuts Paul Williams Patricia Garrison-Corbin Ozzie Williams Open heart surgery North Pole Norbert Rillieux Nick and Matt Bransford New Orleans National Aeronautics and Space Administration Nat Love 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY Science & 1257 Exploration 1258 1259 1260 1261 1262 1263 1264 1265 1266 1267 1268 1269 1270 1271 1272 Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & 1273 Exploration Science & 1274 Exploration Science & 1275 Exploration Science & 1276 Exploration Science & 1277 Exploration Science & 1278 Exploration Science & 1279 Exploration Science & 1280 Exploration QUESTION ANSWER Where is Meharry Medical College located? George Washington Carver‟s mule-drawn wagon often went to area farmers to teach them about improving crop yields. What was this wagon called? Nashville, Tennessee What did J.R. Pickering patent in 1900? As a member of the Challenger space shuttle team, what was Dr. Ronald McNair‟s responsibility? Modified airship Who published the Black American medical journal in 1892? Who is responsible for inventing the method of converting gas into electricity? James Glass, Hopkinsville native and long-time Henderson doctor, received his medical degree from what school in 1906? Miles Vandahurst Lynk What was the name of the first all Black Medical school? In 1909 what black explorer accompanied Admiral Robert Peary to the North Pole? Meharry Medical College Who was the first man to discover the North Pole? What explorer departed fro a famous expedition aboard the ship “Roosevelt” on July 6, 1908? Who provided life-saving heroics to help his group of explorers reach the North Pole? Who was first woman assigned by the US Navy to study underwater acoustics? Who was the first Black American professionally trained as a registered nurse in the United States? Born in 1881, who was the first African American nurse licensed in Kentucky? Earnest Everett Just, a biologist, was known for what type of research? Born in Bowling Green, KY, what aerospace engineer with IBM and Westinghouse went on to become the first African American woman to become dean at a major southern law school and one of the first African American female law professors in the United States? Matthew Henson What black female inventor patented a home security system? At age 18, Stephen Bishop was sold to Dr. John Croghan along with what in 1839 ? Born a slave, Stephen Bishop, the first African American cave explorer made a published map of what cave? Who was the first Black American to pilot a space shuttle mission? What Black American woman used the trial and error method to invent hair care products in 1905? Sarah Breedlove Walker developed special hair care products for black women. Among them was the hot comb. By what name she was known? Marie Brown Who invented the burglar alarm?Page 54 of 72 Louis Alexander Moveable School Mission Science Specialist Meredith Gourdine Meharry Medical College Matthew Henson Matthew Henson Matthew Henson Mary Middleton Mary Mahoney Mary Eliza Merritt Marine eggs Marilyn V. Yarbrough Ainsworth Mammouth Cave Mammouth Cave Major Frederick D. Gregory Madam C.J. Walker Madam C.J. Walker 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 1281 1282 1283 1284 CATEGORY Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & 1285 Exploration 1286 1287 1288 1289 1290 1291 1292 1293 1294 Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & 1295 Exploration Science & 1296 Exploration Science & 1297 Exploration Science & 1298 Exploration Science & 1299 Exploration Science & 1300 Exploration Science & 1301 Exploration Science & 1302 Exploration Science & 1303 Exploration Science & 1304 Exploration QUESTION Paul Williams served as co-architect for what major international airport? Who was the first Black American astronaut to fly in space? Who prepared the blueprints for Alexander Graham Bell‟s telephone? What Black American inventor worked for both General Electric and Westinghouse? Who became the only Black American member of the famous “Edison Pioneers,” a group of people who had worked with Edison before 1885? Resigning in 1940, who was the last African American guide for Mammoth Cave, eight years before the cave was turned over to the federal government? ANSWER Los Angeles Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr. Lewis Latimer Lewis Latimer Lewis Latimer Lewis Bransford Who designed and patented the dustpan? L.P. Ray Who invented the folding bed? Who invented the bread crumbing machine and the breadmaking machine? The Holland Tunnel was designed and constructed by what Black American? James Beckwourth became chief scout for what explorer in 1848? L.C. Bailey Who invented the electron microscope? What Black slave helped Cyrus McCormick invent his famous reaper? What important railway coupling device did Andrew J. Beard invent? The son of a slave and French pirate's mate, what Haitian frontier explorer became a wealthy businessman, owning a large home, stable, barn, smokehouse, workshop, dairy, and trading post? John Coleman Who made the first practical shoe-making machine? Jan Matzeliger Who patented corrosion resistant alloy steels? Born in Hopkinsville, this physician and surgeon practiced in Henderson, Kentucky, for 50 years. Name him. Who invented the device that made it easier to handle the sails of large ships? Who was the first accredited Black American physician in the United States? What Black American became General John C. Freemont‟s chief scout in 1848? James Parsons Joseph Lee Joseph L. Parker John Freemont Joe Anderson Jenny Coupler Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable James G. Glass James Forten James Derham James Beckwourth Who patented a means of propulsion for airplanes in 1920? James Adams What was the name of the crude sugar refining process Norbert Rillieux‟s invention made obsolete? Jamaica Train What famous sports figure received a patent on an improved monkey wrench? Jack Johnson Page 55 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 1305 1306 1307 1308 1309 1310 1311 1312 1313 1314 1315 1316 1317 1318 1319 1320 1321 1322 1323 1324 1325 1326 1327 1328 1329 1330 CATEGORY Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration QUESTION ANSWER Who revolutionized the baking industry with the invention of the dough roller? J.W. Reed Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration What Attucks High School graduate, founded Kirkwood General Hospital, the last Black hospital to close in Detroit Michigan? Guy Otha Saulsberry Who invented the pencil sharpener? J.L. Love Who invented the lawn mower? J.A. Burr Who invented the oil stove and the refrigerator? What was the significance of Granville T. Woods “telephone transmitter,” which he invented in 1884? What common saying refers to a famous Black American inventor? J. Standard It carried voices longer distances What household item was invented by Sarah Boone? Darnley E. Howard, Sr. and Darnley M. Howard, Jr., father and son, shared what same profession? Ironing board Is it the real McCoy? Inventors What profession was held by Garrett Morgan and Lloyd Hall? Inventor Matthew Henson learned the language and skills of what Indian tribe? Inuit What did Lewis Howard Latimer and Hiram S. Maxim invent? Incandescent Electric Light August Jackson created what well-known desert? What was the name of the flamboyant pilot known as Black Eagle? What Black American inventor received a patent for an airplane safety device in 1921? Brothers and Hopkinsville natives, Garland and Phillip Brooks received advance degrees from what school? Ice Cream What Black American patented the corn harvester? What Black American inventor patented the cotton planter and seed planter? Who was the first Black American to obtain a patent for a dry cleaning process called "dry scouring?" Henry Blair Hubert Julian Hubert Julian Howard University Thomas L. Jennings Henry Blair Who invented the first corn husker? Henry Blair Harry C. Hopkins received a patent for enhancing what medical device? Hearing Aid What Black American inventor patented the hearing aid? In 1953, Soloman Harper invented what thermostatically controlled device? Harry Hopkins Hair Curlers Who was known as the “Black Edison”? Granville T. Woods What Black American invented the railway telegraph? Granville T. Woods Who invented the incubator? Granville T. Woods Page 56 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY Science & 1331 Exploration Science & 1332 Exploration Science & 1333 Exploration Science & 1334 Exploration Science & 1335 Exploration Science & 1336 Exploration Science & 1337 Exploration Science & 1338 Exploration Science & 1339 Exploration Science & 1340 Exploration Science & 1341 Exploration Science & 1342 Exploration Science & 1343 Exploration 1344 1345 1346 1347 1348 1349 1350 Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & 1351 Exploration QUESTION ANSWER What Black American invented the air brake? Granville T. Woods Known as the “Black Edison,” what famous inventor was responsible for developing the third rail used in modern subway systems? Granville T. Woods G.F. Grant received a patent in 1899 for what sports item? Golf tee Who discovered over 300 uses for the peanut? What famous scientist and biologist said, “God gave them to me, why should I claim to own them” with regard to his discoveries and inventions? He was interested in plants at an early age and was an agriculturist who developed peanut products. Who was he? In 1927, what Black American scientist and inventor received a patent for his process of producing paint? Born into slavery in Missouri, who worked his way through school as a farm hand and a janitor to become an agricultural scientist whose discoveries revolutionized southern agriculture and helped the South move away from dependence on the cotton industry? Apollo 16 used an ultraviolet camera designed by what Black American? The Minnesota Territory had many black trappers. Which of the Bonga men founded a town in Minnesota in 1837? George Washington Carver Who invented the three way traffic light? Garrett Morgan George Washington Carver George Washington Carver George Washington Carver George Washington Carver George E. Carruthers George Bonga Who invented the gas mask? Garrett Morgan What Black American was called in to assist a rescue effort for six workers trapped by a gas explosion using his patented smoke mask? Garrett Morgan What brothers returned to Hopkinsville, Kentucky to practice pharmacy and medicine after receiving advanced degrees from Howard University? Garland and Phillip Brooks Who invented the clothes dryer? G.T. Sampson Who invented the golf tee? G.F. Grant What is James Beckwourth recognized as? Frontiersman Who invented a ticket dispensing machine? Frederick McKinley Jones Who invented portable refrigeration? Whose invention completely changed the way food could be transported? Bessie Coleman was the first black female aviator in 1921. Because of racism in the United States, she was refused entry into aeronautics schools. She was trained and received her pilot‟s license in what country? Frederick McKinley Jones Page 57 of 72 Frederick McKinley Jones France 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY Science & 1352 Exploration Science & 1353 Exploration Science & 1354 Exploration Science & 1355 Exploration Science & 1356 Exploration Science & 1357 Exploration Science & 1358 Exploration Science & 1359 Exploration Science & 1360 Exploration Science & 1361 Exploration Science & 1362 Exploration Science & 1363 Exploration Science & 1364 Exploration Science & 1365 Exploration Science & 1366 Exploration Science & 1367 Exploration Science & 1368 Exploration Science & 1369 Exploration Science & 1370 Exploration Science & 1371 Exploration Science & 1372 Exploration Science & 1373 Exploration Science & 1374 Exploration Science & 1375 Exploration QUESTION In 1854, to what country did Norbert Rillieux go when he could no longer tolerate the discrimination and prejudice he experienced in America? What was particularly noteworthy about the first shuttle flight flown by Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr.? Prejudice was a major factor of Elijah McCoy‟s inability to find a job as an engineer. What alternate occupation with the railroad did he eventually choose? ANSWER France First space shuttle launch at night Fireman What did Benjamin Banneker publish for farmers which became the first scientific book published by a Black American? Farmers‟ Almanac The cash register was invented by what Black American? F.A. Hilyer Meredith Gourdine invented what automobile device? Exhaust Purification System Who is famous as the “Black Apollo of Science”? Dr. Mae Jemison was the first female black astronaut. What was the name of the space shuttle that took her and her crew members into space in 1992? Ernest Just Who invented the bullet resistant Plexiglas? In 1870, Elijah McCoy started what company in Detroit, Michigan? What mechanical engineer had over 50 patents, the most wellknown his inventions included the ironing table and the lubricating cup? Emmanuel L. Logan Elijah McCoy Manufacturing Company The oil lubricating cup was invented by what Black American? A. Miles patented what mechanical device used in many office buildings and skyscrapers? Granville T. Woods was best remembered for what type of inventions? What invention by Granville T. Woods helped farmers improve productivity? Lewis Latimer was known as a pioneer in the development of what device? Elijah McCoy Endeavor Elijah McCoy Elevator Electro-mechanical devices Electrically Heated Egg Incubator Electric light bulb Who was the first Black American to obtain a Ph.D. in Physics? Edward Bouchet In 1890, Lewis Latimer became the chief draftsman of what Edison Electric Light company? Company Who developed the test used to detect the disease syphilis? Who was the first Black American professor at Harvard University? Who developed the largest research and training center for kidney transplants in the country? What Black American astronaut died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster? Dr. William Hinton Dr. William Hinton Dr. Samuel L. Koontz Dr. Ronald McNair Who is famous for his research on sickle cell anemia? Dr. Roland Scott Who discovered a soybean oil extract that gave relief to arthritis sufferers? Dr. Percy Julian Page 58 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 1376 1377 1378 1379 1380 1381 1382 1383 1384 1385 1386 1387 1388 1389 1390 1391 1392 1393 1394 1395 1396 1397 1398 1399 1400 CATEGORY Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration QUESTION ANSWER What Black American developed a treatment for arthritis? Dr. Percy Julian Who developed a drug used to treat glaucoma, an eye disease? Dr. Percy Julian Who saved the lives of thousands of soldiers in World War II with his invention of “aero foam”? Dr. Percy Julian Who invented the smallpox vaccine? Who performed the first surgical implantation of the automatic defibrillator in the human heart? Who was the first accredited Black American woman dentist in America? Who is a pioneer in tooth transplantation research and a graduate of Howard University? What physicist and Morehouse College graduate received the first Professor Arturo Miolati Prize for outstanding scientific achievement for his work on fragment molecules known as free radicals? Who was the first African American woman admitted to the University of Louisville Medical School? Dr. Louis Wright Who performed the world‟s first open heart surgery? What doctor attended President James Garfield after he was shot? What doctor, a pioneer in blood transfusion, died in 1950 following a car accident when he was turned away from a hospital because of his race? Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Who convinced doctors to use blood plasma for transfusions? Who was credited with setting up the first blood bank in England and the United States? Who was responsible for performing the technique of preserving for blood banks? What Black American scientist developed a way of separating blood plasma? Who invented the technique of using dye to detect liver disease and evaluate blood? Dr. Charles Drew What Black American woman invented fungicide? Dorothy McClendon W.A. Martin patented what security device? Door lock Who was the first Black American to fly with the Blue Angels? Donnie Cochran Where was George Washington Carver born? What Black American inventor received a patent in 1970 for a urinalysis machine? Who was the director of the National Swine Flu Immunization Program? Who was the first Black American to graduate from medical school in 1847? Who was the first Black American member of the National Academy of Sciences? Page 59 of 72 Diamond, Missouri Dr. Levi Watkins Dr. Ida Gray Dr. Harold Fleming Dr. Dolphus Milligan Dr. Delores Gordon Alleyne Dr. Charles Purvis Dr. Charles Drew Dr. Charles Drew Dr. Charles Drew Dr. Charles Drew Dr. Carol M. Leevy Dewey Sanderson Delano Meriwether David J. Peck David H. Blackwell 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 1401 1402 1403 1404 1405 1406 1407 1408 1409 1410 CATEGORY Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & 1411 Exploration Science & 1412 Exploration Science & 1413 Exploration Science & 1414 Exploration Science & 1415 Exploration Science & 1416 Exploration Science & 1417 Exploration Science & 1418 Exploration Science & 1419 Exploration Science & 1420 Exploration Science & 1421 Exploration Science & 1422 Exploration Science & 1423 Exploration QUESTION Who received a patent for the invention of an optical apparatus that helped to position tooling? Dr. Percy Lavon Julian played an important role in bringing what arthritis drug to the public? In 1834, Henry Blair received a patent for what kind of planting device? ANSWER Who invented a method for growing oxide? Corland Dugger Conversion of gas into electricity What process was introduced by Dr. Meredith Gourdine? D. E. Howard Cortisone Corn planter G.T. Sampson invented what popular home appliance in 1892? What Black American inventor received a patent for the lawn mower and Venetian blind restringer? What famous Black pioneer assisted Barney Ford upon his arrival in Colorado? Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the world‟s first open heart surgery at what hospital? Robert S. Abbott supported the great migration to Northern cities as editor and publisher of what periodical? Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trapper and trader, was the first black explorer in North America. In 1772 he established a trading post and founded what city? Rush Medical College in this city was the first to graduate a Black American student in 1847. Name the city. What Black American scientist is known for his work with insects? Who developed an advance method for determining the metal content of ore? Clothes dryer Who invented a revolving brush used to clean streets? In 1978 Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr. became the first black astronaut in space. On August 30, 1983 he and his crew members launched into space on what space shuttle? Charles Brooks On January 28, 1986, what space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after lift-off, killing Dr. Ronald McNair and six of his colleagues? Who in 1977 became the first African American architect licensed in Kentucky and by 1980 was the first in the state to establish an architectural firm, Anderson Associate Architects? James Beckwourth, a former slave turned trapper, discovered Beckwourth Pass through the Sierra Nevada mountains in 1850. The passage allowed pioneers to reach what state more safely and quickly ? Who received an award from the Army for developing a technique to decontaminate missiles? Upon completing his education at Howard University, Phillip C. Brooks returned to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where he owned and operated what medical facility beginning in 1944? What device used by fire fighters was invented by Garrett Morgan? Who invented the fuel mixture forPage the60 Polaris of 72 Missile? Clarence Nokes Clara Brown Chicago‟s Provident Hospital Chicago Defender Chicago Chicago Charles Turner Charles Spurgeon Fletcher Challenger Challenger Carey L. Anderson, Jr. California Bruce Lee Brooks Memorial Hospital Breathing Device Booker T. Hoagan 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 1424 1425 1426 1427 CATEGORY Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & 1428 Exploration Science & 1429 Exploration Science & 1430 Exploration Science & 1431 Exploration Science & 1432 Exploration Science & 1433 Exploration 1434 1435 1436 1437 1438 1439 1440 1441 1442 1443 1444 1445 1446 1447 Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration QUESTION Lewis Temple invented the toggle harpoon used by the whaling industry. What was his occupation? What slave-born nurse was the first female to own property in Los Angeles? What is the name of the California Hotel designed by Paul Williams? Who trained in France and received her pilot‟s license in 1921, making her the first Black woman to fly a plane? Working alternately as a laundress and a manicurist in her early life, she started pursuing her passion for aviation after hearing about French female pilots in World War I. Name this aviatrix who became the first black person to earn an international flying license. Who really built the first model of steam engine, but was unable to patent his work because he was a slave? ANSWER Who predicted the eclipse on the sun in 1789? Who developed mathematical formulas to calculate weather and astronomical events? Benjamin Banneker For what is Dr. Mae C. Jemison known? What was the name of the route that James Beckwourth discovered in the early 1850‟s, helping Pioneers and gold seekers get to California? Granville T. Woods began inventing in 1885. His contribution was in the field of electricity. For what inventions did he receive patents? Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, pharmacist Garland H. Brooks attended what local high school? Ronald McNair, Charles Bolden, and Frederick Gregory pursued what profession? Blacksmith Biddy Bridget Mason Beverly Wilshire Hotel Bessie Coleman Bessie Coleman Benjamin Bradley Benjamin Banneker Being the first black female astronaut to travel in space Beckwourth Pass Automatic air brakes and steam Attucks High School Astronaut Where is Matthew Henson buried? Arlington, VA What Black American engineer built the Tidal Basin Bridge? Charles Donaldson designed the sequence controller that was used for the landing system of what spacecraft? Archie Alexander Who invented a life-saving device for coupling railroad cars? Andrew J. Beard Who invented the rotary engine? Dr. Charles Drew served as director for what organization‟s blood bank? Andrew Beard Who is explorer Matthew Henson buried next to? Admiral Robert E. Peary Who invented the door lock? A.W. Johnson Apollo American Red Cross Who invented the railway signal? A.B. Blackburn What Black American inventor received a patent to the elevator in 1887? A. Miles Paul Cuffe was considered a true pioneer. What form of transportation did he use to reachPage his61 destination? a ship of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # 1448 1449 1450 1451 1452 CATEGORY Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & Exploration Science & 1453 Exploration Science & 1454 Exploration Science & 1455 Exploration Science & 1456 Exploration Science & 1457 Exploration Science & 1458 Exploration Science & 1459 Exploration 1460 Sports 1461 Sports 1462 Sports 1463 Sports 1464 Sports 1465 Sports 1466 Sports 1467 Sports 1468 Sports 1469 Sports 1470 Sports QUESTION Albert Y. Garner received a patent for what invention used to help save lives? In 1821, Thomas A. Jennings was one of the first Black Americans to receive a patent. What was his invention? In 1884, the “Medico-Chirurgical Society” was formed. What kind of association is this? According to the Organization of Black Airline Pilots, how many of the nation‟s 70,000 commercial pilots were black in 1992? When Guion Bluford orbited earth aboard the Challenger space shuttle, how fast did the space craft move? ANSWER A flame retardant a dry scouring device for clothing a Black medical association 600 or less than 1% 300 miles per minute Dr. Daniel Hale Williams served as professor of clinical surgery Meharry Medical College in at what medical facility? Nashville, Tennessee Major Frederick D. Gregory made his first space flight in 1985. In what year did he become the first black space commander? 1989 In what year did G.T. Sampson invent the clothes dryer? In what year was the first all Black medical school Meharry Medical College established? 1892 In what year was George Washington Carver born? In 1901, Garrett Morgan‟s first invention was a belt fastener for sewing machines which he sold for how much money? How many members of the Bransford family served as guides at Mammoth Cave before it was turned over the federal government in 1948? What was the name of Wilma Rudolph‟s relay team, which finished first at the 1960 Olympics? What former two-time heavyweight boxing champion won a Gold Medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and went on to become a minister? Who was the first Black American teenager to win the Junior Girls Singles Title at Wimbledon? What Tennessee State University student became the first woman to win the 100-meter dash twice at both the 1964 and 1968 Olympic games? Who holds the record for most points scored in a single basketball game (100)? At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, this sprinter was the first American woman to win three Gold Medals. Who was she? Who was the first Black American to qualify and race in the Indianapolis 500? Who was named NBA rookie of the year in 1965, his first year as a center for the New York Knicks? He played with the Negro League team Black Barons in Birmingham when he was 17 years old. Shortly after, in 1950, he signed with the New York Giants. He ranks third in total career home runs. Who is he? Who was the first Black National League baseball player to hit 600 home runs? Olympic star Bob Hayes played what position for the Dallas Cowboys? 1864 Page 62 of 72 1876 $50 4 Tennessee Tigerbelles George Foreman Zina Garrison Wyomia Tyus Wilt Chamberlain Wilma Rudolph Willy T. Ribbs Willis Reed Willie Mays Willie Mays Wide receiver 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 1471 Sports 1472 Sports 1473 Sports 1474 Sports 1475 Sports 1476 Sports 1477 Sports 1478 Sports 1479 Sports 1480 Sports 1481 Sports 1482 Sports 1483 Sports 1484 Sports 1485 Sports 1486 Sports 1487 Sports 1488 Sports 1489 Sports 1490 Sports 1491 Sports 1492 Sports 1493 Sports 1494 Sports 1495 Sports QUESTION Dwight Smith and Clem Haskins became the first two African American basketball players at what university? At the age of 29, Bernie Bickerstaff became the youngest assistant coach in NBA history when he joined what team now known as the Washington Wizards? This athlete was a running back for the Chicago Bears. He ran 1,852 yards to help the team reach the playoffs for the first time in 14 years. What was his name? What running back surpassed Jim Brown‟s rushing record of 12,312 yards? What was boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson‟s real name? Who was the first Black American pitcher to win the Cy Young award in the American League? These two sisters were born in 1980 and 1981, respectively. They are champions of Wimbledon and other major tennis tournaments. Name them. Who was the first Black American to play in the National Hockey League? NBA superstar Michael Jordan played college basketball at what university? Born in Lexington, KY, Derek Bryant was the first African American baseball player at what school, where he played from 1971-1973? One of the first African American players in the Southeastern Conference, football standout Wilbur Hackett, Jr. was the first African American to start in any sport and be named a team captain at what college program? ANSWER Western Kentucky University (WKU) Washington Bullets Walter Payton Walter Payton Walker Smith, Jr. Vida Blue Venus and Serena Williams Val James University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of Kentucky University of Kentucky University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) Jackie Robinson excelled in four sports at what university? Jackie Joyner-Kersee was awarded a basketball scholarship to what university? In 1968, Arthur Ashe became the first Black American to win what major tennis tournament? U.S. Open How many times did Archie Griffin win the Heisman trophy? Two In 1907, whom did Jack Johnson defeat to win the heavyweight championship? Tommy Burns At the age of 24, this golfer won the 82nd PGA Championship, beating Bob May in a three-hole playoff at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 20, 2000. Name him. Tiger Woods What is the name of the baseball stadium in Pittsburgh that opened in 1979? Three Rivers Stadium What professional boxer is named “The Hit Man”? Thomas Hearns Who holds the record for the most touchdowns scored from kick- Thomas Allen "Timmy" off returns? Brown What do Mike Garret, Ernie Davis and Billy Simms have in They all won the Heisman common? Trophy What nickname did Ozzie Smith earn due to his amazing acrobatics at shortstop? The Wizard of Oz What was Willie May‟s nickname? The Say Hey Kid What was Earl Monroe‟s nickname during his basketball career? The Pearl For what team did Jackie Robinson play in 1947? The Brooklyn Dodgers Page 63 of 72 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 1496 Sports 1497 Sports 1498 Sports 1499 Sports 1500 Sports 1501 Sports 1502 Sports 1503 Sports 1505 Sports 1506 Sports 1510 Sports 1511 Sports 1513 Sports 1514 Sports 1515 Sports 1516 Sports 1517 Sports 1518 Sports 1520 Sports 1521 Sports 1522 Sports QUESTION The men‟s basketball team won a Gold Medal at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The team was known as what? Born in 1946, Jim Kelly, martial artist and star of the films Enter the Dragon and Black Belt Jones, currently practices what profession? In 1956 Althea Gibson become the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam title in what sport? During the Rome Olympics in 1960, Wilma Rudolph became the fastest woman on earth. What was she called? In 1992, what prestigious award did Arthur Ashe receive, making him the first person to attain this honor after retiring from a professional sport? Who did Muhammad Ali defeat on February 25, 1964 to win the heavyweight title? Who did Floyd Patterson lose his boxing title to in 1962? She was a forward who scored 47 points in the final game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament in 1993. She led Texas Tech to the national championship. Who is she? The first African American NBA head coach from Kentucky, Bernie Bickerstaff coached what team from 1985-1990? Before being christened the Harlem Globetrotters, what was this basketball team‟s name? Born in Louisville, KY, who went on to become an assistant basketball coach at LSU in 1976, the first African American basketball coach hired full-time at the school? Jesse Stahl competed and was discriminated against in an Oregon rodeo in the early 1900s. What did he do when the judges did not award him first prize which he thought he deserved? On October 26, 1951, Joe Louis was knocked out in his final professional boxing fight by whom? While playing football for Notre Dame, what nickname did Raghib Ramadian Ismail earn? What famous baseball player who played for the Oakland A‟s and New York Yankees earned the nickname “Mr. October"? What famous Olympic champion was standing at Senator Robert Kennedy‟s side when Kennedy was fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan? What Black American lit the Olympic torch at the 1984 Summer Games? What position did Doug Williams play in the 1988 Super Bowl? Willie Stargell began and ended his professional baseball career with what National League team? In 1993, Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to their third straight NBA championship with a victory in the final series over what team? Julius Erving began his career with the ABA‟s Virginia Squires. He played in the NBA in 1976 until he retired. For what NBA team did he play? Page 64 of 72 ANSWER the “Dream Team” Tennis coach Tennis Tennessee Tornado Sportsman of the Year Sonny Liston Sonny Liston Sheryl Swoopes Seattle SuperSonics Savoy Big Five Ronald L. Abernathy Rode his next horse in protest by facing backward Rocky Marciano Rocket Reggie Jackson Rafer Johnson Rafer Johnson Quarterback Pittsburgh Pirates Phoenix Suns Philadelphia 76ers 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 1523 Sports 1524 Sports 1525 Sports 1526 Sports 1527 Sports 1528 Sports 1529 Sports 1531 Sports 1532 Sports 1534 Sports 1535 Sports 1536 Sports 1538 Sports 1539 Sports 1540 Sports 1542 Sports 1544 Sports 1545 Sports 1546 Sports 1547 Sports 1549 Sports 1550 Sports 1551 Sports 1552 Sports QUESTION ANSWER In 1960 this basketball player was a center that helped his U.S. Olympic team win a Gold Medal. He became an all-star in the NBA with nearly 10,000 assists during his career. Name him. In 1997 who became the first African American basketball coach at the University of Kentucky? Who was the first Black American jockey to win the Kentucky Derby? For what professional football team did Carl Weathers play? Derek Bryant, the first African American baseball player at the University of Kentucky, was drafted by what professional team? Who won the 1968 Heisman Trophy? What football star became the first to rush for over 2,000 yards in a single season? How many Gold Medals did track and field athlete Carl Lewis win in his career? Julius Erving began his professional basketball career with what team? Basketball star Willie Reed became the coach of what team in 1977? Willie Mays began his professional career with what major league baseball team? For what team was Willie Mays playing when his famous overthe-shoulder catch occurred? Willis Reed became the general manager of what professional basketball team? Satchel Paige played for 22 years in what baseball league? Bill Russell was the first Black American player in what professional sports league? He was born Cassius Clay but changed his name after he joined the Nation of Islam. Who is this former Olympic Gold Medal prizefighter? Known for his lyrical boasts, athletic grace, and post-boxing philanthropy, what heavyweight champion lit the torch for the Atlanta Olympic Games? A three-time heavyweight champion, who was stripped of his first championship title because he refused to fight in the Vietnam War? After being denied service at a Louisville, Kentucky, lunch counter, this heavyweight fighter threw his Olympic medal into the river in protest. Name him. Frank Robinson became the first baseball player to receive what award in both the National and American Leagues? This American Major League Baseball player is credited with being the first African American to play at the major league level in 1884. Name him. Between 1972 and 1980 blacks won how many Olympic medals in track and field events? Who was the youngest boxer to win the heavyweight title? What college basketball team did Magic Johnson lead to the NCAA championship? Page 65 of 72 Oscar Robertson Orlando "Tubby" Smith Oliver Lewis Oakland Raiders Oakland Athletics O.J. Simpson O.J. Simpson Nine New York Nets New York Knicks New York Giants New York Giants New Jersey Nets Negro League NBA Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali Most Valuable Player Moses Fleetwood Walker more than 75 Mike Tyson Michigan State Spartans 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 1553 Sports 1554 Sports 1555 Sports 1556 Sports 1557 Sports 1558 Sports 1559 Sports 1560 Sports 1561 Sports 1562 Sports 1565 Sports 1566 Sports 1567 Sports 1569 Sports 1570 Sports 1571 Sports 1572 Sports 1573 Sports 1575 Sports 1576 Sports 1577 Sports 1578 Sports 1579 Sports 1580 Sports 1581 Sports 1582 Sports 1583 Sports QUESTION Earvin “Magic” Johnson played for what college basketball team? Who are the only two brothers that ever held the heavyweight boxing title? For what professional football team did Mercury Morris play? Who was the first major league baseball player to steal more than 100 bases in a single season? When Ricky Henderson stole his 929th base on May 1, 1991, whose record did he break? What Black American player broke Ty Cobb‟s stolen bases record with 893 steals? Art Shell became the second Black football coach of what team? Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron became the all time home run king when he hit his 715th homer against what team? In 1968, Bob Beamon set an Olympic record in what event? What team played against Biddle College in the first Black American college football game? Who was the first Black American pitcher in the American League? Who became a major league rookie at the age of 42 in 1948? What Black American served three times as a Head Linesman in a Super Bowl, positions reserved for the highest-rated NFL officials? Who was the second Black American to manage a major league baseball team? Who was the first African American player from Kentucky drafted into the WNBA? Which baseball player began his career at the age of 19 and played in the majors at the same time as his father who shares his name? What basketball star is referred to as “The Mailman”? What basketball star center perfected a shot known as the “skyhook”? In 1988, what basketball player became the first NBA player to reach 37,000 career points? Jackie Robinson played for what Negro League team? Otis Taylor was a standout player for what football team in the late 1930s? What basketball great is known as Dr. J? Who was admitted to the Hall of Fame for being the best hitter in the Negro League? Who was the first Black American to lead an NFL officiating crew? Who was the first Black American to complete the US Open tennis tournament? What professional basketball star returned to the NBA after successfully combating drug addiction, and commented, “People say you almost lost basketball…Well, I almost lost my life”? Who became the first Black American running back to rush more than 1,000 yards in a single season? Page 66 of 72 ANSWER Michigan State Spartans Michael and Leon Spinks Miami Dolphins Maury Wills Lou Brock Lou Brock Los Angeles Raiders Los Angeles Dodgers Long Jump Livingstone College Leroy "Satchel" Paige Leroy "Satchel" Paige Leo Miles Larry Doby Kym Hampton Ken Griffey, Jr. Karl Malone Kareem Abdul-Jabar Kareem Abdul Jabar Kansas City Monarchs Kansas City Chiefs Julius Erving Josh Gibson Johnny Grier John Shippen John Lucas Joe Perry 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 1584 Sports 1585 Sports 1586 Sports 1587 Sports 1588 Sports 1589 Sports 1590 Sports 1591 Sports 1593 Sports 1595 Sports 1596 Sports 1597 Sports 1598 Sports 1600 Sports 1602 Sports 1603 Sports 1605 Sports 1606 Sports 1607 Sports 1608 Sports 1609 Sports 1611 Sports 1612 Sports 1613 Sports 1615 Sports 1616 Sports QUESTION Who was Muhammad Ali‟s opponent in the famous “Thrilla in Manila” fight? What boxer gave Muhammad Ali his first professional loss? What heavyweight boxing champion defended his title against Muhammad Ali in 1971? Who knocked heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali to the canvas in the 15th round of their first boxing match? Who did Arthur Ashe defeat in 1975 to become the first Black American to win the singles title at Wimbledon? Who was the first Black American to lead professional football in rushing? Who led the NFL in rushing in eight of his nine seasons (for a total of 12,312 yards) and scored 126 touchdowns? James Cleveland Owens, a track and field athlete, won four Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. By what name was he known? Who was the first Black American quarterback to lead the NFL in passing? In 1947 who was the first black to join the major leagues since Moses Fleetwood Walker played in 1885? Who was the first Black American elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame? What Black American sports legend was commemorated by a postage stamp in 1982? In 1949, who became the first Black American to win baseball‟s Most Valuable Player award? Who was the first Black American heavyweight boxing champion? Cornelius Johnson, Melvin Walker, and Derived Albritton excelled in what track and field event? What famous football star danced with a Fort Worth ballet company? In 1979, what forced Arthur Ashe to retire from professional tennis? Born in Princeton, KY, what Western Kentucky University standout was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks in 1968 and ended his career with the Portland Trail Blazers in 1976? After retiring from professional tennis, Althea Gibson launched what new professional sports career? What professional sport did Lee Elder play? Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics hosted by what country? Who was the first Black American to win an Olympic medal in the 200 and 400 meter hurdles? ANSWER Who was the first Black American to compete in the Olympics? Who was the first Black American professional football player? Chosen as the first Black manager in baseball‟s American League, who managed the Cleveland Indians beginning in 1974? What baseball great played basketball with Bill Russell at McClymonds High School in Oakland, California? George C. Poage Fritz Pollard Page 67 of 72 Joe Frazier Joe Frazier Joe Frazier Joe Frazier Jimmy Connors Jim Brown Jim Brown Jesse Owens James Harris Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson Jack Johnson High Jump Herschel Walker Heart Attack Gregory D. Smith Golf Golf Germany George C. Poage Frank Robinson Frank Robinson 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 1617 Sports 1619 Sports 1620 Sports 1621 Sports 1623 Sports 1624 Sports 1626 Sports 1627 Sports 1628 Sports 1629 Sports 1630 Sports 1631 Sports 1633 Sports 1634 Sports 1636 Sports 1637 Sports 1638 Sports 1639 Sports 1640 Sports 1641 Sports 1642 Sports 1643 Sports 1644 Sports 1645 Sports 1646 Sports QUESTION Who was the first baseball player to win the honor of “Most Valuable Player” in both the National and American baseball leagues? How many gold metals did Jesse Owens win during the 1936 Summer Olympics? Carl Lewis won how many gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics? What female track star has held world records in the 100 meter and 200 meter dash since 1988? Magic Johnson led the Los Angeles Lakers to how many NBA championships? In 1988, Debi Thomas became the first Black American to win a medal in the Winter Olympic Games. In what event did she win her medal? Who is the NFL‟s all-time career rushing leader? What football star led the NFL in rushing during the 1992-93 season and led his team to victory in Super Bowl XXII? Who was the first Black American to become a major league umpire? Who was the first African American to play football for the New York Giants? Who was the first Black American inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame? Who was the first Black American to play for the New York Yankees? Starting in 1959, Bill Russell led the Boston Celtics to how many straight NBA championships, an unprecedented accomplishment? What Western Kentucky University basketball player and valedictorian of his Princeton, KY high school graduating class was drafted by the LA Lakers in 1967? Who coined Muhammad Ali‟s slogan, “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”? Who became the first Black player to quarterback a Super Bowl team to victory? Who was the National League‟s first Black American pitcher? Who was the National League‟s first Black American Cy Young Award winner? Who was the first African American baseball player at the University of Kentucky? Bernie Bickerstaff served as president and general manager of what NBA team from 1990-1997? Marlin Briscoe was the first Black starting quarterback for what football team? Who was named coach of the Minnesota Vikings in 1992? Daryl Bishop had a successful career playing what football position at the University of Kentucky? What basketball player was named NBA Rookie of the Year while leading the Detroit Pistons to their first NBA Championship playoff? Born in Louisville, KY, playing a few games as a walk-on, then withdrawing from the team, who was the first African American to play basketball for the University in 1969? Pageof68Kentucky of 72 ANSWER Frank Robinson Four Four Florence “FloJo” GriffithJoyner Five Figure Skating Emmitt Smith Emmitt Smith Emmett Ashford Emlen Tunnell Emlen Tunnell Elston Howard Eight Dwight Smith Drew “Bundini” Brown Doug Williams Don Newcombe Don Newcombe Derek Bryant Denver Nuggets Denver Broncos Dennis Green Defensive back Dave Bing Daryl Bishop 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 1647 Sports 1649 Sports 1650 Sports 1651 Sports 1652 Sports 1653 Sports 1654 Sports 1655 Sports 1656 Sports 1660 Sports 1661 Sports 1662 Sports 1664 Sports 1666 Sports 1667 Sports 1670 Sports 1671 Sports 1672 Sports 1674 Sports 1676 Sports 1677 Sports 1678 Sports 1679 Sports 1680 Sports QUESTION Despite only playing three seasons, who holds the UK career record for most pass interceptions (14), most return yardage (376), and making more tackles (348) than any defensive back in UK history? Satchel Paige was the first Black American to pitch major league baseball for what team? Frank Robinson became the first Black American manager in major league baseball for what team? Jim Brown began his professional football career with what team in 1957? Jim Brown rushed for 12,312 yards during his nine-year career with what team? Who became Western Kentucky University's first African American head basketball coach in 1980? This sports editor of The Louisville Defender and associate editor of Ebony magazine won the Wilkie Award in 1947 for revealing illegal taxicab services in Louisville. Name him. Frank Robinson was voted National League Rookie of the Year while playing for what team? What baseball team did Frank Robinson help win the pennant in 1961? With what professional baseball team did Ernie Banks start and end his career? The Harlem Globetrotters got their start in what city? Who was the first Black American to join the Professional Golf Association? What track star won four gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics? Bill Pickett was a rodeo star who chased down a steer on horseback, jumped off, and wrestled the animal to the ground. He invented this style of steer wrestling. By what name was it known? For what skill did Charles Sampson become the first black to win the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association championship in 1982? Jackie Robinson was the first American to play major league baseball for what team? Jackie Robinson began and ended his major league baseball career with what team? At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, Dehart Hubbard became the first Black American to win the gold medal in what event? What major league baseball team was the last to integrate its team? In 1951, Charles Cooper became the first Black American to play NBA basketball. With what team did he make his debut? What former all-star first baseman became the highest ranking Black baseball executive in 1989 as president of the National League? Who was the first Black American president of the National Baseball League? What basketball superstar became the first Black American to manage a major league sports team? Who was regarded as the “FatherPage of Modern 69 of 72 Prize Fighting"? ANSWER Daryl Bishop Cleveland Indians Cleveland Indians Cleveland Browns Cleveland Browns Clem S. Haskins Edward T. Clayton Cincinnati Reds Cincinnati Reds Chicago Cubs Chicago Charles Siffrord Carl Lewis Bulldogging Bull riding Brooklyn Dodgers Brooklyn Dodgers Broad jump Boston Red Sox Boston Celtics Bill White Bill White Bill Russell Bill Richmond 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 1681 Sports 1682 Sports 1683 Sports 1685 Sports 1686 Sports 1687 Sports 1690 Sports 1691 Sports 1694 Sports 1695 Sports 1697 Sports 1698 Sports 1699 Sports 1700 Sports 1702 Sports 1703 Sports 1704 Sports 1705 Sports 1706 Sports 1707 Sports 1708 Sports 1709 Sports 1713 Sports QUESTION Known as “Dusty Demon”, he became the first Black American cowboy admitted to the National Rodeo Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. Who is he? What Black American cowboy invented bull dogging? Olympic gold medal winner Oscar Robertson became an all-star in the NBA with nearly 10,000 assists during his career. What was his nickname? Born in Benham, KY, who, at the age of 25, became head coach at the University of San Diego and the youngest college coach in the U.S. at that time? Ranking 33rd on the NBA's winningest coaches list, who was the Charlotte Bobcats general manager and first coach? Arthur Ashe remains the only Black American to gain recognition for what accomplishment? In what four sports did Jackie Robinson win varsity letters, becoming UCLA's first athlete to do so in 1939? What baseball team did Frank Robinson help win the World Series in 1966? For what sport are Charles Wiltshire and Wendell Scott famous? Sonny Collins was selected by what professional team in the 2nd round of the 1976 NFL draft? Who was the first athlete to receive Sports Illustrated‟s Sportsmen of the Year award after retiring from his professional career? Who was the first Black American to play on the Davis Cup tennis team? What Black American was once ranked as the number one tennis player in the world? Who was the first Black American to become a head coach for professional football? What pitcher won 51 out of 55 games in the Negro League in 1905? Popular during the Harlem Renaissance, what was the Big Five? The first black female tennis player to win major tournaments in the 1950s, she was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971. What was her name? Who became the first Black woman to win the prestigious Wimbledon singles title? In 1989 he became head coach at the University of Tennessee, the first African American head coach in the Southeastern Conference. Name him. Who became the University of Tennessee's all-time leading scorer in 1994? What University of Kentucky career rush leader was inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002? What is basketball star Michael Jordan‟s nickname? What was Joe Louis‟s overall professional boxing record? Page 70 of 72 ANSWER Bill Pickett Bill Picket Big O Bernard T. "Bernie" Bickerstaff, Sr. Bernard T. "Bernie" Bickerstaff, Sr. Being ranked number 1 in men‟s tennis Baseball, basketball, football, and track Baltimore Orioles Auto Racing Atlanta Falcons Arthur Ashe Arthur Ashe Arthur Ashe Art Shell Andrew “Rube” Foster an all-black professional basketball team of the 1920s and 1930s Althea Gibson Althea Gibson Allan W. Houston, Sr. Allan W. Houston, Jr. Alfred "Sonny" Collins Air Jordan 68 wins, 3 loses 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 1714 Sports 1715 Sports 1716 Sports 1717 Sports 1718 Sports 1719 Sports 1720 Sports 1721 Sports 1722 Sports 1723 Sports 1724 Sports 1725 Sports 1726 Sports 1727 Sports 1728 Sports 1730 Sports 1732 Sports 1733 Sports 1734 Sports 1735 Sports 1736 Sports 1737 Sports 1738 Sports 1740 Sports 1741 Sports QUESTION How many teams has Tubby Smith led to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen? In what two events in the 1936 Olympics did Jesse Owens set new world records? George C. Poage was the first Black American to win an Olympic medal in what two events? What sports team was referred to by many as the “Dream Team”? What consecutive years did Althea Gibson win the Wimbledon Tennis Singles Championship? Sugar Ray Robinson ended his 200 professional bout boxing career with a total of how many wins and knockouts? Jackie Robinson appeared on what value US postage stamp? At Willie Stargell‟s request, the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates adopted what song on their way to winning the World Series? Leroy Paige was a great pitcher in the Negro Leagues who also played in the major leagues in 1949. By what name was he known? Willie Mays received a bonus of how much money when he signed with the New York Giants? Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron ended his career with how many RBIs? In what year did Doug Williams became the first Black player to quarterback a Super Bowl victory? In what year did Mike Tyson become the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in history? In what year did the US Postal Service issue a Jackie Robinson commemorative postage stamp? In what year did Frank Robinson become the first Black manager in major league basketball? Satchel Paige was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in what year? In what year did Emmit Ashford become the first Black American to umpire a major league baseball game? In what year did Althea Gibson become the first Black American to win a major tennis title? In what year did the first Black Americans Charles Cooper, Early Lloyd, and Nathaniel Clifton play in the NBA? In what year did Jackie Robinson become the first Black American to win the MVP award in baseball? When did Jackie Robinson break the color barrier by his entrance into baseball‟s National League? Congressman Ralph Metcalfe won a gold medal at the Berlin Olympics in what year? Milt Campbell became the first Black American to win the decathlon during what year of the Olympic games? In what year did Dehart Hubbard become the first Black American to win the Olympic gold medal in the broad jump? In what year did Charles W. Follis become the first Black American to play professional football? Page 71 of 72 ANSWER 3 (the University of Tulsa, the University of Georgia and the University of Kentucky) 200 meter dash and broad jump 200 and 400 meter hurdles 1992 Olympic basketball team 1957, 1958 175 wins, 110 KOs 15 cent “We Are Family” "Satchel” $5,000 2202 1988 1986 1982 1974 1971 1966 1957 1950 1949 1947 1936 1936 1924 1902 2011/2012 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions # CATEGORY 1742 Sports 1743 Sports 1744 Sports 1745 Sports 1746 Sports 1747 Sports 1748 Sports 1749 Sports 1750 Sports 1751 Sports 1752 History 1753 History 1754 History Science & 1755 Exploration 1756 History 1757 History Business & 1758 Education QUESTION Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron ended his career with how many home runs? Willie Mays finished his baseball career with how many home runs? How many times did Joe Louis defend his heavyweight boxing title? How many of the 15 jockeys participating in the first Kentucky Derby in 1875 were black? What was Bob Gibson‟s earned run average in 1968? University of Kentucky football standout, Sonny Collins played how many seasons of professional football? What was Jackie Robinson‟s lifetime batting average? What was Hank Aaron‟s lifetime batting average? How many of the original five Harlem Globetrotters were from Harlem? In the NBA's inaugural 1949-1950 season, how many Black American basketball players were in the league? The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 destroyed what prosperous black community? When was the importation of slaves outlawed in the U.S.? What dispute led to the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church? ANSWER Who was the first black astronaut to walk in space? At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.? Bernard Harris, Jr. About 1 million Mediating an end to an Arab Israeli conflict For what did Ralph Bunche win the Noble Peace Prize? Where did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., get his doctorate? Who opened Clarksville, Tennessee's first and only hospital 1759 History until 1916? What Clarksville, TN native won the Miss USA pageant in 1760 Entertainment 2007? Page 72 of 72 755 660 26 14 1.12 1 0.311 0.310 0 0 Greenwood 1808 Segregation of St. George's Methodist Church Boston University Dr. Robert T. Burt Rachel Smith
