2021 BHM Trivia!

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

• Whitney Houston

• Lauryn Hill

• Cardi B

• Aretha Franklin

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

• Blanche Bruce

• HIram Rhodes Revels

• Colin Powell

• Thurgood Marshall

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

• Hip-hop and poetry

• Theater and modern dance

• Music appreciated and film

• Ballet and poetry

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

• J.R. Knight

• Garrett Morgan

• Benji Monroe

• Otis Freeman

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

• Secretary for the Department of Defense

• First Black employee to work in NASA

• Her calculations helped NASA's space program

• She was the first Black woman astronaut

What was the first historically Black college in America?

• Lincoln University

• Howard University

• Cheyney University

• Wiley College

In 1939, she wasn't able to perform at Constitution Hall because of a "white performers only" policy but the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt protested and the singer eventually performed at Lincoln Memorial.

• Aretha Franklin

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Marian Anderson

• Sophia Frances

Sports Illustrated called the greatest single performance catch by a center fielder in World Series history to this outfield for the New York Mets that became known as the Miracle Mets when they rose from being perennial losers to defeat the favored Baltimore Orioloes in the 1969 World Series

• Hank Aaron

• Cecil Marks

• Tommie Agee

• Mark Mickens

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

• Young Thug

• Future

• LevelUP

• Birdman

These two historically Black Colleges played in the first college football game between Black schools in 1892.

• Morehouse College vs Clark College

• Howard University vs University of Arkansas Pine Bluff

• Biddle University vs Livingstone College

• Fisk University vs Tennessee State University