Week One - Black History Month Trivia

Finish this quote by A. Philip Randolph, a civil rights activist who also built the first Black labor union:

Freedom is never given; it is______

• Free

• Won

• Earned

• Taken

What specific type of physics does celebrity scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson primarily study?

• Thermodynamics

• String Theory

• Astrophysics

• Nuclear Physics

Former Air Force and NASA engineer Lonnie Johnson invented what toy in 1982?

• Frisbee

• Lite-Brite

• Mr. Potato Head

• Super Soaker

Twenty-five years before Black Panther, what movie featuring Robert Townsend, Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones, Eddie Griffin, and Sinbad, was the first Black superhero film?

• Blank Man

• Blade

• Steel

• Meteor Man

Jane Bolin, the first Black female judge was also the first Black woman to graduate from what law school?

• Yale

• Vermont Law School

• Harvard

• Stanford

How did Robert Smalls famously escape slavery?

• Took a train to the North

• Escaped on the Underground Railroad

• Purchased his Freedom

• Sailed a Stolen Confederate Ship North

William Carney, the first Black soldier to perform an action that earned a Medal of Honor, received the award for saving who or what during a battle in the Civil War?

• A Church

• The American Flag

• Prisoners of War

• A Child

In 1993, who became the first Black woman to win a Nobel Prize of Literature?

• Maya Angelou

• Jacqueline Woodson

• Alice Walker

• Toni Morrison

Crispus Attucks was the first American killed in what war?

• Revolutionary War

• Korean War

• Civil War

• Vietnam War

What is the name of the legislation that outlawed discriminatory voting practices such as poll taxes and literacy tests?

• Rock the Vote Act of 1992

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Voting Rights Act of 1965

• Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987