MMBC Quizbowl 2023 -- Secondary

On April 15th 1947, he became the first African American to play major league baseball.

• Hank Aaron
• Jackie Robinson
• Jesse Owens

Ralphe Bunche was the first African American to win ________ in 1950.

• The Nobel Peace Prize
• The Presidential Award of Freedom
• a Golden Globe Award

Who was the first Black woman elected into Congress in 1968, serving seven terms from 1969 to 1983.

• Shirley Caesar
• Hattie McDaniel
• Shirley Chisholm

Chadwick Boseman played all of the following roles EXCEPT for:

• Thurgood Marshall
• James Brown
• Barry Gordy
• Jackie Robinson

She became the first Black multibillionaire as she flourished in her career as an actress, philanthropist, and daytime TV talk show host.

• Jada Pinkett Smith
• Oprah Winfrey
• Whoopie Goldberg
• Jennifer Hudson

What is the name of Tracee Ellis Ross' character on the hit TV series Black-ish?

• Jennifer Bowman
• Rain Jackson
• Rainbow Johnson
• Zoey Jackson

Stevie Wonder signed to Motown Records when he was only 10 years old in 1962.

• True
• False

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first flying squadron for African American fighter pilots in _______________.

• World War I
• Cold War
• Vietnam War
• World War II

Who was the founder of Motown Records?

• George Brown
• Berry Gordy
• Leonard Chess

Daniel Hale Williams was the first African American to perform the first successful _________ surgery in 1893?

• Open Heart
• Brain Tumor
• Plastic