Black History Month Trivia MS/HS

What was the name of one of the earliest African-American women’s basketball teams?

• The Harlem Queens

• The New York Girls

• The Lady Warriors

• The Golden Eagles

Morehouse College became a basketball powerhouse by 1922 with a ____ game win streak.

• 25
• 30

• 50

• 42

Which African-American basketball team was invited to join the National Basketball League in 1948-49?

• The Dayton Wrens

• The Monticellos

• The Crescent Athletic Club

• The Tuskegee Tigers

Which sport has a rich history in the YMCA and was created by James Naismith in 1891?

• Football

• Baseball

• Basketball

• Track and Field

Who was the teenager who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks?

• Harriet Tubman

• Claudette Colvin

• Sojourner Truth

• Rosa Parks

Who was the first African American and Native American woman to earn a pilot’s license?

• Amelia Earhart

• Mae Jemison

• Bessie Coleman

• Harriet Quimby

Which civil rights leader was a key organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and an advocate for nonviolent protest?

• Bayard Rustin

• Malcolm X

• Frederick Douglass

• Thurgood Marshall

Which formerly enslaved man became a Civil War hero by commandeering a Confederate ship to freedom?

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglass

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Robert Smalls

Who was the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress and the first Black woman to run for President of the United States?

• Kamala Harris

• Shirley Chisholm

• Barbara Jordan

• Condoleezza Rice

Which African American physician and scientist pioneered methods for blood storage and transfusions?

• Percy Julian

• Charles Drew

• Benjamin Banneker

• George Washington Carver