Middle School Round 1 (Thunder)

What is the oldest and largest African American parade in the United States, which began in 1929 with the purpose of providing "underprivileged youth with the chance to be in the limelight."

• Odunde Festival
• Junkanoo
• Bud Billiken Day
• Gullah Festival

By the 1920s, St. Agnes hospital was the largest hospital for blacks between Atlanta and Washington. On which college campus is it located?

• Shaw University
• North Carolina Central University
• Johnson C Smith University
• St Augustine's University

She is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand and have yet to be seriously challenged.

• Allyson Michelle Felix
• Marion Lois Jones
• Simone Arianne Biles
• Florence Griffith Joyner

He was the only professional boxer to hold world championship titles in three weight divisions simultaneously. In 2007, The Ring magazine ranked him as the second-greatest fighter of the last 80 years.

• Muhammad Ali
• Sugar Ray Leonard
• Henry Armstrong
• Mike Tyson

Name the first African-American inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

• Jim Brown
• Emlen Tunnell
• John Baker
• Joe Greene

The first black-American woman CEO to head a Fortune 500 company, Forbes rated her the 22nd most powerful woman in the world in 2014.

• Oprah Winfrey
• Rosalind G Brewer
• Sarah Breedlove
• Ursula M Burns

This Philadephia native and Penn State University graduate is the chairman and CEO of Merck & Co. He is the second African American to lead a major pharmaceutical company.

• Russell Wendell Simmons
• Bob Johnson
• Reginald F Lewis
• Kenneth Carleton Frazier

Who is the American entrepreneur, producer and author who cofounded the hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris, and had a net-worth estimate of $340 million in 2011?

• Jay-Z
• Sean Combs
• Russell Simmons
• Sean John

Asa Philip Randolph founded the first union consisting of predominantly black workers, called what?

• Steel Workers Alliance
• The Farmhand Fraternity
• Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
• The Unity Union

What event was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in US history and is credited with helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

• Selma Civil Rights March
• March on Washington
• Freedom Summer
• Montgomery Boycott