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Black History Bowl - Business & Education

Total questions: 43

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In 1975, who became the first African American to own and operate a television station in the United States, WGPR-TV in Detroit, MI?

a)

Oprah Winfrey

b)

William Venoid Banks

c)

Cathy Hughes

2.

What was Madame C.J. Walker’s real name?

a)

Cynthia Janice Walker

b)

Cindy Jane Walker

c)

Sara Breedlove Walker

3.

Who was the founder of the National Negro Finance Corporation?

a)

Robert Moton

b)

Robert Downey

c)

Robert Williams

4.

Who became the first African American billionaire in 2001?

a)

Robert "Bob" Johnson

b)

Cathy Hughes

c)

Deborah Lee

5.

What successful businessman was also the founder of Negro Free Masonry?

a)

Princeton Williams

b)

Prince Hall

c)

Prince Nelson

6.

Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2004?

a)

Robin Roberts

b)

Hale Berry

c)

Beyonce

d)

Oprah Winfrey

7.

Dr. Louis C. Roudanez founded this first daily black newspaper in 1864. Name it

a)

New Orleans Daily

b)

New Orleans Tribune

c)

New Orleans Times

8.

Who was the first Black American woman bank president?

a)

Madam CJ Walker

b)

Maggie Lena Walker

c)

Vanessa Redgrave

9.

Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her to become the first African American female millionaire?

a)

Madam C.J. Walker

b)

Josephine Baker

c)

Janice Walker

10.

Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the New York Stock Exchange?

a)

Joseph Smith

b)

Joseph Johnson

c)

Joseph L. Searles

11.

The Johnson Publishing Company was founded in Chicago in 1945 by what person?

a)

John H. Johnson

b)

Johnson George

c)

John A. Johnson

12.

Established in 1945, this publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines is the world's largest black-owned publishing company. Name it

a)

New York Magazine Corporation

b)

Johnson Publishing Company

c)

Chicago Free Press

13.

Who was the founder and president of the first Black American national labor union in 1869?

a)

Isaac Myers

b)

Isaac Legree

c)

Isaac Carree

14.

Returning to Kentucky after serving in the Union Army during the Civil War, Peter Postel, Sr. opened what type of business?

a)

Beauty Shop

b)

Grocery store

c)

Babershop

d)

CLeaning Business

15.

The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

WEB Dubois

16.

What famous Black American was a reporter on the CBS television program 60 Minutes?

a)

Al Roker

b)

TJ Holmes

c)

Ed Bradley

17.

Who was the founder of the first African-American femaleowned Wall Street financial services corporation.

a)

Patricia Garrison Corbin

b)

Melody Hobson

c)

Vanessa Williams

18.

Bernard Shaw was the Chief Washington Correspondent for what major television station?

a)

CNN

b)

HLN

c)

MSNBC

19.

For what is Wally Amos famous?

a)

Chocolate chip cookies

b)

Moon Pies

c)

Oreo Cookies

20.

Who founded the National Negro Business League in 1900?

a)

Garret Morgan

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

Langston Hughes

21.

Who was the first Black man to appear on the cover of Life magazine?

a)

James Baldwin

b)

Billy Eckstine

c)

Colin Powell

22.

Name at least two black 1980s television show producers.

a)

Bill Cosby

b)

Tim Reid

c)

Debbie Allen

d)

Quincy Jones

e)

All of the above

23.

In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?

a)

Ebony Magazine

b)

BET

c)

Dudley Hair Products

24.

One of the first black organized labor unions, the Associated Colored Employees of America was formed in what year?

a)

1900

b)

1917

c)

1955

d)

1975

25.

In what year did Maggie Lena Walker become the first Black American woman bank president?

a)

1975

b)

2010

c)

1903

26.

In what year did the first African indentured servants arrive at Jamestown, Virginia?

a)

1625

b)

1619

c)

1700

d)

1745

27.

Before A. Philip Randolph established a successful labor union for black train porters, approximately how much money were these workers paid per day?

a)

0.50 Cents

b)

$1.00

c)

$2.00

28.

What organization helps fund over forty Black American colleges?

a)

United Negro College Fund

b)

NAACP

c)

National Association for Colored Women

29.

What is the name of the institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881?

a)

Hampton University

b)

Tuskegee Institute

c)

Howard University

30.

Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction of being America's oldest historically black college for women?

a)

Spelman

b)

Livingston College

c)

SC State University

31.

Who was the first Black American to receive a doctorate in Physics from Yale University?

a)

Patrick Henry

b)

Patrick Healy

c)

Patrick Hale

32.

What college, originally established as Augusta Institute, was organized by three ministers in the basement of a Baptist church in 1867?

a)

Spelman College

b)

Paine College

c)

Moorehouse College

33.

In 1913 Delta Sigma Theta sorority was formed at what university?

a)

Bethune Cookman College

b)

Howard University

c)

Fisk University

34.

W.E.B. Du Bois was the first Black American to receive a Ph.D. from what prestigious university?

a)

Harvard University

b)

Princeton University

c)

New York University

35.

What state has the most black institutions of higher learning?

a)

Virginia

b)

Georgia

c)

South Carolina

d)

Alabama

36.

At age 49, she became the first African American school superintendent in Kentucky. Name her.

a)

Mary Bethune

b)

Elaine Farris

c)

Condolesa Rice

37.

Who was the principal at Tuskegee Institute who recruited and hired George Washington Carver?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

WEB Dubuois

38.

Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary McLeod Bethune found?

a)

Bethune Cookman College

b)

Paine College

c)

Johnson C. Smith College

39.

Who was the first Black president of the school board in Atlanta, Georgia?

a)

Benjamin Baneker

b)

Benjamin E. Mays

c)

Benjamin Button

40.

In 1908, what was the first black sorority founded at Howard University?

a)

Delta Sigma Theta

b)

Alpha Kappa Alpha

c)

Zeta Phi Beta

d)

Sigma Gamma Rho

41.

In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court order school integration?

a)

1972

b)

1955

c)

1954

d)

1960

42.

Fisk University was established in Nashville, Tennessee as a liberal arts institution in what year?

a)

1865

b)

1866

c)

1872

d)

1888

43.

How many historically black colleges and universities are there today in the United Sates?

a)

100

b)

102

c)

200

d)

105