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Black History Trivia Bowl

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first African American to serve as a US Supreme Court Justice?

a)

Clarence Thomas

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

William Henry Hastie

d)

Charles Hamilton Houston

2.

What major sport was Arthur Ashe known for playing?

a)

A Tennis player

b)

A Basketball player

c)

A Track star

d)

None of these

3.

Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?

a)

Jackie Robinson

b)

Ernie Banks

c)

Satchel Paige

d)

Larry Doby

4.

Garrett Morgan is responsible for which of two inventions?

a)

Traffic light

b)

Gas mask, stop sign

c)

Traffic light, gas mask

d)

cars, bike

5.

Charles Drew is responsible for which of the following?

a)

Blood banks

b)

Refrigerator

c)

Plastic surgery

d)

None of these

6.

Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?

a)

Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

Ralph Bunche

c)

Nelson Mandela

d)

Albert John Lutul

7.

Jackie Robinson was the first African American to do what?

a)

Play major league baseball

b)

Play major league cricket

c)

Play major league football

d)

Play major league hockey

8.

Who was the first African American to publish her writings?

a)

Ida Wells

b)

Marion Shea

c)

Phyllis Wheatly

d)

None of these

9.

Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?

a)

Carol Moseley Braun

b)

Edward Brooke

c)

Hiram Revels

d)

Blanche K. Bruce

10.

Question: Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?

a)

Dorothy Dandridge

b)

Sidney Poitier

c)

Hattie McDaniel

d)

Halle Berry

11.

Who was the Ladies World Figure Skating Championship in 1986?

a)

Dorthy Hamil

b)

Peggy Flemming

c)

Debbie Thomas

d)

None of these

12.

What year was the Thirteenth Amendment ratified, abolishing slavery?

a)

1867

b)

1865

c)

1862

d)

1872

13.

Who holds the record of 100 points scored in a single NBA game?

a)

Earl “the Pearl” Monroe

b)

Wilt Chamberlain

c)

Lebron James

d)

None of these

14.

Who was the first African American to perform at the White House?

a)

Louis Armstrong

b)

Aretha Franklin

c)

Blind Tom Wiggins

d)

B.B. King

15.

Who signed The Emancipation Act?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

James Buchanan

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

Andrew Johnson

16.

What service did the first African American female millionaire, Madame C.J. Walker, provide?

a)

Investment advice

b)

Beauty products

c)

Food distribution

d)

None of these

17.

Who was the only African American among the original NAACP executives?

a)

Frederick Douglass

b)

W.E.B. Du Bois

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Rosa Parks

18.

In what year did Harriet Tubman escape slavery?

a)

1849

b)

1797

c)

1969

d)

1965

19.

Who was the first African American Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Clarence Thomas

c)

Hugo Black

d)

None of these

20.

Who wrote the Black National Anthem?

a)

Nat King Cole

b)

James Weldon Johnson

c)

Ray Charles

d)

Quincy Jones

21.

Who is the organizer of the Million Man March that took place on October 16, 1995?

a)

Thurgood Marshall

b)

Louis Farrakhan

c)

Richard Theodore Greener

d)

W. E. B. Du Bois

22.

What was the first Black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?

a)

BET Black Entertainment Television

b)

Jumpman

c)

Johnson and Johnson

d)

None of these

23.

I was the first black woman ever to serve in the U.S. congress in 1968 as a representative from New York.

a)

Sally Bayne

b)

Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable

c)

Shirley Chisolm

d)

Rosa Parks

24.

Who was the first African American poet to win a Pulitzer Prize?

a)

Gwendolyn Brooks

b)

Maya Angelou

c)

Terry McMillian

d)

None of these

25.

Who was the first African American Mayor in the city of Gary, Indiana?

a)

Karen Freeman Wilson

b)

Richard G. Hatcher

c)

Scott King

d)

Jerome Prince

26.

Who was the first African-American to appear on a U.S. postage stamp?

a)

Jackie Robinson

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Booker T. Washington

d)

Harriet Tubman

27.

What state was the first to elect a black governor, doing so in 1989?

a)

Mississippi

b)

Delaware

c)

Virginia

d)

Washington

28.

What does Juneteenth mean?

a)

Negro history week

b)

Civil Rights movement

c)

the end of slavery in the U.S.

d)

voter registration

29.

Which American President signed the Civil Rights Act?

a)

President Bill Clinton

b)

President Ronald Reagan

c)

President Richards Nixon

d)

President Lyndon B. Johnson

30.

Sarah Goode was the first African American woman to receive a patent. What did she invent?

a)

Folding Bed

b)

Hair Straightening System

c)

Lipstick

d)

Dry-Cleaning Process

31.

Who said “The time is always right to do what is right?

a)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

b)

I don't know.

32.

Who was the first African American President of the United States?

a)

President Barack Obama

b)

George Washington

33.

In what year were the first Africans brought to America to work as slaves?

a)

1619

b)

2020

34.

I refused to give up my seat on a public bus, which sparked the Montgomery, AL bus boycott?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

George Washington

35.

I was the first African American male to win an Oscar.

a)

Sidney Poitier

b)

George Washington

36.

I was the first African American male to pilot and command a space shuttle mission?

a)

Frederick D. Gregory

b)

George Washington

37.

Who was the founder of People United to Serve Humanity (PUSH)?

a)

Rev. Jesse Jackson

b)

Mr. Sandlin

38.

Who published the Newspaper “The North Star”?

a)

Fredrick Douglas

b)

Henry Winkler

39.

What is the name of the first female Egyptian Pharaoh?

a)

Cleopatra

b)

Sponge Bob

40.

Which colony was the first to legalize slavery?

a)

Massachusetts

b)

Gary, IN

41.

Who was the first African American woman to win the Miss America Pageant?

a)

Vanessa L. Williams

b)

Hillary Clinton

42.

Who said “Bringing the gifts that my ancestor gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise”?

a)

Maya Angelou

b)

Michelle Obama

43.

Who said “I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American History”?

a)

Morgan Freeman

b)

Mickey Mantle

44.

I am ranked as the second bestselling female artist of the 21st century with record sales over 37 million dollars?

a)

Beyonce Knowles

b)

Shakira

45.

What group launched the Freedom Rides in 1961?

a)

CORE-Congress of Racial Equality

b)

Disney World

46.

What was Muhammad Ali's original name?

a)

Cassius Clay - He changed his name after joining the Nation of Islam in 1964.

b)

Mickey Mouse

47.

In 1960, four African American college students staged a sit-in that helped integrate this store's lunch counter.

a)

Woolworth's - The store was in downtown Greensboro, N.C.

b)

JC PENNY

48.

Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?

a)

Malcom X

b)

Charlie Chaplan

49.

Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

George Washington

50.

I was the first basketball player to score 100 points in a single game during 1961 season and first NBA player to score 30,000 points.

a)

Wilt Chamberlain

b)

Prince