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Black History Month Trivia (February 28, 2023)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the nickname for the all Black 332nd Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps which escorted Allied Bombers through European airspace on more than 1,500 missions during World War II?

a)

Flying Blue Aces

b)

Tuskegee Airmen

c)

92nd bomber squadron

2.

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

a)

food distribution

b)

investment advice

c)

beauty products

3.

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

a)

Clarence Thomas

b)

Thurgood Marshall

c)

Hugo Black

4.

Garrett Morgan is responsible for which two inventions?

a)

Traffic light, gas mask

b)

Traffic light, cars

c)

Gas mask, stop sign

5.

Charles Drew is responsible for which of the following?

a)

refrigerator

b)

blood banks

c)

plastic surgery

6.

She was the first African American to publish her writings.

a)

Phyllis Wheatley

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Marion Shea

7.

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

a)

Wilt Chamberlain

b)

Lebron James

c)

Earl "the Pearl" Monroe

8.

Arthur Ashe was a famous _________.

a)

basketball player

b)

tennis player

c)

track star

9.

Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?

a)

Mary Mcleod Bethune

b)

Rosa Parks

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Sojourner Truth

10.

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

Maria Stewart

11.

What boxer's original name is Cassius Clay?

a)

Mike Tyson

b)

George Foreman

c)

Sugar Ray Robinson

d)

Muhammad Ali

12.

What former slave published the newspaper "The North Star"?

a)

David Walker

b)

William Wells Brown

c)

Fredrick Douglass

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

13.

Who was the first black woman to speak out publicly against slavery?

a)

Maria Stewart

b)

Sojourner Truth

c)

Mary Mcleod Bethune

d)

Francis Watkins Harper

14.

Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?

a)

Marcus Williams

b)

Medgar Evans

c)

Emmett Till

d)

Marcus Garvey

15.

Who founded the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama?

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Marcus Garvey

c)

W.E.B. Dubois

d)

William Wells Brown

16.

Who is considered the "Father of Black History"?

a)

Malcolm X

b)

Carter G. Woodson

c)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d)

Jesse Jackson

17.

Who is the democratic Senator from Chicago elected president in 2008?

a)

Bill Clinton

b)

Ronald Reagan

c)

George W. Bush

d)

Barack Obama

18.

George Washington Carver discovered a way to use what food for many different purposes?

a)

apples

b)

peanuts

c)

ice cream

d)

bacon

19.

What sport did Jackie Robinson play?

a)

basketball

b)

football

c)

baseball

d)

soccer

20.

Which famous African American worked for NASA and helped put the first Americans in space and on the moon?

a)

Rosa Parks

b)

Katherine Johnson

c)

Ruby Bridges

d)

Mae Jemison