Black History Trivia Flashcards
(800 cards)
1
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What national organization was founded on President
Lincoln’s Birthday?
A
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (or
NAACP)
2
Q
In 1905 the first black symphony was founded. What
was it called?
A
Philadelphia Concert Orchestra
3
Q
The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in what
year?
A
1852
4
Q
In what state is Tuskegee Institute located?
A
Alabama
5
Q
Who was the first Black American inducted into the Pro
Football Hall of Fame?
A
Emlen Tunnell
6
Q
In 1986, Dexter Gordan was nominated for an Oscar for
his performance in what film?
A
Round Midnight
7
Q
During the first two-thirds of the seventeenth century
what two countries dominated the African slave trade?
A
Holland and Portugal
8
Q
In 1994, which president named Eddie Jordan, Jr. as the
first African American to hold the post of U.S. Attorney
in the state of Louisiana?
A
President Bill Clinton
9
Q
Frank Robinson became the first Black American
manager in major league baseball for what team?
A
Cleveland Indians
10
Q
What company has a successful series of television
commercials that started in 1974 and features Bill
Cosby?
A
Jell-O
11
Q
He worked for the NAACP and became the first field
secretary in Jackson, Mississippi. He was shot in June
1963. Who was he?
A
Medgar Evers
12
Q
Performing in evening attire, these stars of The Creole
Show were the first African American couple to perform
on Broadway. Name them.
A
Charles Johnson and Dora Dean
13
Q
How many Gold Medals did track and field athlete Carl
Lewis win in his career?
A
Nine
14
Q
In 1910 about fifty percent of black labor force was
employed in what industry?
A
Agriculture
15
Q
Who championed the principle of industrial/vocational
education for black people?
A
Booker T. Washington
16
Q
What do many historians call the period immediately
following the Civil War?
A
Reconstruction
17
Q
Which rapper known for such albums as Black on Both
Sides began rhyming at age nine in his hometown of
Brooklyn, New York?
A
Mos Def
18
Q
In 1954 Dorothy Dandridge was the first black actress to
receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress
in what film?
A
Carmen Jones
19
Q
What Black American actress had roles in the movies A
Raisin in the Sun and Blues for Mr. Charlie ?
A
Diana Sands
20
Q
Evelyn King received gold records for her songs Shame
(1978) and I Don’t Know If It’s Right (1979). What was
this artist’s nickname?
A
Champagne
21
Q
F. E. Whitney assisted with the development and
construction of the first subdivision developed by
African Americans in Hopkinsville. Name it.
A
the Gladys-Gail Village
22
Q
What Alex Haley novel was made into a television miniseries in 1977 and 1979
A
Roots
23
Q
What was the title of tennis great Arthur Ashe’s threevolume history penned in 1988?
A
A Hard Road to Glory
24
Q
With 20 years’ service, who was the longest serving
African American member of the Kentucky General
Assembly?
A
Senator Georgia Powers
25
Which Union general is credited with burning Atlanta
during the Civil War?
General William T. Sherman
26
Who was the founder of the National Negro Finance
Corporation?
Robert Moton
27
A painting of what African American performer was
unveiled in 1902 at the coronation of King Edward VII
and exhibited at the Paris Expo?
Dora Dean
28
What household item was invented by Sarah Boone?
Ironing board
29
Mary Eliza Merritt, the first African American nurse
licensed in Kentucky, was awarded a certificate of merit
from what U.S. President?
President Woodrow Wilson
30
The first black elected to the Kentucky legislature,
Charles W. Anderson was also appointed alternate
delegate to what body?
United Nations
31
Who developed an advance method for determining the
metal content of ore?
Charles Spurgeon Fletcher
32
What famous scientist and biologist said, “God gave
them to me, why should I claim to own them” with
regard to his discoveries and inventions?
George Washington Carver
33
What song has become Count Basie’s theme song and
was later recorded by many different music groups?
One O’clock Jump
34
What Black American physician was referred to as “The
principal historian of the Negro in medicine” in 1970?
W. Montague Cobb
35
From what university did James Meredith graduate? Add
significance
University of Mississippi
36
Elizabeth Catlett Mora is a graphic artist and printmaker.
For what other type of work is she best known?
Sculpture
37
Whose series Political Satires were published in the
Kentucky New Era from 1908-1912?
Ephraim Poston
38
He was a minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church, a
congressman, and a civil rights advocate. Who was he?
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
39
Lena Horne began her career as a singer and dancer in
what New York entertainment club?
The Cotton Club
40
After an early childhood spent in Barbabos and a
successful career as a teacher, she was elected to the
New York Assembly. She then became the first black
woman to serve in the U.S. Congress where she worked
for 13 years. Name her.
Shirley Chisholm
41
Who invented the golf tee?
G.F. Grant
42
Who is explorer Matthew Henson buried next to?
Admiral Robert E. Peary
43
What native American tribe named James Beckwourth a
chief and called him “Bull’s Robe”?
The Crow
44
In what year did Dehart Hubbard become the first Black
American to win the Olympic gold medal in the broad
jump?
1924
45
What Black American was once ranked as the number
one tennis player in the world?
Arthur Ashe
46
Who was the first Black American mayor of Detroit?
Coleman Young
47
What was Joe Louis’s overall professional boxing
record?
68 wins, 3 loses
48
Who is Mary Ann Shadd Cary?
Black Newspaperwoman
49
Elected in Washington County in 1973, who became the
first African American jailer in Kentucky?
George Melwood Hocker
50
Who is called “The Queen of the Blues”?
Dinah Washington
51
In 1890, Lewis Latimer became the chief draftsman of
what company?
Edison Electric Light Company
52
Who was the first Black American to receive a degree
from Harvard University?
Richard Greener
53
Who founded the Southern Leadership Conference?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
54
What Hopkinsville native penned the children's books
Happy to be Nappy and Be Boy Buzz ?
bell hooks
55
Who was the first Black American professionally trained
as a registered nurse in the United States?
Mary Mahoney
56
This Grammy award winning gospel singer, arranger,
and composer who worked with many groups and large
choirs in the 1950s and 1960s is credited with being the
most significant driving force behind the creation of the
contemporary gospel sound. Name him.
James Cleveland
57
Who was the first Black American to play in the
National Hockey League?
Val James
58
He was interested in plants at an early age and was an
agriculturist who developed peanut products. Who was
he?
George Washington Carver
59
Who was the first Black American woman to be elected
to the 20th Century Club of Boston?
Charlotte Hawkins Brown
60
Who was the first Black American pitcher to win the Cy
Young award in the American League?
Vida Blue
61
Who was the first Black American woman to be elected
to the 20th Century Club of Boston?
Charles Harrison Mason
62
In the 1920s the Lindy Hop was made famous at this
Harlem dance venue.
The Savoy Ballroom
63
What state's government passed a law that formally
recognized slavery as an institution in 1661?
Virginia's
64
In what three years was Harlem hit with race riots?
1935, 1943 and 1964
65
What major tennis tournament did Althea Gibson win in
1956?
French Championship open?
66
At the age of 24, this golfer won the 82nd PGA
Championship, beating Bob May in a three-hole playoff
at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, on
August 20, 2000. Name him.
Tiger Woods
67
Who was the female lead singer of 5th Dimension, a
popular group of the 1960s and 1970s?
Marilyn McCoo
68
Who received the NAACP Key of Life Award in 1988?
Dorothy Height
69
Who was the first African American cave explorer and
the first guide and explorer of Mammoth Cave; which is
the world's longest cave system?
Stephen Bishop
70
Jorno Kenyatta was a leader of what country?
Kenya
71
In what year did all 50 states recognize Martin Luther
King Day?
1993
72
What Motown song writer/producer trio was inducted
into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990?
Holland, Dozier, & Holland
73
What engineer from New Orleans patented the sugar
refinery?
Norbert Rillieux
74
W.A. Martin patented what security device?
Door lock
75
Dorothy Height was the president of what organization?
National Council of Negro Women
76
Who was the first American born Black man to be
ordained a Roman Catholic priest?
Father Tolton
77
What is the name of B.B. King’s guitar?
“Lucille”
78
This director, screenwriter and actor was born in Atlanta
but relocated to Brooklyn, where he later established a
film company. Whether working with a low-budget and
unknown actors or Hollywood heavyweights, his films
continue to be controversial and push racial boundaries.
Name him.
Spike Lee
79
The first known slave narrative was A Narrative of the
Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of
Briton Hammon, a Negro Man . In what year was it
published?
1760
80
The Mighty Clouds of Joy became the first gospel
quartet to use electric keyboards, electric bass, and
drums. They were nicknamed what because they
modeled their singing and dance steps on the style of
contemporary soul music groups?
the Temptations of gospel
81
Appointed by Governor Steve Beshear in 2007, who was
the first African American to be appointed Secretary of
the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet?
J. Michael Brown
82
Which black soldiers were with General George
Washington when he crossed the Delaware River on
Christmas Day in 1776?
Oliver Cromwell and Prince
Whipple
83
Who was the founder and president of the first Black
American national labor union in 1869?
Isaac Myers
84
Who became the University of Tennessee's all-time
leading scorer in 1994?
Allan W. Houston, Jr
85
What major league baseball hitter won the most batting
titles during the 1971 season?
Rod Carew
86
Who was known as the “Dean of the Negro
Newspapermen”?
T. Thomas Fortune
87
In the late nineteenth century there was a system of laws
that enforced racial discrimination in the United States.
What was it called?
Jim Crow
88
Who was the first Black American woman to be
recognized as an award-winning composer?
Florence Price
89
In 1854, to what country did Norbert Rillieux go when
he could no longer tolerate the discrimination and
prejudice he experienced in America?
France
90
In 1983 who became the first black mayor of Chicago,
Illinois?
Harold Washington
91
By the time Thurgood Marshall reached the age of 40,
what nickname had he earned from the press?
Mr. Civil Rights
92
Which one of composer/pianist Anthony Davis' operas
premiered in Philadelphia in 1985 and was performed by
the New York City Opera in 1986?
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm
X
93
Who was the first Black American to appear on the
cover of Vogue magazine?
Beverly Johnson
94
Dr. Ronald McNair was a black astronaut who made his
first space shuttle mission in 1984. Unfortunately, his
last space mission was never completed. What happened
to him and his crew members on January 28, 1986?
The space shuttle that Dr. McNair
and six other astronauts were in
exploded after takeoff in Cape
Canaveral, Florida.
95
Born in Benham, KY, who, at the age of 25, became
head coach at the University of San Diego and the
youngest college coach in the U.S. at that time?
Bernard T. "Bernie" Bickerstaff, Sr
96
Who was a sidekick on The Jack Benny Show?
Eddie “Rochester” Anderson
97
President Richard Nixon presented the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1969 to what great musician?
Duke Ellington
98
In 1927, what Black American scientist and inventor
received a patent for his process of producing paint?
George Washington Carver
99
A pediatrician and founder of what medical facility,
Grace Marilynn James was the first African American
woman member of the Jefferson County Medical
Society and the first African American woman admitted
to the University of Louisville School of Medicine?
the West Louisville Medical Center
100
Who was regarded as a master guitar player and
developed a program for learning the guitar?
Justin Howard
101
In what year did Althea Gibson become the first Black
American to win a major tennis title?
1957
102
Mary McLeod Bethune practiced the philosophy of what
prominent educator?
Booker T. Washington
103
What Kentucky college was integrated with black and
white students in 1858, but discontinued the biracial mix
in 1904?
Berea College
104
President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed what attorney as
a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
105
In what year did the U.S. Navy commission its first
group of black officers?
1944
106
Hiram Revels, the first black elected to serve in the U.S.
Senate in 1870, was selected to fill in the unexpired term
of whom?
Jefferson Davis
107
President Jimmy Carter honored the 761st Tank
Battalion, an all black unit, for fighting in what war?
World War II
108
He became the first African American since 1897 to
represent South Carolina in the U.S. Congress. Name
him.
James Clyburn
109
Who was the first African American baseball player at
the University of Kentucky?
Derek Bryant
110
Henry Bibb was a fugitive slave narrator and journalist.
He emigrated to what country?
Canada
111
Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson were writers
of the Harlem Renaissance period. Which one of them
was born in Jamaica?
Claude McKay
112
Ralph Ellison turned to writing after his career in what
field was not successful?
Music
113
Who was the first African American to be awarded the
Navy Cross, the third highest honor awarded by the US
Navy at the time, for bravery shown during the attack on
Pearl Harbor?
Doris Miller
114
This person was born in Christian County, Kentucky, in
1874, was the son of former slaves, saved enough money
to attend school, became a school teacher, founded three
newspapers, was a painter, a poet, and a lawyer. Who
was he?
Claybron W. Merriweather
115
Who started the Gold Medal Awards, later named for
him, which recognized the highest or noblest
achievement by a Black American?
Joel E. Springarn
116
What woman, born in Hancock County, KY, became the
first African American switchboard operator at the U.S.
Post Office in South Bend, Indiana in 1959?
Julia E. Jackson Aikens
117
What successful businessman was also the founder of
Negro Free Masonry?
Prince Hall
118
Born in Kentucky, Carl Maxie Brashear, the first
African American Navy master diver, lost the lower part
of his left leg in an accident on what naval ship?
the USS Hoist
119
What will be the longest, continuously running, first-run
syndicated television program until at least 2016?
Soul Train
120
Ernest J. Gaines is a short story writer who wrote a 1971
historical novel turned television movie whose main
character was a 110 year-old woman who narrated her
personal experiences. Name the novel.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane
Pittman
121
What musical genre emerged from three heavily
populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the
Piedmont, and East Texas?
The blues
122
In 1982, Louis Gossett, Jr. won an Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actor for his work in what film?
An Officer and A Gentleman
123
Generating revenues over $88 billion dollars annually,
how many black-owned businesses were there in the
United States in 2002?
nearly 1.2 million
124
Five years after acting in the television mini-series
Roots, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting
Actor in An Officer and A Gentleman. What is his
name?
Louis Gossett, Jr.
125
The "PUSH" in Operation PUSH, founded by Rev. Jesse
Jackson, stand for what?
People United to Serve Humanity
126
Music historians refer to what type of music as the first
Black American music?
Spiritual
127
Who became a justice of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania in 1972?
Robert N.C. Nix, Jr
128
Published in 1907, what was the title of the first of six
Claybron Merriweather books?
Light and Shadows
129
She was a forward who scored 47 points in the final
game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) tournament in 1993. She led Texas Tech to the
national championship. Who is she?
Sheryl Swoopes
130
What movement did Marcus Garvey believe to be the
answer to the problems of Black Americans?
Back to Africa
131
General Benjamin Butler of the Union Army refused to
return runaway slaves to their masters. What term did he
use to describe them?
“Contraband of war”
132
Who helped form the “American Moral Reform
Society”, which helped Blacks acquire farms and aided
runaway slaves in their escape to Canada?
William S. Whipper
133
What African American served as the U.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations from 2013-2017?
Susan Rice
134
What Black American invented the railway telegraph?
Granville T. Woods
135
What was the name of the character played by Bill
Cosby in The Cosby Show?
Dr. Cliff Huxtable
136
What was the first African American periodical
newspaper published in the United States?
Freedom’s Journal
137
What famous singer played guitar for Little Richard
before starting his solo career?
Jimi Hendrix
138
What devoted follower of Elijah Muhammad left the
Nation of Islam in 1964 to form a militant group called
Muslim Mosque?
Malcolm X
139
In 1866, what library was the first desegregated library
in Kentucky and the South?
Berea College Library
140
Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" ?
Zora Neale Hurston
141
In 1991, what became the first black-controlled
company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
BET
142
Jackie Robinson appeared on what value US postage
stamp?
15 cent
143
Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S.
Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
144
Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, what guitar and
harmonica player worked with "Sonny Boy" Williamson
and Muddy Waters?
John Brim
145
NBA superstar Michael Jordan played college basketball
at what university?
University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill
146
Name the founder of the quarterly publication Journal
of Negro History and Negro History Week (now Black
History Month) who also established the first historical
society devoted exclusively to research on the black
American.
Carter G. Woodson
147
In what year did the United States abolish slavery?
1865
148
What actor and stand up comedian warned others of the
dangers of drug abuse after his own near death
experience?
Richard Pryor
149
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams served as professor of clinical
surgery at what medical facility?
Meharry Medical College in
Nashville, Tennessee
150
How many books did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. write?
5
151
Ed Bradley was a member of what news team?
60 Minutes
152
Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro
Improvement Association (UNIA), founded a monthly
magazine entitled Black Man in what country?
Jamaica
153
Jackie Robinson excelled in four sports at what
university?
University of California at Los
Angeles (UCLA)
154
Name the three journalist sons of educator, poet, and
author Ephraim Poston?
Ulysses, Robert, and Ted Poston
155
Who is a pioneer in tooth transplantation research and a
graduate of Howard University?
Dr. Harold Fleming
156
Serving five four-year terms, who was the first African
American and first woman in the Kentucky Senate?
Georgia D. Powers
157
Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher were elected as
mayor's of US cities on what date?
November 7, 1967
158
Cheyney State, the oldest Black American college, was
founded in what year?
1837
159
In what year did Joe Frazier defend his boxing title
against Muhammad Ali?
1971
160
What is the name of the California Hotel designed by
Paul Williams?
Beverly Wilshire Hotel
161
Mayor
162
As leader of the boycott organization in Montgomery,
Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his
initial civil rights address at what church in Montgomery
in 1955?
Holt Street Baptist Church
163
What was Jackie Robinson’s lifetime batting average?
0.311
164
Born a slave in Montgomery County, KY, the original
"Aunt Jemima," received a lifetime contract and traveled
all over the country promoting the product until her
death in 1923. Name her.
Nancy Green
165
What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in
1945?
Ebony
166
Who was the first Black American to win the Mr.
American title?
Chris Dickerson
167
Carl J. Murphy served on the Board of Directors of the
NAACP for how many years?
36
168
In 1982 what Kentucky State University museum
became a major repository for the collection of artifacts,
books, and records related to its history of educating
black citizens?
Center of Excellence for the Study
of Kentucky African Americans
(CESKAA)
169
In 1949, what religious movement did Malcolm X join?
Nation of Islam
170
What early 20th century artist was the first blues singer
to have a recording contract?
Mamie Smith
171
What president vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau bill and
the Civil Rights bill?
President Andrew Johnson
172
Who is called the “queen of hip-hop soul?”
Mary J. Blige
173
Who did Sugar Ray Robinson beat in the 1951
middleweight championship?
Jake Lamotta
174
Barney Ford, a former slave, gained his freedom by
doing what?
Escaping to Chicago via the
Underground Railroad
175
The New Orleans Tribune, the first black daily
newspaper was founded in New Orleans in what year?
1864
176
Having studied eight languages, this pastor, author, and
member of the Kentucky Board of Education served in
the U.S. Army as a multilingual interpreter and taught
foreign languages?
Dr. Clyde B. Akins, Sr.
177
Who invented the incubator?
Granville T. Woods
178
Name the group who performed the 1970s hit Smoke
Gets in Your Eyes and was inducted into the Vocal
Group Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Platters
179
What country secured a monopoly over the slave trade to
the New World in 1713?
England
180
Who said, “Every race and every nation should be
judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the
worst?"
James Weldon Johnson
181
Nashville's first ordained African American minister,
Nelson Merry founded what church of more than 2,000
members, the largest church in Tennessee during his
time?
The First Colored Baptist Church
182
What was Sojourner Truth’s name when she was a slave
in Ulster County, New York?
Isabella Baumfree
183
What was the original reason for establishing the Black
Panther Party?
Self Defense
184
Who became the first woman to chair the NAACP?
Myrlie Evers-Williams
185
In 1963 Sidney Poitier became the first Black American
to win the Best Actor Oscar for his role in what film?
Lillie’s of the Field
186
Who was the Confederate president during the Civil
War?
Jefferson Davis
187
Chosen as the first Black manager in baseball’s
American League, who managed the Cleveland Indians
beginning in 1974?
Frank Robinson
188
What is MC Hammer’s real name?
Stanley Kirk Burrell
189
Sarah Breedlove Walker developed special hair care
products for black women. Among them was the hot
comb. By what name she was known?
Madam C.J. Walker
190
In what year did Jackie Robinson become the first Black
American to win the MVP award in baseball?
1949
191
What was the name of the crude sugar refining process
Norbert Rillieux’s invention made obsolete?
Jamaica Train
192
What actor played Charlie “Bird” Parker in the 1988
movie Bird
Forest Whitaker
193
Marlin Briscoe was the first Black starting quarterback
for what football team?
Denver Broncos
194
What Hopkinsville natives and brothers owned and
edited The Detroit Contender ?
Ulysses and Robert Poston
195
Who became the first Black American awarded a
Rhodes Scholarship in 1940?
Alain Leroy Locke
196
What basketball star center perfected a shot known as
the “skyhook”?
Kareem Abdul-Jabar
197
George Washington Carver’s mule-drawn wagon often
went to area farmers to teach them about improving crop
yields. What was this wagon called?
Moveable School
198
Willie Mays received a bonus of how much money when
he signed with the New York Giants?
$5,000
199
James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson were featured in
what dramatic series from 1963 to 1964?
East Side, West Side
200
Who invented a revolving brush used to clean streets?
Charles Brooks
201
Entited Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , whose 1861
work was the first to be authored by a black female
former slave?
Harriet A. Jacobs'
202
Who founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity?
Malcolm X
203
Jesse Stahl competed and was discriminated against in
an Oregon rodeo in the early 1900s. What did he do
when the judges did not award him first prize which he
thought he deserved?
Rode his next horse in protest by
facing backward
204
What militant group embodied the term “Black Power”?
Black Panther Party
205
St. Elmo Brady was the first African American admitted
to what chemistry honor society?
Phi Lambda Upsilon
206
Who was the first Black American heavyweight boxing
champion?
Jack Johnson
207
What Hopkinsville native was elected to the Indiana
House of Representatives in 1956 and later became a
journalist for the Indianapolis Recorder and Hoosier
Herald ?
Opal L. Tandy
208
Robert Johnson, Sam Cooke, and Ray Charles were
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what
year?
1986
209
Under what name did poet Amiri Baraka publish some
of his books?
Le Roi Jones
210
Bill Pickett was a rodeo star who chased down a steer on
horseback, jumped off, and wrestled the animal to the
ground. He invented this style of steer wrestling. By
what name was it known?
Bulldogging
211
Who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry
Annie Allen in 1949?
Gwendolyn Brooks
212
Born in 1968, who directed such films as Boyz N the
Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Baby Boy, and 2
Fast 2 Furious?
John Singleton
213
Who was the first Black American four star general in
US military history?
Daniel James, Jr
214
What was Louis Armstrong’s nickname?
Satchmo
215
Charles W. Anderson is credited with a number of early
Civil Rights measures including what Act which
provided funding for African Americans to seek higher
education out of state because Kentucky enforced higher
education segregation laws?
Anderson-Mayer State Aid Ac
216
What awards did the French government present to the
black soldiers and their battalions for bravery and
courage?
the Croix de Guerre, the
distinguished French decoration, or
Legions of Merit
217
In 1991 there were eight inductees to the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame including a husband and wife duo who
sang “Proud Mary” in 1969. Who are they?
Ike and Tina Turner
218
What was the profession of Garland H. Brooks,
Hopkinsville native and Howard University graduate?
Pharmacist
219
Before A. Philip Randolph established a successful labor
union for black train porters, approximately how much
money were these workers paid per day?
$2.00
220
Detroit was struck with race riots in what two years?
1943 and 1967
221
What test was given to potential Black voters to
determine whether they understood the U.S. Constitution
and could read?
Literacy test
222
Maynard Jackson became the first Black American
mayor of what city?
Atlanta
223
Who developed the first airborne radar system that was
used for locating downed aircraft?
Ozzie Williams
224
Established in 1945, this publisher of Ebony and Jet
magazines is the world's largest black-owned publishing
company. Name it.
Johnson Publishing Company
225
Who founded the National Negro Business League in
1900?
Booker T. Washington
226
What actor appeared in the play Emperor Jones in 1925?
Paul Robeson
227
What was the name of the first magazine published by
John H. Johnson?
Negro Digest
228
What explorer departed fro a famous expedition aboard
the ship “Roosevelt” on July 6, 1908?
Matthew Henson
229
Who was the first Black American to fly with the Blue
Angels?
Donnie Cochran
230
What lawsuit, the third filed by the NAACP, was filed in
Federal District Court in 1940 on behalf of an African
American teacher who received 15% less salary than
white teachers?
Abbington v Board of Education of
Louisville
231
Who played the character of “Denise” in the Cosby
Show?
Lisa Bonet
232
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., a member of the Tuskegee
Airmen, was the first black general of the Air Force. He
was instrumental in getting what president to end
segregation in the armed forces?
President Harry S. Truman
233
Who was the first Black American woman elected to a
state legislature?
Crystal Bird Fauset
234
Fisk University was established in Nashville, Tennessee
as a liberal arts institution in what year?
1865
235
Billie Holiday’s life was the subject of what famous
film?
Lady Sings the Blues
236
Who founded an economic program called “The People
United to Save Humanity”?
Jesse Jackson
237
Dionne Warwick had numerous hits on the Billboard
music charts. Say A Little Prayer and I’ll Never Love
This Way Again went gold. She recorded Then Came
You with a popular male group and it went gold as well.
What is the name of the group?
The Spinners
238
Who is the author of Before the Mayflower ?
Leone Bennett, Jr.
239
Who was the first Black American president of the
National Baseball League?
Bill White
240
Tiger Woods became the youngest top-ranked golfer and
won over 20 championships in 2007. What is his first
name?
Eldrick
241
Julian Abele was involved in the design of what
museum?
Philadelphia Museum of Art
242
Who invented a method for growing oxide?
Corland Dugger
243
Derek Bryant, the first African American baseball player
at the University of Kentucky, was drafted by what
professional team?
Oakland Athletics
244
Who wrote the poem “A Negro Love Song”?
Paul Laurence Dunbar
245
The operas A Guest of Honor and Treemonisha were
written by whom in the early 1900s?
Scott Joplin
246
His style of funk music and dance led the way for Disco
and Hip Hop. Known as the “hardest working man in
show business” and "the godfather of soul," who is he?
James Brown
247
George Shirley was a tenor and member of what opera
company?
the Metropolitan Opera
248
Who won the French Legion of Honor award for her
work in entertaining the Work War II allies?
Josephine Baker
249
Who was Muhammad Ali’s opponent in the famous
“Thrilla in Manila” fight?
Joe Frazier
250
Bill Russell became the nation’s first Black American
head coach of what professional basketball team in 1966
Boston Celtics
251
Name 2 of the 4 colleges that make up the Atlanta
University Center, the largest contiguous consortium of
African-Americans in higher education in the United
States.
Clark Atlanta University, Spelman
College, Morehouse College, and
Morehouse School of Medicine
252
For what profession is Leona Mitchell known?
Opera Singing
253
Who was the first African-American postmaster in
Kentucky and the second in the United States?
Laura Young
254
What professional basketball star returned to the NBA
after successfully combating drug addiction, and
commented, “People say you almost lost
basketball…Well, I almost lost my life”?
John Lucas
255
What law prohibited slavery north and west of the 36-30
parallel within the Louisiana Territory?
Missouri Compromise
256
Who performed the world’s first open heart surgery?
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams
257
Who was the first Black American to receive the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1950?
Dr. Ralph Bunche
258
With what professional baseball team did Ernie Banks
start and end his career?
Chicago Cubs
259
In 1997 who became the first African American
basketball coach at the University of Kentucky?
Orlando "Tubby" Smith
260
During the Civil War, Frederick Douglass served as an
adviser to what US President?
Abraham Lincoln
261
In what year did the first Broadway play written by a
Black American woman open in New York?
1959
262
Cheyney University in Pennsylvania was funded by a
will from what Philadelphia Quaker in 1832?
Richard Humphreys
263
What famous musician’s trademark was puffing cheeks
and a trumpet bell that pointed skyward?
Dizzy Gillespie
264
Who was the first Black American national security
advisor?
Colin Powell
265
A celebration of the freedom of African American
slaves, Kentucky Representative Reginald Meeks led the
push for the creation of what holiday in Kentucky?
Juneteenth National Freedom Day
266
Barbara Jordan was a member of the 1974 House
Judiciary Committee chosen to hear Watergate
testimony which led to the resignation of what US
President?
Richard M. Nixon
267
Born in Hopkinsville, KY, the youngest of the twelve
children, what student athlete declined football
scholarships to attend Centre College, where he majored
in chemistry and math and graduated in 1973?
Raymond M. Burse
268
Who became the only Black American member of the
famous “Edison Pioneers,” a group of people who had
worked with Edison before 1885?
Lewis Latimer
269
Well-known Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley was
inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what
year?
1994
270
What does the nickname of rapper and actor LL Cool J
stand for?
Ladies Love Cool James
271
What two actress played the roll of Beulah, a
housekeeper in the 1950s television spin-off of the radio
show Fibber McGee and Molly?
Ethel Waters and Louise Beavers
272
What was the amount of the first royalty check for Berry
Gordy, Jr., founder of Motown Records?
$3.40
273
In what year did the first Black Americans Charles
Cooper, Early Lloyd, and Nathaniel Clifton play in the
NBA?
1950
274
Robert "Bob" Johnson founded Black Entertainment
Television Cable
Network (BET) in what year?
1979
275
Who was the first Black American woman president of
Spelman College?
Johnetta Cole
276
What Black American was a vice presidential candidate
at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
Julian Bond
277
The Guinness Book of World Records lists what
Michael Jackson album as the best selling album of all
times?
Thriller
278
What civil rights leader was co-founder of the NAACP
and the Pan-African Movement?
W.E.B Du Bois
279
Hyram S. Thomas was a chef who created what popular
snack?
Potato chip
280
Who was the first Black minister ordained in America?
Absalom Jones
281
Pianist Duke Ellington was a bandleader and a great
composer who played at what famous New York City
club from 1927 to 1931?
Cotton Club
282
On the TV series Magnum, P.I., what was Roger
Mosely’s nickname?
T.C.
283
Vanessa Bell appeared on what soap opera?
All My Children
284
In what year was the first all Black medical school
Meharry Medical College established?
1876
285
Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr. became the first black fourstar general in what year?
1975
286
What did Benjamin Banneker’s book Almanac
examine?
The sun, moon, and planets
287
What Black slave helped Cyrus McCormick invent his
famous reaper?
Joe Anderson
288
In what city is the Crispus Attucks Monument located?
Boston
289
In 1979, what forced Arthur Ashe to retire from
professional tennis?
Heart Attack
290
John H. Johnson
291
What Black American educator also served as an advisor
to five U.S. presidents?
Mary McLeod Bethune
292
Kunta Kinte was one the characters in what Alex Haley
book?
Roots
293
What preacher and abolitionist helped raise money for
gifts for Civil War soldiers; gave rousing, inspirational
anti-slavery speeches working with both black and white
abolitionists; and helped African-Americans relocate to
the North?
Sojourner Truth
294
Who really built the first model of steam engine, but was
unable to patent his work because he was a slave?
Benjamin Bradley
295
In what state did Nat Turner lead a slave revolt that
killed 55 white people?
Virginia
296
Inaugurated as the 44th president on January 20, 2009,
who became the first African American president of the
United States?
Barack Hussein Obama, II
297
Who was the first Black American elected to the
Baseball Hall of Fame?
Jackie Robinson
298
Who published the Black American medical journal in
1892?
Miles Vandahurst Lynk
299
Under the command of Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the
332nd destroyed 111 planes in the air and 150 on the
ground while never losing a single bomber. They were
awarded what honor for the service?
the Distinguished Flying Cross
300
Alfred "Sonny" Collins
301
What U.S. President developed a coalition of Black
advisors call the Black Cabinet?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
302
Georgia Douglas Johnson was a poet during the Harlem
Renaissance era. She often held writers’ workshops at
her home in what city?
Washington, D.C
303
On January 28, 1986, what space shuttle exploded 73
seconds after lift-off, killing Dr. Ronald McNair and six
of his colleagues?
Challenger
304
Who was the first African American to play football for
the New York Giants?
Emlen Tunnell
305
What heavyweight boxing champion defended his title
against Muhammad Ali in 1971?
Joe Frazier
306
August Jackson created what well-known desert?
Ice Cream
307
What black support unit drove supplies by truck to
advancing American forces and also performed yeoman
service during the Battle of the
Bulge in 1944?
The Red Ball Express
308
In 1956 Althea Gibson become the first African
American woman to win a Grand Slam title in what
sport?
Tennis
309
In what year was a national holiday proclaimed
commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday?
1983
310
John Mercer Langston was the first Black American
elected to Congress from Virginia. To what office was
he elected?
US House of Representatives
311
In 1984, what Black American singer won eight
Grammy Awards?
Michael Jackson
312
Harry Belafonte became the first black to receive an
Emmy for what show in 1959?
Tonight with Belafonte
313
Who was the first Black American woman doctor?
Rebecca Lee
314
Born into slavery in Missouri, who worked his way
through school as a farm hand and a janitor to become
an agricultural scientist whose discoveries
revolutionized southern agriculture and helped the South
move away from dependence on the cotton industry?
George Washington Carver
315
What president initially rejected the service of Black
slaves in the Union Army during the Civil War?
President Abraham Lincoln
316
Donald E. Jefferson invented what mechanism used by
construction crews?
Triggered exploding wire device
317
When Thurgood Marshall retired from the U.S. Supreme
Court, who was appointed to fill his position?
Clarence Thomas
318
Which Presbyterian minister delivered a militant speech
entitled “An Address to the Slaves of the United States”
in 1843 at the National Negro Convention in Buffalo,
New York?
Henry Highland Garnet
319
What was the name of the movie that was based on the
life of Stephen Bantu Biko, a South African freedom
fighter?
Cry Freedom
320
How many trips did Harriet Tubman make to the South
to rescue Black slaves?
19
321
What was the name of the first screenplay produced by a
Black American woman?
Georgia, Georgia
322
Leroy Paige was a great pitcher in the Negro Leagues
who also played in the major leagues in 1949. By what
name was he known?
"Satchel”
323
Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Longview, Texas;
Knoxville, Tennessee; Omaha, Nebraska; and Elaine,
Arkansas all faced race riots in what year?
1919
324
Elected to Congress in 1944, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
also became pastor of what Harlem church?
Abyssinian Baptist Church
325
What was the name of the system in which Black
Americans farmed someone else’s land and received a
split of the season’s crop?
Sharecropping
326
Who played the character “Fiddler” in the television
mini-series Roots in 1977.
Lou Gossett, Jr.
327
What Black American cartoonist became famous for the
cartoon “Cuties”?
E. Simms Campbell
328
For what is Gloria Dean Randle Scott remembered?
First black president of the Girl
Scouts of America
329
Where is Matthew Henson buried?
Arlington, VA
330
In 1909 W.E.B. Du Bois co-founded what national
organization?
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (or
NAACP)
331
In 2009, who became the dean of the University of
Kentucky (UK) College of Law, making him the state's
first African American law school dean since the
desegregation of Kentucky higher education?
David A. Brennen
332
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed by Congress. It
guaranteed what to the former slaves?
Citizenship and “equal benefits of
all laws”
333
Who was refused admission to the University of
Mississippi in 1961, forcing US Marshals to escort him
to class?
James Meredith
334
Who became the first African American billionaire in
2001?
Robert "Bob" Johnson
335
For how many weeks did Chubby Checker’s hit song,
The Twist, stay on the top 40 charts?
33
336
At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, Dehart Hubbard became
the first Black American to win the gold medal in what
event?
Broad jump
337
After over forty years, who became the second black
actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?
Denzel Washington
338
For what work did August Wilson win two Pulitzer
Prizes for Drama?
The Pittsburgh Cycle
339
How many gold metals did Jesse Owens win during the
1936 Summer Olympics?
4
340
Who was the first Black American to graduate from
West Point Military Academy and later became an
advisor to the U.S. Government?
Henry Flipper
341
Who sang the theme song for the hit TV series
Moonlighting?
Al Jarreau
342
James Beckwourth, a former slave turned trapper,
discovered Beckwourth Pass through the Sierra Nevada
mountains in 1850. The passage allowed pioneers to
reach what state more safely and quickly ?
California
343
Who provided the voice for Darth Vader in the movie
Star Wars?
James Earl Jones
344
In addition to her outstanding career as a singer, what
was Marian Anderson appointed to by President Dwight
D. Eisenhower?
US Delegate to the United States
345
What medium did Gordon Parks use to describe Black
Americans deprivation and racial discrimination?
Photography
346
Who was named NBA rookie of the year in 1965, his
first year as a center for the New York Knicks?
Willis Reed
347
In what year was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
assassinated?
1968
348
Who starred in the movie A Woman Called Moses ?
Cicely Tyson
349
What Black American sports legend was commemorated
by a postage stamp in 1982?
Jackie Robinson
350
What pop rock star devoted much of his life and music
to his belief that “children are our future”?
Michael Jackson
351
Who discovered a soybean oil extract that gave relief to
arthritis sufferers?
Dr. Percy Julian
352
What Black American designed homes for celebrities
such as Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra?
Paul Williams
353
Albert Y. Garner received a patent for what invention
used to help save lives?
A flame retardant
354
Who was the first black entertainer to sleep in the White
House?
Sammy Davis, Jr.
355
Who became Hollywood’s first Black millionaire actor?
Stepin Fetchit
356
Who was the first Black American Chosen to lead a
major political party?
Ronald Brown
357
Who was the first Black American to become a major
league umpire?
Emmett Ashford
358
After Martin Luther King Jr’s death, who succeeded him
as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference?
Ralph Abernathy
359
Jackie Robinson began and ended his major league
baseball career with what team?
Brooklyn Dodgers
360
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron ended his career with how
many RBIs?
2202
361
The “father of gospel music” was Thomas A. Dorsey. He
composed how many songs?
Over 1000
362
When Guion Bluford orbited earth aboard the
Challenger space shuttle, how fast did the space craft
move?
300 Miler per minute
363
In what year were the post-Civil War colleges Clark,
Claflin, Dillard, and Tougaloo founded?
1869
364
What city located in the Mississippi Delta has a blend of
French, Spanish, Creole, African and English cultures?
New Orleans
365
Boasting twelve number one singles on the Billboard
Hot 100 charts, what female singing group was the most
successful American vocal group of all time?
The Supremes
366
In the NBA's inaugural 1949-1950 season, how many
Black American basketball players were in the league?
0
367
In 1964 what Civil Rights Activist became the first
African American woman prosecutor in Kentucky?
Alberta Odell Jones
368
What term refers generally to the artistic and sociocultural awakening among black people in the 1920s and
early 1930s?
Harlem Renaissance
369
What football star led the NFL in rushing during the
1992-93 season and led his team to victory in Super
Bowl XXII?
Emmitt Smith
370
Elaine Farris became the first African American school
superintendent in Kentucky in 2004 over what school
district?
Shelby County
371
What Austin Peay State University building was named
for a civil rights activist and a pastor of the St. John
Missionary Baptist Church in Clarksville, TN?
the Wilbur N. Daniel African
American Culture Center
372
What was the purpose of the 1963 March on
Washington?
It demanded economic and
employment opportunities as well as
civil rights.
373
Centenary Biblical Institute was established in
Baltimore, Maryland, in 1865 by blacks after the Civil
War. Under what name does it operate today?
Morgan State University
374
What was the name of the route that James Beckwourth
discovered in the early 1850’s, helping Pioneers and
gold seekers get to California?
Beckwourth Pass
375
In 1960, Fred Whitfield,who later went on to become a
six-time world champion, was the first black cowboy to
win a title in what rodeo category?
Calf roping
376
In 1847 Rush Medical College graduated it's first
African American student , in what city?
Chicago
377
What consecutive years did Althea Gibson win the
Wimbledon Tennis Singles Championship?
1957, 1958
378
Harry C. Hopkins received a patent for enhancing what
medical device?
Hearing Aid
379
In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court order school
integration?
1955
380
Dr. Charles Drew served as director for what
organization’s blood bank?
American Red Cross
381
Who lost her teaching job due to a lawsuit against her
for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked
“Whites Only”?
Ida B. Wells
382
She is a dancer-choreographer who is also a director and
producer. She was involved with the television show
Fame. Name her.
Debbie Allen
383
What Black American inventor patented the hearing aid?
Harry Hopkins
384
Go Tell it on the Mountain , the first novel of James
Baldwin written in 1953 was about what?
Black ghetto life
385
What Black American cartoonist created the world
famous “Wee Pals”?
Morrie Turner
386
Who was the leader of the King Oliver Creole Jazz
Band?
Joseph Oliver
387
Dr. Mae Jemison was the first female black astronaut.
What was the name of the space shuttle that took her and
her crew members into space in 1992?
Endeavor
388
What US federal government agency founded over 4000
schools, including Howard University?
Freedmen’s Bureau
389
Who invented the first corn husker?
Henry Blair
390
Born in 1957, what is the full name of the director of the
movie Do the Right Thing?
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee
391
How many Southern states seceded from the Union to
form the Confederate States of America in 1861?
Eleven
392
In 1968, Bob Beamon set an Olympic record in what
event?
Long Jump
393
Who was the first black born in colonial America at
Jamestown, Virginia?
William Tucker
394
What doctor attended President James Garfield after he
was shot?
Dr. Charles Purvis
395
What important railway coupling device did Andrew J.
Beard invent?
Jenny Coupler
396
Richard Hatcher and Carl Stokes were among the first
two blacks to be elected mayor of which major U.S.
cities in 1967?
Hatcher – Gary, Indiana and Stokes
– Cleveland, Ohio
397
What company was the largest slave-trading operation in
the south?
Franklin and Arnold
398
Who performed the first surgical implantation of the
automatic defibrillator in the human heart?
Dr. Levi Watkins
399
What father and son team served as guides at Mammoth
Cave for 49 and 19 years respectively?
Nick and Matt Bransford
400
Who designed and patented the dustpan?
L.P. Ray
401
Many civil rights leaders were opposed to the war in
Vietnam for what reason?
They were distressed over the high
rate of casualties among the black
troops.
402
Who was an early pioneer in Colorado and a conductor
of the Underground Railroad?
Barney Ford
403
In 1961, W.E.B. Du Bois renounced his US citizenship
and became a citizen of what country?
Ghana
404
What was the name of the Indian leader who became a
model for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s non-violent and
peaceful movement?
Mahatma Gandhi
405
What was the name of the music and dance television
show hosted by Marilyn McCoo?
Solid Gold
406
What year did Jesse Gray lead 30,000 people to strike
for needed apartment repairs in New York City?
1963
407
Born a slave, Stephen Bishop, the first African
American cave explorer made a published map of what
cave?
Mammouth Cave
408
Who served as Director of Minority Affairs for President
Roosevelt?
Mary McLeod Bethune
409
What was “Ma” Rainey’s nickname?
Mother of the Blues
410
Benjamin Banneker assisted in the survey of what major
US city?
Washington, DC
411
Who invented a life-saving device for coupling railroad
cars?
Andrew J. Beard
412
Where did the “sit-in” movement begin?
Woolworth’s store in Greensboro,
North Carolina
413
Jackie Robinson was the first American to play major
league baseball for what team?
Brooklyn Dodgers
414
What president swore in, Robert Weaver, the first black
member of a presidential cabinet, in 1966?
President Lyndon B. Johnson
415
Known as the “Black Edison,” what famous inventor
was responsible for developing the third rail used in
modern subway systems?
Granville T. Woods
416
The son of a slave and French pirate's mate, what
Haitian frontier explorer became a wealthy businessman,
owning a large home, stable, barn, smokehouse,
workshop, dairy, and trading post?
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable
417
What song recorded by Louis Armstrong became the
nation’s number on record in 1964?
Hello Dolly
418
Julius Erving began his professional basketball career
with what team?
New York Nets
419
In what year was the movie Off to the Bloomingdale
Asylum released?
1902
420
Willie Stargell began and ended his professional
baseball career with what National League team?
Pittsburgh Pirates
421
Who was the first Black American to achieve the rank of
colonel in the US Army?
Charles Young
422
Who was the first Black American elected to the US
House of Representatives?
Joseph H. Rainey
423
Many blacks held political offices in the South during
Reconstruction as members of what political party?
Republican
424
What was Marcus Garvey’s nickname?
Black Moses
425
Previosly named Howard Normal and Theological
Institute for Education of Teachers and Preachers
currently operates under what name?
Howard University
426
What did Elijah McCoy patent in 1872 that drastically
improved the speed and efficiency of industrial
machinery?
The lubricator cup
427
Who received a patent for the invention of an optical
apparatus that helped to position tooling?
D. E. Howard
428
When was Denmark Vessey’s army of Blacks organized
to fight slavery?
1822 (forty years before the Civil
War)
429
What aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville
native, served as editor of three African American
weeklies: the Indianapolis Recorder, the Freeman , and
the Indianapolis Ledger ?
William Alexander Chambers
430
He was born Elijah Poole. What was this Muslim
leader’s Islamic name?
Elijah Muhammad
431
What was the name of Wilma Rudolph’s relay team,
which finished first at the 1960 Olympics?
Tennessee Tigerbelles
432
What system did Robert Shurney develop that was used
aboard a Skylab space mission?
Waste management system
433
Who made the song “Johnny B Good” popular?
Chuck Berry
434
Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first Black American to
win what prestigious award?
Nobel Peace Prize
435
Who was the first Black American to be Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Colin Powell
436
What famous Olympic champion was standing at
Senator Robert Kennedy’s side when Kennedy was
fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan?
Rafer Johnson
437
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron finished his baseball career
in 1974 with what team?
Atlanta Braves
438
What New York City nightclub was named after Charlie
Parker?
Birdland
439
What type of dance rhythm and movements did
Katherine Dunham introduce in America?
African and Caribbean
440
Black History Month is celebrated during what month?
February
441
Who invented the folding bed?
L.C. Bailey
442
In 1950 Sidney Poitier made his film debut in what
movie?
No Way Out
443
Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold
throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her
to become the first African American female
millionaire?
Madam C.J. Walker
444
Paul Cuffe was considered a true pioneer. What form of
transportation did he use to reach his destination?
a ship
445
Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s executive
assistant?
Wyatt Tee Walker
446
Satchel Paige played for 22 years in what baseball
league?
Negro League
447
Count Basie won his first Grammy Award in 1963 for
instrumental arrangement of what song?
I Can’t Stop Loving You
448
In what motion picture did Bill “Bo Jangles” Robinson
teach Shirley Temple the famous Stair Dance?
The Little Colonel
449
Who was the first Black American quarterback to lead
the NFL in passing?
James Harris
450
Granville T. Woods began inventing in 1885. His
contribution was in the field of electricity. For what
inventions did he receive patents?
Automatic air brakes and steam
451
What is the name of the first Black American woman to
give the keynote address at a national political
convention?
Barbara Jordan
452
What prolific writer published twenty-three articles,
hundreds of shorter pieces, and ten books including The
Negro in the American Revolution in 1961 and Moorg
Against Tide & Patterns in 2005?
Benjamin Arthur Quarles
453
What African American naval cook shot down four
enemy planes during the attack on Pearl Harbor?
Dorie Miller
454
Who wrote The Lost Zoo , a classic children’s book?
Countee Cullen
455
Before being christened the Harlem Globetrotters, what
was this basketball team’s name?
Savoy Big Five
456
What disease did track and field phenom Wilma
Rudolph have to overcome as a child?
Polio
457
Arthur Ashe was author of A Hard Road to Glory ,
which chronicled his professional career in what sport?
Tennis
458
Popularized by the 1923 musical Runnin' Wild , what
1920s dance is believed to have started in a coastal city
of South Carolina?
the Charleston
459
Who invented the control unit for the artificial heart
stimulator?
Otis Boykin
460
During the Civil War, he was the black pilot who sailed
a Confederate steamer out of Charleston, South Carolina
and delivered it to the Union Navy in 1862.
Robert Smalls
461
“The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” was a
speech delivered in Rochester, New York in 1852 by
what abolitionist orator?
Frederick Douglass
462
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was fatally shot on the
balcony of what hotel and city in 1968?
Lorraine Motel in Memphis,
Tennessee
463
For what is Dr. Mae C. Jemison known?
Being the first black female
astronaut to travel in space
464
How many times did Archie Griffin win the Heisman
trophy?
Two
465
Birmingham had race riot violence in the spring of what
year?
1963
466
Who invented the smallpox vaccine?
Dr. Louis Wright
467
Name the Grammy award-winning Philadelphia quartet
that sold over 4 million copies of their album Cooley
High Harmony?
Boyz II Men
468
Selected by Governor Paul Patton to serve as Circuit
Court Judge in 1999, who became the first African
American woman appointed to the bench in Kentucky?
Pamela R. Goodwine
469
What Black American inventor received a patent for an
airplane safety device in 1921?
Hubert Julian
470
What basketball great is known as Dr. J?
Julius Erving
471
Who was the first Black American to qualify and race in
the Indianapolis 500?
Willy T. Ribbs
472
Famed jazz singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915 with
what name?
Eleanora Fagan
473
In what year were The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis
Redding, and the Soul Stirrers inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame?
1989
474
The Minnesota Territory had many black trappers.
Which of the Bonga men founded a town in Minnesota
in 1837?
George Bonga
475
What real life person did Halle Berry portray in the TV
miniseries Queen?
Alex Haley’s paternal grandmother
476
Who became the first Black American running back to
rush more than 1,000 yards in a single season?
Joe Perry
477
Who served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union
Army?
Harriet Tubman
478
Appeal , a book of anti-slavery literature, was written by
what Black American?
David Walker
479
Who was the first Black American to win an Olympic
medal in the 200 and 400 meter hurdles?
George C. Poage
480
What was the first war in which blacks served in every
branch of the U.S. armed forces?
World War II
481
What Black American woman founded the National
Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls,
Inc.?
Nannie Helen Burroughs
482
Why was army hero Colonel John Pershing called
“Black Jack”?
He commanded a Black Unit
483
Who are the only two brothers that ever held the
heavyweight boxing title?
Michael and Leon Spinks
484
Who made the first practical shoe-making machine?
Jan Matzeliger
485
Who formed the all-black Ethiopian regiment in 1775
during the Revolutionary War?
Lord Dunmore
486
What Black American jazz pianist and composer is
known for the ballad Misty and 1955 recording Concert
by the Sea ?
Erroll Louis Garner
487
This former beauty queen from Ohio started her career
as a model. In 2001 she won the Academy Award for
Best Actress. Who is she?
Halle Berry
488
In What year did Driving Miss Daisy win the Oscar for
Best Picture?
1989
489
What Louisville native penned three books in 1964: The
Negro politician, his success and failure ; Martin Luther
King: the peaceful warrior; and The SCLC Story ?
Edward T. Clayton
490
In 1924, Walter White published a best-selling novel
The Fire in the Flint , which covered what subject?
Bigotry
491
Who knocked heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali to the
canvas in the 15th round of their first boxing match?
Joe Frazier
492
William H. Carney received the Congressional Medal of
Honor for his participation in what war?
Spanish American War
493
When did Robert E. Lee encourage the recruitment of
Blacks?
After the Confederates suffered
huge loses
494
In 2009, who became the first African American U.S.
attorney general and head of the Justice Department and
its 110,000 employees?
Eric H. Holder Jr.
495
He became pastor of Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem
in 1967. In the 1960s he was Executive Director of the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
Who is he?
Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker
496
Who advanced legislation to make Juneteenth (June 19),
the celebration of the freedom of African American
slaves, a holiday in Kentucky?
Representative Reginald Meeks
497
What landmark Supreme Court ruling required all
railroad companies to provide equal accommodations for
Blacks?
Mitchell v. US Interstate Commerce
Act
498
James Cleveland Owens, a track and field athlete, won
four Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. By
what name was he known?
Jesse Owens
499
To what position was Colin Powell appointed, making
him the highest ranking military officer?
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
StafF
500
For what baseball team did Josh Gibson play?
Homestead Grays
501
Made to what is now Alcorn State University, the first
land grant for a black college was made in 1871 in what
in city?
Lorman, Mississippi
502
Hank Aaron compiled more batting records than any
other baseball player. He broke this former player’s
batting? record of 714 and retired at 755. Whose record
did he break?
Babe Ruth
503
Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland was
established in 1900 and named after what slave who
became one of the leading black women educators of the
nineteenth century?
Fanny Jackson Coppin
504
How old was Langston Hughes when his poetry was first
published?
19
505
One of the first black organized labor unions, the
Associated Colored Employees of America was formed
in what year?
1917
506
In what year did the cable network BET begin
broadcasting music videos?
1980
507
Booker T. Washington was opposed to the founding of
what organization in 1909?
NAACP
508
In 1990, who was elected mayor of Washington DC,
becoming the first Black American woman mayor of a
major US city?
Sharon Pratt Kelly
509
What 1915 natural disaster ruined crops and homes of
many farmers in the Mississippi Valley region?
Flooding
510
In 1831, the World Anti-Slavery Convention opened in
what city?
London
511
In 1988, what basketball player became the first NBA
player to reach 37,000 career points?
Kareem Abdul Jabar
512
Portrayed by Diana Ross in the film Lady Sings the
Blues, what was the name of the singer whose song
“Strange Fruit” became her signature piece?
Billie Holiday
513
Who were the Exodusters?
They were black people who left the
South after Reconstruction who
settled in Kansas in 1879
514
Keenan Ivory Wayans is the producer of what TV
comedy show?
In Living Color
515
What is the name of the memorial center of which
Coretta Scott King was Chairwoman and Chief
Executive Officer?
Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for
Nonviolent Struggle
516
Elston Howard was the first Black American to win
what American League baseball award?
Most Valuable Player
517
Who received an award from the Army for developing a
technique to decontaminate missiles?
Bruce Lee
518
In 1821, Thomas A. Jennings was one of the first Black
Americans to receive a patent. What was his invention?
a dry scouring device for clothing
519
It is estimated that how many Africans survived the
transatlantic slave trade in the early sixteenth century to
the mid-nineteenth century?
about ten million
520
What Black American scientist is known for his work
with insects?
Charles Turner
521
What 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld racial
segregation in its “separate but equal” doctrine?
Plessy v. Ferguson
522
In what year did the first African indentured servants
arrive at Jamestown, Virginia?
1619
523
In 1870, Elijah McCoy started what company in Detroit,
Michigan?
Elijah McCoy Manufacturing
Company
524
Ranking 33rd on the NBA's winningest coaches list, who
was the Charlotte Bobcats general manager and first
coach?
Bernard T. "Bernie" Bickerstaff, Sr.
525
Who was the first magistrate elected to serve residents of
the First Magisterial District in Christian County?
T. H. Moore
526
Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, pharmacist Garland H.
Brooks attended what local high school?
Attucks High School
527
This, the first and only black college consortium, was
founded in 1929. Name it.
Atlanta University System
528
In what year did Mike Tyson become the youngest
heavyweight boxing champion in history?
1986
529
Who was the first Black American woman to have her
own weekly television series, Julia?
Diahann Carroll
530
What was the birth name of international vaudeville
performer Dora Dean?
Dora Babbige
531
Born in Owensboro, KY, who was the first African
American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography?
Moneta Sleet, Jr.
532
Who was the first Black American female national
security advisor?
Condoleezza Rice
533
Who was the first Black American to join the
Professional Golf Association?
Charles Siffrord
534
Who were the first African American women Army
officers stationed in Kentucky?
Myrtle Anderson and Margaret
Elizabeth Barnes Jones
535
Willie Mays began his professional career with what
major league baseball team?
New York Giants
536
Classic blues singers, Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie
Smith, Mamie Smith, and Alberta Hunter, were women
who came out of what performance tradition?
Vaudeville
537
Brown University became the first ivy league college to
name an African American president in November 2000.
Name her.
Dr. Ruth Simmons
538
Who was the youngest boxer to win the heavyweight
title?
Mike Tyson
539
What is the name of the institute that was founded by
Booker T. Washington in 1881?
Tuskegee Institute
540
Jackie Joyner-Kersee won Gold Medals in the 1988 and
1992 Olympics for what event?
Heptathlon - check spelling
541
What is the name of Dr. Martin Luther King’s widow?
Coretta Scott King
542
G.T. Sampson invented what popular home appliance in
1892?
Clothes dryer
543
“Ma” Rainey taught what singer how to sing the blues?
Bessie Smith
544
Between 1915 and the mid-1920s approximately how
many blacks left the rural South to urban areas of the
North and the West as part of the Great Migration?
one million
545
What was the name of Marcus Garvey’s shipping
company that was owned and operated entirely by
Blacks?
Black Star Line
546
What artist’s painting is entitled After Church?
Romare Bearden
547
Who was the first Black American to play on the Davis
Cup tennis team?
Arthur Ashe
548
Who presented a bill to Congress in 1968 that would
enable Black Americans to control education, business,
and social services within Black American
communities?
Roy Innis
549
Who was the first Black American to achieve fame as a
sculptress?
Edmonia Leis
550
For how many years did F.E. Whitney serve as a
member of Hopkinsville City Council?
21
551
What basketball player was named NBA Rookie of the
Year while leading the Detroit Pistons to their first NBA
Championship playoff?
Dave Bing
552
Who was best known for her role as Bloody Mary in the
1949 Broadway stage production of South Pacific?
Juanita Hall
553
What Black American inventor patented the cotton
planter and seed planter?
Thomas L. Jennings
554
Who was the first Black American female judge in the
United States?
J. Matilda Bolin
555
In 1987, who became the first African American woman
to serve on the Hopkinsville, KY, City Council?
Luevenia Watkins
556
What performer was nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Actress in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues?
Diana Ross
557
In 1981 Pam Johnson became the first black woman to
control which mainstream daily publication?
Ithaca Journal
558
Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the
New York Stock Exchange?
Joseph L. Searles
559
The Black Panther Party was founded in what California
city?
Oakland
560
What Black American developed a treatment for
arthritis?
Dr. Percy Julian
561
In 1871 who became the first Black American governor?
P.B.S. Pinchback
562
What Black actress won a Academy Award for her
supporting role in the movie Ghost?
Whoopi Goldberg
563
Who is the current Chairman and CEO of Johnson
Publishing Company?
Linda Johnson Rice
564
What is the name of the baseball stadium in Pittsburgh
that opened in 1979?
Three Rivers Stadium
565
Musician and Hopkinsville native John Brim taught
himself to play what two instruments?
Guitar and harmonica
566
What television program has received over 25 Emmy
awards and has been the highest-rated talk show in
television history?
The Oprah Winfrey Show
567
The last units of U.S. troops came home from Vietnam
in the spring of 1973. Who was the president of the
United States at that time?
President Richard M. Nixon
568
What did security guard Frank Willis discover in 1972?
Watergate break-in Washington,
D.C.
569
What was John Elroy Stanford’s stage name?
Redd Foxx
570
Name the orchestra of which Ella Fitzgerald sang with
and eventually became the leader.
Chick Webb Orchestra
571
The film Glory was based on America’s first unit of
black soldiers in the Civil War. Who won the award for
Best Supporting Actor of this 1989 historical film?
Denzel Washington
572
Whitney Young advocated civil rights reform through
what organization?
National Urban League
573
What Black American artist created the Peanut Man
character for Planters Peanuts?
Elmer Stoner
574
Born in Bowling Green, KY, what aerospace engineer
with IBM and Westinghouse went on to become the first
African American woman to become dean at a major
southern law school and one of the first African
American female law professors in the United States?
Marilyn V. Yarbrough Ainsworth
575
On January 21, 1973 where did opera singer Jessye
Norman perform to a sellout crowd in the Great
Performers series?
Lincoln Center
576
Atlanta, Newark, Washington, D.C. and Detroit had race
riots in what year?
1967
577
Who led voter registration efforts in Mississippi in the
late 1960s?
Medgar Evers
578
Satchel Paige was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
in what year?
1971
579
What was the full name of NAACP founder W.E.B. Du
Bois?
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
580
What was the given name of popular comedienne and
pioneer of African-American vaudeville, Moms
Mabley?
Loretta Mary Aiken
581
What is the name of the opera singer who sang at
President George W. Bush’s inauguration in 2005?
Denyce Graves
582
Appointed to fill a vacancy in 1974 and later elected,
who was the only African American woman in Kentucky
holding a city council post in 1977?
Dorothy Morrow
583
Who was the first accredited Black American physician
in the United States?
James Derham
584
In 1822, where did Denmark Vessey plan to launch an
attack in an effort to release Blacks from bondage?
Charleston, South Carolina
585
Known as the “dean of black preachers” he became
pastor of Concord Baptist Church in the BedfordStuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York in 1948?
Rev. Gardner C. Taylor
586
In 1975, who became the first African American to own
and operate a television station in the United States,
WGPR-TV in Detroit, MI?
William Venoid Banks
587
Born in Lexington, KY, Derek Bryant was the first
African American baseball player at what school, where
he played from 1971-1973?
University of Kentucky
588
Comprising 13.5 percent of the total U.S. population,
what was the estimated population of black residents in
the United States, including those of more than one race
40.7 million
589
This talented blues singer/artist was blind at an early
age, raised chickens in his childhood, and taught himself
to play music. Fusing spirituals with folk music, he
developed his own style of guitar playing with unusual
chord progressions – partially due to a hand injury – that
became his trademark. Name him
Gary Davis
590
The Bible called her “The Queen of Sheba”. What was
the African Queen called by her people?
Makeda
591
Nominated for a National Book Award, what is Maya
Angelou's first autobiography?
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
592
Who invented portable refrigeration?
Frederick McKinley Jones
593
What Black American invented the air brake?
Granville T. Woods
594
B.B. King is noted for what type of music?
Blues
595
In 1957, what group of students integrated Central High
School in Arkansas with the assistance of President
Dwight D. Eisenhower and the protection of federal
troops?
The Little Rock Nine
596
What 1987 play, written by Alfred Unry, became a
movie in 1989?
Driving Miss Daisy
597
What was the name of the fort where Confederate
soldiers attacked federal troops on April 12, 1861?
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
598
What famous baseball player who played for the
Oakland A’s and New York Yankees earned the
nickname “Mr. October"?
Reggie Jackson
599
What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of
Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March
on Washington?
A. Philip Randolph
600
What did Benjamin Banneker publish for farmers which
became the first scientific book published by a Black
American?
Farmers’ Almanac
601
Olympic star Bob Hayes played what position for the
Dallas Cowboys?
Wide receiver
602
Who was the first African American master diver in the
U.S. Navy, the only amputee deep-sea diver to attain
that level?
Carl Maxie Brashear
603
Who saved the lives of thousands of soldiers in World
War II with his invention of “aero foam”?
Dr. Percy Julian
604
James Glass, Hopkinsville native and long-time
Henderson doctor, received his medical degree from
what school in 1906?
Meharry Medical College
605
Born in Kentucky, who was the first African American
to die in World War II, during the bombing of Clark
Field in the Philippines?
Robert H. Brooks
606
Who is often called “The father of the Civil Rights
Movement”?
Frederick Douglass
607
What were the holding pens which kept the enslaved
Africans until they were transported called?
Barracoons
608
Congressman Ralph Metcalfe won a gold medal at the
Berlin Olympics in what year?
1936
609
In the 1930s this federal organization compiled
testimonies of over 2,500 former slaves in 17 states that
were published in the 1970s. Name the organization.
Federal Writers Project
610
What common saying refers to a famous Black
American inventor?
Is it the real McCoy?
611
Born in Fort Campbell, KY, who became the first
African American to hold the post of U.S. Attorney in
the state of Louisiana in 1994?
Eddie J.Jordan, Jr.
612
Who was the first Black American female lawyer?
Charlotte E. Ray
613
What Tennessee State University student became the
first woman to win the 100-meter dash twice at both the
1964 and 1968 Olympic games?
Wyomia Tyus
614
When did the last all-black U.S. armed forces unit
disband?
June 1952
615
What noted inventor patented an improvement for the
automatic gearshift?
Richard Spikes
616
One of the first African American players in the
Southeastern Conference, football standout Wilbur
Hackett, Jr. was the first African American to start in
any sport and be named a team captain at what college
program?
University of Kentucky
617
The University of the District of Columbia was
organized by free black women in 1865 under what
name?
Miner Normal School
618
What was Robert Weaver’s title when he became a
presidential cabinet member?
Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development
619
What was the Indian name of Chicago at the time of
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable’s settlement?
Eschikagou
620
What Christian Couny native was a founding member of
Kappa Alpha Psi, established in 1911, served as the
fraternity's president during the first six years and was
awarded the organization's first Laurel Wreath in 1924?
Elder Watson Diggs
621
In 1972, who became the first woman candidate for
President of the United States?
Shirley Chisholm
622
Darnley E. Howard, Sr. and Darnley M. Howard, Jr.,
father and son, shared what same profession?
Inventors
623
Bill Russell was the first Black American player in what
professional sports league?
NBA
624
Paul Cuffe owned what kind of company?
Ship building and shipping
625
In 1953, Ralph Ellison received the National Book
Award for what book?
Invisible Man
626
What musical artist released the hit album Power of
Love ?
Luther Vandross
627
In 1904 the Daytona Normal and Industrial School in
Daytona Beach, Florida was founded by whom?
Mary McLeod Bethune
628
In 1995 and 2001 respectively, Dr. Ruth J. Simmons
became the first black president and black woman
president of two top-ranked colleges. One is a “Seven
Sisters” school, and the other is an Ivy League school.
Name the institutions.
Smith College (Northampton,
Massachusetts - 1995) and Brown
University (Providence, Rhode
Island - 2001)
629
What baseball team did Frank Robinson help win the
pennant in 1961?
Cincinnati Reds
630
Who founded the DuSable Museum of AfricanAmerican History, located in Chicago, Illinois?
Dr. Margaret Burroughs
631
Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African
American student to be accepted at Austin Peay State
University in Clarksville, Tennessee?
Reverend Wilbur N. Daniel
632
What Black American inventor worked for both General
Electric and Westinghouse?
Lewis Latimer
633
What company’s popular commercial featured a tape
recording of Ella Fitzgerald’s voice shattering a glass?
Memorex
634
Blacks made up more than one-fourth of the population
in how many states by July 1, 2007?
6 (Mississippi 38%, Louisiana 32%,
Georgia 31%, Maryland 30%, South
Carolina 29%, and Alabama 27%)
635
What Black American sailor won the Congressional
Medal of Honor in the Civil War Battle, the Battle of
Mobile Bay at Ft. Gaines?
John Lawson
636
What slave-born nurse was the first female to own
property in Los Angeles?
Biddy Bridget Mason
637
In what year was George Washington Carver born?
1864
638
Considered the greatest blues singer of the 1920s, what
artist was known as the “empress of the blues”?
Bessie Smith
639
L. Douglas Wilder, was elected the first Black American
governor of what state in 1990?
Virginia
640
In 1986 Eddie Bernice Johnson was elected to the U.S.
Senate. She also served as secretary of the Congressional
Black Caucus. What state did she represent?
Texas
641
Hartshorn Memorial College was established in the
basement of what Baptist church in 1883?
Ebenezer Baptist Church (in
Richmond, Virginia)
642
In what year did the War Department grant equal pay for
white and black soldiers after many protests?
1864
643
What musical instrument did Nat King Cole play?
Piano
644
Who was the first Black American member of the US
Atomic Energy Commission?
Samuel Nabrit
645
The uncut versions of Donna Summer and Gloria
Gaynor’s records are around fourteen minutes and
nineteen minutes, respectively. What are the names of
these Disco divas’ records that lasted so long?
Donna Summer’s “Love to Love
You” was about fourteen minutes.
Gloria Gaynor’s “Never Can Say
Goodbye” was about nineteen
minutes.
646
Who founded the magazine Ebony ?
John H. Johnson
647
What is the name of the Marion Marche Perkins
sculpture that won the Art Institute of Chicago Purchase
Award in 1951?
Man of Sorrow
648
What civil rights leader and clergyman organized the
famous “poor people’s campaign” in Washington D.C.?
Ralph Abernathy
649
What year marked the Harlem Globetrotters’ first
basketball game?
1927
650
George Washington Carver made paint and ink from
what common food item?
Peanuts
651
In his speech at the Democratic Convention in 1984,
Rev. Jesse
Jackson’s dramatic call was to do what?
Keep hope alive
652
In the 1950s he made his debut at the Metropolitan
Opera as Amonasro, the Ethiopian King. Who was he?
Robert McFerrin
653
In what year did Marian Anderson debut as the first
Black American singer at the Metropolitan Opera?
1955
654
Nat Love wrote what kind of stories?
Westerns
655
What type of folk art was seen on the New York subway
cars in the 1970s that was a phenomenon among the
urban youth?
Graffiti
656
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron ended his career with how
many home runs?
755
657
Who did Arthur Ashe defeat in 1975 to become the first
Black American to win the singles title at Wimbledon?
Jimmy Connors
658
What was Ferdinand Morton’s nickname?
Jelly Roll
659
Popular during the Harlem Renaissance, what was the
Big Five?
an all-black professional basketball
team of the 1920s and 1930s
660
How did Denmark Vessey gain his freedom in 1799?
Won money in a lottery and
purchased his freedom
661
Vibraphone player Lionel Hampton started his career in
1936 with which band?
the Benny Goodman Quartet
662
For what skill did Charles Sampson become the first
black to win the Professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association championship in 1982?
Bull riding
663
Dr. Percy L. Julian achieved his accomplishments in
what occupation?
Soybean chemist
664
Who was the first man to discover the North Pole?
Matthew Henson
665
Shirley Chisholm was elected to the House of
Representatives to represent what state?
New York
666
What Black American inventor received a patent for the
guitar?
R.F. Fleming
667
What is the name of the Harlem club where many
famous Black American entertainers began their
careers?
The Cotton Club
668
Who was the first Black American lawyer to be admitted
to the bar?
Macon B. Allen
669
The first rap song to achieve commercial success was
“Rapper’s Delight.” What was the name of the group
who recorded this single in 1979?
The Sugar Hill Gang
670
What Black American patented the corn harvester?
Henry Blair
671
In 2009, who became the first African American male
school superintendent in Kentucky?
Donald Smith
672
Who sang spiritual songs to communicate with slaves
she intended to take north to freedom on the
Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
673
On September 2, 1941 who became the first black
officer to fly an aircraft alone?
Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.
674
What do Mike Garret, Ernie Davis and Billy Simms
have in common?
They all won the Heisman Trophy
675
In 1921, Edward (Kid) Ory’s Creole Trombone and
Society Blues, the first know recordings by a Black
American of what type of music?
Jazz
676
Who did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. call “My Spiritual
Advisor”?
Benjamin E. Mays
677
James Beckwourth became chief scout for what explorer
in 1848?
John Freemont
678
Who was admitted to the Hall of Fame for being the best
hitter in the Negro League?
Josh Gibson
679
In what year did Quincy Jones win five Grammy
awards?
1983
680
What college basketball team did Magic Johnson lead to
the NCAA championship?
Michigan State Spartans
681
Who is known as the “Father of Negro History”
documenting African-American stories and
achievements through use of innovative research
approaches including legal records, diaries and oral
histories – methods that have since been widely adopted
by historians?
Carter G. Woodson
682
Daryl Bishop had a successful career playing what
football position at the University of Kentucky?
Defensive back
683
What 1989 movie won several Academy Awards,
including Best Picture?
Driving Miss Daisy
684
Who wrote the book Born to Rebel ?
Benjamin Mays
685
Who is the controversial poet and author of My House is
Divided into Two Sections who emerged from the Black
Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became a
professor of English?
Nikki Giovanni
686
What TV comedy show made Eddie Murphy a
household name?
Saturday Night Live
687
What candidate defeated Jesse Jackson in the 1988
Democratic Presidential race?
Michael Dukakis
688
Black revolutionary Crispus Attucks led colonial forces
during what conflict in 1770?
Boston Massacre
689
Owner and operator of Brooks Memorial Hospital,
Phillip C. Brooks served in what capacities?
Physician and surgeon
690
Who invented the bullet resistant Plexiglas?
Emmanuel L. Logan
691
How many people attended the historic March in
Washington held on August 28, 1963?
an estimated 250,000 people
692
Who was named coach of the Minnesota Vikings in
1992?
Dennis Green
693
What Black American allowed Gordon Parks and Life
magazine to publish a major story on the Black Muslim
Movement?
Malcolm X
694
What sports team was referred to by many as the
“Dream Team”?
1992 Olympic basketball team
695
What Christian County, KY, magisterial district has
been served by Black magistrates since it was formed in
1905?
the 1st District
696
She witnessed the East St. Louis riots in 1917 and
immigrated to France just six years later. She was a
singer, dancer, nightclub owner and a member of the
French resistance during World War II. Name this
popular entertainer.
Josephine Baker
697
Who was the National League’s first Black American Cy
Young Award winner?
Don Newcombe
698
What state was the first to abolish slavery?
Vermont
699
What was the name of the first Black American
professional baseball team?
Brooklyn Excelsior
700
Who was the first Black American to lead an NFL
officiating crew?
Johnny Grier
701
In January 1967 what Republican was the first black to
be elected to the Senate for a full term since
Reconstruction?
Edward Brooke
702
In 1910 the black population made up what percentage
of the total United States population of nearly 93.5
million people?
10.70%
703
What Christian County native worked in the coal mines
and became the first African American elected to the
Earlington, KY, City Council in 1972?
James W. Dulin
704
During the Korean War, the Navy had 65% of black
soldiers in the Steward’s Branch where they worked as
what?
Cooks and waiters
705
In what year did Charles W. Follis become the first
Black American to play professional football?
1902
706
Name at least two black 1980s television show
producers.
Bill Cosby, Tim Reid, Debbie
Allen, Quincy Jones, and Keenan
Ivory Wayans
707
What is basketball star Michael Jordan’s nickname?
Air Jordan
708
What was the nickname of renowned jazz musician
Charlie Parker?
Bird
709
For what state did Barbara Jordan serve as state senator
and U.S. congresswoman?
Texas
710
What pitcher won 51 out of 55 games in the Negro
League in 1905?
Andrew “Rube” Foster
711
What golfer became the first Black American to play in
the Masters tournament?
Lee Elder
712
Name the hip-hop group that created the theme song
“Fight the Power” to Spike Lee’s film Do The Right
Thing.
Public Enemy
713
Who was the first Black American to lead professional
football in rushing?
Jim Brown
714
What type of music did Louis Armstrong revolutionize
and help establish as the nation’s first highly popular
Black art form?
Jazz
715
In 1991 Sharon Pratt Kelly was the first black woman to
become mayor of what major city?
Washington, D.C.
716
Robert Poston was assistant secretary-general of what
organization when went to Liberia in 1924 and died of
pneumonia on his return trip to the U.S.?
Universal Negro Improvement
Association (UNIA)
717
Who was the founder of the first African-American
female-owned Wall Street financial services corporation.
Patricia Garrison-Corbin
718
She was the first woman to be elected to the Senate in
Texas and the first Southern black woman to serve in the
U.S. Congress. Name her.
Barbara Jordan
719
For what style of music were the Ward Singers famous?
Po-Gospel
720
Founded in 1923 by Charles S. Johnson, the official
publication of the National Urban League is called
what?
Opportunity
721
Who made a speech at the National Negro Convention in
1843 that made people regard him as one of the most
militant abolitionists?
Rev. Henry Garnet
722
Lewis Latimer prepared the drawings for what invention
patented by Alexander Graham Bell?
The telephone
723
Born in Falmouth, KY, what man developed the Black
Man Think Tank and is the national president of the
John D. O'Bryant Think Tank for Black Professionals in
Higher Education on Predominantly White Campuses
(JDOTT)?
Eric P. Abercrumbie
724
Who was the first athlete to receive Sports Illustrated’s
Sportsmen of the Year award after retiring from his
professional career?
Arthur Ashe
725
What profession do Al Roker, Mark McEwen, and
Spencer Christian share?
Weatherman or meteorologist
726
Known for his social and political views, who published
The Souls of Black Folks in 1903?
W.E.B. Du Bois
727
Who invented the device that made it easier to handle
the sails of large ships?
James Forten
728
What author promoted her first novel, Mama , by
contacting colleges and universities?
Terry McMillan
729
What did J.R. Pickering patent in 1900?
Modified airship
730
Under what name was North Carolina Central University
founded in
1910 by James E. Shephard?
The National Religious Training
School of Durham
731
Named one of the greatest players in NBA history, Nate
Thurmond played for what team from 1963-1974?
San Francisco Warriors
732
What African country has the largest population?
Nigeria
733
U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis led his civil
rights movement through what organization?
Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee
734
Where was Ephraim Poston, owner and editor of the
newspaper Hopkinsville Contender, born?
Clarksville, TN
735
In what TV series was a character named “Buckwheat”
one of the stars?
The Little Rascals
736
Who played for the Los Angeles Rams and was a
member of the “fearsome foursome”?
Rosey Grier
737
Who was the first major league baseball player to steal
more than 100 bases in a single season?
Maury Wills
738
What famous aviator brothers helped promote Paul
Laurence Dunbar’s poetry and became his good friend?
The Wright Brothers
739
A three-time heavyweight champion, who was stripped
of his first championship title because he refused to fight
in the Vietnam War?
Muhammad Ali
740
In what state was Langston Hughes born?
Missouri
741
Starting in 1959, Bill Russell led the Boston Celtics to
how many straight NBA championships, an
unprecedented accomplishment?
Eight
742
This amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist
within the United States". After initially being rejected
by the House of Representatives, this amendment passed
and was ratified in 1865, outlawing slavery. This
amendment was
The Thirteenth Amendment
743
Who was the first Black American astronaut to fly in
space?
Lieutenant Colonel Guion S.
Bluford, Jr.
744
From 1893 until the 1950s, Nancy Green served as the
world's first living trademark as the image what product?
Aunt Jemima pancake mix
745
In 1867, an interracial jury was selected in Richmond,
Virginia to try the case of what former Confederacy
president?
Jefferson Davis
746
What was the name of the network of hiding places
which helped slaves to escape to freedom?
Underground Railroad
747
In 1942, what branch of the U.S. armed forces became
the last to admit blacks?
U.S. Marine Corps
748
What Black American inventor received a patent in 1970
for a urinalysis machine?
Dewey Sanderson
749
What record company helped bring Mahalia Jackson’s
gospel music to a large audience?
Columbia Records
750
During the American Revolution, Black soldiers fought
with which two organizations as pilots, gunner’s mates,
boatswain’s mates, and manned the coastal galleys?
the Continental Navy and the
Continental Army
751
Who prepared the blueprints for Alexander Graham
Bell’s telephone?
Lewis Latimer
752
This first Gloria Naylor novel consisted of tales from
seven black women who wound up on a dead-end street
in a ghetto in the North. It was made into a television
movie. What is the name of the novel?
The Women of Brewster Place
753
Whose sentencing was Myrile -Evers Willaims able to
see for the murder of Medgar Evers; after uncovering
stolen evidence and crusading for justice.
Byron De La Beckwith
754
Used by the 99th Pursuit Squadron, also known as the
Tuskegee Airmen, Tuskegee Institute established what
training program for black pilots?
The Tuskegee Army Air Field
755
The Emancipation Proclamation
756
Founded in 1886, what Kentucky university was
originally named the State Normal School for Colored
Persons?
Kentucky State University
757
Earnest Everett Just, a biologist, was known for what
type of research?
Marine eggs
758
Who developed a drug used to treat glaucoma, an eye
disease?
Dr. Percy Julian
759
In 1907, whom did Jack Johnson defeat to win the
heavyweight championship?
Tommy Burns
760
What is the name of the main character in the Zora
Neale Hurston novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God ?
Janie Crawford
761
Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia , was the first
original script by a Black women to be produced?
Maya Angelou
762
Who was Fannie Lou Hamer?
She was a civil rights advocate who
helped register black people to vote
in Mississippi.
763
What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black
youth?
YMCA
764
Harold Washington became what city’s first Black
mayor?
Chicago
765
In what year did the “Greensboro Four” stage their first
sit in?
1960
766
Ordained in 1854, who was the first black Roman
Catholic priest and bishop in the United States?
James Augustine Healy
767
Who invented the automatic car washer?
Richard Spikes
768
The Congress of Racial Equality was founded in what
year?
1942
769
What song was the first hit for Gladys Knights and the
Pips?
Every Beat of My Heart
770
Who was the first Black American to play for the New
York Yankees?
Elston Howard
771
Born in Louisville, KY, who went on to become an
assistant basketball coach at Louisville State University
(LSU) in 1976. He was the first African American
basketball coach hired full-time at the school?
Ronald L. Abernathy
772
In 1943, in what film did pianist Fats Waller perform
and Stormy Weather portray Lena Horne singing the title
song?
Ain’t Misbehavin’
773
Who patented a means of propulsion for airplanes in
1920?
James Adams
774
Brothers and Hopkinsville natives, Garland and Phillip
Brooks received advance degrees from what school?
Howard University
775
Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in The Sun ?
Lorraine Hansberry
776
Known for his lyrical boasts, athletic grace, and postboxing philanthropy, what heavyweight champion lit the
torch for the Atlanta Olympic Games?
Muhammad Ali
777
St. Elmo Brady, the first African American to earn a
Ph.D. in chemistry in America, received his degree from
what school in 1916?
University of Illinois
778
What instrument did Count Basie play, while leading his
group ”The Count Basie Orchestra”?
Piano (or organ)
779
There is one Historically Black College and University
(HBCU) in Kentucky. Name it.
Kentucky State University
780
Who was the creator, director, and host of the popular
television show Soul Train from 1971 to 2006?
Don Cornelius
781
What was the name of the first national Black
convention that was organized by Richard Allen in
1830?
American Society of Free Persons
of Color
782
Who was the first Black American professor at Harvard
University?
Dr. William Hinton
783
What was the first serious uprising among slaves took
place in 1739 and resulted in passage of the Negro Act,
which placed restrictions on the ability of slaves in
South Carolina to assemble and move freely?
The Stono Rebellion
784
Who starred in the box office hit Trading Places?
Eddie Murphy
785
What city in Ohio elected three black mayors between
the years 1972 and 1991.
Cincinnati
786
1974
787
Who invented the disposable syringe?
Phil Brooks
788
In what city was Malcolm X arrested?
New York City
789
What U.S. city built a statue in honor of Jan Earnest
Matzeliger, who is this?
Lynn, Massachusetts
790
In 1962, Buck O’Neill became the first Black coach of
what professional baseball team?
Chicago Cubs
791
Name at least three national renowned 20th Century tap
dancers.
Bill Bailey; Charles “Honi” Coles;
Sammy Davis, Jr.; Savion Glover;
Gregory Hines; Maurice Hines;
Fayard Nicholas; Harold Nicholas;
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
792
Where was George Washington Carver’s laboratory?
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
793
Where was boxer great Joe Louis buried?
Arlington National Cemetery
794
In what year did the Emancipation Proclamation become
effective?
1863
795
What was Muhammad Ali’s birth name?
Cassius Clay
796
In 2003 she was nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actress in the film Chicago. Who is
she?
Queen Latifah
797
What former two-time heavyweight boxing champion
won a Gold Medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City
and went on to become a minister?
George Foreman
798
Whose professional baseball career was cut short by a
paralyzing automobile accident in 1958
Roy Campanella
799
Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally
recognized for his writing?
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
800
Born in Grapeland, Texas, the daughter of
sharecroppers, who was named the first president of an
ivy college college in November of 2000.
Dr. Ruth Simmons
