Black History Month
Black HERstory
Trivia Salad!
Arts & Culture
STEM
100
These three countries celebrate Black History Month annually.
A. United States, Australia, Nigeria
B. Canada, Haiti, United States
C. United Kingdom, United States, and Canada
What are the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada?
100
She was the first Black major-party candidate to run for President of the United States, in the 1972 U.S. presidential election, making her also the first woman ever to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
A. Kamala Harris
B. Shirley Chisholm
C. Stacy Abrams
D. Condoleezza Rice
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
100
A. Clarence Thomas
B. Thurgood Marshall
C. Patricia Timmons-Goodson
D. Tamika Montgomery-Reeves
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Fact: Marshall was an American lawyer and civil rights activist who served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court's first African-American justice.
100
Activist Alicia Garza is a co-founder of the BLM movement, and coined the phrase "Black lives matter" Which was founded in?
A. 2020
B. 2019
C. 2013
D. 2016
What is 2013?
Fact: When asked in 2020 why her statement has so much power, Alicia Garza stated, "'Black lives matter' is so simple and yet so complex. It really is a very direct assertion of both a problem and a solution at the same time. Here we are seven years later, and I think what's become clear is that some of the discomforts with this statement is that it forces you to choose sides. You can't say some Black lives matter or they kind of matter or they matter sometimes. The statement asks you, do you believe Black lives matter? And if so, is that the world that we live in right now? And if not, what are we going to do to close the gap there?"
100
This African American mathematician was a surveyor who helped plan the District of Columbia in 1790.
A. Benjamin Banneker
B. David Blackwell
C. Clarence F. Stephens
D. Kelly Miller
Who was Benjamin Banneker?
200
First President who officially recognized Black History Month.
A. Jimmy Carter
B. Gerald Ford
C. Ronald Reagan
D. Barack Obama
Who is Gerald Ford?
200
She is a dancer, singer, fundraiser, author, and poet who read a specially-composed poem at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993.
A. Marita Koch
B. Maya Angelou
C. Gwendolyn Brooks
D. Langston Hughes
Who is Maya Angelou?
200
Madame Vice President Kamala Harris graduated from this Historically Black College and University.
A. Hampton University
B. Spelman College
C. Clark Atlanta University
D. Howard University
What is Howard University?
200
She became the first black woman to win an individual medal in Olympic swimming. Taking home the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle at the 2016 RIO Olympics making her a four-time Olympic medalist.
A. Simone biles
B. Gabby douglas
C. Simone Manuel
D.Maritza Correia
C. Who is Simone Manuel
200
A medical doctor and scientist, his interests in solving the problem of storing and using blood for transfusions. He developed a process for extracting plasma from blood.
A. James Baldwin
B. Charles Drew
C. Frederick Douglas
D. W. E. B. Du Bois
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
Fact: He is credited with heading two blood banks – The American Red Cross and Blood for Britain. Blood for Britain provided blood for soldiers injured in World War II.
300
What was the name of the secret passage taken by Harriet Tubman to free the slaves during slavery?
A. The transcontinental railroad
B. The redline
C. The underground railroad
D. The emancipation proclamation railway
What is C? The underground railroad
Fact: The underground railroad was a network of secret routes established in the late 1700s. It ran north and grew steadily until the civil war began. It is estimated that by 1850 100,000 enslaved people had escaped via the network. The plan was assisted by abolitionists and others sympathetic to the cause of the escape. The enslaved who risked escape and those who aided them are also collectively referred to as the "Underground Railroad"
300
On March 2, 1955 she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White woman.
A. Rosa Parks
B. Claudette Colvin
C. Ida B. Wells
D. Ella Baker
Who is Claudette Colvin?
Fact: This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, helped spark the Montgomery Bus boycott.
300
This Constitutional amendment abolished slavery throughout the United States
A. The 2nd amendment
B. The 13th amendment
C. The 14th amendment
D. The 15th amendment
What is the 13th Amendment?
Fact: The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865.
300
This Black-owned company outlet was the first to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
A. Telfar
B. BET, Black Entertainment Television
C. Oprah Winfrey Network OWN
D. AJ Crimson Beauty
What is BET, or Black Entertainment Television?
300
a. Secretary for the Department of Defense
b. Invented America First Clock
c. Her Calculations helped NASA Space Program
d. She was the first Black Female Astronaut
400
The year that Black History Month was first proposed by Black educators and the Black United Students at Kent State University in February.
A. 1920
B. 1980
C. 1969
What is 1969?
400
Born December 19, 1924, in Harlem New York. This famous fashion model and American actress had an acting career that spanned more than seven decades. She is known for playing roles that portrayed strong African American women. She also founded a School of performing and Fine arts.
A. Oprah Winfrey
B. Maya Angelou
C. Phylicia Rashad
D. Cicely Tyson
D. Who is Cicely Tyson
400
Who organized the Million man march which was held at the National Mall?
A. Martin L King
B. Jessie Jackson
C. Malcolm X
D. Louis Farrakhan
D. Who is? Louis Farrakhan
Fact: The Million Man March was a large gathering of African-American men in Washington, D.C., on October 16, 1995. Called by Louis Farrakhan, it was held on and around the National Mall. The National African American Leadership Summit, a leading group of civil rights activists and the Nation of Islam working with scores of civil rights organizations, including many local chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (but not the national NAACP) formed the Million Man March Organizing Committee.
400
Which record company was founded by Berry Gordy, jr in Detroit Michigan in 1959?
A. Motown Records
B. Cadillac Records
C. Sun Records
D. Rockafella Records
A. What is Motown Records?
400
In this year, scientist Valerie Thomas invented and patented the illusion transmitter.
A. 2000
B. 1965
C. 1980
D. 1995
What is 1980?
Fact: The device produces optical illusion images via two concave mirrors. Unlike flat mirrors, which produce images that appear to be inside, or behind the mirror, concave mirrors create images that appear to be real, or in front of the mirror itself. This technology was subsequently adopted by NASA and has since been adapted for use in surgery as well as the production of television and video screens.
500
What were the black soldiers who primarily fought Native Americans in the West after the Civil War?
Who were the Buffalo Soldiers
500
What leading crusader against lynching founded the first black women's suffrage organization?
Ida B. WellsBarnett
500
Well known as “The Genius”, this artist was born in Georgia 1930, blind at 6, and then went on to pioneer the soul music genre during the 1950s by combining blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music he recorded.
Who is Ray Charles?
500
This Afro-Latina artist, whose parents are of Dominican & Trinidadian descent, has been called "unabashedly political" and famously supported Bernie Sanders in his 2016 and 2020 presidential runs.
A. Princess Nokia
B. Cardi B
C. Gina Torres
D. Dascha Polanco
Who is Cardi B?
500
She is an Actor, Activist, and STEM Advocate. A spokesperson for Science SLEUTH Mobile text message campaign. Her focus is to get students excited about STEM while allowing them to raise funds for STEM classrooms in the midwest.
A. Skai Jackson
B. Viola Davis
C. Yara Shahidi
D. Taraji P. Henson
C. Who is Yara Shahidi