Who made agricultural advancements and inventions pertaining to the use of peanuts and was one of the first African-Americans admitted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1990?
a. Who is George Alcorn
b. Who is George Foreman
c. Who is George Washington Carver
c. Who is George Washington Carver
100
After Spanish, Haitian Creole is the second most-spoken language in which country.
a. What/Where is Cuba
b. What/Where is Peru
c. What/Where is Costa Rica
a. What/Where is Cuba
100
What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated?
a. What is Brown v. Board of Education
b. What is Roe v Wade
c. Texas v Johnson
a. What is Brown v. Board of Education
100
This is the name of the 1955 boycott that integrated public transportation.
a. What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
b. What is the Freedom Riders
c. What is the the Selma to Montgomery March
a. What is the Montgomery Bus Boycott
100
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
200
Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
a. Who is Colin Powell
b. Who is Jesse Jackson
c. Who is Allen West
a. Who is Colin Powell
200
Which National Holiday did Stevie Wonder help create?
What is Martin Luther King Day
200
He was the first black President of the Harvard Law Review.
a. Who is Hill Harper
b. Who is President Barack Obama
c. Who is Robert Johnson
b. Who is President Barack Obama
200
This African American neurosurgeon is known for his skilled hands in separating conjoined twins.
a. Who is Dr. Bejamin Carson
b. Who is Dr. Charles Drew
c. Who is Dr. Mae Jemison
a. Who is Dr. Bejamin Carson
200
Jean Baptiste Point du Sabl, of Haitian descent is known as the founder of this American city in the 1780's.
a. What/Where is Chicago
b. What/Where is New Orleans
c. What/Where is Detroit
a. What/Where is Chicago
300
He was the first black President in South Africa and also a Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
Who is President Nelson Mandela
300
Due to his famous invention of a lubricant for the wheels of trains this term meaning indicating authenticity/genuine article was coined.
What is "The Real McCoy"-Elijah McCoy
300
Which Supreme Court case stated that segregation was legal and constitutional as long as "facilities were equal"?
a. What is Plessy v. Ferguson
b. What is Brown v. Board of Education
c. What is Dred Scott v. Sanford
a. What is Plessy v. Ferguson
300
This persons invention of an automatic traffic signal led to our present day traffic lights
a. Who is Garrett Morgan
b. Who is Elijah McCoy
c. Who is Sarah Breedlove
a. Who is Garrett Morgan
300
Who became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products?
Who is Madame CJ Walker
400
This State was the first to abolish Slavery?
a. Where is California
b. Where is Vermont
c. Where is New York
b. Where is Vermont
400
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?
a. Who is Muhammad Ali
b. Who is Michael Jordan
c. Who is Jackie Robinson
a. Who is Muhammad Ali
400
Who was the first African American woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
400
Who was the main leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
400
She is the first Black person to win a "Pulitzer Prize," for her poetry book titled Annie Walker.
a. Who is Toni Morison
b. Who is Alice Walker
c. Who is Gwendolyn Brooks
c. Who is Gwendolyn Brooks
500
This country is the first black independent country in the wold. In 2015, the country celebrated 211 years of independence.
a. What/Where is Haiti
b. What/Where is Barbados
c. What/Where is Jamaica
a. What/Where is Haiti
500
Today, with the exception of Nigeria, the largest population of people of African descent is in this country.
a. What/Where is Brazil
b. What/Where is Trinidad
c. What/Where is Cuba
a. What/Where is Brazil
500
She was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992.
a. Who is Carol Mosley Braun
b. Who is Condoleezza Rice
c. Who is Mo Cowan
b. Who is Condoleezza Rice
500
Walter Francis White became the head of this civil rights group in 1931.
a. What is the Urban League
b. What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
c. What is the American Civil Liberties Union
b. What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
500
The seventh day of Kwanza is observed on Jan 1 and is called Imani, meaning what ?
a. What is Faith
b. What is Love
c. What is Family