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200

This is first black Greek fraternity for college students?

a. Phi Beta Sigma

b. Alpha Phi Alpha

c. Omega Psi Phi

What is Alpha Phi Alpha?

200

Jackie Robinson was the first black player allowed to play in the major leagues of baseball.  In what year did Jackie break the color barrier?

a. 1947

b. 1955

c. 1951

What year is 1947

200

This President recognized Black History Month in 1976? 

a. Jimmy Carter 

b. Gerald Ford

c. Ronald Reagan 

Who is Gerald Ford?

200

This person invented 100 of products using peanuts, but not peanut butter.

a. Garrett Morgan

b. George Washington Carver

c. Booker T. Washington

Who is George Washington Carver?

200

She was the first Black woman to own a TV studio?

Who is Oprah Winfrey

400

This person invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light?

a. J.P Knight

b. Garrett Morgan 

c. Benjamin Franklin 


Who is Garrett A. Morgan?

400

What black basketball player who would speak English, Spanish, and Italian?

Who is Kobe Bryant?

400

This amendment to the constitution abolished slavery?

What is the 13th amendment?

400

He invented refrigerated trucks in 1940.

a. Frederick McKinley Jones

b. Alexander Mills

c. Lewis Latimer

Frederick McKinley Jones

400

She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dreamgirls?

a. Angela Bassett

b. Halle Berry

c. Jennifer Hudson

Who is Jennifer Hudson? 


600

This Harlem theatre is a showcase for African- American talent

What is The Apollo?

600

The fullback for the Cleveland Browns averaged NFL record 5.22 yards per carry during his football career.  He would later become a prominent civil rights activist.  Who is he?

a.  Walter Payton

b. Marcus Allen

c. Jim Brown

Who is Jim Brown?

600

Who is an American diplomat and political scientist who is the current director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and was previously the US secretary of state.

Who is Condoleezza Rice?

600

I was a medical doctor and a scientist. I was very interested in solving the problem of storing and using blood for transfusions. I developed a process for removing plasma from blood. 

a.  James Baldwin

b. Fredrick Douglass

c. Charles Drew


Who is Charles Drew?

600

What African American Model invented the word "smize"?

Who is Tara Banks?

800

Booker T. Washington was the founder and president of this educational institution.

a. Rutgers University

b. Seton Hall University

c. Tuskegee Institute

What is the Tuskegee Institute?

800

What boxer has a cookbook called, "Food for Life"?

a. Laila Ali

b. Sugar Ray Leonard

c. George Foreman

Laila Ali

800

This American author and historian was responsible for starting Black History week?

a. Woodrow Wilson

b. Carter G. Woodson

c. Frederick Douglass

Who is Carter G. Woodson?

800

Inventor holds more than 80 U.S. patents, but it's his invention of the Super Soaker toy that is perhaps his most endearing claim to fame.

Who is Lonnie Johnson

800

Who was the first African American woman to win five Grammy Awards in one year? 

a. Da Brat

b. Foxy Brown

c. Lauryn Hill 


Who is Lauryn Hill?

1000

They were the black soldiers who primarily fought in the West after the Civil War.

a. Buffalo Soldiers

b. Black Calvary

c. Volunteer Infantry

Who were the Buffalo Soldiers?

1000

In 1992, Dominique Dawes and Elizabeth Okino became the first Black Athletes to compete in what Olympic sport?

a. Tennis

b. Gymnastics

c. Track

Gymnastics

1000

This case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that no black-free or slave could be a US citizen?

a. Fergusson case

b. Roe vs Wade

c. Dred Scott case

What is the Dred Scott case?

1000

Who invented Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP)?

a. Marie Van Brittan Brown

b. Dr. Marian Croak

c. Dr. Jane Cooke Wright

Who is Dr. Marian Croak

1000

This person was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a supporting role.

a. Hattie McDaniel

b. Danny Glover

c. Sidney Poitier

Who is Hattie McDaniel?

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