Black History Month/Afro-Latinx
Black History Month/Afro-Latinx
Black Inventors
Black History Month Entertainers
Sports
100
What month is considered Black History Month?
A) January
B) February
C) March
February
100
What was the name of the African American woman who helped hundreds of slaves in the southern United States escape to freedom?
A.) Rosa Parks
B.) Harriet Tubman
C.) Katherine Johnson
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
Who invented the elevator?
A.) Alexander Miles
C.) Oscar E. Brown
D.) G. E. Becket
Who is Alexander Miles
100
Who currently holds the second place ranking for most Grammys ever won.
A.) Quincy Jones
B.) Stevie Wonder
C.) Beyoncé
D.) Kanye West
Who is Quincy Jones. He has won 28 Grammy's.
100
Roberto Clemente native of Carolina, Puerto Rico became the first-ever Boricua to play in the National League as a right fielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
True or False
TRUE
200
Who started Black History Month
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Stevie Wonder
C) Carter J. Woodson
Carter J. Woodson
200
Afro-Latina who forged better representation for people of color in journalism?
Who is Gwen Ifill
200
Who invented peanut butter ?
A.) Alexander Miles
B.) G.E. Becket
C.) George Washington Carver
Who is George Washington Carver
200
Which record company was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. in Detroit in 1959?
A.) Sun Records
B.) Atlantic Records
C.) Motown Records
D.) Chuck Berry
What is Motown Records
200
Who is the fastest man in the world?
Who is Usain Bolt
300
Afro-Latina poet and author, wrote New York Times Bestseller, 'The Poet X'.
Who is Elizabeth Acevedo
300
Afro-Cuban American Singer celebrated as one of the Latin music's most influential voices and known as "The Queen of Salsa"?
Who is Celia Cruz
300
Who invented the Super Soaker?
A.) Garret Morgan
B.) Lonnie Johnson
C.) Oscar E. Brown
Who is Lonnie Johnson.
300
Who was the star of Black Panther?
A) Chadwick Boseman
B) Denzel Washington
C) Samuel L. Jackson
Chadwick Boseman
300
Who was the first Black Major League Baseball player?
Who is Jackie Robinson.
400
Who triggered a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system in 1955 by refusing to give up their seat to a white passenger on a bus?
A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Malcolm X
C) Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
400
What was the name for his most famous speech?
A) "I've Been to the Mountaintop"
B) "The Other America"
C) "I Have a Dream"
"I Have a Dream"
400
Who invented the electret microphone used is most items today?
A.) Alexander Graham Bell
B.) James E. West
C.) G.E. Becket
Who is James E. West
400
Who was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?
A) Angela Bassett
B) Halle Berry
C) Whoopi Goldberg
Halle Berry
400
Brazilian soccer idol considered the most successful league goal scorer in the world.
Who is Pele?
500
The only known Dominican to serve as a Tuskegee airman during World War II.
Who is Esteban Hostesse?
500
Miriam Jimenez Roman used her experience as a Black Puerto Rican to pave the way for Afro-Latinos everywhere. She wrote the book, "The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States", giving credibility and recognition to the Afro-Latino identity.
True or False
TRUE.
500
Who invented the traffic signal ?
A.) Garret Morgan
B,) Thomas Edison
C.) Oscar E. Brown
Who is Garret Morgan
500
Who is the face of Afro-Peruvian music?
Became internationally recognized for her rendition of the standard 'Maria Lando'.
Won a Latin Grammy in 2002
Susana Baca
500
Afro-Latino from Panama City, Panama was popularly known as "Mo" or "Sandman" during his baseball career. Reliever for the New York Yankees.
Who is Mariano Rivera?