Music & Arts
Who was known as the "Queen of Gospel"?
a) Aretha Franklin
b) Mahalia Jackson
c) Billie Holiday
b) Mahalia Jackson
What Black scientist is known as the “Father of Blood Banks”?
a) Charles Drew
b) Percy Julian
c) Daniel Hale Williams
a) Charles Drew
Which president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
a) John F. Kennedy
b) Richard Nixon
c) Lyndon B. Johnson
c) Lyndon B. Johnson
Who was the famous boxer known as "The Greatest"? a) Joe Frazier
b) Muhammad Ali
c) Mike Tyson
b) Muhammad Ali
Who was the first Black woman to travel in space?
a) Mae Jemison
b) Katherine Johnson
c) Dorothy Vaughan
a) Mae Jemison
What year did Black History Month officially begin?
a) 1926
b) 1954
c) 1976
c) 1976
Who is known as the "Father of the Blues"?
a) B.B. King
b) W.C. Handy
c) Louis Armstrong
b) W.C. Handy
Who invented the traffic signal?
a) George Washington Carver
b) Garret Morgan
c) Lewis Latimer
b) Garret Morgan
Which Black abolitionist leader escaped slavery and became a famous speaker?
a) Harriet Tubman
b) Frederick Douglass
c) Sojourner Truth
b) Frederick Douglass
Who was the first Black athlete to win a gold medal in the Olympics?
a) Jesse Owens
b) Jack Johnson
c) John Baxter Taylor
c) John Baxter Taylor
Who was the first Black woman to fly across the U.S.?
a) Bessie Smith
b) Bessie Coleman
c) Maya Angelou
b) Bessie Coleman
What famous Black holiday is celebrated in December?
a) Kwanzaa
b) Juneteenth
c) Emancipation Day
a) Kwanzaa
Who wrote the poem "Still I Rise"?
a) Toni Morrison
b) Maya Angelou
c) Langston Hughes
b) Maya Angelou
Which scientist discovered over 300 uses for peanuts?
a) Elijah McCoy
b) George Washington Carver
c) Benjamin Banneker
b) George Washington Carver
Who founded the "Rainbow Coalition"?
a) Martin Luther King Jr.
b) Malcolm X
c) Jesse Jackson
c) Jesse Jackson
Which baseball player broke Babe Ruth’s home run record?
a) Jackie Robinson
b) Willie Mays
c) Hank Aaron
c) Hank Aaron
Who is known for her role as a NASA mathematician in the space race?
a) Mae Jemison
b) Dorothy Vaughan
c) Katherine Johnson
c) Katherine Johnson
Who founded the United Negro College Fund?
a) Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune
b) Frederick Douglass
c) Booker T. Washington
a) Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune
Who is known as the "Queen of Soul"?
a) Whitney Houston
b) Diana Ross
c) Aretha Franklin
c) Aretha Franklin
Who was the Black engineer who invented the Super Soaker water gun?
a) Garrett Morgan
b) Lewis Latimer
c) Lonnie Johnson
c) Lonnie Johnson
Who was the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
a) Shirley Chisholm
b) Condoleezza Rice
c) Kamala Harris
a) Shirley Chisholm
Who was the first Black head coach in the NBA?
a) Bill Russell
b) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
c) John Thompson
a) Bill Russell
Who was the first Black astronaut to travel to space? a) Mae Jemison
b) Guion Bluford
c) Ronald McNair
b) Guion Bluford
Who is considered one of the founders of the NAACP?
a) Martin Luther King Jr.
b) W.E.B. Du Bois
c) Malcolm X
b) W.E.B. Du Bois
Who was the first Black woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress?
a) Hattie McDaniel
b) Halle Berry
c) Oprah Winfrey
b) Halle Berry
Who invented the first functional gas mask?
a) George Washington Carver
b) Lewis Latimer
c) Garrett Morgan
c) Garrett Morgan
Who was the first Black Supreme Court Justice?
a) Clarence Thomas
b) Thurgood Marshall
c) Colin Powell
b) Thurgood Marshall
Who became the first Black heavyweight boxing champion?
a) Muhammad Ali
b) Joe Louis
c) Jack Johnson
c) Jack Johnson
Who was the Black inventor known for the clothes dryer?
a) Madam C.J. Walker
b) George T. Sampson
c) George Washington Carver
b) George T. Sampson
What was the name of the Tuskegee Airmen’s squadron?
a) Red Tails
b) Blue Angels
c) Green Hornets
a) Red Tails