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Which activist said, “I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger”?
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
Inventor Alexander Miles patented this update to elevators in 1887?
What is the automatic closing doors
100
What tech company based in St Louis is the largest black-owned company in the US and the overall 20th largest privately owned company in the US?
What is World Wide Technology
100
Who was the first Black woman billionaire?
Who is Oprah Winfrey
100
Who is the first African American Olympian to win the All-Around title in gymnastics?
Who is Gabby Douglas
100
Who is known as the King of Pop?
Who is Michael Jackson
200
Who said,” The time is always right to do what is right”?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr
200
Who Invented 100s of uses for peanuts and was the Director of Agriculture at Tuskegee Institute?
Who is George Washington Carver
200
What weekly newspaper was one of the top 6 in the nation for African American news and is still located in the Kansas City 18th and Vine District?
What is: “The Kansas City Call”
200
I was a member of the survey crew that surveyed most of the territory for construction of the nations’ capital in the 1790’s after President George Washington established the new federal district for Washington D.C. Who am I?
Who is Benjamin Banneker
200
What is the number of major league teams (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL) with an African American majority owner (excludes limited partners), based on the 2021-2022 seasons?
What is one, Michael Jordan
200
After the 2018 Coachella music festival performance with a homecoming halftime performance theme this singer gave $100,000 in scholarships to historically black colleges.
Who is Beyonce
300
What poet said “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the hope and the dream of the slave. There I go...I rise I rise I rise.”?
Who is Maya Angelou
300
What fun summer toy did aerospace engineer Lonnie Johnson invent in 1989?
What is the Super Soaker water gun
300
Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Who is Thurgood Marshall
300
Who was the first African American to receive a US pilot’s license and first American to earn an international pilot’s license?
Who is Bessie Coleman
300
Who was the first African American Major League Baseball player?
Who is Jackie Robinson
300
Music by this famous St Louis guitar player was sent to space aboard the Voyager space craft in 1977. Hint: the record was “Johnnie B Goode”
Who is Chuck Berry
400
Which famous athlete said, “Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it does not matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.”
Who is Muhammad Ali
400
Dress maker Sarah Boone invented an improved one of these in 1892 for ladies' garments.
What is the ironing board
400
Who triggered a boycott of the Mongomery, Alabama, bus system in 1955 by refusing to give up their seat to a white passenger on a bus in protest of racial segregation on public transit?
Who is Rosa Parks
400
Who was the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review?
Who is Barack Obama
400
Who was the first Black quarterback to lead his team to the Super Bowl Championship?
Who is Doug Williams, Washington
400
Who won the first and only Grammy in the disco category for the song “I Will Survive”?
Who Gloria Gaynor
500
What author and activist said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced”?
Who is James Baldwin
500
Who invented the 3 arm traffic signal?
Who is Garret Morgan
500
Juneteenth is the commemoration of the day in 1865 that Army General Granger came to Galveston Texas to proclaim slaves in Texas free. What year did President Lincoln issue the Emancipation Proclamation changing the legal status of enslaved people to free people in Confederate southern states?
What is 1863?
500
I was the first woman and first Black American to run for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Prior to my run for the Presidency, I made history by becoming the first Black congresswoman, representing New York State in the House of Representatives for seven terms. I earned a Masters degree in education from Columbia University. As a former teacher, I spent my political career fighting for equal opportunities in education and social justice. Who am I?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
500
Who is the baseball player with the most MVP awards in history?
Who Barry Bonds
500
The movie Blakkklansman was co-written by University of Kansas professor Kevin Wilmott. Who was the film’s director?
Who is Spike Lee
