BUSINESS/EDUCATION
In 1872, what inventor received a patent for an apparatus for detaching horses for carriages?
T.J. Boyd
Who is called the “queen of hip-hop soul?”
Mary J. Blige
Serving five four-year terms, who was the first African American and first woman in the Kentucky Senate?
Georgia D. Powers
Marlin Briscoe was the first Black starting quarterback for what football team?
Denver Broncos
Who invented the bread crumbing machine and the bread-making machine?
Joseph Lee
What will be the longest, continuously running, first-run syndicated television program until at least 2016?
Soul Train
Cheyney State, the oldest Black American college, was founded in what year?
1837
Chosen as the first Black manager in baseball’s American League, who managed the Cleveland Indians beginning in 1974?
Frank Robinson
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the world’s first open heart surgery at what hospital?
Chicago’s Provident Hospital
What musical genre emerged from three heavily populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East Texas?
The Blues
As leader of the boycott organization in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his initial civil rights address at what church in Montgomery in 1955?
Holt Street Baptist Church
Who was the first Black American pitcher to win the Cy Young award in the American League?
Vida Blue
Philadelphia and Massachusetts cobbler, Jan E. Matzeliger invented what?
Shoe lasting machine
In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
BET
In 1973 James Dulin became the first African American man appointed to what office in Earlington, Kentucky?
Mayor
What Black American sports legend was commemorated by a postage stamp in 1982?
Jackie Robinson
What black female inventor patented a home security system?
Marie Brown
In 1963 Sidney Poitier became the first Black American to win the Best Actor Oscar for his role in what film?
Lillie’s of the Field
Nashville's first ordained African American minister, Nelson Merry founded what church of more than 2,000 members, the largest church in Tennessee during his time?
The First Colored Baptist Church
Who became the University of Tennessee's all-time leading scorer in 1994?
Allan W. Houston, Jr