Arts and Literature
What musical genre emerged from three heavily populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East Texas?
The Blues
Who was the first Black American professional football player?
Fritz Pollard
Who were the Exodusters?
They were black people who left the South after Reconstruction who settled in Kansas in 1879.
Benjamin Banneker assisted in the survey of what major US city?
Washington, DC
George Washington Carver made paint and ink from what common food item?
Peanuts
“Go Down, Moses” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” are known as what type of songs?
Spirituals
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, who recorded the song “Twist and Shout”?
The Isley Brothers
What famous march helped influence the Voting Rights Acts passed in August 1965?
March on Selma
What was the name of the first all-Black Medical school?
Meharry Medical College
Charles Donaldson designed the sequence controller that was used for the landing system of what spacecraft?
Apollo
What Black American took jazz vocals to a new level and was called “The Divine One” because of her range and effortless mastery of the intricacies of music?
Sarah Vaughan
What is the stage name of female rapper and actress Dana Owens?
Queen Latifah
Gabriel Prosser was arrested and executed in 1800 for what reason?
Leading a slave revolt
Who is famous for his research on sickle cell anemia?
Dr. Roland Scott
What African American scientist is known for his work with insects?
Charles Turner
What Alex Haley novel was made into a television mini-series in 1977 and 1979?
Roots
What was “Ma” Rainey’s nickname?
Mother of the Blues
Who was the founder of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality?
James Farmer
Upon completing his education at Howard University, Phillip C. Brooks returned to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, where he owned and operated what medical facility beginning in 1944?
Brooks Memorial Hospital
Meredith Gourdine invented what automobile device?
Exhaust Purification System
Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson were writers of the Harlem Renaissance period. Which one of them was born in Jamaica?
Claude McKay
Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics hosted by what country?
Germany
During the transatlantic slave trade, the largest numbers of Africans were imported to what three countries?
Brazil, Jamaica, and Haiti
Born in 1881, who was the first African American nurse licensed in Kentucky?
Mary Eliza Merritt
What notable scientist, astronomer, and inventor was commissioned to help layout Washington, D.C.?
Benjamin Banneker