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Little Know Facts
100


Who became the first African American player to break Major League baseball's unwritten rule against hiring blacks?




Who is Jackie Robinson?

100

Which Motown group had hits like “My Girl” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg”?

Who are The Temptations? 

100

First black recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature?

Who is Toni Morrison?

100

Who became the first Black American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film “Lilies of the Field” in 1963?

Who is Sidney Poitier?

100

Who was the lawyer who won the Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), which made segregation in public schools illegal?


Who is Thurgood Marshall?

200


Track and field star Carl Lewis won how many gold medals at the 1984 Olympic games?



What is 4?

200

In what city was the influential Motown record label founded?

What is Detroit, Michigan?

200

First black QB to win MVP in Super Bowl?

Who is Doug Williams?

200

What popular television show, which originally aired from 1990 to 1996, starred Will Smith as a street-smart teenager from Philadelphia living with his wealthy relatives in Los Angeles?

What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air? 

200

What state was the first to have more blacks than whites?

What is South Carolina?

300

Credited with breaking the "color barrier" in baseball by becoming the first African American to play in the major leagues, Jackie Robinson played for which team?

What is the Brooklyn Dodgers?

300

Which artist’s groundbreaking hip-hopera “Trapped in the Closet” consists of 33 chapters?

Who is R Kelly?

300

First black female to host a TV show?

Who is OPRAH WINFREY?

300

Who was the Black American actor and comedian known for his roles in “The Nutty Professor” and “Coming to America”?

Who is Eddie Murphy?

300

What was the first state to abolish slavery?

What is Vermont?

400

Who was the first player from the Negro Leagues to be elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame?


Who is Leroy Robert "Satchel Paige"?

400

Which group was famous for pioneering political hip-hop in the 1980s and 1990s?

Who is Public Enemy?

400

My books include Go Tell It on the Mountain and Notes of a Native Son. One of my novels, If Beale Street Could Talk, was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film

Who is James Baldwin? 

400

Who is the actor known for his role as Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and his work in films like “42” and “Get On Up”?

Who is Chadwick Boseman?

400

This self made millionaire invented a cream to help hair grow back.

Who is Madam C. J. Walker? 

500

Stripped of his heavyweight title in 1967 for refusing induction into the U.S. military, Muhammad Ali regained the heavyweight championship on October 30, 1974, in Kinshasa, Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo), with an eighth-round knockout of which prizefighter?


Who is George Foreman?

500

Who is credited with pioneering the “blues” genre in the early 20th century?

Who is W.C. Handy? 

500

I became the first African American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress for my work in Monster’s Ball. I also played alongside Eddie Murphy in Boomerang and portrayed Dorothy Dandridge in a TV movie.

Who is Halle Berry?

500

What popular ’90s sitcom featured a predominantly Black American cast and was set in a Chicago apartment building?

What is Family Matters? 

500

This inventor discovered over 300 uses for the peanut.

Who is Dr. George Washington Carver