BHM Trivia Game 1

Acronyms

100

HBCU

What is Historically Black College or University?

200

SNCC

What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?

300

BIPOC

What is Black and Indigenous People of Color?

400

SCLC

What is the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?

500

NAACP

What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

Divine 9

100

Oldest Black Fraternity

Alpha Phi Alpha (1906)

200

Oldest Black Sorority

Alpha Kappa Alpha (1908)

300

Number of Black Fraternities

5

400

Official title of Black Fraternities and Sororities

National Pan-Hellenic Council

500

The Divine 9

Alpha Kappa Alpha; Delta Sigma Theta; Zeta Phi Beta; Sigma Gamma Rho; Alpha Phi Alpha; Omega Psi Phi; Iota Phi Theta; Phi Beta Sigma; Kappa Alpha Psi

State Rights

100

First state to outlaw slavery

Vermont

200

Birthplace of First Black President 

Hawai'i

300

State where the NAACP was founded

New York

400

The first black governor presided over this state

Lawrence Douglas Wilder in Virginia from 1990-1994

500

This is the only state in the US that legally started "for whites only," with statutes on the books excluding black people from the state until repealed in 1926.

Oregon

Black History Month

100

Year the celebration of Black History Month began

1926

200

President that officially recognized Black History Month

Gerald Ford

300

Known as the father of Black History

Carter G. Woodson

400

Reason Black History Month is in February (which is the shortest month of the year)

Coincides with birthdays of Fredrick Douglas and Abraham Lincoln

500

Theme of 2022 Black History Month

Black Health and Wellness

Poetry

100

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? 

Fredrick Douglass (1852)

200

The Hill We Climb

Amanda Gorman (2021)

300

Ar'n't I a Woman? 

Sojourner Truth (1851)

400

Famous hymn and poem by James Weldon Johnson

Black National Anthem - Lift Every Voice and Sing

500

A More Perfect Union 

President Barack Obama (2008)