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100
For what professional football team did Carl Weathers play?
Oakland Raiders
100
Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia , was the first original script by a Black women to be produced?
Maya Angelou
100
Who is the current Chairman and CEO of Johnson Publishing Company?
Linda Johnson Rice
100
What ancient statue in Egypt has the head of a human and the body of a lion?
Sphinx
100
Evelyn King received gold records for her songs Shame (1978) and I Don’t Know If It’s Right (1979). What was this artist's nickname?
Champagne
200
Bill Russell was the first Black American player in what
professional sports league?
NBA
200
In 1955, Arthur Mitchell became the first black man to dance for a major ballet company in 1955. Name the company.
New York City Ballet
200
Established in 1945, this publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines is the world's largest black-owned publishing company. Name it.
Johnson Publishing Company
200
What orator delivered a powerful anti-slavery speech in 1851 at a convention on women's rights in Akron, Ohio?
Sojourner Truth
200
In what year did the cable network BET begin broadcasting music videos?
1980
300
He was born Cassius Clay but changed his name after he joined the Nation of Islam. Who is this former Olympic Gold Medal prizefighter?
Muhammad Ali
300
In 1969 this photojournalist became the first black male and the first black journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. Who was he?
Moneta Sleet, Jr.
300
What is the name of Oprah Winfrey‟s TV production company?
Harpo Productions
300
Which two black churches emerged from the Free African Society?
the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in 1816 and the St. Thomas's African Episcopal Church in 1794
300
For how many weeks did Chubby Checker‟s hit song, The Twist, stay on the top 40 charts?
33
400
James Cleveland Owens, a track and field athlete, won four Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. By what name was he known?
Jesse Owens
400
What famed opera singer was known as “The Lady from Philadelphia”?
Marian Anderson
400
What was the name of Bill Cosby‟s first bestselling book?
Fatherhood
400
James Forma wrote what document that demanded $500 million to be collected from White churches and synagogues for payment of injustices suffered by Black Americans?
The Black Manifesto
400
What performer was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues?
Diana Ross
500
What famous football star danced with a Fort Worth ballet
company?
Herschel Walker
500
Brumsic Brandon, Jr. is best known for what comic strip?
Luther
500
What famous Black American was a reporter on the CBS television program 60 Minutes?
Ed Bradley
500
With whom did the term “Black Power” originate?
Richard Wright
500
The uncut versions of Donna Summer and Gloria Gaynor‟s records are around fourteen minutes and nineteen minutes, respectively. What are the names of these Disco divas‟ records that lasted so long?
Donna Summer‟s “Love to Love You” was about fourteen minutes. Gloria Gaynor‟s “Never Can Say Goodbye” was about nineteen minutes.
600
In 1979, what forced Arthur Ashe to retire from professional
tennis?
Heart Attack
600
Who is Henrietta Lacks and what is she known for?
Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant) was an African-American woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research.
An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day.
600
From 1913 to 1915 price reductions of what crop hurt the Southern farmers and brought on an economic depression?
Cotton
600
What was the first southern city to integrate all of their public facilities?
San Antonio, Texas
600
What was the name of the character played by Bill Cosby in The Cosby Show?
Dr. Cliff Huxtable
700
In what four sports did Jackie Robinson win varsity letters,
becoming UCLA's first athlete to do so in 1939?
Baseball, basketball, football, and track
700
What Black American was acclaimed for his involvement in the design of the Philadelphia Museum of Art?
Julian Abele
700
Who was the first Black man to appear on the cover of Life magazine?
Billy Eckstine
700
The "PUSH" in Operation PUSH, founded by Rev. Jesse Jackson, stand for what?
People United to Serve Humanity
700
What was the amount of the first royalty check for Berry Gordy, Jr., founder of Motown Records?
$3.40
800
For what sport are Charles Wiltshire and Wendell Scott
famous?
Auto Racing
800
What form of music did Duke Ellington elevate into a serious art form?
Jazz
800
In 1991, what became the first black-controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
BET
800
Hopkinsville native, Raymond Burse earned what scholarship and attended the University of Oxford, majoring in organic chemistry and graduating in 1975?
Rhodes Scholarship
800
Name at least three songs recorded by Donna Summer.
Love to Love You” (1975), “I Feel Love” (1977), “Last Dance” (1978), “MacArthur
Park” (1978), “Heaven Knows” (1979) with Brooklyn Dreams, “Hot Stuff” (1979), “Bad Girls” (1979), “Dim All
the Lights” (1979), “On the Radio” (1980), and “The Wanderer” (1980).
900
When did Jackie Robinson break the color barrier by his
entrance into baseball's National League?
1947
900
What famous Black author said, “Black writers do more than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of racial oppression”?
James Baldwin
900
One of the first black organized labor unions, the Associated
Colored Employees of America was formed in what year?
1917
900
What term describes the turbulent period of time marked by twenty-five race riots that began in the summer of 1919 and lasted until the end of the year?
Red Summer
900
Sang by Diahann Carroll, this song was made popular in the film version of Porgy and Bess . Name it.
“Summertime”
1000
Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron ended his career with how many
home runs?
755
1000
What Black American artist created the Peanut Man character for Planters Peanuts?
Elmer Stoner
1000
Raising $150,000 over seven years, this choir from Nashville traveled around the world singing spirituals and work songs to raise money for their college. What was the name of the choir?
The Fisk Jubilee Singers (from Fisk University)
1000
After Martin Luther King Jr‟s death, who succeeded him as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference?
Ralph Abernathy
1000
What all-black situation comedy television show started as a radio program in the 1920s to 1950s whose actors were all white?
Amos n' Andy