Black History Month I
Black History Month II
Black Inventors
Black History Month Entertainers
Sports
100
What month is considered Black History Month?
A) January
B) February
C) March
February
100
What was the name of the African American woman who helped hundreds of slaves in the southern United States escape to freedom?
A.) Rosa Parks
B.) Harriet Tubman
C.) Katherine Johnson
Who is Harriet Tubman
100
Who invented the elevator?
A.) Alexander Miles
C.) Oscar E. Brown
D.) G. E. Becket
Who is Alexander Miles
100
Who currently holds the second place ranking for most Grammys ever won.
A.) Quincy Jones
B.) Stevie Wonder
C.) Beyoncé
D.) Kanye West
Who is Quincy Jones. He has won 28 Grammy's.
100
Who is the first African American Olympian to win the All Around Title in gymnastics?
Who is Gabby Douglas
200
Who started Black History Month
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Stevie Wonder
C) Carter J. Woodson
Carter J. Woodson
200
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award in a leading role?
a. Halle Berry
b. Denzel Washington
c. Sidney Poitier
Who is Sidney Poitier
200
Who invented peanut butter ?
A.) Alexander Miles
B.) G.E. Becket
C.) George Washington Carver
Who is George Washington Carver
200
Which record company was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. in Detroit in 1959?
A.) Sun Records
B.) Atlantic Records
C.) Motown Records
D.) Chuck Berry
What is Motown Records
200
Who is the fastest man in the world?
Who is Usain Bolt
300
Who was the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court
A) Clarence Thomas
B) Thurgood Marshall
C) Colin Powell
Thurgood Marshall
300
True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation gave African Americans the right to vote?
A) True
B) False
False. It was an executive order by the president Abraham Lincoln to free the slaves.
300
Who invented the Super Soaker?
A.) Garret Morgan
B.) Lonnie Johnson
C.) Oscar E. Brown
Who is Lonnie Johnson.
300
Who was the star of Black Panther?
A) Chadwick Boseman
B) Denzel Washington
C) Samuel L. Jackson
Chadwick Boseman
300
Who was the first Black Major League Baseball player?
Who is Jackie Robinson.
400
Who triggered a boycott of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus system in 1955 by refusing to give up their seat to a white passenger on a bus?
A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Malcolm X
C) Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
400
What was the name for his most famous speech?
A) "I've Been to the Mountaintop"
B) "The Other America"
C) "I Have a Dream"
"I Have a Dream"
400
Who invented the electret microphone used is most items today?
A.) Alexander Graham Bell
B.) James E. West
C.) G.E. Becket
Who is James E. West
400
Who was the first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress?
A) Angela Bassett
B) Halle Berry
C) Whoopi Goldberg
Halle Berry
400
Who was the first quarterback in National Football League history to record two 1,000 yards rushing seasons.
Who is Lamar Jackson.
500
Who was the first African American to be appointed to a US cabinet-level position ?
A) Colin Powell
B) Robert C. Weaver
C) Patricia Roberts Harris
Robert C. Weaver. He was appointed Secretary of HUD in 1966.
500
In The Movie : Hidden Figures, what is the name of the main character that was the best mathematician at NASA ?
A.) Katherine Johnson
B.) Rosa Parks
C.) Maya Angelou
Who is Katherine Johnson.
500
Who invented the traffic signal ?
A.) Garret Morgan
B,) Thomas Edison
C.) Oscar E. Brown
Who is Garret Morgan
500
Who was the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer for the American Ballet?
Misty Copeland
500
Who was the fastest woman in the world?
A.) Allyson Felix
B.) Florence Griffith Joyner
C.) Marion Jones
Florence Griffith Joyner, also known as Flo-Jo