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100

Dizzy Gillespie was known for playing with a bent brass instrument.

Trumpet

100

______ was the first Black Disney princess. The children’s movie, “The Princess and the Frog,” came out in 2009.

Princess Tiana 


100

This man gave the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.

Martin Luther King jr


100

Black History Month is in what month?

What is February?

100

These are the colors that represent Black History Month.

What is red, green, black and yellow?

200

This jazz trumpet player, was also know for his very unique voice. Singing the song "What a Wonderful World".


Louis Armstrong

200

______  took home the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay. “Get Out” 


Jordan Peele

200

He was the first black president.

Barack Obama


200

On December 1, 1955, an African American woman was riding a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama when the driver told her to give up her seat to a white man.

Rosa Parks


200

Was known as the "King of Pop."

Who is Michael Jackson?

300
This was the location of the birth place of jazz.



New Orleans

300

Who was the star of Black Panther?

Chadwick Boseman 


300

the first African American to play a major sport. When this player joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, baseball was segregated. 

Jackie Robinson

300

Was the year Barrak Obama became the first black president.

2008

300

This artists sold 1.5 million copies of her album Lemonade in 2016.

Beyonce 


400

She was know as the "First Lady of Song" and help create scat singing. Her Most popular songs included Shiny Stockings, Dream A Little Dream Of Me.

Ella Fitzgerald

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

The first President of South Africa to be elected in a fully representative democratic election, as well as the country's first black head of state? 


Nelson Mandela

400

The Civil Rights act of ____ was the most far-reaching act of legislation supporting racial equality in American history—through Congress.

June - 1964

1964 is acceptable

400

Archie and Nancy Martin were gentle, caring people who provided rooms for African-American students attending Iowa State College in the 1930s and 1940s. ___(Blank)__ was a resident in their home when he had occasion to return to Ames. 

Hint He has popular hall close to Martin Hall

George Washington Carver 

500

Ella Fitzgerald & Al Jarreau are famed for this technique of singing made-up syllables.

Scat Singing

500

In 1940 Hattie McDaniel became the first Black woman to win an Oscar for best supporting actress. What film did she star in?

Gone with the Wind

500

African American leader in the civil rights movement, minister and supporter of Black nationalism. 

Malcolm X 


500

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its verdict , that racial segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment’s mandate of equal protection of the laws of the U.S. Constitution to any person within its jurisdiction.

Brown v. Board of Education

500

The father of Black History Month.

Who is Carter G. Woodson?