Black History Month: Jeopardy

Sports

100

The first Black player to be integrated into the Major Leagues?

Jackie Robinson

200

She has 23 Grand Slam women's single titles

Serena Williams

300

Who is the all time scoring leader in the NBA

LeBron James

400

What is Michael Jordan's basketball jersey number

23

500

First gymnast to win 4 gold medals at a single Olympics game

Simone Biles

Careers

100

What actor played the role of T'Challa in Black Panther?

a) Idris Elba

b) Chadwick Boseman

c) Michael B. Jordan

d) Daniel Kaluuya

Chadwick Boseman

200

Who was the first licensed Black pilot in the world?

a) Shirley Chiholm

b) Bessie Coleman

c) Bayard Rustin

d) Jesse Owens

Bessie Coleman

300

Who was the first Black American woman astronaut?

a) Mae Jemison

b) Katherine Johnson

c) Dorothy Vaughan

d) Madame C.J. Walker

Mae Jemison

400

What state was Barack Obama the Senator of?

a) Wisconsin

b) Iowa

c) Indiana 

d) Illinois 

Illinois from 1997-2004

500

Famous Black American photographer who took pictures for Life Magazine and helped found the magazine publication, Essence

a) Gordon Parks

b) Robert Sengstache Abbott

c) Alvin Ailey

d) Gil-Scott Heron

Gordon Parks

History

100

Which historical site in Alabama became a important during the Civil Rights Movement, where three marches took place in 1965?

a) Selma

b) Montgomery

c) Birmingham

d) Mobile

Selma

200

When is MLK Jr's birthday?

a) January 15th, 1929

b) May 19th, 1925

c) April 27th, 1927

d) February 21st, 1940

January 15th, 1929

300

This federal holiday celebrates the end of slavery in the United States

a) Kwanzaa

b) Hanukkah

c) Juneteenth

d) Memorial Day

Juneteenth

400

What was the purpose of the Freedom Rides in 1961? 

a) Voting rights

b) To challenge segregation on interstate buses

c) Economic justice

d) School segregation

To challenge segregation on interstate buses

500

Whose actions of refusing a seat did Rosa Park reenact on the Montgomery Bus 

a) Diane Nash

b) Ella Baker

c) Claudette Colvin

d) Clara Booth

Claudette Colvin

Music

100

This genre of music was born in the Bronx, New York in 1973

Hip Hop

200

This artist holds the current record for the most song entries in the Billboard Top 100

Drake

300

This artist has the most Grammy's of all time (32 in total)

Beyonce

400

What instrument is Miles Davis known for using?

Trumpet

500

As a student at the Baltimore School of Performing Arts, rapper Tupac Shakur took what classes?

a) Acting and Dance

b) Ballet and Poetry

c) Sculpting and Music

d) Printmaking and Painting

Ballet and Poetry

Education

100

What is the first historically Black college?

a) Tuskegee University

b) Alabama State University

c) Jackson State University

d) Howard University 

Howard University

200

Which HBCU is the #1 producer of Black aerospace engineers in the US?

a) Howard University 

b) Tuskegee University

c) Dillard University 

d) Benedict College

Tuskegee University

300

Who was the first Black American to enroll at the University of Mississippi, breaking segregation in higher education (college)?

a) Ralph Ellison

b) James Meredith

c) Ray Charles

d) Alex Haley

James Meredith

400

Which person was the first Black American to receive a Ph.D from Harvard

a) Booker T. Washington

b) Frederick Douglass

c) W.E.B DuBois

d) Marcus Garvey

W.E.B DuBois

500

Which author became the first African American to win the Nobel Prize for literature

a) Toni Morrison

b) Alice Walker

c) James Baldwin

d) Maya Angelou

Toni Morrison