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100
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?

Who is Barack Obama?
Who is Colin Powell?
Who is Condoleezza Rice?
Who is Ben Carson?
Who is Barack Obama?
100
Sarah Boone invented this indispensable household staple.

What is an ironing board?
What is spray-on adhesive?
What is a stapler?
What is a sink plunger?
What is an ironing board?
100
What was the name of the all Black regiment in the US Army who were the original members of the US 10th Cavalry Regiment in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas?

Who are the Black Cavalry?
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
Who are the Kansas Regiment?
Who are the Leavenworth Rangers?
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
100
She is considered the most famous jazz vocalist of the twentieth century. Her most controversial song, “Strange Fruit,” was a protest against lynching.

Who is Dinah Washington?
Who is Billie Holiday?
Who is Nina Simone?
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
Who is Billie Holliday?
100
He was the first African-American to play in the NFL.

Who is Emmit Smith?
Who is Frits Pollard?
Who is Doug Williams?
Who is Jerry Rice?
Who is Frits Pollard?
200
Who was known as the Nation of Islam's most effective minister until he broke from the group in 1964 and formed his own group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity?

Who is Louis Farrakhan, Sr.?
Who is Elijah Muhammad?
Who is Malcolm X?
Who is Richard Dawson?
Who is Malcolm X?
200
Although he may sound like he invented the refrigerator, he actually invented the lawnmower.

Who is J.A. Burr?
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
Who is George Robert Carruthers?
Who is Garrett Morgan?
Who is J.A.Burr?
200
She won the French Legion of Honor Award for entertaining WWII allies, and boosting morale.

Who is Cleo Hayes?
Who is Edna Mae Harris?
Who is Josephine Baker?
Who is Gladys Snyder?
Who is Josephine Baker?
200
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")

Who is Maya Angelou?
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Who is Audre Lorde?
Who is Toni Morrison?
Who is Toni Morrison?
200
Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?

Who is Muhammad Ali?
Who is Carl Lewis?
Who is Florence Griffith-Joyner?
Who is Jackie Joyner-Kersee?
Who is Muhammad Ali?
300
Nelson Mandela was the head of this predominately black South African political party.

What is the ANC (African National Congress)?
What is the Union of Southern Africa?
What is the African Political Senate?
What is the Voice of South Africa?
What is the ANC (African National Congress)?
300
Prince Hall organized African Lodge #459, this was the first lodge of this type.

What is a Public Meeting Hall?
What is a Chamber of Commerce?
What is a Masonic Lodge?
What is a Shriner Lodge?
What is Masonic Lodge?
300
These Black soldiers were trained to become pilots in World War II. They were mostly assigned to Italy where they escorted bomber planes and destroyed enemy planes.

Who were the Spelman Squadron?
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
Who were the Poughkeepsie Fighters?
Who were the Morehouse Fliers?
Who were the Tuskegee Airmen?
300
What did George M. Horton plan to do with the profits from his 1839 poetry collection, The Hope of Liberty?

What is invest it in shares?
What is buy his freedom and go to Liberia?
What is construct a new kind of typewriter?
What is give it away to the needy?
What is buy his freedom and go to Liberia?
300
She was one of the original players of the WNBA and also the 1st player ever in the league to dunk in a game.

Who is Lisa Leslie?
Who is Janeth Arcain?
Who is Janet Harris?
Who is Cynthia Cooper?
Who is Lisa Leslie?
400
He started the "Back to Africa Movement",and was later deported back to his homeland in Jamaica.

Who is Paul Cuffee?
Who is William Coleman?
Who is Marcus Garvey?
Who is Boston King?
Who is Marcus Garvey?
400
This physicist was among the first three African Americans selected as astronauts by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He was killed in 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger exploded.

Who is Herman Branson?
Who is John McNeil Hunter?
Who is Willie Hobbs Moore?
Who is Ronald McNair?
WWho is Ronald McNair?
400
According to the National Archives, approximately how many African Americans served as soldiers in the Civil War?

What is 150,000?
What is 89,000?
What is 198,000?
What is 60,000?
What is 198,000?
400
She was the first African American poet to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Who is Maya Angelou?
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
Who is Sonia Sanchez?
Who is Gwendolyn Brooks?
400
In the 1984 Olympic Games, Carl Lewis won this many medals.

What is 5?
What is 4?
What is 3?
What is 2?
What is 4?
500
This educational and human rights leader first emerged as a leading educator who started what is now Bethune-Cookman College in 1904 with $1.50 in cash. She went on to become the head of the National Association of Colored Women and later the National Council of Negro Women.

Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
Who is Alice E Eldon?
Who is Mary Sellar?
Who is Annie Smithers?
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
500
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?

Who is Colin Powell?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
Who is Richard Elkins?
Who is Richard Dawson?
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
In 1862, who seized a Confederate warship in Charleston and delivered it to the Union fleet with several slave families aboard?

Who is Robert Blaine?
Who is Robert Smalls?
Who is Richard Elkins?
Who is Richard Dawson?
Who is Robert Smalls?
500
This poet, songwriter, activist, educator and diplomat authored The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Along with his brother, he wrote “Lift Every Voice and Sing.”

Who is James Weldon Johnson?
Who is Alan Keyes?
Who is Richard L. Jones?
Who is Jerome Heartwell Howard?
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
500
He was the first basketball player to score 100 points in a single game, and was also the first to score 30,000 points in the NBA.

Who is Wilt Chamberlin?
Who is Shabazz Muhammad?
Who is Wayne Ellington?
Who is Kobe Bryant?
Who is Wilt Chamberlin?