Medicine and Science
Henrietta Lacks’ cells were used without her consent to create the first "immortal" human cell line. What is this cell line called?
A) Lacks-1
B) He-La
C) HeLa
D) H-Cells
C) HeLa
Who is known as the "Queen of Soul"?
A) Diana Ross
B) Aretha Franklin
C) Gladys Knight
D) Etta James
B) Aretha Franklin
Who wrote the groundbreaking play A Raisin in the Sun?
A) Ntozake Shange
B) Lorraine Hansberry
C) August Wilson
D) James Baldwin
B) Lorraine Hansberry
Who was the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress?
A) Barbara Jordan
B) Shirley Chisholm
C) Eleanor Holmes Norton
D) Maxine Waters
B) Shirley Chisholm
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era?
A) Satchel Paige
B) Jackie Robinson
C) Willie Mays
D) Hank Aaron
B) Jackie Robinson
Which scientist and inventor is famous for developing hundreds of products using peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans?
A) Percy Julian
B) George Washington Carver
C) Ernest Everett Just
D) Benjamin Banneker
B) George Washington Carver
In 2018, who became the first rapper to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music?
A) Jay-Z
B) Kendrick Lamar
C) Nas
D) J. Cole
B) Kendrick Lamar
Who was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A) Maya Angelou
B) Toni Morrison
C) Gwendolyn Brooks
D) Octavia Butler
B) Toni Morrison
Who served as the first African American Mayor of Chicago?
A) Harold Washington
B) Lori Lightfoot
C) Tom Bradley
D) Maynard Jackson
A) Harold Washington
Who was the first African American woman to win a Grand Slam title in tennis?
A) Serena Williams
B) Venus Williams
C) Althea Gibson
D) Naomi Osaka
C) Althea Gibson
Which Black surgeon led the team that performed the first successful separation of Siamese twins joined at the back of the head?
A) Ben Carson
B) Keith Black
C) Alexa Canady
D) Levi Watkins
A) Ben Carson
Which artist broke barriers in the 1930s by performing at the Lincoln Memorial after being barred from Constitution Hall?
A) Billie Holiday
B) Nina Simone
C) Marian Anderson
D) Ella Fitzgerald
C) Marian Anderson
Who was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University?
A) Booker T. Washington
B) W.E.B. Du Bois
C) Carter G. Woodson
D) Alain Locke
B) W.E.B. Du Bois
What is the name of the oldest civil rights organization in the U.S., founded in 1909?
A) SCLC
B) CORE
C) NAACP
D) SNCC
C) NAACP
Which mathematician played a crucial role in the success of the first U.S. crewed spaceflights?
A) Dorothy Vaughan
B) Mary Jackson
C) Katherine Johnson
D) Gladys West
C) Katherine Johnson
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams is credited with performing the first successful what?
A) Kidney transplant
B) Open-heart surgery
C) Brain surgery
D) Appendectomy
B) Open-heart surgery
Which singer and pianist was the first African American to host a national television variety show?
A) Nat King Cole
B) Sammy Davis Jr.
C) Harry Belafonte
D) Ray Charles
A) Nat King Cole
What is the name of the first Black Greek-letter fraternity, founded at Cornell University in 1906?
A) Alpha Phi Alpha
B) Kappa Alpha Psi
C) Omega Psi Phi
D) Phi Beta Sigma
A) Alpha Phi Alpha
John Lewis, a leader in the Civil Rights Movement and longtime Congressman, represented which state?
A) Alabama
B) Mississippi
C) Georgia
D) South Carolina
C) Georgia
Garrett Morgan is credited with inventing which two safety devices?
A) The elevator and the lightbulb
B) The gas mask and the traffic signal
C) The fire extinguisher and the siren
D) The seatbelt and the airbag
B) The gas mask and the traffic signal
Dr. Patricia Bath invented the Laserphaco Probe, a device used to treat what condition?
A) Glaucoma
B) Cataracts
C) Macular Degeneration
D) Diabetic Retinopathy
B) Cataracts
Which jazz trumpeter and composer was a pioneer of "cool jazz" and recorded the best-selling jazz album Kind of Blue?
A) Louis Armstrong
B) Miles Davis
C) Dizzy Gillespie
D) Duke Ellington
B) Miles Davis
Which historian is known as the "Father of Black History" for initiating Negro History Week?
A) John Hope Franklin
B) Carter G. Woodson
C) Henry Louis Gates Jr.
D) Arturo Schomburg
B) Carter G. Woodson
Who was the first African American woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State?
A) Condoleezza Rice
B) Susan Rice
C) Kamala Harris
D) Loretta Lynch
A) Condoleezza Rice
Who was the first African American to win the Wimbledon men’s singles title?
A) Yannick Noah
B) Arthur Ashe
C) James Blake
D) Frances Tiafoe
B) Arthur Ashe