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Dr. Charles Drew served as director for what organization's blood blank?

American Red Cross

1

How many gold metals did Jesse Owens win during the 1936 Summer Olympics?

Four

1

The profession of Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen. Considered to be major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance?

Writers

1

n 2001, for what film did Denzel Washington become the second African American man to win an Academy Award for Best Actor?

Training Day

1

What ancient statue in Egypt has the head of a human and the body of a lion?

Sphynx

2

Lewis Latimer prepared the drawings for what invention patented by Alexander Graham Bell?

The telephone

2

Jim Brown began his professional football career with what team in 1957?

Cleveland Browns

2

She wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

Zora Neale Hurston

2

Kentrell DeSean Gaulden stage name 

NBA Youngboy

2

What Black American sparked the “Montgomery Bus Boycott”?

Rosa Parks

3

Garret Morgan invented the traffic light and another life saving device.

Gas Mask

3

He was born Cassius clay but changed his name after he joined the Nation of Islam. Who is this former Olympic Gold Medal prizefighter?

Muhammad Ali

3

He published the graphic novel March.

John Lewis

3

Polo G's first name

Taurus

3

Elijah Muhammad traveled throughout the United States spreading the teachings of what religious movement?

Islam

4

Who was the first man to discover the North Pole?

Matthew Henson

4

At the age of 24, this golfer won the 82nd PGA Championship, beating Bob May in a three-hole playoff at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 20, 2000. Name him.

Tiger Woods

4

She wrote the poems Still I Rise and Phenomenal Woman 

Maya Angelou

4

The Guinness Book of World Records lists what Michael Jackson album as the best selling album of all times?

Thriller

4

Who sang spiritual songs to communicate with slaves she intended to take north to freedom on the Underground Railroad?

Harriet Tubman

5

This renowned African American chef invented the potato chip.

George Crumb

5

These two sisters were born in 1980 and 1981 respectively. They are champions of Wimbledon and other major tennis tournaments. Name them.

Venus and Serena Williams

5

He wrote Clotel , or The President’s Daughter , the first published novel by a Black American in 1833.


William Wells Brown

5

Born in 1957, what is the name of the director of the movie Do the Right Thing?

Spike Lee

5

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in what city in 1929?

Atlanta Georgia