Arts & Entertainment
Who is called the "queen of hop-hop soul?"
Mary J Blige
In 1753, who built the first wooden clock in the American colonies?
Benjamin Banneker
Who was the youngest person to win a Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?
Dr. Martin Luther King
Who is the current All Time NBA scoring leader?
Lebron James
What did George Washington Carver use to develop postage stamp glue?
Sweet Potatoes
In 1991, what became the first black- controlled company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange?
BET
Who revolutionized jazz music and helped establish it as the nation's first highly black art form?
Louis Armstrong
What organization was co-founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1909 to fight for civil rights?
NAACP
The University of North Carolina was the starting point for what NBA great?
Michael Jordan
Who invented the three-way traffic light?
Garrett A. Morgan
Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was the first original script by a Black Woman to be produced?
Maya Angelou
Whose refusal to give up her seat on a public bus sparked a boycott of Montgomery, AL buses from 1955-1956?
Rosa Parks
What 1965 event, known as “Bloody Sunday,” was pivotal in the fight for voting rights?
The Selma to Montgomery March
Elson Howard was the first black American to win what American league baseball award?
Most Valuable Player
Who invented the incubator?
Granville T. Woods
How old was Langston Hughes when his poetry was first published?
19
Who was the influential antislavery newspaper called The North Star was published by?
Frederick Douglass
What event inspired the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The Selma to Montgomery March and the violence on the Edmund Pettus Bridge
How many gold metals did Jesse Owens win during the 1936 summer Olympics?
4
Charles Donaldson designed the sequence controller that was used for the landing system of what spacecraft?
Apollo
Who starred in and directed the film Get Out, which was nominated for multiple Academy Awards?
Jordan Peele
Who wrote the masterpiece of American literature "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?
Zora Neale Hurston
What magazine is called "The Magazine of Today's Black Woman"?
Essence
In 1988, Debi Thomas won a medal in which Olympic event?
Figure Skating
Who invented the lawn mower?
J. A. Burr