Movies/ TV show
Who was the first Black woman to win a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series?
Viola Davis, How to Get Away With Murder
What year was the Emancipation Proclamation issued?
1863
Who performed the 2024 SuperBowl halftime show?
Usher!
CBS was created as a response to what social movement?
The Civil Rights Movement
Which African country has the most pyramids?
Sudan
What was the first TV show to feature an interracial kiss?
A. Star Trek (1968)
B. I Spy (1965)
C. Julia (1968)
D. Mission: Impossible (1966)
E. The Mod Squad (1968)
Star Trek, 1968
2 weeks before Rosa Parks, this pregnant 15-year-old refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama.
Claudette Colvin
What was Beyoncé’s first solo album?
Dangerously in Love
What year was CBS founded at Wittenberg University?
1969
Which author wrote The Souls of Black Folk?
A) Booker T. Washington
B) W.E.B. DuBois
C) Marcus Garvey
D) Paul Laurence Dunbar
E) Alain Locke
W.E.B. DuBois
Which film became Jordan Peele’s directorial debut in 2017?
Get Out
What 2 African Countries were never colonized?
Ethiopia and Liberia
What is the only hip-hop album to win Album of the Year at the Grammys?
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
In CBS history, a key symbolic action involved presenting the administration with a list of demands in 1969. How many demands were on that original list?
A) 5
B) 7
C) 9
D) 10
E) 6
9
Who was the attorney who represented the NAACP in Brown v. Board of Education?
A) Clarence Thomas
B) Charles Hamilton Houston
C) Constance Baker Motley
D) Thurgood Marshall
E) Oliver Hill
Thurgood Marshall (He became the first African American Supreme Court Justice)
What was the first Black-led TV drama on American network television?
A) East Side/West Side
B) Julia
C) Roots
D) Good Times
E) Amen
East Side/West Side with Cicely Tyson, 1963
In 1942, Black women joined this elite WWII unit to sort mail in Europe, becoming the only all-Black, all-female battalion overseas.
A) 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
B) Tuskegee Airmen
C) 761st Tank Battalion
D) Women’s Army Corps (WAC)
E) Red Ball Express
6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
Which rapper’s birth name is Wasalu Muhammad Jaco?
A) Lupe Fiasco
B) Q-Tip
C) Mos Def
D) Nas
E) Common
Lupe Fiasco
What building did CBS occupy when it first demanded change at Wittenberg?
A) McClain House
B) Recitation Hall
C) Weaver Chapel
D) Hollenbeck Hall
E) CDR
Recitation Hall
Which NBA player is nicknamed “The Answer”
A) Tracy McGrady
B) Reggie Miller
C) Stephon Marbury
D) Chris Paul
E) Allen Iverson
Allen Iverson
Who was the first Black director to win an Oscar for Best Director?
A. John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood)
B. Lee Daniels (Precious)
C. Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave)
D. Jordan Peele (Get Out)
E. None
None (Could be YOU)
This university, originally called the Institute for Colored Youth, is the oldest HBCU in the United States. What is it called today?
A. Howard University
B. Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
C. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania
D. Wilberforce University (Ohio)
E. Bowie State University (Maryland)
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania (1837)
The first music video ever played on MTV by a Black artist was this.
A) Michael Jackson – “Billie Jean”
B) Prince – “When Doves Cry”
C) Whitney Houston – “How Will I Know”
D) Lionel Richie – “All Night Long”
E) Rick James – “Super Freak”
“Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson
Which Wittenberg building is named after a famous abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor?
A) Geiger House
B) Hollenbeck Hall
C) Weaver Chapel
D) Shouvlin Hall
E) Benjamin Prince House
The Geiger House (also known as the William A. McClain Center for Diversity).
The oldest university in the world was founded in this African country in 859 AD.
A) Egypt
B) Morocco
C) Ethiopia
D) Nigeria
E) Mali
Morocco