Business & Education
The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by which abolitionist in 1847?
Frederick Douglass
Actress Nichelle Nichols is best known for her role in what television series?
Star Trek
What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black youth?
YMCA
Hyram S. Thomas was a chef who created what popular snack?
Potato Chip
What was Earl Monroe’s nickname during his basketball career?
The Pearl
In 1910 about fifty percent of the black labor force was employed in what industry?
Agriculture
Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America?
Vanessa Williams
What state was the first to abolish slavery?
Vermont
Born a slave, Stephen Bishop, the first African American cave explorer made a published map of what cave?
Mammouth Cave
She was a forward who scored 47 points in the final game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament in 1993. She led Texas Tech to the national championship. Who is she?
Sheryl Swoopes
Who was the first Black American woman bank president?
Maggie Lena Walker
Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been a prominent figure in jazz since the 1980s. He is the spokesperson for what group, representing a younger generation of jazz musicians?
The Young Lions
What civil rights leader was a co-founder of the NAACP and the Pan-African Movement?
W.E.B Du Bois
What did George Washington Carver use to develop shaving cream, paper, ink, rubbing oil, synthetic rubber, and instant coffee?
Peanuts
Earvin “Magic” Johnson played for what college basketball team?
Michigan State Spartans
Slaves held a variety of tasks such as skilled craftsmen, trappers, nurses, and house servants. What work did the majority of slaves perform?
Agricultural labor in the Southern colonies (They worked in the fields.)
What was the name of the first hip-hop group to break into the mainstream American culture in the early 1980s?
Run-DMC
What term is used to describe the second leg of the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas between 1520 and 1860?
The “Middle Passage”
What did Lewis Howard Latimer and Hiram S. Maxim invent?
Incandescent Electric Light
Jesse Stahl competed and was discriminated against in an Oregon rodeo in the early 1900s. What did he do when the judges did not award him first prize which he thought he deserved?
Rode his next horse in protest by facing backward
What company was founded in Harlem in 1940 to provide opportunities for black actors, writers and directors as well as technicians?
American Negro Theatre
At the 2010 Grammy Awards, this singer walked away from the ceremony with six awards—the most wins in a single night by a female artist in the history of the event.
Beyonce Knowles
In 1787 black Methodists Richard Allen and Absalom Jones established what nondenominational religious association and mutual aid society?
the Free African Society of Philadelphia
What was the significance of Granville T. Woods “telephone transmitter,” which he invented in 1884?
It carried voices longer distances
Having won a combined total of nineteen Olympic and World Championship medals, this athlete is the most decorated American gymnast. With her win in Rio, she became the sixth woman to have won an individual all-around title at both the World Championships and the Olympic Games.
Simone Biles