He Published his poetry collection called Fine Clothes to the Jew.
Hint: He wrote blues and jazz poetry during the Harlem Renaissance. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is one of his earliest and most popular works.
Who is Langston Hughes?
100
8. On January 7th these ballers play their first game in Hinckley, Illinois.
Hint: They combined theater and comedy into their basketball game. Wilt Chamberlain played for the team in 1959.
Who are the Harlem Globetrotters?
100
He was released from prison and deported back to his birth place Jamaica.
Hint: The founder of the Black Star Line that encouraged Blacks to return to Africa where there ancestors originated since there was no economic and political freedom in the U.S.
Who is Marcus Garvey?
100
Connected the United to States to Canada in Buffalo, New York; the bridge was open to the public in June.
What is the Peace Bridge?
100
Erik Rotheim of Norway invented this aerosol container.
What is the spray can?
200
He published a poetry collection with thirty-eight poets called Caroling Dusk; he also published Ballad of a Brown Girl and Copper Sun.
Hint: He is one of the strongest poets of the Harlem Renaissance who often utilized the traditional style of Shakespearean sonnet.
Who is Countee Cullen?
200
The first feature-length motion picture that marked the end of the silent film era with synchronized dialogue or talking pictures.
What is The Jazz Singer?
200
By first filing a case with the Interstate Commerce Commission, Pullman workers fought to improve the low wages and poor working conditions of the porters.
Hint: They were the first Black union.
What is the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
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Who is Asa Philip Randolph?
200
Ford stops making the Model T and produces this line of cars with different body styles.
Hint: It is a letter of the alphabet.
What is the Model A?
200
He created the Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1927 and Yearbook of American Poetry.
Who is William Stanley Braithwaite?
300
He moves from Memphis to Chicago and studies the styles of modernist writers in his free time.
Hint: He is the author of Black Boy and Native Son.
Who is Richard Wright?
300
This Major League Baseball team sweeps the Pittsburgh Pirates in the World Series.
Who are the New York Giants?
300
The first call is made from New York to London.
Hint: A body of water is involved
What is the transatlantic telephone?
300
Free Points!
Congratulations! You Got Lucky!
400
He published a poetry collection called God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse.
Hint: He composed the lyrics of Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing also known as the Negro National Anthem
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
400
This jazz musician and his orchestra were the house band for the Cotton Club until 1930.
Hint: He is one of the most popular composers, pianists, and big-band leaders.
Who is Duke Ellington (Duke Ellington's orchestra)?
400
One of the worst floods in American history, a cause for the Great Migration of Blacks.
Hint: Took place in the south.
What is the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927?
400
This machine allowed you cut bread without a knife and wrap it too.
Hint: It was automatic.
What is the automatic bread slicer?
400
Two suspected Italian immigrants wrongfully accused and executed for murder and armed robbery of a shoe factory in Massachusetts.
Who is Sacco and Vanzetti?
500
She undertook field research in the south with a fellowship from the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History during which she collected folklore and interviewed a former slave.
Hint: She is the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
500
The internationally known jazz singer, dancer, and Broadway performer dies at 31 from an infection after surgery; she also had tuberculosis.
Hint: She was a cabaret singer known as the "Queen of Happiness."
Who is Florence Mills?
500
State opened fire with machine guns on striking coal miners, killing six and injuring dozens.
Hint: Took place in Serene, Colorado.
What is the Columbine Mine Massacre?
500
The Nebraskan chemist Edwin Perkins invented this powdered drink.
Hint: It was originally called Fruit Smack
What is Kool-Aide?
500
Of the eleven qualified planes to race from Northern California to Hawaii, only two made it successfully across the finish line, the others crashed or went missing, ten people died.