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Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER

What national organization was founded on President National Association for the Arts Advancement of Colored People (or Lincoln’s Birthday? NAACP) 2 In 1905 the first black was founded. What Sports Philadelphia Concert Orchestra was it called? 3 The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in what Sports 1852 4 year?

Entertainment In what state is Tuskegee Institute located? Alabama 5 Who was the first Black American inducted into the Pro Business & Education Emlen Tunnell 6 Football Hall of Fame? In 1986, Dexter Gordan was nominated for an Oscar for History Round Midnight 7 his performance in what film? During the first two-thirds of the seventeenth century Science & Exploration Holland and Portugal what two countries dominated the African slave trade? 8 In 1994, which president named Eddie Jordan, Jr. as the Business & Education first African American to hold the post of U.S. Attorney President 9 in the state of ? Frank Robinson became the first Black American Arts Indians 10 manager in major league for what team? What company has a successful series of television Politics & Military commercials that started in 1974 and features Bill Jell-O 11 Cosby? He worked for the NAACP and became the first field Entertainment secretary in Jackson, Mississippi. He was shot in June 12 1963. Who was he? Performing in evening attire, these stars of The Creole Entertainment Show were the first African American couple to perform Charles Johnson and Dora Dean 13 on Broadway. Name them. How many Gold Medals did athlete Carl History Nine 14 Lewis win in his career? In 1910 about fifty percent of black labor force was Politics & Military Agriculture 15 employed in what industry? Who championed the principle of industrial/vocational Arts . Washington 16 education for ? What do many historians call the period immediately Politics & Military Reconstruction 17 following the Civil War? Which rapper known for such as Black on Both Entertainment Sides began rhyming at age nine in his hometown of Mos Def 18 , ?

Page 1 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER In 1954 Dorothy Dandridge was the first black actress to Arts receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress Carmen Jones 192 in what film? What Black American actress had roles in the movies A Sports Diana Sands in the Sun and for Mr. Charlie ? 20 Evelyn received gold records for her songs Shame Sports (1978) and I Don’t Know If It’s Right (1979). What was Champagne 21 this artist's nickname? F. E. Whitney assisted with the development and Business & Education construction of the first subdivision developed by the Gladys-Gail Village 22 in Hopkinsville. Name it. What novel was made into a television mini- History Roots 23 series in 1977 and 1979? What was the title of tennis great Arthur Ashe's three- Sports A Hard Road to Glory volume history penned in 1988? 24 With 20 years' service, who was the longest serving Sports African American member of the General Senator Georgia Powers 25 Assembly? Which Union general is credited with burning Science & Exploration General William T. Sherman 26 during the Civil War? Who was the founder of the National Negro Finance Politics & Military Robert Moton 27 Corporation? A painting of what African American performer was Entertainment unveiled in 1902 at the coronation of King Edward VII Dora Dean 28 and exhibited at the Paris Expo?

Entertainment What household item was invented by Sarah Boone? Ironing board 29 Mary Eliza Merritt, the first African American nurse Sports licensed in Kentucky, was awarded a certificate of merit President Woodrow Wilson 30 from what U.S. President? The first black elected to the Kentucky legislature, Science & Exploration Charles W. Anderson was also appointed alternate 31 delegate to what body? Who developed an advance method for determining the Business & Education Charles Spurgeon Fletcher 32 metal content of ore? What famous scientist and biologist said, “God gave History them to me, why should I claim to own them” with Carver 33 regard to his discoveries and inventions? What song has become Count Basie’s theme song and Entertainment One O’clock Jump was later recorded by many different music groups? 34 What Black American physician was referred to as “The Business & Education W. Montague Cobb principal historian of the Negro in medicine” in 1970? 35 Page 2 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER From what university did graduate? Add Business & Education University of Mississippi significance 362 Elizabeth Catlett Mora is a graphic artist and printmaker. Politics & Military Sculpture For what other type of work is she best known? 37 Whose series Political Satires were published in the Sports Ephraim Poston 38 Kentucky New Era from 1908-1912? He was a minister of Abyssinian Baptist Church, a Arts Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. congressman, and a civil rights advocate. Who was he? 39 began her career as a singer and dancer in Science & Exploration The Cotton Club 40 what New York entertainment club? After an early childhood spent in Barbabos and a successful career as a teacher, she was elected to the History New York Assembly. She then became the first black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress where she worked 41 for 13 years. Name her. 42 Arts Who invented the golf tee? G.F. Grant 43 Science & Exploration Who is explorer Matthew Henson buried next to? Admiral Robert E. Peary

What native American tribe named James Beckwourth a History The Crow chief and called him “Bull’s Robe”? 44 In what year did Dehart Hubbard become the first Black History American to win the Olympic gold medal in the broad 1924 45 jump? What Black American was once ranked as the number Entertainment Arthur Ashe 46 one tennis player in the world?

Science & Exploration Who was the first Black American mayor of ? 47 What was ’s overall professional boxing Entertainment 68 wins, 3 loses record? 48 49 Entertainment Who is Cary? Black Newspaperwoman Elected in Washington County in 1973, who became the Arts George Melwood Hocker 50 first African American jailer in Kentucky? 51 Politics & Military Who is called “The Queen of the Blues”? Dinah Washington In 1890, Lewis Latimer became the chief draftsman of History Edison Electric Light Company 52 what company? Who was the first Black American to receive a degree Arts Richard Greener 53 from ? 54 Science & Exploration Who founded the Southern Leadership Conference? Dr. King, Jr. What Hopkinsville native penned the children's books Arts 55 Happy to be Nappy and Be Boy Buzz ? Who was the first Black American professionally trained Entertainment Mary Mahoney 56 as a registered nurse in the ?

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This Grammy award winning gospel singer, arranger, and who worked with many groups and large 2 History in the 1950s and 1960s is credited with being the James Cleveland most significant driving force behind of the contemporary gospel sound. Name him. 57 Who was the first Black American to play in the Arts Val James 58 National Hockey League? He was interested in plants at an early age and was an Arts agriculturist who developed peanut products. Who was 59 he? Who was the first Black American woman to be elected Politics & Military th Charlotte Hawkins Brown 60 to the 20 Century Club of ? Who was the first Black American pitcher to win the Cy Politics & Military Vida Blue 61 Young award in the ? 62 Sports Who founded the in 1907? In the 1920s the Lindy Hop was made famous at this Sports The Savoy Ballroom 63 dance venue. What state's government passed a law that formally Business & Education 's 64 recognized slavery as an institution in 1661? 65 Politics & Military In what three years was Harlem hit with race riots? 1935, 1943 and 1964 What major tennis tournament did win in Sports French Championship open? 66 1956? At the age of 24, this golfer won the 82nd PGA Championship, beating Bob May in a three-hole playoff Science & Exploration Tiger Woods at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, on 67 August 20, 2000. Name him. Who was the female lead singer of 5th Dimension, a Politics & Military Marilyn McCoo 68 popular group of the 1960s and 1970s?

History Who received the NAACP Key of Life Award in 1988? 69 Who was the first African American cave explorer and Politics & Military the first guide and explorer of Mammoth Cave; which is Stephen Bishop 70 the world's longest cave system? 71 Business & Education Jorno Kenyatta was a leader of what country? Kenya In what year did all 50 states recognize Martin Luther Science & Exploration 1993 72 King Day? What Motown song writer/producer trio was inducted History into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Rock Holland, Dozier, & Holland 73 and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990? What engineer from patented the sugar Politics & Military Norbert Rillieux 74 refinery? 75 Politics & Military W.A. Martin patented what security device? Door lock

Politics & Military Dorothy Height was the president of what organization? National Council of Negro Women 76

Page 4 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who was the first American born Black man to be Sports Father Tolton 77 ordained a Roman Catholic priest? 782 Sports What is the name of B.B. King’s guitar? “Lucille” This director, screenwriter and actor was born in Atlanta but relocated to Brooklyn, where he later established a film company. Whether working with a low-budget and History unknown actors or Hollywood heavyweights, his films continue to be controversial and push racial boundaries. 79 Name him. The first known slave narrative was A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Arts 1760 Briton Hammon, a Negro Man . In what year was it 80 published? The Mighty Clouds of Joy became the first gospel quartet to use electric keyboards, electric bass, and Arts drums. They were nicknamed what because they of gospel modeled their singing and dance steps on the style of 81 contemporary groups? Appointed by Governor Steve Beshear in 2007, who was Sports the first African American to be appointed Secretary of J. Michael Brown the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet? 82 Which black soldiers were with General George Oliver Cromwell and Arts Washington when he crossed the Delaware River on Whipple 83 Christmas Day in 1776? Who was the founder and president of the first Black Sports Isaac Myers 84 American national labor union in 1869? Who became the University of Tennessee's all-time Science & Exploration Allan W. Houston, Jr. 85 leading scorer in 1994? What hitter won the most batting Sports Rod Carew titles during the 1971 season? 86 Who was known as the “Dean of the Negro Science & Exploration T. Thomas Fortune 87 Newspapermen”? In the late nineteenth century there was a system of laws Science & Exploration that enforced racial discrimination in the United States. Jim Crow 88 What was it called? Who was the first Black American woman to be Sports Florence Price 89 recognized as an award-winning composer? In 1854, to what country did Norbert Rillieux go when Entertainment he could no longer tolerate the discrimination and France 90 prejudice he experienced in America? In 1983 who became the first black mayor of , Arts Harold Washington 91 Illinois? By the time reached the age of 40, Entertainment Mr. Civil Rights 92 what nickname had he earned from the press? Page 5 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Which one of composer/pianist Anthony Davis' X: The Life and Times of Malcolm Science & Exploration premiered in Philadelphia in 1985 and was performed by X 932 the in 1986? Who was the first Black American to appear on the Arts Beverly Johnson 94 cover of Vogue magazine?

Dr. Ronald McNair was a black astronaut who made his The space shuttle that Dr. McNair first space shuttle mission in 1984. Unfortunately, his and six other astronauts were in Sports last space mission was never completed. What happened exploded after takeoff in Cape to him and his crew members on January 28, 1986? Canaveral, . 95 Born in Benham, KY, who, at the age of 25, became Business & Education head coach at the University of San Diego and the Bernard T. "Bernie" Bickerstaff, Sr. 96 youngest college coach in the U.S. at that time? 97 Business & Education Who was a sidekick on The Jack Benny Show? Eddie “Rochester” Anderson President Richard Nixon presented the Presidential Entertainment Medal of Freedom in 1969 to what great musician? 98 In 1927, what Black American scientist and inventor Sports George Washington Carver received a patent for his process of producing paint? 99 A pediatrician and founder of what medical facility, Grace Marilynn James was the first African American Entertainment woman member of the Jefferson County Medical the West Louisville Medical Center Society and the first African American woman admitted to the University of Louisville School of Medicine? 100 Who was regarded as a master guitar player and History Justin Howard 101 developed a program for learning the guitar? In what year did Althea Gibson become the first Black Sports 1957 102 American to win a major tennis title? Mary McLeod Bethune practiced the philosophy of what Sports Booker T. Washington 103 prominent educator? What Kentucky college was integrated with black and History white students in 1858, but discontinued the biracial mix Berea College 104 in 1904? President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed what attorney as Entertainment Thurgood Marshall 105 a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court? In what year did the U.S. Navy commission its first History 1944 106 group of black officers? Hiram Revels, the first black elected to serve in the U.S. History Senate in 1870, was selected to fill in the unexpired term Jefferson Davis 107 of whom? President honored the 761st Tank Science & Exploration World War II 108 Battalion, an all black unit, for fighting in what war?

Page 6 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER He became the first African American since 1897 to Sports represent in the U.S. Congress. Name James Clyburn 1092 him. Who was the first African American baseball player at Science & Exploration Derek Bryant 110 the University of Kentucky? Henry Bibb was a fugitive slave narrator and journalist. Politics & Military 111 He emigrated to what country? Claude McKay and were writers Entertainment of the period. Which one of them Claude McKay 112 was born in Jamaica? turned to writing after his career in what Politics & Military Music 113 field was not successful? Who was the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross, the third highest honor awarded by the US Arts Doris Miller Navy at the time, for bravery shown during the attack on 114 Pearl Harbor? This person was born in Christian County, Kentucky, in 1874, was the son of former slaves, saved enough money History to attend school, became a school teacher, founded three Claybron W. Merriweather newspapers, was a painter, a poet, and a lawyer. Who 115 was he? Who started the Gold Medal Awards, later named for Arts him, which recognized the highest or noblest Joel E. Springarn 116 achievement by a Black American? What woman, born in Hancock County, KY, became the Politics & Military first African American switchboard operator at the U.S. Julia E. Jackson Aikens Post Office in South Bend, Indiana in 1959? 117 What successful businessman was also the founder of Politics & Military Prince Hall 118 Negro Free Masonry? Born in Kentucky, Carl Maxie Brashear, the first Science & Exploration African American Navy master diver, lost the lower part the USS Hoist 119 of his left leg in an accident on what naval ship? What will be the longest, continuously , first-run Science & Exploration Soul Train syndicated television program until at least 2016? 120 Ernest J. Gaines is a short story writer who wrote a 1971 historical novel turned television movie whose main The Autobiography of Miss Jane History character was a 110 year-old woman who narrated her Pittman 121 personal experiences. Name the novel. What musical genre emerged from three heavily Entertainment populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the The blues 122 Piedmont, and East ? In 1982, Louis Gossett, Jr. won an Academy Award for Science & Exploration An Officer and A Gentleman Best Supporting Actor for his work in what film? 123 Page 7 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Generating revenues over $88 billion dollars annually, Arts how many black-owned businesses were there in the nearly 1.2 million 1242 United States in 2002? Five years after acting in the television mini-series Roots, he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Sports Louis Gossett, Jr. Actor in An Officer and A Gentleman. What is his 125 name? The "PUSH" in Operation PUSH, founded by Rev. Jesse Arts People United to Serve Humanity 126 Jackson, stand for what? Music historians refer to what type of music as the first Entertainment Spiritual 127 Black American music? Who became a justice of the Supreme Court of History Robert N.C. Nix, Jr. 128 in 1972? Published in 1907, what was the title of the first of six Politics & Military Light and Shadows 129 Claybron Merriweather books? She was a forward who scored 47 points in the final game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Politics & Military Sheryl Swoopes (NCAA) tournament in 1993. She led Texas Tech to the 130 national championship. Who is she? What movement did believe to be the Science & Exploration Back to Africa 131 answer to the problems of Black Americans? General Benjamin Butler of the Union Army refused to Politics & Military return runaway slaves to their masters. What term did he “Contraband of war” 132 use to describe them? Who helped form the “American Moral Reform Politics & Military Society”, which helped Blacks acquire farms and aided William S. Whipper 133 runaway slaves in their escape to Canada? What African American served as the U.S. Ambassador History Susan Rice 134 to the United Nations from 2013-2017?

Entertainment What Black American invented the railway telegraph? Granville T. Woods 135 What was the name of the character played by Bill Science & Exploration Dr. Cliff Huxtable 136 Cosby in ? What was the first African American periodical Business & Education Freedom’s Journal newspaper published in the United States? 137 What famous singer played guitar for Science & Exploration Jimi Hendrix 138 before starting his solo career? What devoted follower of left the Science & Exploration in 1964 to form a militant group called 139 Muslim Mosque? In 1866, what library was the first desegregated library Politics & Military Berea College Library 140 in Kentucky and the South? 141 Entertainment Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" ?

Page 8 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER In 1991, what became the first black-controlled Entertainment BET company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange? 1422 appeared on what value US postage Science & Exploration 15 cent 143 stamp? Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S. History Thurgood Marshall 144 Supreme Court? Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, what guitar and Science & Exploration harmonica player worked with "Sonny Boy" Williamson John Brim 145 and Muddy Waters? NBA superstar Michael Jordan played college University of at Sports 146 at what university? Chapel Hill Name the founder of the quarterly publication Journal of Negro History and Negro History Week (now Black History History Month) who also established the first historical Carter G. Woodson society devoted exclusively to research on the black 147 American. 148 History In what year did the United States abolish slavery? 1865 What actor and stand up comedian warned others of the Sports dangers of drug abuse after his own near death 149 experience?

Dr. Daniel Hale Williams served as professor of clinical Arts Meharry Medical College in surgery at what medical facility? Nashville, Tennessee 150

Business & Education How many books did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. write? Five 151 152 Politics & Military Ed Bradley was a member of what news team? 60 Minutes Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Science & Exploration Improvement Association (UNIA), founded a monthly Jamaica magazine entitled Black Man in what country? 153 Jackie Robinson excelled in four sports at what University of at Los Science & Exploration 154 university? Angeles (UCLA) Name the three journalist sons of educator, poet, and Entertainment Ulysses, Robert, and Ted Poston 155 author Ephraim Poston? Who is a pioneer in tooth transplantation research and a Business & Education Dr. Harold Fleming 156 graduate of ? Serving five four-year terms, who was the first African Science & Exploration Georgia D. Powers American and first woman in the Kentucky Senate? 157 Carl Stokes and Richard Hatcher were elected as Arts November 7, 1967 158 mayor's of US cities on what date? Cheyney State, the oldest Black American college, was Politics & Military 1837 159 founded in what year?

Page 9 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER In what year did Joe Frazier defend his boxing title Sports 1971 160 against ? 2 What is the name of the California Hotel designed by Politics & Military Beverly Wilshire Hotel 161 Paul Williams? In 1973 James Dulin became the first African American Arts Mayor man appointed to what office in Earlington, Kentucky? 162 As leader of the boycott organization in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his Business & Education Holt Street Baptist Church initial civil rights address at what church in Montgomery 163 in 1955?

History What was Jackie Robinson’s lifetime batting average? 0.311 164

Born a slave in Montgomery County, KY, the original "Aunt Jemima," received a lifetime contract and traveled Business & Education Nancy Green all over the country promoting the product until her death in 1923. Name her. 165 What popular magazine did John H. Johnson begin in Arts Ebony 166 1945? Who was the first Black American to win the Mr. Sports Chris Dickerson American title? 167 Carl J. Murphy served on the Board of Directors of the Arts 36 168 NAACP for how many years? In 1982 what Kentucky State University museum became a major repository for the collection of artifacts, Center of Excellence for the Study History of Kentucky African Americans books, and records related to its history of educating (CESKAA) 169 black citizens? Politics & Military In 1949, what religious movement did Malcolm X join? Nation of Islam 170 What early 20th century artist was the first blues singer Science & Exploration Mamie Smith 171 to have a recording contract? What president vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau bill and History President Andrew Johnson 172 the Civil Rights bill? 173 Arts Who is called the “queen of hip-hop soul?” Mary J. Blige

Who did Sugar Ray Robinson beat in the 1951 Sports Jake Lamotta middleweight championship? 174 Barney Ford, a former slave, gained his freedom by Escaping to Chicago via the Arts 175 doing what? , the first black daily Science & Exploration 1864 newspaper was founded in New Orleans in what year? 176

Page 10 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Having studied eight languages, this pastor, author, and member of the Kentucky Board of Education served in Sports Dr. Clyde B. Akins, Sr. 2 the U.S. Army as a multilingual interpreter and taught 177 foreign languages? 178 Politics & Military Who invented the incubator? Granville T. Woods Name the group who performed the 1970s hit Smoke Business & Education Gets in Your Eyes and was inducted into the Vocal The Platters Group Hall of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 179 What country secured a monopoly over the slave trade to Politics & Military England 180 the New World in 1713? Who said, “Every race and every nation should be Sports judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the James Weldon Johnson 181 worst?" Nashville's first ordained African American minister, Nelson Merry founded what church of more than 2,000 History The First Colored Baptist Church members, the largest church in Tennessee during his 182 time? What was ’s name when she was a slave Entertainment Isabella Baumfree 183 in Ulster County, New York? What was the original reason for establishing the Black Sports Self Defense 184 Panther Party? 185 Business & Education Who became the first woman to chair the NAACP? Myrlie Evers-Williams In 1963 became the first Black American Entertainment Lillie’s of the Field to win the Best Actor Oscar for his role in what film? 186 Who was the Confederate president during the Civil Arts Jefferson Davis 187 War? Chosen as the first Black manager in baseball’s Politics & Military American League, who managed the Frank Robinson 188 beginning in 1974? 189 History What is MC Hammer’s real name? Stanley Kirk Burrell Sarah Breedlove Walker developed special care Entertainment products for black women. Among them was the hot Madam C.J. Walker 190 comb. By what name she was known? In what year did Jackie Robinson become the first Black Politics & Military 1949 191 American to win the MVP award in baseball? What was the name of the crude sugar refining process Politics & Military Jamaica Train 192 Norbert Rillieux’s invention made obsolete? What actor played Charlie “Bird” Parker in the 1988 Science & Exploration 193 movie Bird? Marlin Briscoe was the first Black starting Entertainment Denver Broncos 194 for what football team? What Hopkinsville natives and brothers owned and Politics & Military Ulysses and Robert Poston 195 edited The Detroit Contender ?

Page 11 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who became the first Black American awarded a Science & Exploration Alain Leroy Locke 196 Rhodes Scholarship in 1940? What basketball star center perfected a shot known as 2 Science & Exploration Kareem Abdul-Jabar 197 the “skyhook”? George Washington Carver’s mule-drawn wagon often History went to area farmers to teach them about improving crop Moveable School yields. What was this wagon called? 198 Willie Mays received a bonus of how much money when History $5,000 199 he signed with the New York Giants? and were featured in Arts East Side, West Side 200 what dramatic series from 1963 to 1964?

Business & Education Who invented a revolving brush used to clean streets? Charles Brooks 201 Entited Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl , whose 1861 Sports work was the first to be authored by a black female Harriet A. Jacobs' 202 former slave?

Arts Who founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity? Malcolm X

203 Jesse Stahl competed and was discriminated against in an Oregon rodeo in the early 1900s. What did he do Rode his next horse in protest by Sports when the judges did not award him first prize which he facing backward 204 thought he deserved?

Arts What militant group embodied the term “”? Black Panther Party 205 St. Elmo Brady was the first African American admitted Arts Phi Lambda Upsilon 206 to what honor society? Who was the first Black American heavyweight boxing Politics & Military Jack Johnson 207 champion? What Hopkinsville native was elected to the Indiana House of Representatives in 1956 and later became a Politics & Military Opal L. Tandy journalist for the and Hoosier 208 Herald ? Robert Johnson, Sam Cooke, and were History inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what 1986 209 year? Under what name did poet publish some Entertainment Le Roi Jones 210 of his books? Bill Pickett was a rodeo star who chased down a steer on horseback, jumped off, and wrestled the animal to the Business & Education Bulldogging ground. He invented this style of steer wrestling. By 211 what name was it known? Who wrote the winning book of poetry History 212 Allen in 1949? Page 12 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Born in 1968, who directed such films as Boyz N the Entertainment Hood, Poetic Justice, Higher Learning, Baby Boy, and 2 John Singleton 2132 Fast 2 Furious? Who was the first Black American four star general in Sports Daniel James, Jr. 214 US military history? 215 Arts What was Louis Armstrong’s nickname? Satchmo Charles W. Anderson is credited with a number of early Civil Rights measures including what Act which Entertainment provided funding for African Americans to seek higher Anderson-Mayer State Aid Act education out of state because Kentucky enforced higher 216 education segregation laws? What awards did the French government present to the the Croix de Guerre, the Politics & Military black soldiers and their battalions for bravery and distinguished French decoration, or 217 courage? Legions of Merit In 1991 there were eight inductees to the Rock and Roll Politics & Military Hall of Fame including a husband and wife duo who Ike and Tina Turner 218 sang “Proud Mary” in 1969. Who are they?

What was the profession of Garland H. Brooks, Sports Pharmacist Hopkinsville native and Howard University graduate? 219 Before A. Philip Randolph established a successful labor Science & Exploration union for black train porters, approximately how much $2.00 220 money were these workers paid per day?

History Detroit was struck with race riots in what two years? 1943 and 1967 221 What was given to potential Black voters to Arts determine whether they understood the U.S. Constitution Literacy test 222 and could read? became the first Black American Business & Education Atlanta 223 mayor of what city? Who developed the first airborne radar system that was Science & Exploration Ozzie Williams 224 used for locating downed aircraft? Established in 1945, this publisher of Ebony and Jet History magazines is the world's largest black-owned publishing Johnson Publishing Company 225 company. Name it. Who founded the National Negro Business League in Arts Booker T. Washington 226 1900?

Sports What actor appeared in the play Emperor Jones in 1925? 227 What was the name of the first magazine published by Business & Education 228 John H. Johnson? What explorer departed fro a famous expedition aboard Entertainment Matthew Henson 229 the ship “Roosevelt” on July 6, 1908? Page 13 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who was the first Black American to fly with the Blue Entertainment Donnie Cochran 230 Angels? 2 What lawsuit, the third filed by the NAACP, was filed in Federal District Court in 1940 on behalf of an African Abbington v Board of Education of Science & Exploration American teacher who received 15% less salary than Louisville 231 white teachers? Who played the character of “Denise” in the Cosby Entertainment 232 Show? Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., a member of the , was the first black general of the Air Force. He History President Harry S. Truman was instrumental in getting what president to end 233 segregation in the armed forces? Who was the first Black American woman elected to a Entertainment Crystal Bird Fauset 234 state legislature? was established in Nashville, Tennessee Sports 1865 235 as a liberal arts institution in what year? ’s life was the subject of what famous Arts Lady Sings the Blues 236 film? Who founded an economic program called “The People History 237 United to Humanity”? Dionne Warwick had numerous hits on the Billboard music charts. Say A Little Prayer and I’ll Never Love History This Way Again went gold. She recorded Then Came The Spinners You with a popular male group and it went gold as well. 238 What is the name of the group? 239 Entertainment Who is the author of Before the Mayflower ? Leone Bennett, Jr. Who was the first Black American president of the Entertainment Bill White 240 National Baseball League?

Tiger Woods became the youngest top-ranked golfer and Sports won over 20 championships in 2007. What is his first Eldrick name? 241 Julian Abele was involved in the design of what Business & Education Philadelphia Museum of Art 242 museum? 243 History Who invented a method for growing oxide? Corland Dugger Derek Bryant, the first African American baseball player Entertainment at the University of Kentucky, was drafted by what Oakland Athletics 244 professional team? 245 Business & Education Who wrote the poem “A Negro Love Song”? The operas A Guest of Honor and were Business & Education 246 written by whom in the early 1900s? His style of funk music and dance led the way for Disco Science & Exploration and . Known as the “hardest working man in James Brown show business” and " of soul," who is he? 247

Page 14 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER George Shirley was a and member of what opera History the 248 company? Who won the French Legion of Honor award for her 2 History Josephine Baker 249 work in entertaining the Work War II allies? Who was Muhammad Ali’s opponent in the famous Business & Education Joe Frazier 250 “Thrilla in Manila” fight?

Bill Russell became the nation’s first Black American Sports Boston Celtics head coach of what professional basketball team in 1966 251 Name 2 of the 4 colleges that make up the Atlanta University Center, the largest contiguous consortium of , Spelman History College, , and African-Americans in higher education in the United Morehouse School of Medicine 252 States. 253 Science & Exploration For what profession is Leona Mitchell known? Opera Singing Who was the first African-American postmaster in Sports Laura Young 254 Kentucky and the second in the United States? What professional basketball star returned to the NBA after successfully combating drug addiction, and Sports John Lucas commented, “People say you almost lost 255 basketball…Well, I almost lost my life”? What law prohibited slavery north and west of the 36-30 Entertainment Missouri Compromise 256 parallel within the Louisiana Territory?

History Who performed the world’s first open heart surgery? Dr. Daniel Hale Williams 257 Who was the first Black American to receive the Nobel Science & Exploration Dr. 258 Peace Prize in 1950? With what team did Ernie Banks Arts Chicago Cubs 259 start and end his career? In 1997 who became the first African American Sports Orlando "Tubby" Smith 260 basketball coach at the University of Kentucky? During the Civil War, served as an Politics & Military Abraham Lincoln 261 adviser to what US President? In what year did the first Broadway play written by a Politics & Military 1959 262 Black American woman open in New York? Cheyney University in Pennsylvania was funded by a Science & Exploration Richard Humphreys 263 will from what Philadelphia Quaker in 1832? What famous musician’s trademark was puffing cheeks Entertainment Dizzy Gillespie 264 and a trumpet bell that pointed skyward? Who was the first Black American national security Sports 265 advisor? A celebration of the freedom of African American Arts slaves, Kentucky Representative Reginald Meeks led the Juneteenth National Freedom Day push for the creation of what holiday in Kentucky? 266

Page 15 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER was a member of the 1974 House Judiciary Committee chosen to hear Watergate Politics & Military Richard M. Nixon 2 testimony which led to the resignation of what US 267 President? Born in Hopkinsville, KY, the youngest of the twelve children, what student athlete declined football Politics & Military Raymond M. Burse scholarships to attend Centre College, where he majored in chemistry and math and graduated in 1973? 268 Who became the only Black American member of the Arts famous “Edison Pioneers,” a group of people who had Lewis Latimer 269 worked with Edison before 1885? Well-known Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley was Arts inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what 1994 270 year? What does the nickname of rapper and actor LL Cool J Sports Ladies Love Cool James 271 stand for? What two actress played the roll of Beulah, a History housekeeper in the 1950s television spin-off of the radio Ethel Waters and Louise Beavers 272 show Fibber McGee and Molly? What was the amount of the first royalty check for Berry Science & Exploration $3.40 273 Gordy, Jr., founder of Motown Records? In what year did the first Black Americans Charles Sports Cooper, Early Lloyd, and Nathaniel Clifton play in the 1950 274 NBA? Robert "Bob" Johnson founded Black Entertainment Entertainment Television Cable 1979 275 Network (BET) in what year? Who was the first Black American woman president of History Johnetta Cole 276 ? What Black American was a vice presidential candidate Sports at the 1968 Democratic National Convention? 277 The Guinness Book of World Records lists what Arts Michael Jackson as the best selling album of all Thriller 278 times? What civil rights leader was co-founder of the NAACP Sports W.E.B Du Bois 279 and the Pan-African Movement? Hyram S. Thomas was a chef who created what popular History Potato chip 280 snack?

History Who was the first Black minister ordained in America? 281 Pianist Duke Ellington was a bandleader and a great Entertainment composer who played at what famous New York City Cotton Club 282 club from 1927 to 1931?

Page 16 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER On the TV series Magnum, P.I., what was Roger Sports T.C. 283 Mosely’s nickname? 2842 Science & Exploration Vanessa Bell appeared on what soap opera? All My Children In what year was the first all Black History 1876 285 Meharry Medical College established? Daniel “Chappie” James, Jr. became the first black four- Science & Exploration 1975 286 star general in what year? What did Benjamin Banneker’s book Almanac Sports The sun, moon, and planets 287 examine? What Black slave helped Cyrus McCormick invent his Sports Joe Anderson 288 famous reaper?

Business & Education In what city is the Crispus Attucks Monument located? Boston 289 In 1979, what forced Arthur Ashe to retire from Politics & Military Heart Attack 290 professional tennis? The Johnson Publishing Company was founded in History John H. Johnson 291 Chicago in 1945 by what person? What Black American educator also served as an advisor Entertainment Mary McLeod Bethune 292 to five U.S. presidents? Kunta Kinte was one the characters in what Alex Haley Politics & Military Roots 293 book? What preacher and abolitionist helped raise money for gifts for Civil War soldiers; gave rousing, inspirational History anti-slavery speeches working with both black and white Sojourner Truth abolitionists; and helped African-Americans relocate to 294 the North? Who really built the first model of steam engine, but was Sports Benjamin Bradley unable to patent his work because he was a slave? 295 In what state did Nat Turner lead a slave revolt that Entertainment Virginia 296 killed 55 white people? Inaugurated as the 44th president on January 20, 2009, Politics & Military who became the first African American president of the Barack Hussein Obama, II 297 United States? Who was the first Black American elected to the Business & Education Jackie Robinson 298 Baseball Hall of Fame? Who published the Black American medical journal in Entertainment Miles Vandahurst Lynk 299 1892? Under the command of Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., the 332nd destroyed 111 planes in the air and 150 on the History the Distinguished Flying Cross ground while never losing a single bomber. They were 300 awarded what honor for the service? What University of Kentucky career rush leader was Sports inducted into the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame in Alfred "Sonny" Collins 301 2002?

Page 17 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What U.S. President developed a coalition of Black Entertainment Franklin D. Roosevelt 302 advisors call the Black Cabinet? 2 Georgia Douglas Johnson was a poet during the Harlem Science & Exploration Renaissance era. She often held writers’ workshops at Washington, D.C. 303 her home in what city? On January 28, 1986, what space shuttle exploded 73 Politics & Military seconds after lift-off, killing Dr. Ronald McNair and six Challenger 304 of his colleagues? Who was the first African American to play football for Politics & Military Emlen Tunnell 305 the New York Giants? What heavyweight boxing champion defended his title Entertainment Joe Frazier 306 against Muhammad Ali in 1971? 307 Entertainment August Jackson created what well-known desert? Ice Cream What black support unit drove supplies by truck to advancing American forces and also performed yeoman Politics & Military The Red Ball Express service during the Battle of the 308 Bulge in 1944? In 1956 Althea Gibson become the first African Politics & Military American woman to win a Grand Slam title in what Tennis 309 sport? In what year was a national holiday proclaimed Politics & Military 1983 commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday? 310 John Mercer Langston was the first Black American History elected to Congress from Virginia. To what office was US House of Representatives 311 he elected? In 1984, what Black American singer won eight Politics & Military Michael Jackson 312 ? became the first black to receive an Entertainment Tonight with Belafonte 313 Emmy for what show in 1959? 314 History Who was the first Black American woman doctor? Rebecca Lee Born into slavery in Missouri, who worked his way through school as a farm hand and a janitor to become Politics & Military an agricultural scientist whose discoveries George Washington Carver revolutionized southern agriculture and helped the South move away from dependence on the cotton industry? 315 What president initially rejected the service of Black Arts President Abraham Lincoln 316 slaves in the Union Army during the Civil War? Donald E. Jefferson invented what mechanism used by History Triggered exploding wire device 317 construction crews? When Thurgood Marshall retired from the U.S. Supreme Science & Exploration Clarence Thomas Court, who was appointed to fill his position? 318

Page 18 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Which Presbyterian minister delivered a militant speech entitled “An Address to the Slaves of the United States” Sports Henry Highland Garnet 2 in 1843 at the National Negro Convention in Buffalo, 319 New York? What was the name of the movie that was based on the Politics & Military life of Stephen Bantu Biko, a South African freedom Cry Freedom 320 fighter? How many trips did make to the South Science & Exploration 19 321 to rescue Black slaves? What was the name of the first screenplay produced by a Science & Exploration Georgia, Georgia 322 Black American woman? Leroy Paige was a great pitcher in the Negro Leagues Arts who also played in the major leagues in 1949. By what "Satchel” 323 name was he known? Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Longview, Texas; Politics & Military Knoxville, Tennessee; Omaha, Nebraska; and Elaine, 1919 324 all faced race riots in what year? Elected to Congress in 1944, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Sports Abyssinian Baptist Church 325 also became pastor of what Harlem church? What was the name of the system in which Black Business & Education Americans farmed someone else’s land and received a 326 split of the season’s crop? Who played the character “Fiddler” in the television Arts Lou Gossett, Jr. 327 mini-series Roots in 1977. What Black American cartoonist became famous for the Sports E. Simms Campbell 328 cartoon “Cuties”? First black president of the Girl Arts For what is Dean Randle Scott remembered? 329 Scouts of America 330 Arts Where is Matthew Henson buried? Arlington, VA In 1909 W.E.B. Du Bois co-founded what national National Association for the Science & Exploration Advancement of Colored People (or 331 organization? NAACP) In 2009, who became the dean of the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Law, making him the state's History David A. Brennen first African American law school dean since the 332 desegregation of Kentucky higher education? The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed by Congress. It Citizenship and “equal benefits of Business & Education 333 guaranteed what to the former slaves? all laws” Who was refused admission to the University of History Mississippi in 1961, forcing US Marshals to escort him James Meredith 334 to class? Who became the first African American billionaire in Arts Robert "Bob" Johnson 335 2001? For how many weeks did Chubby Checker’s hit song, History 33 336 The Twist, stay on the top 40 charts?

Page 19 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, Dehart Hubbard became Science & Exploration the first Black American to win the gold medal in what Broad jump 3372 event? After over forty years, who became the second black Politics & Military actor to win an Academy Award for Best Actor? 338 For what work did win two Pulitzer Science & Exploration The Cycle 339 Prizes for Drama? How many gold metals did win during the Arts Four 340 1936 Summer Olympics? Who was the first Black American to graduate from Sports West Point Military Academy and later became an Henry Flipper 341 advisor to the U.S. Government? Who sang the theme song for the hit TV series Entertainment 342 Moonlighting? James Beckwourth, a former slave turned trapper, discovered Beckwourth Pass through the Sierra Nevada History California mountains in 1850. The passage allowed pioneers to reach what state more safely and quickly ? 343 Who provided the voice for Darth Vader in the movie History James Earl Jones 344 Star Wars? In addition to her outstanding career as a singer, what History was appointed to by President Dwight US Delegate to the United States 345 D. Eisenhower? What medium did use to describe Black Politics & Military Photography Americans deprivation and racial discrimination? 346 Who was named NBA rookie of the year in 1965, his Science & Exploration Willis Reed 347 first year as a center for the New York Knicks? In what year was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Entertainment 1968 348 assassinated? 349 Sports Who starred in the movie ? Cicely Tyson What Black American sports legend was commemorated Sports Jackie Robinson 350 by a postage stamp in 1982? What pop rock star devoted much of his life and music Entertainment Michael Jackson 351 to his belief that “children are our future”? Who discovered a soybean oil extract that gave relief to Science & Exploration Dr. Percy Julian 352 arthritis sufferers? What Black American designed homes for celebrities Entertainment Paul Williams 353 such as Cary Grant and ? Albert Y. Garner received a patent for what invention Arts A flame retardant 354 used to help save lives? Who was the first black entertainer to sleep in the White Sports Sammy Davis, Jr. 355 House?

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Entertainment Who became Hollywood’s first Black millionaire actor? Stepin Fetchit 356 Who was the first Black American Chosen to lead a 2 Politics & Military Ronald Brown 357 major political party? Who was the first Black American to become a major Entertainment Emmett Ashford 358 league umpire? After Martin Luther King Jr’s death, who succeeded him Sports as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership 359 Conference? Jackie Robinson began and ended his major league History Brooklyn Dodgers 360 baseball career with what team? Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron ended his career with how Science & Exploration 2202 361 many RBIs? The “father of gospel music” was Thomas A. Dorsey. He Politics & Military over 1000 362 composed how many songs? When Guion Bluford orbited earth aboard the Sports Challenger space shuttle, how fast did the space craft 300 miles per minute 363 move? In what year were the post-Civil War colleges Clark, Arts 1869 364 Claflin, Dillard, and Tougaloo founded? What city located in the Mississippi Delta has a blend of Sports New Orleans French, Spanish, Creole, African and English cultures? 365 Boasting twelve number one singles on the Billboard History Hot 100 charts, what female singing group was the most The Supremes successful American vocal group of all time? 366 In the NBA's inaugural 1949-1950 season, how many History 0 Black American basketball players were in the league? 367 In 1964 what Civil Rights Activist became the first History Alberta Odell Jones 368 African American woman prosecutor in Kentucky? What term refers generally to the artistic and socio- Sports cultural awakening among black people in the 1920s and Harlem Renaissance 369 early 1930s? What football star led the NFL in rushing during the Politics & Military 1992-93 season and led his team to victory in Super Emmitt Smith 370 Bowl XXII? Elaine Farris became the first African American school Entertainment superintendent in Kentucky in 2004 over what school Shelby County 371 district? What Austin Peay State University building was named the Wilbur N. Daniel African Business & Education for a civil rights activist and a pastor of the St. John American Culture Center Missionary Baptist Church in Clarksville, TN? 372

Page 21 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What was the purpose of the 1963 on It demanded economic and Entertainment employment opportunities as well as 373 Washington? civil rights. 2 Centenary Biblical Institute was established in Entertainment , , in 1865 by blacks after the Civil Morgan State University 374 War. Under what name does it operate today? What was the name of the route that James Beckwourth Arts discovered in the early 1850’s, helping Pioneers and Beckwourth Pass 375 gold seekers get to California? In 1960, Fred Whitfield,who later went on to become a Sports six-time world champion, was the first black cowboy to Calf roping 376 win a title in what rodeo category? In 1847 Rush Medical College graduated it's first Business & Education Chicago 377 African American student , in what city? What consecutive years did Althea Gibson win the History 1957, 1958 378 Wimbledon Tennis Singles Championship? Harry C. Hopkins received a patent for enhancing what History Hearing Aid 379 medical device? In what year did the U.S. Supreme Court order school Entertainment 1955 380 integration? Dr. Charles Drew served as director for what Entertainment American Red Cross 381 organization’s blood bank? Who lost her teaching job due to a lawsuit against her Politics & Military for refusing to give up her seat in a railroad car marked Ida B. Wells 382 “Whites Only”? She is a dancer-choreographer who is also a director and Sports producer. She was involved with the television show Debbie Allen 383 Fame. Name her.

Business & Education What Black American inventor patented the hearing aid? Harry Hopkins 384 Go Tell it on the Mountain , the first novel of James History Black life 385 Baldwin written in 1953 was about what? What Black American cartoonist created the world Politics & Military Morrie Turner 386 famous “Wee Pals”? Who was the leader of the King Oliver Creole Sports Joseph Oliver 387 Band? Dr. was the first female black astronaut. History What was the name of the space shuttle that took her and Endeavor her crew members into space in 1992? 388 What US federal government agency founded over 4000 Science & Exploration Freedmen’s Bureau 389 schools, including Howard University? 390 Science & Exploration Who invented the first corn husker? Henry Blair Born in 1957, what is the full name of the director of the Science & Exploration Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee 391 movie Do the Right Thing?

Page 22 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER How many Southern states seceded from the Union to History Eleven 392 form the Confederate States of America in 1861? In 1968, Bob Beamon set an Olympic record in what 2 Science & Exploration Long Jump 393 event? Who was the first black born in colonial America at Arts William Tucker 394 Jamestown, Virginia? What doctor attended President James Garfield after he Science & Exploration Dr. Charles Purvis 395 was shot? What important railway coupling device did Andrew J. Entertainment Jenny Coupler 396 Beard invent? Richard Hatcher and Carl Stokes were among the first Hatcher – Gary, Indiana and Stokes Business & Education two blacks to be elected mayor of which major U.S. – Cleveland, 397 cities in 1967? What company was the largest slave-trading operation in History Franklin and Arnold 398 the south? Who performed the first surgical implantation of the History Dr. Levi Watkins 399 automatic defibrillator in the human heart? What father and son team served as guides at Mammoth Arts Nick and Matt Bransford 400 Cave for 49 and 19 years respectively? 401 History Who designed and patented the dustpan? L.P. Ray Many civil rights leaders were opposed to the war in They were distressed over the high Sports rate of casualties among the black 402 Vietnam for what reason? troops. Who was an early pioneer in Colorado and a conductor History Barney Ford 403 of the Underground Railroad? In 1961, W.E.B. Du Bois renounced his US citizenship Entertainment Ghana 404 and became a citizen of what country? What was the name of the Indian leader who became a Science & Exploration model for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s non-violent and 405 peaceful movement? What was the name of the music and dance television History Solid Gold 406 show hosted by Marilyn McCoo? What year did Jesse Gray lead 30,000 people to strike Business & Education 1963 for needed apartment repairs in New York City? 407 Born a slave, Stephen Bishop, the first African Business & Education American cave explorer made a published map of what Mammouth Cave 408 cave? Who served as Director of Minority Affairs for President Politics & Military Mary McLeod Bethune 409 Roosevelt? 410 Politics & Military What was “Ma” Rainey’s nickname? Mother of the Blues Benjamin Banneker assisted in the survey of what major Arts Washington, DC 411 US city? Who invented a life-saving device for coupling railroad History Andrew J. Beard 412 cars?

Page 23 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, Entertainment Where did the “sit-in” movement begin? 413 North Carolina 2 Jackie Robinson was the first American to play major Entertainment Brooklyn Dodgers 414 league baseball for what team? What president swore in, Robert Weaver, the first black Science & Exploration President Lyndon B. Johnson 415 member of a presidential cabinet, in 1966? Known as the “Black Edison,” what famous inventor Business & Education was responsible for developing the third rail used in Granville T. Woods 416 modern subway systems? The son of a slave and French pirate's mate, what Haitian frontier explorer became a wealthy businessman, Business & Education Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable owning a large home, stable, barn, smokehouse, 417 workshop, dairy, and trading post? What song recorded by Louis Armstrong became the Business & Education Hello Dolly 418 nation’s number on record in 1964? Julius Erving began his professional basketball career Sports New York Nets 419 with what team? In what year was the movie Off to the Bloomingdale History 1902 420 Asylum released? Willie Stargell began and ended his professional Sports 421 baseball career with what National League team? Who was the first Black American to achieve the rank of Politics & Military Charles Young colonel in the US Army? 422 Who was the first Black American elected to the US Business & Education Joseph H. Rainey 423 House of Representatives? Many blacks held political offices in the South during Entertainment Republican Reconstruction as members of what political party? 424

Science & Exploration What was Marcus Garvey’s nickname? Black Moses 425

Previosly named Howard Normal and Theological Business & Education Institute for Education of Teachers and Preachers Howard University currently operates under what name? 426 What did Elijah McCoy patent in 1872 that drastically Business & Education improved the speed and efficiency of industrial The lubricator cup 427 machinery? Who received a patent for the invention of an optical Politics & Military D. E. Howard 428 apparatus that helped to position tooling? When was Denmark Vessey’s army of Blacks organized 1822 (forty years before the Civil Sports 429 to fight slavery? War) What aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville native, served as editor of three African American Business & Education William Alexander Chambers weeklies: the Indianapolis Recorder , the Freeman , and 430 the Indianapolis Ledger ? Page 24 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER He was born Elijah Poole. What was this Muslim Science & Exploration Elijah Muhammad 431 leader’s Islamic name? What was the name of ’s relay team, 2 Entertainment Tennessee Tigerbelles 432 which finished first at the 1960 Olympics? What system did Robert Shurney develop that was used Sports Waste management system 434 aboard a Skylab space mission? 435 Arts Who made the song “Johnny B Good” popular? Chuck Berry Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first Black American to Science & Exploration Nobel Peace Prize 436 win what prestigious award? Who was the first Black American to be Chairman of the Science & Exploration Colin Powell 437 Joint Chiefs of Staff? What famous Olympic champion was standing at Arts Senator Robert Kennedy’s side when Kennedy was Rafer Johnson 438 fatally shot by Sirhan Sirhan? Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron finished his baseball career Sports in 1974 with what team? 439 What New York City nightclub was named after Charlie Sports Birdland 440 Parker? What type of dance rhythm and movements did History African and Caribbean 441 Katherine Dunham introduce in America?

Science & Exploration Black History Month is celebrated during what month? February 442 443 Science & Exploration Who invented the folding bed? L.C. Bailey In 1950 Sidney Poitier made his film debut in what Business & Education No Way Out 444 movie? Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout the United States and the Caribbean led her Sports Madam C.J. Walker to become the first African American female 445 millionaire? Paul Cuffe was considered a true pioneer. What form of Science & Exploration a ship transportation did he use to reach his destination? 446 Who was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s executive History 447 assistant? Satchel Paige played for 22 years in what baseball Sports Negro League 448 league? Count Basie won his first Grammy Award in 1963 for History I Can’t Stop Loving You 449 instrumental arrangement of what song? In what motion picture did Bill “Bo Jangles” Robinson Sports The Little Colonel teach Shirley Temple the famous Stair Dance? 450 Who was the first Black American quarterback to lead History James Harris 451 the NFL in passing?

Page 25 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Granville T. Woods began inventing in 1885. His Sports contribution was in the field of electricity. For what Automatic air brakes and steam 4522 inventions did he receive patents? What is the name of the first Black American woman to Politics & Military give the keynote address at a national political Barbara Jordan 453 convention? What prolific writer published twenty-three articles, hundreds of shorter pieces, and ten books including The Business & Education Benjamin Arthur Quarles Negro in the American Revolution in 1961 and Moorg 454 Against Tide & Patterns in 2005? What African American naval cook shot down four Sports Dorie Miller 455 enemy planes during the ?

Arts Who wrote The Lost Zoo , a classic children’s book? Countee Cullen 456 Before being christened the , what History Savoy Big Five 457 was this basketball team’s name? What disease did track and field phenom Wilma Sports Polio Rudolph have to overcome as a child? 458 Arthur Ashe was author of A Hard Road to Glory , Sports Tennis which chronicled his professional career in what sport? 459 Popularized by the 1923 musical Runnin' Wild , what Business & Education 1920s dance is believed to have started in a coastal city the Charleston 460 of South Carolina? Who invented the control unit for the artificial heart History Otis Boykin 461 stimulator? During the Civil War, he was the black pilot who sailed Science & Exploration a Confederate steamer out of Charleston, South Carolina Robert Smalls and delivered it to the Union Navy in 1862. 462 “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro” was a Science & Exploration speech delivered in Rochester, New York in 1852 by Frederick Douglass 463 what abolitionist orator? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was fatally shot on the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Arts 464 balcony of what hotel and city in 1968? Tennessee Being the first black female Politics & Military For what is Dr. Mae C. Jemison known? 465 astronaut to travel in space How many times did Archie Griffin win the Heisman Science & Exploration Two 466 trophy? Birmingham had race riot violence in the spring of what Entertainment 1963 467 year? 468 Science & Exploration Who invented the smallpox vaccine? Dr. Louis Wright Name the Grammy award-winning Philadelphia quartet History that sold over 4 million copies of their album Cooley Boyz II Men 469 High Harmony?

Page 26 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Selected by Governor Paul Patton to serve as Circuit Politics & Military Court Judge in 1999, who became the first African Pamela R. Goodwine 2 American woman appointed to the bench in Kentucky? 470 What Black American inventor received a patent for an Sports Hubert Julian 471 airplane safety device in 1921? 472 Politics & Military What basketball great is known as Dr. J? Julius Erving Who was the first Black American to qualify and race in Politics & Military Willy T. Ribbs 473 the Indianapolis 500? Famed jazz singer Billie Holiday was born in 1915 with Politics & Military Eleanora Fagan 474 what name? In what year were The Temptations, , Otis Sports Redding, and the Soul Stirrers inducted into the Rock 1989 475 and Roll Hall of Fame? The Minnesota Territory had many black trappers. Politics & Military Which of the Bonga men founded a town in Minnesota George Bonga 476 in 1837? What real life person did Halle Berry portray in the TV Business & Education Alex Haley’s paternal grandmother 477 miniseries Queen? Who became the first Black American running back to History Joe Perry 478 rush more than 1,000 yards in a single season? Who served as a nurse, scout and spy for the Union Entertainment Harriet Tubman 479 Army? Appeal , a book of anti-slavery literature, was written by Arts David Walker 480 what Black American? Who was the first Black American to win an Olympic History George C. Poage 481 medal in the 200 and 400 meter hurdles? What was the first war in which blacks served in every Business & Education World War II 482 branch of the U.S. armed forces? What Black American woman founded the National Politics & Military Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, Nannie Helen Burroughs 483 Inc.? Why was army hero Colonel John Pershing called Entertainment He commanded a Black Unit 484 “Black Jack”? Who are the only two brothers that ever held the Business & Education Michael and Leon Spinks 485 heavyweight boxing title? 486 Business & Education Who made the first practical shoe-making machine? Jan Matzeliger Who formed the all-black Ethiopian regiment in 1775 History Lord Dunmore 487 during the Revolutionary War? What Black American jazz pianist and composer is Entertainment known for the ballad Misty and 1955 recording Concert Erroll Louis Garner 488 by the Sea ? This former beauty queen from Ohio started her career Arts as a model. In 2001 she won the Academy Award for Halle Berry 489 Best Actress. Who is she?

Page 27 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER In What year did Driving Miss Daisy win the Oscar for Business & Education 1989 490 Best Picture? 2 What Louisville native penned three books in 1964: The Arts Negro politician, his success and failure ; Martin Luther Edward T. Clayton King: the peaceful warrior ; and The SCLC Story ? 491 In 1924, Walter White published a best-selling novel Science & Exploration Bigotry 492 The Fire in the Flint , which covered what subject? Who knocked heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali to the Politics & Military Joe Frazier canvas in the 15th round of their first boxing match? 493 William H. Carney received the Congressional Medal of Science & Exploration Spanish American War 494 Honor for his participation in what war? When did Robert E. Lee encourage the recruitment of After the Confederates suffered Business & Education 495 Blacks? huge loses In 2009, who became the first African American U.S. Science & Exploration attorney general and head of the Justice Department and Eric H. Holder Jr. 496 its 110,000 employees? He became pastor of Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem in 1967. In the 1960s he was Executive Director of the History Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). 497 Who is he? Who advanced legislation to make Juneteenth (June 19), Politics & Military the celebration of the freedom of African American Representative Reginald Meeks 498 slaves, a holiday in Kentucky? What landmark Supreme Court ruling required all Mitchell v. US Interstate Commerce Entertainment railroad companies to provide equal accommodations for Act 499 Blacks? James Cleveland Owens, a track and field athlete, won Sports four Gold Medals at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. By Jesse Owens 500 what name was he known? To what position was Colin Powell appointed, making Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Entertainment 501 him the highest ranking military officer? Staff

Sports For what baseball team did Josh Gibson play? 502 Made to what is now Alcorn State University, the first Arts land grant for a black college was made in 1871 in what Lorman, Mississippi 503 in city? compiled more batting records than any other baseball player. He broke this former player’s Sports Babe Ruth batting? record of 714 and retired at 755. Whose record 504 did he break?

Page 28 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Coppin State College in Baltimore, Maryland was established in 1900 and named after what slave who Business & Education Fanny Jackson Coppin 2 became one of the leading black women educators of the 505 nineteenth century? How old was when his poetry was first Arts 19 506 published? One of the first black organized labor unions, the Entertainment Associated Colored Employees of America was formed 1917 507 in what year? In what year did the cable network BET begin Science & Exploration 1980 508 broadcasting music videos? Booker T. Washington was opposed to the founding of History NAACP 509 what organization in 1909? In 1990, who was elected mayor of Washington DC, History becoming the first Black American woman mayor of a Sharon Pratt Kelly 510 major US city? What 1915 natural disaster ruined crops and homes of History Flooding 511 many farmers in the Mississippi Valley region? In 1831, the World Anti-Slavery Convention opened in Sports London 512 what city? In 1988, what basketball player became the first NBA Politics & Military Kareem Abdul Jabar 513 player to reach 37,000 career points? Portrayed by in the film Lady Sings the Business & Education Blues, what was the name of the singer whose song Billie Holiday 514 “Strange Fruit” became her signature piece? They were black people who left the Business & Education Who were the Exodusters? South after Reconstruction who 515 settled in Kansas in 1879 Keenan Ivory Wayans is the producer of what TV History In Living Color 516 comedy show? What is the name of the memorial center of which Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for History was Chairwoman and Chief Nonviolent Struggle 517 Executive Officer? Elston Howard was the first Black American to win Sports Most Valuable Player 518 what American League baseball award? Who received an award from the Army for developing a History Bruce Lee 519 technique to decontaminate missiles?

In 1821, Thomas A. Jennings was one of the first Black Politics & Military a dry scouring device for clothing Americans to receive a patent. What was his invention? 520 It is estimated that how many Africans survived the History transatlantic slave trade in the early sixteenth century to about ten million 521 the mid-nineteenth century? What Black American scientist is known for his work Entertainment Charles Turner 522 with insects?

Page 29 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case upheld racial Arts Plessy v. Ferguson 523 segregation in its “” doctrine? In what year did the first African indentured servants 2 Business & Education 1619 524 arrive at Jamestown, Virginia? In 1870, Elijah McCoy started what company in Detroit, Elijah McCoy Manufacturing Business & Education 525 Michigan? Company Ranking 33rd on the NBA's winningest coaches list, who Entertainment was the Charlotte Bobcats general manager and first Bernard T. "Bernie" Bickerstaff, Sr. 526 coach? Who was the first magistrate elected to serve residents of History T. H. Moore the First Magisterial District in Christian County? 527 Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, pharmacist Garland H. Science & Exploration Attucks High School 528 Brooks attended what local high school? This, the first and only black college consortium, was Science & Exploration Atlanta University System 529 founded in 1929. Name it. In what year did Mike Tyson become the youngest Sports 1986 530 heavyweight boxing champion in history? Who was the first Black American woman to have her Science & Exploration 531 own weekly television series, Julia? What was the birth name of international vaudeville Sports Dora Babbige 532 performer Dora Dean? Born in Owensboro, KY, who was the first African Politics & Military Moneta Sleet, Jr. 533 American to win a Pulitzer Prize in photography? Who was the first Black American female national History Condoleezza Rice 534 security advisor? Who was the first Black American to join the Science & Exploration Charles Siffrord 535 Professional Golf Association? Who were the first African American women Army Myrtle Anderson and Margaret Arts 536 officers stationed in Kentucky? Elizabeth Barnes Jones Willie Mays began his professional career with what History New York Giants 537 major league baseball team? Classic blues singers, Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Science & Exploration Smith, Mamie Smith, and , were women Vaudeville who came out of what performance tradition? 538 became the first college to Business & Education name an African American president in November 2000. Dr. Ruth Simmons Name her. 539 Who was the youngest boxer to win the heavyweight Business & Education Mike Tyson 540 title? What is the name of the institute that was founded by Politics & Military Tuskegee Institute 541 Booker T. Washington in 1881? Jackie Joyner-Kersee won Gold Medals in the 1988 and Sports Heptathlon - check spelling 1992 Olympics for what event? 542 Page 30 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER

Science & Exploration What is the name of Dr. Martin Luther King’s widow? Coretta Scott King 543 G.T. Sampson invented what popular home appliance in 2 Sports Clothes dryer 544 1892?

Sports “Ma” Rainey taught what singer how to sing the blues? 545 Between 1915 and the mid-1920s approximately how Sports many blacks left the rural South to urban areas of the one million North and the West as part of the Great Migration? 546 What was the name of Marcus Garvey’s shipping Politics & Military company that was owned and operated entirely by Black Star Line 547 Blacks? 548 Entertainment What artist’s painting is entitled After Church? Who was the first Black American to play on the Davis Science & Exploration Arthur Ashe 549 Cup tennis team? Who presented a bill to Congress in 1968 that would enable Black Americans to control education, business, Politics & Military Roy Innis and social services within Black American 550 communities? Who was the first Black American to achieve fame as a Science & Exploration Edmonia Leis 551 sculptress? For how many years did F.E. Whitney serve as a Entertainment 21 552 member of Hopkinsville City Council? What basketball player was named NBA Rookie of the Business & Education Year while leading the Detroit Pistons to their first NBA Dave Bing 553 Championship playoff? Who was best known for her role as Bloody Mary in the Arts 1949 Broadway stage production of ? 554 What Black American inventor patented the cotton History Thomas L. Jennings 555 planter and seed planter? Who was the first Black American female judge in the Business & Education J. Matilda Bolin 556 United States? In 1987, who became the first African American woman History Luevenia Watkins to serve on the Hopkinsville, KY, City Council? 557 What performer was nominated for an Academy Award Science & Exploration Diana Ross for Best Actress in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues? 558 In 1981 Pam Johnson became the first black woman to History Ithaca Journal 559 control which mainstream daily publication? Who was the first Black American to have a seat on the Politics & Military Joseph L. Searles 560 New York Stock Exchange? The Black Panther Party was founded in what California Entertainment Oakland 561 city? Page 31 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What Black American developed a treatment for Arts Dr. Percy Julian 562 arthritis?

2 History In 1871 who became the first Black American governor? P.B.S. Pinchback 563 What Black actress won a Academy Award for her Politics & Military supporting role in the movie Ghost? 564 Who is the current Chairman and CEO of Johnson Arts Linda Johnson Rice 565 Publishing Company? What is the name of the baseball stadium in Pittsburgh Entertainment 566 that opened in 1979? Musician and Hopkinsville native John Brim taught Business & Education Guitar and harmonica 567 himself to play what two instruments? What television program has received over 25 Emmy Politics & Military awards and has been the highest-rated talk show in The Show 568 television history? The last units of U.S. troops came home from Vietnam Arts in the spring of 1973. Who was the president of the President Richard M. Nixon 569 United States at that time? Watergate break-in Washington, Politics & Military What did security guard Frank Willis discover in 1972? 570 D.C. 571 History What was John Elroy Stanford’s stage name? Name the orchestra of which sang with Arts Chick Webb Orchestra 572 and eventually became the leader. The film Glory was based on America’s first unit of History black soldiers in the Civil War. Who won the award for Denzel Washington Best Supporting Actor of this 1989 historical film? 573 advocated civil rights reform through Business & Education 574 what organization? What Black American artist created the Peanut Man Business & Education Elmer Stoner 575 character for Planters Peanuts? Born in Bowling Green, KY, what aerospace engineer with IBM and Westinghouse went on to become the first Science & Exploration African American woman to become dean at a major Marilyn V. Yarbrough Ainsworth southern law school and one of the first African American female law professors in the United States? 576 On January 21, 1973 where did opera singer Jessye Entertainment Norman perform to a sellout crowd in the Great 577 Performers series? Atlanta, Newark, Washington, D.C. and Detroit had race Business & Education 1967 578 riots in what year? Who led voter registration efforts in Mississippi in the Science & Exploration Medgar Evers 579 late 1960s?

Page 32 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Satchel Paige was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Entertainment 1971 580 in what year? What was the full name of NAACP founder W.E.B. Du 2 Sports William Edward Burghardt Du Bois 581 Bois? What was the given name of popular comedienne and History pioneer of African-American vaudeville, Moms Loretta Mary Aiken 582 Mabley? What is the name of the opera singer who sang at Politics & Military 583 President George W. Bush’s inauguration in 2005? Appointed to fill a vacancy in 1974 and later elected, Business & Education who was the only African American woman in Kentucky Dorothy Morrow 584 holding a city council post in 1977? Who was the first accredited Black American physician Entertainment James Derham 585 in the United States? In 1822, where did Denmark Vessey plan to launch an Sports Charleston, South Carolina attack in an effort to release Blacks from bondage? 586 Known as the “dean of black preachers” he became Politics & Military pastor of Concord Baptist Church in the Bedford- Rev. Gardner C. Taylor 587 Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York in 1948? In 1975, who became the first African American to own History and operate a television station in the United States, William Venoid Banks 588 WGPR-TV in Detroit, MI? Born in Lexington, KY, Derek Bryant was the first Politics & Military African American baseball player at what school, where University of Kentucky 589 he played from 1971-1973? Comprising 13.5 percent of the total U.S. population, History what was the estimated population of black residents in 40.7 million 590 the United States, including those of more than one race, This talented blues singer/artist was blind at an early age, raised chickens in his childhood, and taught himself to play music. Fusing with folk music, he Science & Exploration Gary Davis developed his own style of guitar playing with unusual chord progressions – partially due to a hand injury – that 591 became his trademark. Name him.

The Bible called her “The Queen of Sheba”. What was Entertainment Makeda the African Queen called by her people? 592 Nominated for a National Book Award, what is Maya Entertainment I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 593 Angelou's first autobiography? 594 Politics & Military Who invented portable refrigeration? Frederick McKinley Jones 595 Sports What Black American invented the air brake? Granville T. Woods 596 Politics & Military B.B. King is noted for what type of music? Blues

Page 33 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER In 1957, what group of students integrated Central High School in Arkansas with the assistance of President Business & Education The 2 Dwight D. Eisenhower and the protection of federal 597 troops? What 1987 play, written by Alfred Unry, became a Arts Driving Miss Daisy 598 movie in 1989? What was the name of the fort where Confederate Politics & Military Fort Sumter, South Carolina 599 soldiers attacked federal troops on April 12, 1861? What famous baseball player who played for the Arts Oakland A’s and New York Yankees earned the Reggie Jackson 600 nickname “Mr. October"? What labor activist who founded the Brotherhood of Sports Sleeping Car Porters in 1925 initiated the 1963 March A. Philip Randolph 601 on Washington? What did Benjamin Banneker publish for farmers which Business & Education became the first scientific book published by a Black Farmers’ Almanac 602 American? Olympic star played what position for the History Wide receiver 603 Cowboys? Who was the first African American master diver in the Business & Education U.S. Navy, the only amputee deep-sea diver to attain Carl Maxie Brashear 604 that level?

Who saved the lives of thousands of soldiers in World Entertainment Dr. Percy Julian War II with his invention of “aero foam”? 605 James Glass, Hopkinsville native and long-time Sports Henderson doctor, received his medical degree from Meharry Medical College 606 what school in 1906? Born in Kentucky, who was the first African American Politics & Military to die in World War II, during the bombing of Clark Robert H. Brooks 607 Field in the Philippines? Who is often called “The father of the Civil Rights Science & Exploration Frederick Douglass Movement”? 608 What were the holding pens which kept the enslaved Politics & Military Barracoons 609 Africans until they were transported called? Congressman won a gold medal at the Business & Education 1936 Berlin Olympics in what year? 610 In the 1930s this federal organization compiled History testimonies of over 2,500 former slaves in 17 states that Federal Writers Project were published in the 1970s. Name the organization. 611 What common saying refers to a famous Black Politics & Military Is it the real McCoy? 612 American inventor?

Page 34 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Born in Fort Campbell, KY, who became the first Politics & Military African American to hold the post of U.S. Attorney in Eddie J.Jordan, Jr. 2 the state of Louisiana in 1994? 613 614 Business & Education Who was the first Black American female lawyer? Charlotte E. Ray What Tennessee State University student became the Politics & Military first woman to win the 100-meter dash twice at both the Wyomia Tyus 615 1964 and 1968 Olympic games? When did the last all-black U.S. armed forces unit Science & Exploration June 1952 616 disband? What noted inventor patented an improvement for the Entertainment Richard Spikes 617 automatic gearshift? One of the first African American players in the Southeastern Conference, football standout Wilbur Sports Hackett, Jr. was the first African American to start in University of Kentucky any sport and be named a team captain at what college 618 program? The University of the District of Columbia was Science & Exploration organized by free black women in 1865 under what Miner Normal School 619 name? What was Robert Weaver’s title when he became a Secretary of Housing and Urban Business & Education 620 presidential cabinet member? Development What was the Indian name of Chicago at the time of Arts Eschikagou 621 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable’s settlement? What Christian Couny native was a founding member of Kappa Alpha Psi, established in 1911, served as the Entertainment Elder Diggs fraternity's president during the first six years and was awarded the organization's first Laurel Wreath in 1924? 622 In 1972, who became the first woman candidate for History Shirley Chisholm 623 President of the United States? Darnley E. Howard, Sr. and Darnley M. Howard, Jr., Sports Inventors 624 father and son, shared what same profession? was the first Black American player in what Science & Exploration NBA 625 professional sports league? 626 Arts Paul Cuffe owned what kind of company? Ship building and shipping In 1953, Ralph Ellison received the National Book Politics & Military Invisible Man 627 Award for what book? What musical artist released the hit album Power of Science & Exploration Luther Vandross 628 Love ? In 1904 the Daytona Normal and Industrial School in Science & Exploration Mary McLeod Bethune 629 Daytona Beach, Florida was founded by whom? In 1995 and 2001 respectively, Dr. Ruth J. Simmons became the first black president and black woman (Northampton, Massachusetts - 1995) and Brown Arts president of two top-ranked colleges. One is a “Seven University (Providence, Rhode Sisters” school, and the other is an Ivy League school. Island - 2001) 630 Name the institutions. Page 35 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What baseball team did Frank Robinson help win the Science & Exploration Reds 631 pennant in 1961? Who founded the DuSable Museum of African- 2 Politics & Military Dr. Margaret Burroughs 632 American History, located in Chicago, Illinois? Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African History American student to be accepted at Austin Peay State Reverend Wilbur N. Daniel 633 University in Clarksville, Tennessee? What Black American inventor worked for both General Sports Lewis Latimer 634 Electric and Westinghouse? What company’s popular commercial featured a tape Entertainment Memorex recording of Ella Fitzgerald’s voice shattering a glass? 635

Blacks made up more than one-fourth of the population 6 (Mississippi 38%, Louisiana 32%, Business & Education Georgia 31%, Maryland 30%, South in how many states by July 1, 2007? Carolina 29%, and Alabama 27%) 636 What Black American sailor won the Congressional History Medal of Honor in the Civil War Battle, the Battle of John Lawson 637 Mobile Bay at Ft. Gaines? What slave-born nurse was the first female to own Science & Exploration Biddy Bridget Mason 638 property in Los Angeles? 639 Entertainment In what year was George Washington Carver born? 1864 Considered the greatest blues singer of the 1920s, what Entertainment Bessie Smith artist was known as the “empress of the blues”? 640 L. , was elected the first Black American Business & Education Virginia 641 governor of what state in 1989? In 1986 Eddie Bernice Johnson was elected to the U.S. History Senate. She also served as secretary of the Congressional Texas Black Caucus. What state did she represent? 642 Hartshorn Memorial College was established in the Ebenezer Baptist Church (in Sports 643 basement of what Baptist church in 1883? Richmond, Virginia) In what year did the War Department grant equal pay for Science & Exploration 1864 white and black soldiers after many protests? 644 645 Arts What musical instrument did Nat King Cole play? Piano Who was the first Black American member of the US History Samuel Nabrit 646 Atomic Energy Commission? The uncut versions of Donna Summer and Gloria Donna Summer’s “Love to Love Gaynor’s records are around fourteen minutes and You” was about fourteen minutes. Sports Gloria Gaynor’s “Never Can Say nineteen minutes, respectively. What are the names of Goodbye” was about nineteen 647 these Disco divas’ records that lasted so long? minutes. 648 Business & Education Who founded the magazine Ebony ? John H. Johnson

Page 36 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What is the name of the Marion Marche Perkins Arts sculpture that won the Art Institute of Chicago Purchase Man of Sorrow 6492 Award in 1951? What civil rights leader and clergyman organized the Business & Education Ralph Abernathy famous “poor people’s campaign” in Washington D.C.? 650 What year marked the Harlem Globetrotters’ first Sports 1927 651 basketball game? George Washington Carver made paint and ink from Sports Peanuts 652 what common food item? In his speech at the Democratic Convention in 1984, Sports Rev. Jesse Keep hope alive 653 Jackson’s dramatic call was to do what?

In the 1950s he made his debut at the Metropolitan Arts Robert McFerrin Opera as Amonasro, the Ethiopian King. Who was he? 654 In what year did Marian Anderson debut as the first Politics & Military 1955 655 Black American singer at the Metropolitan Opera? 656 Politics & Military Nat Love wrote what kind of stories? Westerns What type of folk art was seen on the New York subway Business & Education cars in the 1970s that was a phenomenon among the Graffiti 657 urban youth? Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron ended his career with how Science & Exploration 755 658 many home runs? Who did Arthur Ashe defeat in 1975 to become the first Arts Jimmy Connors Black American to win the singles title at Wimbledon? 659 660 History What was Ferdinand Morton’s nickname? Jelly Roll Popular during the Harlem Renaissance, what was the an all-black professional basketball History 661 Big Five? team of the 1920s and 1930s Won money in a lottery and Entertainment How did Denmark Vessey gain his freedom in 1799? 662 purchased his freedom Vibraphone player Lionel Hampton started his career in Business & Education the Benny Goodman Quartet 663 1936 with which band? For what skill did Charles Sampson become the first Entertainment black to win the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Bull riding 664 Association championship in 1982? Dr. Percy L. Julian achieved his accomplishments in Entertainment Soybean 665 what occupation? 666 Science & Exploration Who was the first man to discover the North Pole? Matthew Henson Shirley Chisholm was elected to the House of Science & Exploration New York 667 Representatives to represent what state? What Black American inventor received a patent for the Business & Education R.F. Fleming 668 guitar?

Page 37 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What is the name of the Harlem club where many Entertainment famous Black American entertainers began their The Cotton Club 6692 careers?

Who was the first Black American lawyer to be admitted Sports Macon B. Allen to the bar? 670 The first rap song to achieve commercial success was Arts “Rapper’s Delight.” What was the name of the group The Sugar Hill Gang 671 who recorded this single in 1979? 672 History What Black American patented the corn harvester? Henry Blair In 2009, who became the first African American male Entertainment Donald Smith 673 school superintendent in Kentucky? Who sang spiritual songs to communicate with slaves Science & Exploration she intended to take north to freedom on the Harriet Tubman 674 Underground Railroad? On September 2, 1941 who became the first black Politics & Military Captain Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. 675 officer to fly an aircraft alone? What do Mike Garret, Ernie Davis and Billy Simms Sports They all won the Heisman Trophy 676 have in common? In 1921, Edward (Kid) Ory’s Creole Trombone and Arts Society Blues, the first know recordings by a Black Jazz 677 American of what type of music? Who did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. call “My Spiritual Arts Benjamin E. Mays 678 Advisor”? James Beckwourth became chief scout for what explorer Entertainment John Freemont 679 in 1848? Who was admitted to the Hall of Fame for being the best History Josh Gibson 680 hitter in the Negro League? In what year did win five Grammy Entertainment 1983 681 awards? What college basketball team did Magic Johnson lead to Politics & Military Michigan State Spartans 682 the NCAA championship? Who is known as the “Father of Negro History” documenting African-American stories and achievements through use of innovative research Politics & Military Carter G. Woodson approaches including legal records, diaries and oral histories – methods that have since been widely adopted 683 by historians? Daryl Bishop had a successful career playing what Sports Defensive back 684 football position at the University of Kentucky? What 1989 movie won several , Politics & Military Driving Miss Daisy 685 including Best Picture? 686 Politics & Military Who wrote the book Born to Rebel ?

Page 38 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who is the controversial poet and author of My House is Divided into Two Sections who emerged from the Black History Nikki Giovanni 2 Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and became a 687 professor of English? What TV comedy show made a History Saturday Night Live 688 household name? What candidate defeated Jesse Jackson in the 1988 History Michael Dukakis 689 Democratic Presidential race? Black revolutionary Crispus Attucks led colonial forces Arts Boston Massacre 690 during what conflict in 1770? Owner and operator of Brooks Memorial Hospital, Science & Exploration Physician and surgeon 691 Phillip C. Brooks served in what capacities? 692 Politics & Military Who invented the bullet resistant Plexiglas? Emmanuel L. Logan How many people attended the historic March in Arts an estimated 250,000 people 693 Washington held on August 28, 1963? Who was named coach of the Minnesota Vikings in Science & Exploration Dennis Green 694 1992? What Black American allowed Gordon Parks and Life Arts magazine to publish a major story on the Black Muslim Malcolm X 695 Movement? What sports team was referred to by many as the Science & Exploration 1992 Olympic basketball team 696 “Dream Team”? What Christian County, KY, magisterial district has Arts been served by Black magistrates since it was formed in the 1st District 697 1905? She witnessed the East St. Louis riots in 1917 and immigrated to France just six years later. She was a Sports singer, dancer, nightclub owner and a member of the Josephine Baker French resistance during World War II. Name this 698 popular entertainer. Who was the National League’s first Black American Cy Science & Exploration Don Newcombe 699 Young Award winner?

History What state was the first to abolish slavery? Vermont 700 What was the name of the first Black American Sports Brooklyn Excelsior professional baseball team? 701 Who was the first Black American to lead an NFL History Johnny Grier 702 officiating crew? In January 1967 what Republican was the first black to Politics & Military be elected to the Senate for a full term since 703 Reconstruction? In 1910 the black population made up what percentage Arts of the total United States population of nearly 93.5 10.70% 704 million people?

Page 39 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What Christian County native worked in the coal mines Business & Education and became the first African American elected to the James W. Dulin 7052 Earlington, KY, City Council in 1972? During the Korean War, the Navy had 65% of black Science & Exploration soldiers in the Steward’s Branch where they worked as Cooks and waiters 706 what? In what year did Charles W. Follis become the first Sports 1902 707 Black American to play professional football? Name at least two black 1980s television show , , Debbie Politics & Military Allen, Quincy Jones, and Keenan 708 producers. Ivory Wayans 709 Sports What is basketball star Michael Jordan’s nickname? Air Jordan What was the nickname of renowned jazz musician Arts Bird 710 Charlie Parker? For what state did Barbara Jordan serve as state senator Politics & Military Texas 711 and U.S. congresswoman? What pitcher won 51 out of 55 games in the Negro Science & Exploration Andrew “Rube” Foster 712 League in 1905? What golfer became the first Black American to play in Sports Lee Elder 713 the ? Name the hip-hop group that created the theme song Science & Exploration “Fight the Power” to Spike Lee’s film Do The Right Public Enemy 714 Thing. Who was the first Black American to lead professional Arts Jim Brown 715 football in rushing? What type of music did Louis Armstrong revolutionize Science & Exploration and help establish as the nation’s first highly popular Jazz 716 Black art form? In 1991 Sharon Pratt Kelly was the first black woman to Business & Education Washington, D.C. 717 become mayor of what major city? Robert Poston was assistant secretary-general of what Universal Negro Improvement Business & Education organization when went to in 1924 and died of Association (UNIA) 718 pneumonia on his return trip to the U.S.? Who was the founder of the first African-American Politics & Military Patricia Garrison-Corbin female-owned Wall Street financial services corporation. 719 She was the first woman to be elected to the Senate in Science & Exploration Texas and the first Southern black woman to serve in the Barbara Jordan 720 U.S. Congress. Name her.

Entertainment For what style of music were the Ward Singers famous? Po-Gospel 721 Founded in 1923 by Charles S. Johnson, the official Sports publication of the National Urban League is called Opportunity 722 what?

Page 40 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who made a speech at the National Negro Convention in Politics & Military 1843 that made people regard him as one of the most Rev. Henry Garnet 7232 militant abolitionists? Lewis Latimer prepared the drawings for what invention History The telephone 724 patented by Alexander Graham Bell? Born in Falmouth, KY, what man developed the Black Man Think Tank and is the national president of the History John D. O'Bryant Think Tank for Black Professionals in Eric P. Abercrumbie Higher Education on Predominantly White Campuses 725 (JDOTT)? Who was the first athlete to receive Sports Illustrated’s History Sportsmen of the Year award after retiring from his Arthur Ashe 726 professional career? What profession do Al Roker, Mark McEwen, and Business & Education Weatherman or meteorologist Spencer Christian ? 727 Known for his social and political views, who published Sports W.E.B. Du Bois 728 The Souls of Black Folks in 1903? Who invented the device that made it easier to handle History James Forten 729 the sails of large ships? What author promoted her first novel, Mama , by Science & Exploration Terry McMillan 730 contacting colleges and universities? 731 Science & Exploration What did J.R. Pickering patent in 1900? Modified airship

Under what name was North Carolina Central University The National Religious Training Science & Exploration founded in School of Durham 1910 by James E. Shephard?

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Named one of the greatest players in NBA history, Nate Sports Warriors Thurmond played for what team from 1963-1974? 733 734 Entertainment What African country has the largest population? Nigeria U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis led his civil Student Nonviolent Coordinating Entertainment 735 rights movement through what organization? Committee Where was Ephraim Poston, owner and editor of the Entertainment Clarksville, TN 736 newspaper Hopkinsville Contender , born? In what TV series was a character named “Buckwheat” Business & Education The Little Rascals 737 one of the stars? Who played for the Los Angeles Rams and was a Sports Rosey Grier member of the “fearsome foursome”? 738 Who was the first major league baseball player to steal History Maury Wills 739 more than 100 bases in a single season?

Page 41 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What famous aviator brothers helped promote Paul Politics & Military The Wright Brothers Laurence Dunbar’s poetry and became his good friend? 7402 A three-time heavyweight champion, who was stripped Science & Exploration of his first championship title because he refused to fight Muhammad Ali 741 in the Vietnam War? 742 History In what state was Langston Hughes born? Missouri Starting in 1959, Bill Russell led the Boston Celtics to Politics & Military how many straight NBA championships, an Eight 743 unprecedented accomplishment? This amendment to the U.S. Constitution declared "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States". After initially being rejected Entertainment The Thirteenth Amendment by the House of Representatives, this amendment passed and was ratified in 1865, outlawing slavery. This 744 amendment was Who was the first Black American astronaut to fly in Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. History 745 space? Bluford, Jr. From 1893 until the 1950s, Nancy Green served as the History Aunt Jemima pancake mix world's first living trademark as the image what product? 746 In 1867, an interracial jury was selected in Richmond, Science & Exploration Virginia to try the case of what former Confederacy Jefferson Davis 747 president? What was the name of the network of hiding places History Underground Railroad 748 which helped slaves to escape to freedom? In 1942, what branch of the U.S. armed forces became Arts U.S. Marine Corps 749 the last to admit blacks? What Black American inventor received a patent in 1970 Sports Dewey Sanderson 750 for a urinalysis machine? What record company helped bring Mahalia Jackson’s Science & Exploration Columbia Records 751 gospel music to a large audience? During the American Revolution, Black soldiers fought the Continental Navy and the Sports with which two organizations as pilots, gunner’s mates, Continental Army boatswain’s mates, and manned the coastal galleys? 752 Who prepared the blueprints for Alexander Graham Politics & Military Lewis Latimer 753 Bell’s telephone? This first novel consisted of tales from seven black women who wound up on a dead-end street Entertainment The Women of Brewster Place in a ghetto in the North. It was made into a television 754 movie. What is the name of the novel? Whose sentencing was Myrile -Evers Willaims able to Science & Exploration see for the murder of Medgar Evers; after uncovering Byron De La Beckwith stolen evidence and crusading for justice. 755

Page 42 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Used by the 99th Pursuit Squadron, also known as the History Tuskegee Airmen, Tuskegee Institute established what The Tuskegee Army Air Field 7562 training program for black pilots? What significant declaration did President Lincoln issue Science & Exploration The Emancipation Proclamation 757 on January 1, 1863? Founded in 1886, what Kentucky university was Sports originally named the State Normal School for Colored Kentucky State University 758 Persons? Earnest Everett Just, a biologist, was known for what Business & Education Marine eggs 759 type of research? Who developed a drug used to treat glaucoma, an eye Entertainment Dr. Percy Julian 760 disease? In 1907, whom did Jack Johnson defeat to win the Politics & Military Tommy Burns 761 heavyweight championship? What is the name of the main character in the Zora Business & Education Janie Crawford Neale Hurston novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God ? 762 Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia , was the first Arts 763 original script by a Black women to be produced? She was a civil rights advocate who Sports Who was ? helped register black people to vote 764 in Mississippi. What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black Sports YMCA 765 youth? Harold Washington became what city’s first Black History Chicago 766 mayor? In what year did the “Greensboro Four” stage their first History 1960 767 sit in? Ordained in 1854, who was the first black Roman Politics & Military James Augustine Healy 768 Catholic priest and bishop in the United States? 769 Business & Education Who invented the automatic car washer? Richard Spikes The Congress of Racial Equality was founded in what Science & Exploration 1942 770 year? What song was the first hit for Gladys Knights and the Science & Exploration Every Beat of My Heart 771 Pips? Who was the first Black American to play for the New History Elston Howard 772 York Yankees? Born in Louisville, KY, who went on to become an assistant basketball coach at Louisville State University Science & Exploration Ronald L. Abernathy (LSU) in 1976. He was the first African American basketball coach hired full-time at the school? 773 In 1943, in what film did pianist perform Entertainment and Stormy Weather portray Lena Horne singing the title Ain’t Misbehavin’ 774 song?

Page 43 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who patented a means of propulsion for airplanes in Sports James Adams 775 1920? 2 Brothers and Hopkinsville natives, Garland and Phillip Science & Exploration Howard University Brooks received advance degrees from what school? 776

Entertainment Who was the author of the hit play ? 777 Known for his lyrical boasts, athletic grace, and post- History boxing philanthropy, what heavyweight champion lit the Muhammad Ali torch for the Atlanta Olympic Games? 778 St. Elmo Brady, the first African American to earn a Sports Ph.D. in chemistry in America, received his degree from University of Illinois 779 what school in 1916? What instrument did Count Basie play, while leading his Sports Piano (or organ) 780 group ”The Count Basie Orchestra”? There is one Historically Black College and University Arts Kentucky State University 781 (HBCU) in Kentucky. Name it. Who was the creator, director, and host of the popular Sports Don Cornelius television show Soul Train from 1971 to 2006? 782 What was the name of the first national Black American Society of Free Persons Sports convention that was organized by in of Color 783 1830? Who was the first Black American professor at Harvard Entertainment Dr. William Hinton 784 University? What was the first serious uprising among slaves took place in 1739 and resulted in passage of the Negro Act, Entertainment The Stono Rebellion which placed restrictions on the ability of slaves in South Carolina to assemble and move freely? 785 786 Politics & Military Who starred in the box office hit Trading Places? Eddie Murphy What city in Ohio elected three black mayors between Entertainment Cincinnati 787 the years 1972 and 1991. In what year did Frank Robinson become the first Black Sports 1974 788 manager in major league basketball? 789 Business & Education Who invented the disposable syringe? Phil Brooks 790 Politics & Military In what city was Malcolm X arrested? New York City What U.S. city built a statue in honor of Jan Earnest History Lynn, Massachusetts Matzeliger, who is this? 792

In 1962, Buck O’Neill became the first Black coach of Sports Chicago Cubs what professional baseball team? 793

Page 44 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Bill Bailey; Charles “Honi” Coles; Name at least three national renowned 20th Century tap Sammy Davis, Jr.; Savion Glover; Arts ; Maurice Hines; 2 dancers. Fayard Nicholas; Harold Nicholas; 794 Bill “Bojangles” Robinson Politics & Military Where was George Washington Carver’s laboratory? Tuskegee Institute, Alabama 795

Sports Where was boxer great Joe Louis buried? Arlington National Cemetery 796 In what year did the Emancipation Proclamation become Science & Exploration 1863 797 effective?

Sports What was Muhammad Ali’s birth name? Cassius Clay 798 In 2003 she was nominated for an Academy Award for Politics & Military Best Supporting Actress in the film Chicago. Who is 799 she? What former two-time heavyweight boxing champion Arts won a Gold Medal at the 1968 Olympics in City George Foreman 800 and went on to become a minister? Whose professional baseball career was cut short by a Sports Roy Campanella paralyzing automobile accident in 1958 801 Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally Sports Paul Lawrence Dunbar 802 recognized for his writing? Born in Grapeland, Texas, the daughter of Business & Education sharecroppers, who was named the first president of an Dr. Ruth Simmons 803 ivy college college in November of 2000. This former mayor of Atlanta in the 1980s was Arts appointed US Ambassador to the United Nations in 804 1977. Name him. What boxer gave Muhammad Ali his first professional Science & Exploration Joe Frazier 805 loss? In 1926 the Soul Stirrers were the first gospel quartet to Business & Education add a second lead to solo over the usual four-part Sam Cooke harmony. In 1950 what singer joined this group? 806 Brumsic Brandon, Jr. is best known for what comic Politics & Military Luther 807 strip? Elijah Muhammad traveled throughout the United States Entertainment Islam spreading the teachings of what religious movement? 808 In 1865 John S. Rock became the first black admitted to Entertainment practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. His practice Massachusetts 809 was in what state?

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Arts Who did Floyd Patterson lose his boxing title to in 1962? Sonny Liston 810 What ancient statue in Egypt has the head of a human 2 History Sphinx 811 and the body of a lion? Arts In what year was the Fugitive Slave Law passed? 1850 812 Dr. played an important role in Politics & Military 813 bringing what arthritis drug to the public?

In 1956 Lenny Moore and Liddell Mitchell played for Sports Baltimore Colts what sports team? 814 What was the given name of Stepin Fetchit, the first Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Politics & Military 815 black actor to become a millionaire? Perry Which rap artist founded Flavor Unit Records and Entertainment Management that Queen Latifah 816 handles rap and new-style groups? 817 Politics & Military Who is known as the “Queen of Soul”? In 1916, what school had the first book wagon service in Business & Education Berea College the South open to Negro families? 818 Born in Louisville, KY, this graduate of Wilberforce University received his law degree from Howard Business & Education University School of Law. He was elected to the Charles W. Anderson, Jr. Kentucky House of Representatives, making him the first African American Kentucky legislator. Name him. 819 Born in Princeton, KY, what Western Kentucky University standout was drafted by the Milwaukee Entertainment Gregory D. Smith Bucks in 1968 and ended his career with the Portland 820 Trail Blazers in 1976? George C. Poage was the first Black American to win an Business & Education 200 and 400 meter hurdles 821 Olympic medal in what two events? 822 Business & Education Who is the NFL’s all-time career rushing leader? Emmitt Smith In 1960 this basketball player was a center that helped his U.S. Olympic team win a Gold Medal. He became an Science & Exploration Oscar Robertson all-star in the NBA with nearly 10,000 assists during his

823 career. Name him. In 1834, Henry Blair received a patent for what kind of Entertainment Corn planter 824 planting device? Who became the first Black American to hold the rank Arts Martin Delany 825 of major during the Civil War? Who was the second black woman to be crowned Miss Politics & Military Suzette Charles 826 America? For what were George Washington and Sabrien Bates Being cowboys who rode with Billy Politics & Military 827 remembered? the Kid

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In 1942 Charlie Parker teamed up with what famous Entertainment Dizzy Gillespie 2 trumpeter? 828 Gooding, Jr., a Bronx native, won the award for Science & Exploration Jerry Maguire 829 Best Supporting Actor in 1996 for what film? Who was the first Black man to appear on the cover of Business & Education Billy Eckstine 830 Life magazine? Historians report that there are about how many Entertainment published slave narratives in book length, newspapers, 6,000 831 or transcribed from interviews? What term referred to the large Black population in the History Black Belt 832 Southern cotton growing states? What baseball great played basketball with Bill Russell History Frank Robinson at McClymonds High School in Oakland, California? 833 During the transatlantic slave trade, the largest numbers Business & Education Brazil, Jamaica, and Haiti of Africans were imported to what three countries? 834 Growing up with a white Jewish mother and an African- Business & Education American father, who wrote Devil in a Blue Dress , A Walter Mosley Red Death , White Butterfly , and Black Betty ? 835 Roscoe Robinson, Jr. served as a Four Star General in Science & Exploration Army 836 what branch of the military? Who became the first African American female Science & Exploration Oprah Winfrey 837 billionaire in 2004?

Entertainment Who wrote The African Origin of Civilization in 1969? Cheikh Anta Diop 838

the African Methodist Episcopal Which two black churches emerged from the Free Church (AME) in 1816 and the St. Arts African Society? Thomas’s African Episcopal Church in 1794 839 Bernard Shaw was the Chief Washington Correspondent Science & Exploration CNN 840 for what major television station? Hampton University in Virginia was originally Hampton Normal and Agricultural Arts Institute 841 established under what name in 1868? Who was the only accredited Black American war Business & Education Ralph Waldo Tyler correspondent in ? 842 Frank Robinson became the first baseball player to Arts receive what award in both the National and American Most Valuable Player 843 Leagues? Eddie Murphy played an African prince in what motion History Coming to America 844 picture? Page 47 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Bernie Bickerstaff served as president and general History Denver Nuggets 845 manager of what NBA team from 1990-1997? Who was the first Black American woman bank 2 Entertainment Maggie Lena Walker 846 president? Who developed the largest research and training center Arts Dr. Samuel L. Koontz 847 for kidney transplants in the country? Arts Who invented the clothes dryer? G.T. Sampson 848 Dubbed by Maya Angelou as "the world's greatest living poet," what controversial writer, college professor, and History political commentator lost his position as 's Amiri Baraka poet laureate after fallout from his controversial 9/11- 849 related poem? Which state was the first in the South to have trained African American librarians and the first to have a Entertainment Kentucky library training program for African American librarians 850 in 1912? What Black American lit the Olympic torch at the 1984 History Rafer Johnson 851 Summer Games? Lewis Temple invented the toggle harpoon used by the Sports Blacksmith 852 whaling industry. What was his occupation? What Black American became General John C. Politics & Military James Beckwourth 853 Freemont’s chief scout in 1848? Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison published what Politics & Military Liberator 854 periodical in 1831? Who provided life-saving heroics to help his group of Politics & Military Matthew Henson 855 explorers reach the North Pole? Prejudice was a major factor of Elijah McCoy’s inability History to find a job as an engineer. What alternate occupation Fireman with the railroad did he eventually choose? 856 Born in Louisville, KY, playing a few games as a walk- on, then withdrawing from the team, who was the first Sports Daryl Bishop African American to play basketball for the University 857 of Kentucky in 1969? Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond was born in Arts Georgetown, British Guiana and penned what book that Tropic Death 858 consists of a collection of ten stories? The flag representing the Black Movement is comprised Politics & Military Red, Black, and Green 859 of what three colors? 860 Politics & Military What Harlem theatre is a showcase for Black talent? The Apollo 861 Sports What was Willie May’s nickname? The Say Hey Kid Born in Princeton, KY, what jazz pianist played with greats such as Woody Herman, Coleman Hawkins and History Bross Elvie Townsend, Jr. John Coltrane as well as for singers such as Diana Ross, 862 Big Maybelle, and Dinah Washington?

Page 48 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who was the first Black American to complete the US Business & Education John Shippen 863 Open tennis tournament? What White abolitionist urged Frederick Douglass to 2 Science & Exploration John Brown 864 join the attack on Harper’s Ferry? During what war did PFC William Thompson receive History Korean War 865 his Congressional Medal of Honor? 866 Business & Education Who invented the door lock? A.W. Johnson

Bobby Bell played what position for the Kansas City Sports Linebacker Chiefs? Add significance 867

Sports What was baseball legend Jackie Robinson’s real name? Jack Roosevelt 868 In what city was Robert Rillieux, inventor and scientist History New Orleans 869 born in 1806? From 1913 to 1915 price reductions of what crop hurt History the Southern farmers and brought on an economic Cotton 870 depression? What famous singer hosts the annual Parade of Stars in Science & Exploration order to raise money for the United Negro College Lou Rawls 871 Fund? In 1990, Jesse Jackson negotiated the release of 300 Arts Iraq 872 hostages held in what country? Who penned the 1982 novel The Women of Brewster Place later made into a 1989 television miniseries Politics & Military Gloria Naylor starring Oprah Winfrey, Jackee Harry, Robin Givens, Lynn Whitfield, Larenz Tate, Moses Gunn, and Leon? 873 During the Reconstruction Era, twenty blacks served in Science & Exploration the House of Representatives, eight of whom were from South Carolina 874 what state. Why did the U.S. Supreme Court rule for a new trial in Because blacks were excluded from Sports 875 the “Scottsboro case”? the jury

Sallie Martin was the “mother of gospel music.” She and the National Convention of Gospel History Thomas A. Dorsey founded what group in 1933? Choirs and Choruses 876 Who was the director of the National Swine Flu Entertainment Delano Meriwether 877 Immunization Program? In 1960, Andrew Hatcher was named Associate Press Politics & Military John F. Kennedy 878 Secretary to what US President? What was the title of W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1946 address Science & Exploration delivered at the closing session of the Southern Youth Behold the Land 879 Legislature? Who was credited with setting up the first blood bank in Politics & Military Dr. Charles Drew 880 England and the United States?

Page 49 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER After serving as city council member from 1972-1983, Arts Arthur T. Johnson who was elected mayor of Earlington, KY, in 1984? 8812 In what year did Lena Horne appear in the movie Stormy Politics & Military 1943 882 Weather? 883 Sports What is the real name of Famous Amos? Wally Amos Prior to Joseph Lee’s bread making invention, how Business & Education many people were needed to produce the same amount Twelve 884 of loaves per day?

In May 1941, the 758th Tank Battalion was the first History World War II African American tank battalion to fight in which war? 885 The word “carpetbagger” was first used during the Arts Civil War 886 aftermath of what war?

What famous Black American writer encouraged Ralph Science & Exploration Ellison’s efforts to become a writer?

887 Who was the first black student to be admitted to the Science & Exploration James Meredith 888 University of Mississippi in 1962? Matthew Henson learned the language and skills of what History Inuit 889 Indian tribe? Who was the principal at Tuskegee Institute who Science & Exploration Booker T. Washington 890 recruited and hired George Washington Carver? In 1982, Michael Jordan hit a jump shot in the closing North Carolina Tarheels (or Sports seconds of the game to give what college team a national University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 891 basketball championship? Who was the first African American player from Arts Kym Hampton 892 Kentucky drafted into the WNBA? What running back surpassed Jim Brown’s rushing Sports Walter Payton 893 record of 12,312 yards? Who was the first Black American to receive a doctorate Entertainment Patrick Healy 894 in Physics from Yale University? What was the name of the first Black American radio History National Negro Network 895 network? 896 Science & Exploration Who invented the electron microscope? John Coleman Who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Science & Exploration 1989 and appointed as Secretary of State in 2001 in Colin Powell 897 President George W. Bush’s first term? Although it was immediately disbanded, this general formed the First Sports General David Hunter South Carolina Volunteer Regiment for blacks in 1862. 898 Name him.

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Who was the founder of the Universal Negro History Marcus Garvey Improvement Association?

902 In 1913 sorority was formed at what Politics & Military Howard University 903 university?

Science & Exploration Who is famous for his research on sickle anemia? Dr. Roland Scott 904 How many teams has Tubby Smith led to the NCAA 3 (the University of Tulsa, the Politics & Military University of Georgia and the 905 Sweet Sixteen? University of Kentucky) What did George Washington Carver use to develop Science & Exploration Sweet potatoes 906 postage stamp glue? Who was the founder of CORE, the Congress of Racial Science & Exploration 907 Equality? 908 Science & Exploration For what team did Jackie Robinson play in 1947? The Brooklyn Dodgers What hit song made Ella Fitzgerald a national celebrity Arts “A Tisket, A Tasket” 909 at the age of 20? Willie Mays ended his professional baseball career in Sports New York Mets 1974 as a member of what team? 910 The oil lubricating cup was invented by what Black Business & Education Elijah McCoy 911 American? What was the first learned society specifically devoted to The Association for the Study of Politics & Military the professional study of black history by Carter G. Negro Life and History 912 Woodson in 1915? Who was the first Black American to win a Pulitzer History Gwendolyn Brooks 913 Prize? In 1992, what prestigious award did Arthur Ashe Arts receive, making him the first person to attain this honor Sportsman of the Year 914 after retiring from a professional sport? What scientist experimented with injections of Vitamin Politics & Military Wendell Belfield C in cats and dogs in order to find a cure for epilepsy? 915 What was the name of the first novel published by Business & Education The House Behind the Cedars 916 Charles W. Chestnut?

Page 51 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What main parade ground in Fort Knox is named in Entertainment honor of Robert Brooks, the first African American to Brooks Field 9172 die in World War II? Who financed and built the “Emancipation Statue” in Entertainment Former Slaves 918 Washington, DC’s Lincoln Park in 1879? In his role in the movie Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, History Surgeon 919 Sidney Poitier practiced what profession? was a keynote speaker at the 2004 Arts Democratic National Convention and later won a U.S. Illinois 920 Senate seat in what state? She was known as the “queen of gospel music.” Her first Politics & Military recording “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold over a Mahalia Jackson million copies in 1945. What was her name? 921

Muhammad Ali was a three-time heavyweight champion Sports of the world and joined the Nation of Islam. In what year 1964 did Muhammad Ali change his name? 922 On January 3, 1964, who did Time Magazine name as History Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 923 the first Black American “Man of the Year”? 924 Arts In what year was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. born? 1929 In 1979, Katherine Dunham received what prestigious Business & Education Albert Schweitzer Music Award 925 award? In what year did the US Supreme Court outlaw Sports 1950 926 segregation of dining cars? What was the name of Charles W. Chestnut’s final History The Quarry 927 novel? In 1951, Charles Cooper became the first Black History American to play NBA basketball. With what team did Boston Celtics 928 he make his debut? For what film did Halle Berry win an Academy Award History Monster’s Ball for Best Actress in 2001? 929

The Stargell Foundation is recognized for what area of Arts Sickle Cell Anemia research?

930 What Black American astronaut died in the 1986 History Dr. Ronald McNair 931 Challenger space shuttle disaster? 932 Arts What was Elijah Muhammad’s given name? Elijah Poole What Jesse Jackson chant was repeated by his supporters Science & Exploration I Am Somebody 933 with a feeling of pride? Who won a Tony Award for his performance in the Entertainment Gregory Hines 934 Broadway musical Jelly’s Last Jam ? Page 52 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who was the first Black American to serve a full term in Science & Exploration Blanche Bruce 935 the US Senate? Who was the first Black American member of a 2 History Robert Weaver 936 presidential cabinet? Whose well known songs include “Ain’t That a Shame, Business & Education Fats Domino 937 “I’m Walkin”, and “Poor Me”? How tall is former professional basketball great Kareem Sports 7 feet, 2 inches Abdul Jabar? 938 Specializing in portraits of black leaders, Harlem Arts Renaissance arts educator Augusta Savage was what Sculptor 939 type of artist? Key provisions of what federal legislation include Equal Employment Opportunity, Public Accommodation, History Desegregation of Public Facilities, Desegregation of Public Education and Voting Rights? 940 In what year, were artists , B.B. King, Sports Smokey Robinson, Jackie Wilson, and Aretha Franklin 1987 included into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? 941

Entertainment By what other name is jazz musician Fitz Jones known? Ahmad Jamal 942 943 Entertainment What year was Malcolm X assassinated? 1964 944 Entertainment Who invented the lawn mower? J.A. Burr Who developed the test used to detect the disease Politics & Military Dr. William Hinton 945 syphilis? 946 Business & Education What was Ira Aldridge’s profession? Actor What did Madam C.J. Walker invent in 1905 that was Entertainment Hair care preparation products 947 sold door-to-door? In 1963, Katherine Dunham became the first Black Entertainment American choreographer to work at what New York Metropolitan Opera House 948 City Theater? Bill Cosby won two in the 1960s for his Entertainment I Spy 949 performance in what TV series? The students waited and left at the end of the day. The next two days In February 1960 four students from Greensboro students from the college and white Agricultural and students from a local women’s college Science & Exploration Technical College in North Carolina sat at a whites-only formed a “sit-in.” Since that lunch counter and asked to be served. The waitress incident many sit-ins were refused. What happened next? organized throughout the South to protest segregated seating at public 950 institutions. What track and field standout was nicknamed “Buckeye Sports Jesse Owens Bullet”? 951 Page 53 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Apollo 16 used an ultraviolet camera designed by what Arts George E. Carruthers 952 Black American? “Bentwa” was a musical instrumental unique to Africa. 2 Sports Musical Bow 953 What kind of instrument was it? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed a rally of about Business & Education 20,000 people in front of the capitol building in what Montgomery, Alabama 954 city in 1965? From 1975 to 1980 this Disco star had eight gold records Sports Donna Summer 955 and two platinum records. Name her. for colored girls made its dramatic debut in 1974 and was written by Ntozake Shange (pronounced En-toe- for colored girls who have Arts considered suicide/when the ZAHK-kay SHONG-gay). What is the full title of this rainbow is enuf 956 essay? Who became Western Kentucky University's first Science & Exploration Clem S. Haskins 957 African American head basketball coach in 1980? Who in 1977 became the first African American architect licensed in Kentucky and by 1980 was the first Sports Carey L. Anderson, Jr. in the state to establish an architectural firm, Anderson 958 Associate Architects? What influential Congressman became Executive Business & Education William H. Gray, III 959 Director of the United Negro College Fund? Who became New York City’s first black mayor on Politics & Military David Dinkins 960 January 1, 1990? Who is the award-winning recording/performing/video Sports artist who recorded the platinum album called The 961 Comfort Zone? After his service in what war was Christian County native Elder Watson Diggs instrumental in having the Science & Exploration World War I Indiana constitution amended to permit Negro 962 enlistment in the Indiana National Guard? In 1870 the third black Methodist denomination was the Colored Methodist Episcopal History founded under what name later changed in 1954 to the Church in America Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in America? 963 What Gloria Gaynor hit won her a platinum record in Entertainment I Will Survive 964 1979? Blanche Bruce went on to become the first black elected Politics & Military The Mississippi Legislature to a full term in the U.S. Senate. Who elected him? 965 What abolitionist became the highest-ranking black of Science & Exploration the Civil War when he was commissioned as a field Major Martin R. Delany 966 officer? Born in 1881, who was the first African American nurse Arts Mary Eliza Merritt 967 licensed in Kentucky? Who was the fourth chairman of the Student Non- Science & Exploration 968 Violent Coordinating Committee?

Page 54 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER How many historically black colleges and universities Sports 105 969 are there today in the United Sates? 2 In 1969, who founded the Dance Theater of Harlem, the Science & Exploration Arthur Mitchell first professional all-black classical ballet company? 970 What American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and Politics & Military composer was the leader of the first Black American William "Count" Basie 971 band to play in ? “Love to Love You” (1975), “I Feel Love” (1977), “Last Dance” (1978), “MacArthur Park” (1978), “Heaven Knows” (1979) with Brooklyn Sports Name at least three songs recorded by Donna Summer. Dreams, “Hot Stuff” (1979), “Bad Girls” (1979), “Dim All the Lights” (1979), “On the Radio” (1980), and “The Wanderer” (1980). 972 What famous narrative was written by Solomon History My Bondage & My Freedom 973 Northrup, a fugitive slave? the Hustle, the Bump, and the Bus Sports Name three dance steps from the Disco era? 974 Stop What religious leader set up “Peace Missions” Arts 975 throughout the country? Paul Cuffe established a lucrative trade partnership with Science & Exploration Sierra Leone 976 what African country? What artist recorded the songs, “I Will Always Love Sports You, ”The Greatest Love of All”, and “I Wanna Dance 977 with Somebody”? Commissioned in 1943, the first group of black naval Sports the “Golden Thirteen” 978 officers were known as what? Black Americans were authorized to enlist in the US Politics & Military 1861 979 Navy in what year?

Sports The book Roots was made into a movie in what year? 1977 980 What was the name of the first hip-hop group to break Business & Education into the mainstream American culture in the early Run-DMC 981 1980s? Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African Politics & Military Patricia Garrison-Corbin 982 American female Sloan Fellow at MIT? James Forma wrote what document that demanded $500 million to be collected from White churches and History The Black Manifesto synagogues for payment of injustices suffered by Black 983 Americans?

Entertainment What famous dermatologist treated leprosy and syphilis? Theodore K. Lawless 984 985 Politics & Military Who invented the three way traffic light? Garrett Morgan What team played against Biddle College in the first Sports Livingstone College 986 Black American game? Page 55 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER G.F. Grant received a patent in 1899 for what sports Science & Exploration Golf tee 987 item? 2 Who was the first baseball player to win the honor of Politics & Military “Most Valuable Player” in both the National and Frank Robinson 988 American baseball leagues? Carol Moseley-Braun was one of six women who was Science & Exploration sworn in to the 103rd Congress on January 3, 1993. Illinois 989 What state did she represent? Angus A. Burleigh was the first adult African American Entertainment Berea College to attend and graduate from what Kentucky college? 990 What is the name of the Grammy award winning gospel Arts a cappella sextet whose hits include Spread Love and Take 6 991 David & Goliath ? Cleopatra was considered a beautiful queen of what Business & Education Egypt 992 country? Bobby “Blue” Bland, Booker T. and the MG’s, The Jimi Hendrix Arts 1992 Experience, and were inducted into 993 the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in what year? Nat Turner was executed on November 11, 1831, for his History participation in a slave revolt. What method of Hanging 994 execution was used? The first work authored by a black female former slave, Arts Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl what was the name of Harriet A. Jacobs' 1861 work? 995 What Black American scientist developed a way of History Dr. Charles Drew 996 separating blood plasma? 997 Entertainment Alice Walker’s Meridian is a novel about what? 998 Entertainment In what year was the Tulsa Race Riot? 1921 a militant spokesman for Black Science & Exploration Who was Martin R. Delaney? 999 liberation What famous Black American founded the National Science & Exploration Jesse Jackson 1000 Rainbow Coalition and Operation PUSH? Established by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army, what Science & Exploration soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Buffalo Soldiers Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army at Fort 1001 Leavenworth, Kansas? What was the nickname given to Harriett Tubman Sports Moses 1002 because of her efforts to free the slaves? Who broke Jerry West’s career NBA basketball playoff Sports Kareem Abdul-Jabar scoring record? 1003 Willie Mays finished his baseball career with how many Science & Exploration 660 1004 home runs?

Page 56 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Born free and later sold into slavery after his father's Sports death, who became the first adult African American to Angus A. Burleigh 10052 graduate from Berea College? 1006 Sports What is the given name of blues great W.C. Handy? William Christopher Handy What famous boxer was born with the name Cassius Sports Muhammad Ali Clay? 1007 In the late 19th century, what Hopkinsville businessman Business & Education Peter Postel (or Postell), Sr. was known as "The Richest Negro in the South?" 1008 1009 Sports In what state was Black nationalist Paul Cuffe born? Massachusetts Pulitzer Prize winning Black American playwright, Politics & Military Frederick August Kittel, Jr. 1010 August Wilson was born with what name? In what year did Congress pass the Missouri Science & Exploration Compromise, involving primarily the regulation of 1820 1011 slavery in the western territories? Who published the first Black American women’s History Josephine Ruffin 1012 newspaper in the US? What was the full name of Hopkinsville native Ted Augustus History 1013 Poston, New York Post reporter/author? Major Poston Who was the first accredited Black American woman Science & Exploration Dr. Ida Gray 1014 dentist in America? On October 26, 1951, Joe Louis was knocked out in his History Rocky Marciano 1015 final professional boxing fight by whom? Who was the first Black American pitcher in the History Leroy "Satchel" Paige 1016 American League? He was born a slave in Philadelphia and purchased his freedom. He became the founder and bishop of the Entertainment Richard Allen African Methodist Episcopal church in 1816. Who was 1017 he? During Paul Robeson’s appearance in Emperor Jones, he Arts Sing was asked to whistle, but he did what instead? 1018 Resigning in 1940, who was the last African American History guide for Mammoth Cave, eight years before the cave Lewis Bransford was turned over to the federal government? 1019 Opal Tandy, journalist and Hopkinsville native, History purchased the newspaper Hoosier Herald and changed Indiana Herald 1020 its name to what? It was a campaign in the South to Arts What was “?” register black people to vote during 1021 the summer of 1964. 1022 Arts What did many associate with the term “Jim Crow”? How many Black Americans received the Congressional Science & Exploration 23 Medal of Honor during the Civil War? 1023 Page 57 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who won a Grammy Award in 1992 for Sports Natalie Cole 1024 “Unforgettable”, a musical tribute to her late father? 2 One of the first two African Americans to practice law Arts in the Louisville courts, who was the first African Nathaniel R. Harper 1025 American judge in Kentucky? Who holds the record for the most touchdowns scored Entertainment Thomas Allen "Timmy" Brown 1026 from kick-off returns? What anti-slavery newspaper was founded by Frederick History The North Star 1027 Douglass? Who was the first Black American to be appointed as a Politics & Military member of the United States delegation to the United Edith Sampson 1028 Nations? This pastor and journalist was the religious editor at the Entertainment Leonard S. Grooms Hopkinsville Globe Journal for six years. Name him. 1029 Who became a major league rookie at the age of 42 in Business & Education Leroy "Satchel" Paige 1030 1948? Who was the first Black American Catholic History A. Marino 1031 Archbishop? Julius Erving began his career with the ABA’s Virginia Squires. He Entertainment Philadelphia 76ers played in the NBA in 1976 until he retired. For what 1032 NBA team did he play? In what year did Joe Frazier lose his boxing title against Sports 1973 1033 George Foreman? What famous march helped influence the Voting Rights Sports March on Selma 1034 Acts passed in August 1965? Before the end of World War I, more than 4,000 black the Women’s Army Corps (or History women had enlisted in the Army to serve in support WAC) roles. They were known collectively as what? 1035 1036 Business & Education Who was Joel E. Spingharn? Former president of the NAACP Who was the first African American woman admitted to Politics & Military Sally J. Seals White 1037 the Kentucky Bar? In 1909 what black explorer accompanied Admiral Politics & Military Matthew Henson 1038 Robert Peary to the North Pole? In what year did the cartoon strip Herb and Jamaal Arts 1989 1039 debut? Prosser was arrested and executed in 1800 for Politics & Military Leading a slave revolt 1040 what reason? In 1981 Jewel Plummer Cobb became the first black California State University at Sports 1041 woman president of what major university? Fullerton

In what four sports did Jackie Robinson win varsity Baseball, basketball, football, and Arts letters, becoming UCLA's first athlete to do so in 1939? track 1042

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2 Business & Education Who wrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin ? 1044 Christian County native Elder Watson Diggs was the Sports first African American graduate from what university's Indiana State University 1045 School of Education? What is the name of Oprah Winfrey’s TV production Politics & Military Harpo Productions 1046 company? In 1897, an organization called the American Negro History Alexander Crummell 1047 Academy started under whose leadership?

What was Leonard Julien’s sugar cane planter invention Science & Exploration The Julien Planter called? 1048 Frank Robinson was voted National League Rookie of Business & Education 1049 the Year while playing for what team? What civil rights leader from Mississippi was slain in Business & Education Medgar Evers 1050 1963? In 1972, Gordon Parks received what prestigious award Sports Springarn Medal 1051 presented by the NAACP? What device used by fire fighters was invented by Sports Breathing Device 1052 Garrett Morgan? Oliver Cromwell was a well-known freedom fighter in Entertainment American Revolution 1053 what war?

What basketball superstar became the first Black History Bill Russell American to manage a major league sports team? 1054 Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Business & Education Germany 1055 Olympics hosted by what country? Blanche K. Bruce was born a slave. He became the first Sports black to be elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate. In 1874 1056 what year was he elected to the Senate? What was the name of the newspaper started by Entertainment 1057 Malcolm X? What nickname did Ozzie Smith earn due to his amazing Science & Exploration The Wizard of Oz acrobatics at shortstop? 1058 Who was the first black president of the prestigious legal History Barack Hussein Obama, II 1059 publication Harvard Law Review ? Who was the first African American woman admitted to Science & Exploration Hortense Houston Young the University of Louisville Law School? 1060

Page 59 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What Attucks High School graduate, founded Kirkwood Arts General Hospital, the last Black hospital to close in Guy Otha Saulsberry 10612 Detroit Michigan? In what two events in the 1936 Olympics did Jesse History 200 meter dash and broad jump Owens set new world records? 1062 What Black American sparked the “Montgomery Bus Science & Exploration 1063 Boycott”? What did George Washington Carver use to develop Sports shaving cream, paper, ink, rubbing oil, synthetic rubber, Peanuts 1064 and instant coffee? Available since 1884, what is the oldest continuously Sports Philadelphia Tribune published newspaper in the United States ? 1065 Established in 1881, what college holds the distinction Sports of being America's oldest historically black college for Spelman College 1066 women? In what year were musical artists Louis Armstrong and Arts Hank Ballard inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of 1990 1067 Fame. 1068 Entertainment Who invented the railway signal? A.B. Blackburn Inspired by the Atlanta child murders of the early 1980s, History what book-length essay was published in The Evidence of Things Not Seen 1069 1985? Creators of bebop known today as modern jazz, Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Gillespie History Parker and Dizzy Gillespie played what musical (trumpet) 1070 instruments?

Blues artist Mamie Smith sold nearly a million copies of Arts Crazy Blues what song in 1920? 1071 Who was the first Black American professional football Arts Fritz Pollard 1072 player? What is the name of Debbie Allen’s sister who appeared Sports Phylicia Rashad 1073 on the Cosby Show? In 1969 this photojournalist became the first black male Science & Exploration and the first black journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize. Who Moneta Sleet, Jr. 1074 was he? What breakthrough medical procedure was performed by Politics & Military Open heart surgery 1075 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams? During the transatlantic slave trade, which two cities had Politics & Military Charleston and New York City the largest slave trade depots? 1076 1077 Arts Who discovered over 300 uses for the peanut? George Washington Carver

Page 60 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Whose career with Kentucky Educational Television (KET) began in 1997 with the launch of the first 2 Sports statewide minority affairs program and continues as Renee Shaw producer of KET's longest running public affairs 1078 program, Comment on Kentucky ? Olympic gold medal winner Oscar Robertson became an History all-star in the NBA with nearly 10,000 assists during his Big O 1079 career. What was his nickname? In the mid-1970s what form of dancing where the dancer Politics & Military flipped and spinned developed from the Disco scene in Breakdancing 1080 the Bronx? was the first black Catholic college. It Business & Education opened in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1915 as a high 1925 school. In what year was the college department added? 1081 In what year were Dinah Washington, Ruth Brown and Sports inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of 1993 1082 Fame? Raised in Detroit's Brewster-Douglas housing project, name two of the founding members of The Supremes, Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Arts Motown Records' most commercially successful act to Diana Ross, and Betty McGlown 1083 date.

Who was the first Black president of the school board in History Benjamin E. Mays Atlanta, Georgia?

1084 Bernice Dickerson, the oldest elected and serving Sports official in Kentucky, won how many city council 11 1085 elections? A slave ship called “Clothilde” (Clōtilda) was the last Arts Alabama 1086 ship to arrive in American. Where did it land?

Originally named Ohio African University, Wilberforce Politics & Military University in Ohio was founded in 1843 by members of the Methodist Episcopal church what church? 1087 Shirley Chisholm was the first black woman to be History elected to Congress. She also campaigned for what President 1088 office in 1972? In what year was Thurgood Marshall, becoming its first Arts 1967 black justice, nominated to the US Supreme Court? 1089 Sparked by the state court acquittal of four police Entertainment officers involved in the Rodney King beating, the Los 1992 1090 Angeles Riot were sparked in what year?

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In 1993, what 13-year old from Sturgis, KY, became the first African American student to win the Kentucky Arts Josh Brown 2 Education Association President's Spelling Bee in Frankfort, KY? 1091 Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker were innovators of Sports Bebop 1092 what type of music in the early 1940s? What was particularly noteworthy about the first shuttle Business & Education flight flown by Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, First space shuttle launch at night 1093 Jr.? In 1841 Frederick Douglass began his career as an Science & Exploration Nantucket abolitionist orator in what town? 1094 Returning to Kentucky after serving in the Union Army Entertainment during the Civil War, Peter Postel, Sr. opened what type Grocery store 1095 of business? 1096 Sports Who invented the gas mask? Garrett Morgan In what year did Black attorney John Swett Rock History 1865 1097 practice before the U.S. Supreme Court? Bill Dillard became the first African American in History Sheriff 1098 Kentucky elected to what office in 1981? Satchel Paige was the first Black American to pitch History Cleveland Indians 1099 major league baseball for what team? A casualty of the Boston Massacre in 1770, what was History the name of the Boston fugitive slave who was called the Crispus Attucks 1100 first martyr of the American Revolution? 1101 Science & Exploration Who won the 1968 Heisman Trophy? O.J. Simpson Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is Sports WC Handy called “Father of the Blues”? 1102

Science & Exploration What Black American cowboy invented bull dogging? Bill Picket 1103 Who was the first Black American female senator to Business & Education Carol E. Mosley Braun 1104 Congress?

Arts Meredith Gourdine invented what automobile device? Exhaust Purification System 1105 For what professional football team did Carl Weathers Politics & Military Oakland Raiders 1106 play? Who wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Sports Frederick Douglass 1107 an American Slave in 1845? 1108 Entertainment The Miami Race Riot happened in what year? 1980 1109 Business & Education For what is Wally Amos famous? Chocolate chip cookies What baseball team did Frank Robinson help win the Arts 1110 World Series in 1966? In 1953, Soloman Harper invented what thermostatically Sports Hair Curlers 1111 controlled device?

Page 62 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Quincy Jones wrote a full length score for what Entertainment In Cold Blood 1112 Hollywood movie? What football star became the first to rush for over 2,000 2 Business & Education O.J. Simpson 1113 yards in a single season? Who was the first Black American woman doctor in the Sports Dr. Donna P. Davis 1114 US Navy? 1115 Entertainment Who wrote the song Maple Leaf Rag? Scott Joplin

History Who founded the publication in 1970? Earl G. Graves, Sr. 1116 What was the name of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s first Entertainment Dexter Avenue Baptist Church 1117 church?

Sports The infamous Watts race riots occurred in what year? 1965 1118 The “old school” rap group Grandmaster Flash and the History 1977 1119 Furious Five was formed in what year? This sports editor of The and associate editor of Ebony magazine won the Wilkie Sports Edward T. Clayton Award in 1947 for revealing illegal taxicab services in 1120 Louisville. Name him. The first African American lawyer for a New Jersey State Farm Insurance firm, Ollen Hinnant was the first Arts University of Kentucky Law School African American inducted into what law school's Hall 1121 of Fame in 1997? What would have been a typical dinner for frontier Science & Exploration Course grained buffalo meat 1122 explorer James Beckwourth? The Cotton Club, The Savoy, and Small’s Paradise were Entertainment major among what type of social venue during the Nightclubs 1123 Harlem Renaissance? Since 1987, who has held the position of director of jazz Business & Education at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York 1124 City? What was the name of Bill Cosby’s first bestselling Politics & Military Fatherhood book? 1125 The black cowboys that came with white landowners Sports Slaves who settled in Texas were usually what class of people? 1126 1127 Business & Education Where is Meharry Medical College located? Nashville, Tennessee W.E.B. Du Bois was the first Black American to receive Politics & Military Harvard University 1128 a Ph.D. from what prestigious university? Zora Neal Hurston became a leading figure in the Black Sports Harlem Renaissance 1129 cultural movement known as what? What famous inventor did Lewis Latimer work with in Science & Exploration the development of the electric light bulb? 1130

Page 63 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER was the first black female aviator in 1921. Because of racism in the United States, she was Sports France 2 refused entry into aeronautics schools. She was trained 1131 and received her pilot’s license in what country? In what year did Alain Leroy Locke become the first Science & Exploration 1940 Black American to be awarded the Rhodes Scholarship? 1132 Where was Ralph Ellison, the famous Black American Sports Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1133 novelist, born? Inducted into the Kentucky Commission on Human Sports Rights Hall of Fame in 2005, Robert Coleman was a U.S. Air Force 1134 veteran of what branch of the U.S. armed services? What role did Jester Hairston play on the TV sitcom Science & Exploration Deacon 1135 Amen?

Who was the author of Black Metropolis written in Arts Horace Clayton 1945? 1136 Who was the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Politics & Military Andrew Young 1137 from 1977 to 1979? This American Major League Baseball player is credited History with being the first African American to play at the Moses Fleetwood Walker 1138 major league level in 1884. Name him. 1139 Business & Education Who was the star of the 1977 movie The Greatest? Muhammad Ali What provision written in 1787 was included in the U.S. Three-fifths of all slaves counted for Entertainment 1140 Constitution? representation Who revolutionized the baking industry with the Business & Education J.W. Reed 1141 invention of the dough roller? Robb Armstrong is the creator of what cartoon strip Science & Exploration which features the trials and tribulations of Joe and Jump Start 1142 Marcy? Nell Carter appeared in the 1980s version of Ain't Sports Misbehavin' whose title song was composed in 1929 by Fats Waller 1143 whom? In 1863 the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment History consisted of free blacks of the North led by what white Colonel Robert Gould Shaw 1144 abolitionist? What is the name of the Pulitzer Prize winning book of History Annie Allen 1145 poetry written by Gwendolyn Brooks? The Twenty-fourth Infantry Science & Exploration What was the largest black unit in the Korean War? 1146 Regiment

Arts What was Malcolm X’s given name? Malcolm Little 1147 Elected to represent Senate District 33 of Jefferson Entertainment County, who was the first African American man elected Gerald A. Neal 1148 to the Kentucky Senate? Page 64 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What black female inventor patented a home security Entertainment Marie Brown 1149 system? In 1972, Cicely Tyson was nominated for Best Actress 2 Entertainment Sounder 1150 for her performance in what film? What constitutional amendment prohibited the Science & Exploration requirement of a poll tax or any other tax for the Twenty-fourth 1151 privilege to vote? What measuring instrument was invented by Frederick Science & Exploration Thermostat 1152 Jones? In 1989, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees included The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, and this Arts Soul Stirrers gospel quartet that once featured Sam Cooke. What is 1153 the name of the gospel group? What recording, performed by Count Basie and sung by Arts Frank Sinatra, was played on the moon by US “Fly Me to the Moon” 1154 Astronauts on July 20, 1969? What track star won four gold medals at the 1984 History 1155 Summer Olympics? At the age of 29, Bernie Bickerstaff became the History youngest assistant coach in NBA history when he joined Washington Bullets what team now known as the Washington Wizards? 1156

What Black American was Associate Director of the Entertainment Samuel Proctor Peace Corps? 1157 What did Pompey Lamb do to help aid the American Business & Education Spy Revolutionary War effort? 1158 In 1901, Garrett Morgan’s first invention was a belt Entertainment fastener for sewing machines which he sold for how $50 1159 much money? Who ruled the “separate but equal” doctrine invalid in Science & Exploration US Supreme Court 1954? 1160 During his boxing career, Joe Louis had many Sports Brown Bomber nicknames, the most famous of which was what? 1161 These black soldiers were trained to become pilots in Science & Exploration World War II. They were mostly assigned to Italy where Tuskegee Airmen they destroyed enemy planes. Who were they? 1162 Who started the first Black American church in Politics & Military Rodney S. Patterson 1163 Vermont? Who was first woman assigned by the US Navy to study History Mary Middleton 1164 underwater acoustics?

Page 65 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER 1165 Science & Exploration Who wrote “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”? Alex Haley Who was the first Black American singer to be admitted Entertainment Marian Anderson 2 to the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York? 1166 What one-time Negro League professional baseball Entertainment player, turned-artist created collages on the lifestyles of Romare Bearden 1167 blacks in the 1960s? Gustavus Vassa was a slave who had written the first Business & Education autobiography. His African name was Olaudah Two 1168 Equiano. How many volumes made up his narrative? This man presented the speech "Atlanta's Exposition Arts Address" at the Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta in Booker T. Washington 1169 1895. Name him. Who founded the National Council of Negro Women in Entertainment Mary McLeod Bethune 1170 1935 after six years of planning?

Why was Muhammad Ali stripped of his heavyweight Because he was convicted of draft Sports title 1967 evasion 1171 Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been a prominent figure Entertainment in jazz since the 1980s. He is the spokesperson for what The Young Lions 1172 group, representing a younger generation of jazz Enacted in 1865 and 1866 and restricting freed slaves Politics & Military from renting or purchasing property, what laws limited Black Codes 1173 the movement of the freed slaves?

Politics & Military In 1865, Fisk University was founded in what city? Nashville, Tennessee 1174 What is the name of the famous Black college in History Washington, D.C. where Dr. Charles Drew taught Howard University 1175 medicine? Originally dubbed Tamla Records in 1959, what highly History successful record company did , Jr. Motown Records 1176 incorporate in 1960? What was Chubby Checker’s longest running hit song on History The Twist 1177 the Top 40 charts? Born in 1900, for how many years did Hopkinsville Entertainment native J. Daniel Massie serve as magistrate of the First 27 1178 Magisterial District in Christian County? Actress Nichelle Nichols is best known for her role in History Star Trek 1179 what television series? What Black American took jazz vocals to a new level Entertainment and was called “The Divine One” because of her range and effortless mastery of the intricacies of music? 1180

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When Ricky Henderson stole his 929th base on May 1, Business & Education Lou Brock 1991, whose record did he break? 2 1181

Who was the first black to perform at the opening of the Arts new Metropolitan Opera House in 1966? 1182 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams performed the world’s first History Chicago’s Provident Hospital open heart surgery at what hospital? 1183 In 1993, Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to their Science & Exploration third straight NBA championship with a victory in the Phoenix Suns 1184 final series over what team? Who was the first Black American musician to perform Politics & Military Joseph Douglass 1185 concert tours? Cornelius Johnson, Melvin Walker, and Derived Sports High Jump Albritton excelled in what track and field event? 1186

Who invented the bread crumbing machine and the Arts Joseph Lee bread-making machine? 1187 1188 Entertainment Who predicted the eclipse on the sun in 1789? Benjamin Banneker P.B.S. Pinchback became the first black governor in Entertainment U.S. history, lieutenant governor and served in the U.S. Louisiana 1189 Senate. What state did he represent? The African Methodist Episcopal Church founded History Edward Waters College in Live Oak, Florida in what 1866 1190 year? In 1864 President Lincoln appointed this general as Arts commander in General Ulysses S. Grant 1191 chief of all Union forces. Who was he? Condoleezza Rice was appointed by President George Arts W. Bush as the first black female Secretary of State in 2005 1192 what year? Peter Salem was a freed slave who fought in many History battles of the Revolutionary War. In June 1775 he shot Battle of Bunker Hill Major John Pitcairn, a British leader, during what battle? 1193 In 1872, what inventor received a patent for an apparatus History T.J. Boyd 1194 for detaching horses for carriages? What was the name of Father Divine’s movement, which History Peace Missions 1195 emphasized social equality? Dr. William Hinton is credited with developing a test to Science & Exploration Syphilis 1196 detect what disease? Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Politics & Military Vanessa Williams 1197 ?

Page 67 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who was the second Black American to manage a major Entertainment Larry Doby 1198 league baseball team? 2 What term describes the turbulent period of time marked Business & Education by twenty-five race riots that began in the summer of Red Summer 1199 1919 and lasted until the end of the year? While in New York, Ulysses Poston created what daily The and The New Science & Exploration 1200 African American newspapers? York Contender How many members of the Bransford family served as Science & Exploration guides at Mammoth Cave before it was turned over the 4 1201 federal government in 1948? Frederick Douglass provided a powerful voice for human rights and fought for the ratification of what Arts Fifteenth Amendment amendment that guaranteed all citizens the right to vote, 1202 regardless of race?

As of July 1, 2007, which state, at 38%, had the highest Science & Exploration Mississippi percentage black population? 1203 He got his break on American Bandstand in the 1960s Entertainment for recording, dancing, and popularizing the twist. Chubby Checker 1204 Name him.

History Who was the first Black American senator in Congress? Hiram Revels 1205 Otis Taylor was a standout player for what football team Politics & Military Kansas City Chiefs 1206 in the late 1930s? This candidate won her first city council race in 1983 at the age of 70. After going on to win 10 re-elections, Science & Exploration Bernice Dickerson who became the oldest elected and serving official in 1207 Kentucky? Founded before the American Revolution on the William Byrd plantation near the Bluestone River in the African Baptist or “Bluestone” Entertainment Mecklenburg, Virginia, the first known Church 1208 was of what origin? What multi-faceted entertainer and 1960s star of Science & Exploration Broadway's Golden Boy began his career on the Sammy Davis, Jr. 1209 vaudeville stage at age three? What state has the most black institutions of higher Science & Exploration Georgia 1210 learning?

The first African American to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Kentucky and the first African American History Georgia State Senate to run for mayor of Atlanta, Horace Tate was elected to what body in 1974? 1211

Page 68 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What famous Black pioneer assisted Barney Ford upon Science & Exploration Clara Brown 1212 his arrival in Colorado? 12132 Science & Exploration What was Duke Ellington’s given name? Edward Kennedy Ellington Philadelphia and Massachusetts cobbler, Jan E. Entertainment Shoe lasting machine Matzeliger invented what? 1214 What college, originally established as August Institute, History was organized by three ministers in the basement of a Morehouse College 1215 Baptist church in 1867? Who retired as Executive Director of the NAACP in Entertainment 1216 1993? Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, History The Isley Brothers 1217 who recorded the song "Twist and Shout"?

In what sporting event did Major Taylor become “the Sports Bicycle racing world’s fastest?” 1218 In what year did “Black History Month” officially History 1976 1219 begin? 1220 Politics & Military Who was known as the “Black Daniel Webster”? Samuel Ward In 1964, Carl T. Rowan was named Director of what US Entertainment Information Agency 1221 agency?

Entertainment What was ’s in 1968? 1.12 1222 1223 Politics & Military For what type of music was Bob Marley famous? Reggae Paul Williams served as co-architect for what major Business & Education Los Angeles 1224 international airport? He played with the Negro League team Black Barons in Birmingham when he was 17 years old. Shortly after, in Business & Education Willie Mays 1950, he signed with the New York Giants. He ranks third in total career home runs. Who is he? 1225 Born in Louisville, KY, who was the first African Science & Exploration American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United St. Elmo Brady 1226 States? For what professional football team did Mercury Morris History Miami Dolphins 1227 play? Basketball star Willie Reed became the coach of what History New York Knicks 1228 team in 1977? What musical instrument does jazz musician Grover Business & Education Saxophone 1229 Washington, Jr. play? The first black female tennis player to win major tournaments in the 1950s, she was inducted into the Politics & Military Althea Gibson International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971. What was 1230 her name?

Page 69 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Director, producer, writer, and actor Spike Lee has Arts released over 35 films since 1983 through his production 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks 12312 company. Name it. What is the significance of Fort Huachuca (Hoo´-a-chu´- It was the headquarters of all Black Science & Exploration regiments including the Buffalo 1232 ka)? Soldiers for 20 years 1233 Sports In what city was Marian Anderson born? Philadelphia Who is responsible for inventing the method of History Meredith Gourdine 1234 converting gas into electricity? In 1955, Arthur Mitchell became the first black man to History dance for a major ballet company in 1955. Name the New York City Ballet 1235 company. Earvin “Magic” Johnson played for what college Science & Exploration Michigan State Spartans 1236 basketball team? 1237 Sports Who invented the oil stove and the refrigerator? J. Standard In 1975, Frank Robinson became the first Black Sports Cleveland Indians American to manage what major league baseball team? 1238 What led to a significant exodus of African American Arts Collapse of the tobacco market residents from Hopkinsville, Kentucky in 1904? 1239 In 1972 Kathleen Battle made her professional debut as Sports Italy an opera singer at the Spoleto Festival in what country? 1240 1241 Entertainment In what city was Louis Armstrong born? New Orleans These two sisters were born in 1980 and 1981, Science & Exploration respectively. They are champions of Wimbledon and Venus and 1242 other major tennis tournaments. Name them. Born a slave in North Carolina, Peter Postel, Sr.'s estate Arts was later valued at $500,000 as owner of a merchant 1841 business in Hopkinsville. In what year was he born? 1243 Which four states were border states during the Civil Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Science & Exploration 1244 War? Missouri Who published The Escape , the first play written by a History William Wells Brown 1245 Black American? What was the name of the famous jazz band Louis History Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band 1246 Armstrong joined in Chicago in 1922?

In what year was Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers Sports 1963 assassinated?

1247 Published in 1982, Alice Walker’s novel The Color Pulitzer Prize and National Book Politics & Military Purple became a monumental bestseller and won what Award 1248 coveted awards? Page 70 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Starting with $1.50 in cash, what college did Mary History Bethune-Cookman College 1249 McLeod Bethune found? In 1999, President Clinton named the first African 2 Politics & Military Steven S. Reed 1250 American U.S. Attorney in Kentucky. Name him. Ratified in 1868, what did the Fourteenth Amendment of Citizenship to all persons born or Sports 1251 the Constitution grant? naturalized in the United States 1252 Science & Exploration Who invented the rotary engine? Andrew Beard “Go Down, Moses” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble Entertainment Spirituals I’ve Seen” are known as what type of songs? 1253 What New York library houses rare collections of Black History The Schomburg Center 1254 culture? 1255 Science & Exploration What was the given name of comedian Redd Foxx? John Elroy Sanford Who was the first Black American admiral in the US Politics & Military Samuel L Gravely, Jr. 1256 Navy? 1257 Science & Exploration Who was “Big Jim” Simpson? A fiddle playing cowboy What Black American invented an inexpensive method Science & Exploration Norbert Rillieux 1258 of refining sugar? Who was the first Black American to become a head History Art Shell 1259 coach for professional football? Slave-born in Lexington, KY, in 1891 who became the Sports first African American to own a winner Dudley Allen 1260 ? In 2005, William E. McAnulty, Jr., became the first Sports Kentucky Supreme Court 1261 African American to serve on what Kentucky court? The Holland Tunnel was designed and constructed by History Joseph L. Parker 1262 what Black American? What writer created the character Jesse B. Semple, the Sports Langston Hughes 1263 quintessential middle-aged man in Harlem?

The modern Pentecost movement originated from the Science & Exploration Azusa Street Revival held in Los Angeles in 1906 under William J. Seymour the leadership of the black Holiness preacher? 1264 In 1787 black Methodists Richard Allen and Absalom the Free African Society of Entertainment Jones established what nondenominational religious Philadelphia 1265 association and mutual aid society? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in what city in Arts Atlanta, Georgia 1266 1929? Whose invention completely changed the way food Sports Frederick McKinley Jones 1267 could be transported? While at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship, in what three Sports sports did Hopkinsville native Raymond Burse basketball, track, and crew 1268 participate?

Beginning in what year did Berea College have the first 1895 is this different than book Business & Education traveling library in the state open to Negro families? wagon 1269

Page 71 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER James W.C. Pennington was a slave narrator born on the Arts eastern shore of Maryland. His story shows the Children 12702 consequences of slavery on whom? In 1954, Mahalia Jackson began a weekly radio Sports CBS program. On what radio network was the show aired? 1271 Who is the author of “The Destruction of Black Politics & Military Chancellor Williams 1272 Civilization”? What is the name of the singer-dancer who performed Science & Exploration the Michael Jackson 1273 “Moonwalk” in the 1980s? Who directed an award-winning documentary about the government's response to and ways in Science & Exploration Spike Lee which the storm's aftermath affected African- 1274 Americans? What all-black situation comedy television show started History as a radio program in the 1920s to 1950s whose actors Amos ‘n’ Andy 1275 were all white? Who was the first Black National League baseball player History Willie Mays 1276 to hit 600 home runs? In 1997 she became the third woman to chair the Science & Exploration Congressional Black Caucus. Who is this Maxine Waters 1277 Congresswoman from California? Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, originally named Ashmun Institute in honor of the first governor of Business & Education a Presbyterian church Liberia, was founded by a pastor of what church in 1278 1854? The ironing board was invented by what Black History Sarah Boone 1279 American woman? What US President ended segregation in the US Armed Arts Harry S. Truman 1280 Forces by issuing an Executive Order? Where did young Dr. Carter G. Woodson learn his Sports In farm fields 1281 ABC’s? Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier fought the first of their Sports New York City boxing bouts in what city? 1282 1283 Arts What Black American invented an exhaust purifier? Rufus Stokes 1284 Arts Who invented the common dust mop? T.W. Steward While playing football for Notre Dame, what nickname Politics & Military Rocket 1285 did Raghib Ramadian Ismail earn? Who was the first female Black American to enter the Arts Susan McKinney 1286 medical profession? Who founded the first major Black American nationalist Arts movement that called for Blacks to move back to Marcus Garvey 1287 Africa?

Page 72 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who was regarded as the “Father of Modern Prize Politics & Military Bill Richmond 1288 Fighting"? 2 Frequently called The Fire Next Time , what was the Science & Exploration name of James Baldwin’s 1963 bestseller, which Down at the Cross 1289 electrified both Black and White Americans? Major Frederick D. Gregory made his first space flight Sports in 1985. In what year did he become the first black space 1989 1290 commander? Who played the role of the Scarecrow in the movie Arts Michael Jackson 1291 version of The Wiz ? James Todd Smith is the given name of what Sports LL Cool J 1292 rapper/actor? Jim Brown began his professional football career with Science & Exploration Cleveland Browns 1293 what team in 1957? Black Indians who lived with the Entertainment Who were John Horse and John Caesar? 1294 Seminole In what 1984 movie did artist Prince have a starring Entertainment Purple Rain 1295 role?

Who developed mathematical formulas to calculate Sports Benjamin Banneker weather and astronomical events?

1296 What movie is based on the events of the life of Navy Politics & Military Men of Honor 1297 master diver Carl M. Brashear? How many black artists were inducted into the Rock and Entertainment 12 1298 Roll Hall of Fame in 1987? Gordon Parks was voted “Photographer of the Year” in Business & Education Life 1960 while working for what popular magazine? 1299 Working alternately as a laundress and a manicurist in her early life, she started pursuing her passion for Politics & Military aviation after hearing about French female pilots in Bessie Coleman World War I. Name this aviatrix who became the first 1300 black person to earn an international flying license. How many slaves were freed at the end of the Civil Business & Education 4 million 1301 War? During the 1960s, what erupted in Philadelphia, History Chicago, and other major cities due to the turbulent Race riots 1302 social and political climate? 1303 Politics & Military Who invented the burglar alarm? Louis Alexander 1304 Sports Who were the founders of the Black Panther Party? Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale Bill Cosby, Will Smith and Kobe Bryant were born in Business & Education “the city of brotherly love.” What is the name of the Philadelphia 1305 city?

Page 73 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Alice Walker advised what movie director during the Entertainment film production of her best selling book, The Color Steven Spielberg 13062 Purple ? Which black town in New Jersey was originally named Science & Exploration Lawnside 1307 Free Haven? Who was the first Black American woman to win an Business & Education Hattie McDaniel 1308 Academy Award? Magic Johnson led the Los Angeles Lakers to how many Sports Five 1309 NBA championships? What process was introduced by Dr. Meredith Sports Conversion of gas into electricity 1310 Gourdine? 1311 Science & Exploration Who patented the envelope seal in 1897? R.W. Leslie What city known for jazz music had great influence on Arts New Orleans 1312 Mahalia Jackson? began studying piano at age seven and Business & Education performed with what orchestra in a young people’s Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1313 concert? What was the name of the enterprise Barney Ford The United States Hotel and Science & Exploration 1314 formed in Nicaragua? Restaurant In 1803 the Lewis and Clark expedition explored the William Clark. He took his slave, Science & Exploration Louisiana Territory. Which of the two brought along his York. 1315 slave? Name the slave.

Science & Exploration The Harlem Globetrotters got their start in what city? Chicago 1316 Born in 1916, who served as the first president of the Entertainment Francis E. Whitney 1317 Hopkinsville civic group Pioneers, Inc.? Rodeos were common around the 1880s and black History cowboys were a part of it. The most famous of the black Deadwood Dick cowboys was Nat Love. He was known as who? 1318 What is the stage name of female rapper and actress History Queen Latifah 1319 Dana Owens? Who invented the technique of using dye to detect liver Business & Education Dr. Carol M. Leevy 1320 disease and evaluate blood? Joshua Johnson made his living in the early 1800s with Politics & Military Portrait painter 1321 what profession? Northern industries experiencing an economic boom Arts during World War I contributed to the Great Migration 1915 1322 beginning in what year? 1323 Entertainment Robert Guillaume starred in what TV series? Benson What Western Kentucky University basketball player Politics & Military and valedictorian of his Princeton, KY high school Dwight Smith graduating class was drafted by the LA Lakers in 1967? 1324

Page 74 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER She helped organize the National Federation of Afro- American Women in 1896 and was known as the “lady Entertainment Margaret Murray Washington 2 principal” of Tuskegee. Who was this wife of Booker T. 1325 Washington? What company was founded in Harlem in 1940 to Sports provide opportunities for black actors, writers and American Negro Theatre 1326 directors as well as technicians? What is the name of the first Black Greek fraternity on a Business & Education college campus? 1327 “Free at last, free at last; thank God almighty, ….” History Complete Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a “… we are free at last.” 1328 Dream” speech. What Kentucky slave freed in 1845 became the first History ordained African American minister in Nashville, Nelson G. Merry 1329 Tennessee? This hip-hop mogul has a , clothing line, beverage and Entertainment movie production companies. He initiated the careers of Russell Simmons LL Cool J 1330 and Will Smith. Who is he? Who was the first elected Black American governor in Sports L. Douglas Wilder 1331 Virginia? 1332 Sports Who invented directional signals for the automobile? Richard Spike What famous Black author said, “Black writers do more Arts than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of James Baldwin 1333 racial oppression”? Born in 1946, Jim Kelly, martial artist and star of the Politics & Military films Enter the Dragon and Black Belt Jones, currently Tennis coach 1334 practices what profession? At age 18, Stephen Bishop was sold to Dr. John Croghan Politics & Military Mammouth Cave 1335 along with what in 1839 ? Born in Geneva, KY, who became the owner of the first Business & Education William Venoid Banks 1336 black radio station in Detroit, in 1964? Who was the first African American deputy sheriff in History William O. Dillard, Sr. 1337 Christian County in 1968? Noted sports editor Edward Clayton was the first editor Arts Jet 1338 of what popular magazine? What type of music with an emphasis on improvisation Politics & Military Jazz began in New Orleans around the 1900s? 1339 What position did Doug Williams play in the 1988 Super Business & Education Quarterback 1340 Bowl? “Boogie Wonderland” was Earth, Wind & Fire’s only Politics & Military Disco song. What was the name of the group of ladies The Emotions 1341 that sang with them on this record?

Page 75 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER The NAACP, National Association for the Advancement Business & Education of Colored People, was organized in what year with 1909 13422 blacks and whites as members? History Who invented the fuel mixture for the Polaris Missile? Booker T. Hoagan 1343 After being denied service at a Louisville, Kentucky, Arts lunch counter, this heavyweight fighter threw his Muhammad Ali 1344 Olympic medal into the river in protest. Name him. Patricia Garrison-Corbin, was the founder, chair, and chief executive officer of what company, which became Science & Exploration P. G. Corbin & Company the first African American female-owned Wall Street 1345 financial services corporation? 1346 Science & Exploration What professional sport did Lee Elder play? Golf What famous Black American was a reporter on the Science & Exploration Ed Bradley 1347 CBS television program 60 Minutes? What was boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson’s real Sports Walker Smith, Jr. 1348 name? “Lifting as we climb” was the slogan of the National Business & Education Association of Colored Women. Name the Mary Eliza Church Terrell 1349 organization's first president. What company produced the 1989 television miniseries Business & Education Harpo Productions 1350 The Women of Brewster Place ? Dr. Louis C. Roudanez founded this first daily black Politics & Military New Orleans Tribune 1351 newspaper in 1864. Name it. Who made the stainless steel sculpture of two wing like History shapes framed by neon lights at the entrance of the Frederick Eversley 1352 Miami International Airport? What brothers returned to Hopkinsville, Kentucky to Business & Education practice pharmacy and medicine after receiving Garland and Phillip Brooks 1353 advanced degrees from Howard University? What New York City neighborhood was known as the History Harlem 1354 “Negro capital of the world”? Chic had five records during the Disco era. Three of Arts them went gold. Name the 1978 record that went Le Freak 1355 platinum. Initially popular with his jazz trio, he shifted to mainstream pop music and achieved international Politics & Military acclaim along with a bit of criticism for that shift and for Nat King Cole playing segregated clubs in the South. Name this popular entertainer whose variety show aired in 1956. 1356 Mary McLeod Bethune was the founder and president of Sports National Council of Negro Women 1357 what national association? According to the Organization of Black Airline Pilots, Entertainment how many of the nation’s 70,000 commercial pilots were 600 or less than 1% 1358 black in 1992?

Page 76 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What was the name of the first publication of jazz History Jelly Roll Blues 1359 arrangements? 2 Born in Hopkinsville, KY, who, in 1972, had held public Politics & Military office longer than any other African American elected J. Daniel S. Massie 1360 official in Kentucky? 1361 Sports Kwanzaa describes what African celebration? Fall Harvest Popular in the 1920s and 1930s, what type of musical Politics & Military groups were the Harmonizing Four and the Dixie Gospel quartets 1362 Hummingbirds? What is the nickname of pianist and singer-songwriter History Fats 1363 Antoine Dominique Domino? A mischievous child, Thurgood Marshall was forced to read the U.S. Constitution as punishment and, by high school, had it memorized. As lawyer for the NAACP, Brown v. Board of Education of Business & Education before his appointment as the first black Supreme Court Topeka justice, he argued and won what case challenging public school segregation? 1364 In 1865 Congress established a relief agency to Science & Exploration administer to the needs of former slaves. What was it Freedmen’s Bureau 1365 called? Henry Louis "Hank" Aaron became the all time home Sports Los Angeles Dodgers run king when he hit his 715th homer against what team? 1366 1367 Politics & Military Who invented the riding saddle for horses? W.D. David The collection of William Alexander Chambers, writer Sports for the Indiana Herald and editor of three African Indiana Historical Society 1368 American weeklies, is housed where? Ronald McNair, Charles Bolden, and Frederick Gregory History Astronaut 1369 pursued what profession? What is the name of the sculpture designed as a tribute Politics & Military to the four Black girls killed during a church bombing in The Crucifixion 1370 Alabama in 1963? Who was the spiritual leader of the Nation of Islam from Politics & Military Elijah Muhammad 1371 1934 to 1975?

Business & Education What basketball star is referred to as “The Mailman”? Karl Malone 1372 1373 Arts Where was George Washington Carver born? Diamond, Missouri What colonial era crop had a significant shortage of Arts workers which demanded a large number of Africans to Tobacco 1375 be imported to the Americas? In 2001, for what film did Denzel Washington become Politics & Military the second African American man to win an Academy Training Day 1376 Award for Best Actor? Character in popular minstrel shows Arts From where did the term “Jim Crow” originate? th 1377 of the 19 Century

Page 77 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Porgy was a black musical play that had its debut in Sidney Poitier, Dorothy Dandridge, 1927. It became a film in 1959 entitled Porgy and Bess Pearl Bailey, Sammy Davis, Jr., History 2 and had an all-star black cast. Name two of the Brock Peters, Diahann Carroll, Ivan 1378 actors/actresses that performed in this film? Dixon, Clarence Muse What do athletes Jimmy Winkfield and Issac Murphy Both won the Kentucky Derby Sports twice in succession 1379 have in common? Baltimore’s newspaper, the Afro-American, was Arts John H. Murphy 1380 founded by what former slave? What is the surname of singers LaToya, Janet, and History Jackson 1381 Michael? Sonny Collins was selected by what professional team in Business & Education Atlanta Falcons 1382 the 2nd round of the 1976 NFL draft? What doctor, a pioneer in blood transfusion, died in Arts 1950 following a car accident when he was turned away Dr. Charles Drew 1383 from a hospital because of his race? The NAACP pressured President Woodrow Wilson’s The Colored Officers’ Training Sports administration to establish what officer’s training school Camp (or COTC) for blacks at Fort Dodge, in Des Moines, Iowa? 1384 Who was referred to as “Black Mary” or “Stagecoach Sports Mary Fields 1385 Mary”? 1386 Politics & Military Name the singer whose nickname is “Little Moses.” Isaac Hayes Located on the Kentucky-Tennessee border, what town History became the first African American community in Freetown, Kentucky 1387 Monroe County, KY, in 1846?

What Saturday Night Live alumnus co-starred with Sports Dan Akroyd Eddie Murphy in the hit motion picture Trading Places? 1388 Who helped to organize the first “Negro Baptist” church Politics & Military Andrew Bryan in the American colonies in Savannah, Georgia? 1389

Entertainment What was significant about the slave ship “Amistad”? It was controlled by slave mutineers 1390 At age 49, she became the first African American school Arts Elaine Farris 1391 superintendent in Kentucky. Name her. Blues vocalist, song writer, and guitarist John Brim also a dry cleaning business and a record Entertainment 1392 owned what businesses in Chicago? store What magazine is called “The Magazine of Today’s History Essence 1393 Black Woman”? What dictator secretly attended one of Marion History Joseph Stalin 1394 Anderson’s performances? Hattie McDaniel was the first black performer to receive Business & Education an Academy Award. She won for Best Supporting Gone With the Wind 1395 Actress for what 1939 film?

Page 78 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Who was the commander in chief of the Confederate Business & Education General Robert E. Lee 1396 Army? At the age of fifteen, Elijah McCoy traveled to what 2 History Scotland 1397 country in order to study engineering? Nominated by Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper at the age of 19, who was the first African Sports James Phillips Holland American from Kentucky to be named to West Point 1398 Military Academy? This writer won a Pulitzer Prize chronicling his seven- Arts generation family from West Africa in the story Roots. Alex Haley 1399 Name him. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Science & Exploration refused to let her perform at Constitution Hall in Marian Anderson 1400 Washington, D.C. in 1939. Who was she? What Chicago abolitionist led a 12 year campaign to Sports abolish the Illinois Black Laws that denied Black John Jones 1401 American the right to vote? Re-elected continuously until 1907, who was the first Politics & Military African American elected to Hopkinsville City Council Edward Glass 1402 beginning in 1885? What county had the first school libraries for Kentucky Politics & Military Negro children in 1892 and the libraries first for Negro Christian County, KY 1403 teachers in 1898? As a member of the Challenger space shuttle team, what Science & Exploration Mission Science Specialist 1404 was Dr. Ronald McNair’s responsibility? Robert S. Abbott supported the great migration to History Northern cities as editor and publisher of what Chicago Defender 1405 periodical? For what sport are Charles Wiltshire and Wendell Scott Science & Exploration Auto Racing 1406 famous? Who wrote From Slavery to Freedom , a comprehensive Science & Exploration Franklin book on the history of Black Americans? 1407 Which baseball player began his career at the age of 19 Entertainment and played in the majors at the same time as his father Ken Griffey, Jr. 1408 who shares his name? Who was the first black female awarded a medical History Rebecca Lee Crumpier 1409 degree? Who was the first African American missionary worker Arts and an organizer of the Olivet Baptist Church, one of the Nancy Green largest African American churches in Chicago? 1410 Who was the first Black American to obtain a patent for History Henry Blair 1411 a dry cleaning process called "dry scouring?" What famed opera singer was known as “The Lady from Arts Marian Anderson 1412 Philadelphia”?

Page 79 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER 1413 Arts Beauford Delaney liked to paint what subjects? Black writers and artists After a trip to Mecca in 1964, this Muslim leader 2 Business & Education changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz. Who Malcolm X 1414 was he? Who was the first African American appointed to the executive board of the Hopkinsville Chamber of Arts Walton N. Smith Commerce and also the first to chair the Area 1415 Development District in Kentucky? In 1916, who was re-elected for the third time as Politics & Military T. H. Moore 1416 Magistrate of the 1st District of Christian County? Playwright August Wilson had two Broadway plays run Joe Turner’s Come and Gone and Arts 1417 at the same time. Name them. 1418 Politics & Military What was the occupation of Laura Wheeler Waring? Painter Who was the first African American woman admitted to Arts Dr. Delores Gordon Alleyne the University of Louisville Medical School? 1419 What term is used to describe the second leg of the Science & Exploration triangular slave trade between , Africa and the The “Middle Passage” 1420 Americas between 1520 and 1860? Known in vaudeville as "The Black Venus," what History Kentucky native created the Cake Walk dance with her Dora Dean 1421 husband Charles? On November 7, 1967, Carl B. Stokes and Richard Science & Exploration Mayor 1422 Hatcher were elected to what office? Strongly influenced by Alice Walker's The Color Purple , what award-winning author created the Politics & Military Walter Mosley enduring character of Easy Rawlins featured in a series 1423 of novels? Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing what History The Nation 1424 Black American magazine? One of the first Black American Arts Born in 1810, who was William Leidesdorff? 1425 millionaires Who was responsible for securing equal rights for Black Business & Education George T. Downing 1426 Troops during the Civil War? James Bland wrote “Oh Dem Golden Slippers” which is Sports The Mummers 1427 the theme song for what group? Fugitive slaves from Kentucky crossed the Ohio River History Become free and arrived into the town of Ripley, Ohio to do what? 1428 In 1983, this minister announced his candidacy for History Jesse Jackson 1429 president of the Democratic Party. Name him. Matthew Henson traveled with what famous explorer Entertainment Robert Peary 1430 during the expedition to the North Pole?

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At Willie Stargell’s request, the 1979 Pittsburgh Pirates 2 Business & Education adopted what song on their way to winning the World “We Are Family” Series?

1431 A. Miles patented what mechanical device used in many Entertainment Elevator 1432 office buildings and skyscrapers? Who was the first black American to be depicted on a Science & Exploration Booker T. Washington 1433 US postage stamp? Who was the first Black American woman to have a full Business & Education Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1434 length novel published? What Kentucky native and martial artist starred in the Science & Exploration James "Jim" Kelly 1435 films Enter the Dragon and Black Belt Jones? Born in 1947, who became the first African American Entertainment William E. McAnulty, Jr. judge to serve on the Louisville District Court in 1978? 1436 Hazel Payne and Janice Johnson sang the platinum Sports record “Boogie Oogie Oogie” in 1978. What is the A Taste of Honey 1437 name of their group? The first wife of W.C. Handy, what Kentucky native died of a brain hemorrhage at New York City's Business & Education Elizabeth P. Handy Knickerbocker Hospital due to a clerk's hour-long delay 1438 in admitting her? These artists helped create the Funk music style were Entertainment inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Sly & the Family Stone 1439 Name the group. What Black American inventor received a patent to the Entertainment A. Miles 1440 elevator in 1887? Who was a reporter for the New York Post and regarded History Ted Poston 1441 as journalism’s “Father of Minorities”? Name the singer of the 1977 hit Don’t Leave Me This Entertainment Thelma Houston Way . 1442

Science & Exploration Who was honored as the pioneer of nonviolent protest? William S. Whipper 1443 Born in Hopkinsville, KY, what pianist and arranger Entertainment formed his own jazz band and recorded the albums Your Todd Washington Rhodes Daddy's Dogin' Around and Blues for the Red Boy? 1444

What platinum song was called the “Black National Science & Exploration Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now Anthem” in 1979? 1445 What Black American woman used the trial and error Entertainment Madam C.J. Walker 1446 method to invent hair care products in 1905?

Page 81 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER 1447 Entertainment What was Dizzy Gillespie’s real name? John Burks Gillespie He was born Cassius Clay but changed his name after he 2 Sports joined the Nation of Islam. Who is this former Olympic Muhammad Ali 1448 Gold Medal prizefighter? What non-performer, founder of Motown was inducted Business & Education into the hall of fame in 1988 with The Drifters and The Berry Gordy, Jr. 1449 Supremes? What attorney argued the case Abbington v Board of Education of Louisville resulting in the Louisville Politics & Military School Board agreeing to cease teacher salary Thurgood Marshall discrimination if Ms. Abbington agreed to drop her 1450 lawsuit? Who is known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Politics & Military Mary Ellen Plesant 1451 Struggle in California?” Born in Florida, who became the first African American Business & Education chief prosecutor in Kentucky when he was elected Ernest A. Jasmin, Sr. 1452 Commonwealth Attorney in 1987? Who was the first Black American member of the Politics & Military David H. Blackwell 1453 National Academy of Sciences? What actor played the role of Bill Cosby’s son Theo on Sports Malcolm-Jamal Warner 1454 The Cosby Show? In what year did Jesse Jackson run for President of the Entertainment 1988 1455 United States? Receiving a doctorate in education in 1960, who was the History first African American to earn a Ph.D. at the University Horace E. Tate 1456 of Kentucky? What was the first Black American female lawyer to Business & Education Violette M. Anderson 1457 practice before the Supreme Court? Influenced by pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines, he was interested in music early on and played piano and sang Business & Education in the church . His first hit was "Straighten Up and Nat King Cole Fly Right", based on one of his father's sermons. Name 1458 him. The Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin recorded how many Entertainment 93 1459 albums? What organization formed in 1914 by Marcus Garvey Universal Negro Improvement and Entertainment Association and African promoted racial pride and self improvement? 1460 Communities League 1461 History Who invented a ticket dispensing machine? Frederick McKinley Jones Who was president of from 1955 to Business & Education 1968? 1462 1463 Business & Education Who is famous as the “Black Apollo of Science”? Ernest Just This trumpet player was also a vocalist and was the first History to use a technique known as scat singing. What was his Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong 1464 name?

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What date is noted as the day when Western Kentucky African Americans learned that slavery had ended and, Entertainment August 8 (or 8th of August) 2 therefore, is a day of celebration for families in communities such as Paducah and Crofton, Kentucky? 1465 Who was the first Black American to preside over a Sports John Roy Lynch 1466 national political convention? Who was the first Black American to graduate from Sports David J. Peck 1467 medical school in 1847? Who played the role of Dwayne Wayne on the TV series Politics & Military Kadeem Hardison 1468 ? What U.S. President appointed Andrew Young Business & Education Jimmy Carter 1469 Ambassador to the United Nations?

What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation It abolished slavery in the rebel History issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863? states but not in the border states 1470 The 1890s was called the “women’s era” in black history because of the rise of the black women’s clubs and to provide social services and History promote racial and gender equality movement. For what reasons were these clubs and for women in their communities 1471 associations formed? This dancer-choreographer founded his own dance company in 1957 and developed Revelations one of the Sports best known, most often seen modern dance 1472 performances. Name him. World War II began in Europe when Politics & Military Poland 1473 invaded what country in September 1939? He became Atlanta’s first and youngest black mayor in Arts Maynard Jackson, Jr. 1974, a position he held for three terms. Name him. 1474 Who portrayed “Ulrica” in the Musket Ball, was named History to the US Delegation to the United Nations, and was Marian Anderson 1475 awarded the Freedom Medal? What was the name of the first published novel written Sports Clotel (or The President's Daughter) 1476 by a Black American, William Wells Brown? Roots, the miniseries, was aired eight nights in 1977 Business & Education with nearly 130 million viewers. Its 1979 sequel was Roots: The Next Generation 1477 named what? On June 12, 1963 what president delivered a nationwide television address that outlined a proposition to Sports President John F. Kennedy Congress that would prohibit segregation in public 1478 facilities and schools? Initiated in 1905 to challenge Booker T. Washington’s leadership and to protest against the and W.E.B. Du Bois and William Business & Education disenfranchisement of black voters, the Niagara Monroe Trotter Movement was organized in Canada by what black 1479 middle-class intellectuals? Page 83 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER In what year did Maggie Lena Walker become the first Arts 1903 1480 Black American woman bank president? Who coined Muhammad Ali’s slogan, “Float like a 2 Sports Drew “Bundini” Brown 1481 butterfly, like a bee”? Who became the first Black woman to win the Entertainment Althea Gibson 1482 prestigious Wimbledon singles title? Carl Lewis won how many gold medals in the 1984 History Four 1483 Summer Olympics? 1484 Sports Who was the first Black mayor of a major US city? Carl B. Stokes In 1988, Debi Thomas became the first Black American Entertainment to win a medal in the Winter Olympic Games. In what Figure Skating 1485 event did she win her medal? Pamela R. Goodwine served as Circuit Court Judge Politics & Military Fayette County 1486 beginning in 1999 in what Kentucky county? In 2002, Eddie Jordan, Jr. became the first African Science & Exploration American elected to what position in New Orleans, District Attorney 1487 Louisiana? Doris Miller responded quickly during what attack, Arts Attack on Pearl Harbor making him the first American hero of World War II? 1488 This slave narrator was also an antislavery lecturer, Sports novelist, dramatist William Wells Brown 1489 and historian. Name him. In 1967, who became the first African American Lt. Col. (Ret.) Thomas Lee Politics & Military Kentucky graduate from the United States Air Force Cunningham 1490 Academy? What orator delivered a powerful anti-slavery speech in Politics & Military Sojourner Truth 1851 at a convention on women’s rights in Akron, Ohio? 1491 Published in 1771, what book brought Phillis Wheatley Poems on Various Subjects, Arts 1492 wide acclaim? Religious and Moral What is the given name of Rev. Ike, the first black Frederick Eikerenkoetter (I´keren- History 1493 minister with a television show? cotter) Who was the United States ambassador to Sweden from History Jerome Holland 1494 1970 to 1972? Who was the first Black American to win the History Oliver Lewis 1495 Kentucky Derby? Lewis Latimer was known as a pioneer in the Sports Electric light bulb 1496 development of what device? In what year was Robert Weaver sworn in as Secretary Sports 1966 1497 of Housing and Urban Development? What was the name of Paul Cuffe’s ship, which made an Arts Traveler 1498 expedition to Africa? Scott Joplin played his ragtime music on what Business & Education Piano 1499 instrument?

Page 84 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER By 2002, revenues for black-owned businesses rose to Sports what amount, accounting for 5% of all nonfarm $88.6 billion 15002 businesses in the United States? How many of the original five Harlem Globetrotters Entertainment 0 1501 were from Harlem? In what year did Thurgood Marshall retire from the US History 1991 1502 Supreme Court? People who rode segregated buses History Who were the “”? 1503 and trains Who was the first Black American to compete in the Entertainment George C. Poage 1504 Olympics? Who convinced doctors to use blood plasma for Science & Exploration Dr. Charles Drew 1505 transfusions? What organization helps fund over forty Black American Arts United Negro College Fund 1506 colleges? Who trained in France and received her pilot’s license in History Bessie Coleman 1921, making her the first Black woman to fly a plane? 1507 What is the name of the colorful fabric worn by African Politics & Military Kenta Cloth 1508 royalty?

Jim Brown rushed for 12,312 yards during his nine-year Arts Cleveland Browns career with what team? 1509 In what year did A. Philip Randolph organize the union, Arts 1925 1510 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters? In 1955 who became the first African American Politics & Military Ollen B. Hinnant, II graduate of the University of Kentucky Law School? 1511

What is the music-related nickname of Detroit, Politics & Military Motown Michigan? 1512

The North Star was a weekly newspaper founded by Entertainment Frederick Douglass which abolitionist in 1847? 1513

Sports Who was the first Black network television anchor? Max Robinson

1514 Born in Paducah, KY, who was the first African History American to receive a regular commission in the U.S. John E. Rudder 1515 Marine Corps in 1948?

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Politics & Military What Black American woman invented fungicide? Dorothy McClendon 2 1516 What war led Colin Powell to conclude that an army Science & Exploration should not enter into combat unless it had a clear Vietnam 1517 objective? In what city was the first National Negro Convention Science & Exploration Philadelphia 1518 held? In 1938, who was the first gospel singer to record for a Arts 1519 major record label, Decca Records? The United Negro College Fund was established in 1944 Historically black colleges and History to provide financial support to students who are enrolled universities (or HBCUs) 1520 in what educational institutions? How many of the 15 jockeys participating in the first Politics & Military 14 Kentucky Derby in 1875 were black? 1521 What was Earl Monroe’s nickname during his basketball Politics & Military The Pearl 1522 career?

What famous football star danced with a Fort Worth Science & Exploration Herschel Walker ballet company?

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Known as “Dusty Demon”, he became the first Black Sports American cowboy admitted to the National Rodeo Hall Bill Pickett of Fame in Oklahoma City. Who is he? 1524

Politics & Military Prince Hall was the first Grand Master of what group? Black Masons 1525 Who was the founder of the National Democratic Party Business & Education John L Cashin, Jr. in Alabama? 1526 What city is known as the “jazz capital of the Science & Exploration Kansas City, Missouri 1527 Southwest?”

National Association for the History What does the acronym NAACP stand for? Advancement of Colored People 1528 Coleman Young and Thomas Bradley were elected Young – Detroit (Michigan). Politics & Military 1529 mayors of which cities in 1973? Bradley – Los Angeles (California)

Cartoonist Morrie Turner created what world famous Sports Wee Pals syndicated comic strip? 1530 Page 86 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER

Who appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Politics & Military Lyndon B. Johnson Court? 2 1532 For how many terms was T. H. Moore elected to serve Science & Exploration as magistrate of the First Magisterial District in 3

1533 Christian County? In what year did the US Postal Service issue a Jackie Science & Exploration 1982 1534 Robinson commemorative postage stamp?

Who was the first Black American master of ceremonies Science & Exploration Nipsey Russell of a nationally televised show? 1535 The Best Supporting Actress award for this 1990 thriller/fantasy film went to a comedienne who had a Entertainment Whoopi Goldberg one-woman show on Broadway in the mid-1980s. Who 1536 is she? In 1978 Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford, Jr. became the first black astronaut in space. On August 30, Politics & Military Challenger 1983 he and his crew members launched into space on 1537 what space shuttle? At the 1960 Olympics in , this sprinter was the History first American woman to win three Gold Medals. Who Wilma Rudolph 1538 was she? Of what profession were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Entertainment Hurston, and Countee Cullen, major contributors to the Writers 1539 Harlem Renaissance? Sang by Diahann Carroll, this song was made popular in Arts “Summertime” the film version of Porgy and Bess . Name it. 1540

History Where was Marcus Garvey born? Jamaica

1541 What famous female vocalist toured with “The Count Arts Billie Holiday 1542 Basie Orchestra”?

How many times did Joe Louis defend his heavyweight History 26 boxing title? 1543 Shortly after becoming the first woman prosecutor in Entertainment 1964, what former civil rights activist's August 1965 Alberta Odell Jones 1544 murder case remains unsolved? What mechanical engineer had over 50 patents, the most Politics & Military well-known his inventions included the ironing table and Elijah McCoy 1545 the lubricating cup?

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Business & Education Who invented the pencil sharpener? J.L. Love 2 1546 In the agricultural field some former slaves were A tenant farmer would give his Sports share of crops raised to the landlord 1547 sharecroppers. What was meant by this term? as rent

What producer/songwriter originated the New Jack History Teddy Riley Swing? 1548

Rhodes Scholar and Hopkinsville native Raymond Burse Sports attended what law school graduating in 1978? 1549 Born in Christian County, KY, in 1944, who later became executive producer for the film, The Eye Can Arts Story , a 30-minute documentary created to promote the Shirley A. Bacon Nwangwa self-esteem of teenagers and to deter early sexual 1550 involvement? Phillis Wheatley came to the US from west Africa at age Arts seven or eight. How long did it take her to learn the 16 months 1551 English language? Who was the first Black American to attend the US Sports Henry Conyers 1552 Naval Academy? What was the name of the first successful TV variety Arts Nat King Cole Show 1553 show starring a Black American?

Who invented a patent for his invention of a mass Sports Wilson Hull release mechanism for satellites? 1554 In May 1954, the United States Supreme Court issued a Brown vs. Board of Education of Entertainment 1555 monumental decision in what famous case? Topeka He was a Baptist minister and civil rights advocate of Politics & Military the 1950s and 1960s. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1556 Prize in 1964. Who was he? In 1959, who became the first black to receive an Emmy Sports Harry Belafonte 1557 award? What Black American engineer built the Tidal Basin History Archie Alexander Bridge? 1558 Who was the first Black American to receive the Sports William Carney 1559 Congressional Medal of Honor?

Dwight Smith and Clem Haskins became the first two Western Kentucky University Entertainment African American basketball players at what university? (WKU) 1560

Page 88 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER This multifaceted author started her career as an entertainer. She is also a poet who delivered her poem History Maya Angelou 2 “On the Pulse of Morning” at President Bill Clinton’s 1561 inauguration in 1993. What is her name? Granville T. Woods was best remembered for what type Politics & Military Electro-mechanical devices 1562 of inventions? In 1960, what did four Black American students do at a Science & Exploration Staged a sit-in whites-only lunch counter to protest discrimination? 1563 This historian founded many journals, among them was Entertainment Carter G. Woodson 1564 the Journal of Negro History in 1916. What slogan called for recognition of the cultural History Black is Beautiful 1565 achievements of Black Americans? Who was the first Black American painter to win Entertainment Robert Scott Duncanson 1566 national recognition? What great Black American educator influenced Marcus Science & Exploration Booker T. Washington 1567 Garvey’s commitment to self improvement? After retiring from professional tennis, Althea Gibson Business & Education Golf launched what new professional sports career? 1568

Science & Exploration Jackie Robinson played for what Negro League team? Kansas City Monarchs

1569 1570 Science & Exploration Who patented corrosion resistant alloy steels? James Parsons Who wrote the play All God’s Chillun Got Wings History Eugene O’Neill 1571 starring Paul Robeson? Who wrote Clotel , or The President’s Daughter , the Science & Exploration William Wells Brown first published novel by a Black American in 1833? 1572 In 1968, Arthur Ashe became the first Black American History U.S. Open 1573 to win what major tennis tournament? What did Paul Cuffe want to establish for Black Arts a homeland in Africa 1574 Americans in the early 1800s? In 1961 groups of black and white volunteers traveled together on bus trips in the South to test desegregation of History Freedom Riders buses and restaurants. By what name was this group 1575 known? In 1888, this great-uncle of writer Langston Hughes History became the first Black American elected to Congress John Mercer Langston 1576 from Virginia. Name him. Who was the first former Black Panther Party member Business & Education elected to Congress representing Illinois’s 1st Bobby Rush 1577 Congressional District?

Page 89 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER In the early nineteenth century many slaves were converted to Christianity during this national religious Science & Exploration the Second Great Awakening 2 revival during 1790-1830 that occurred throughout the 1578 plantations of the South. Currently the pastor of a large congregation in Raleigh, North Carolina, this well-known female singer worked Business & Education Shirley Caesar with the gospel group The Caravans established by 1579 Albertina Walker. Name her. Birthplace of Billie Holiday, Pennsylvania Avenue History became the center of black life through the 1930s in Baltimore 1580 what city? This graduate of Howard University Medical School was Politics & Military the first African American woman to pass the medical Artishia Garcia boards and become a doctor in Kentucky. Name her. 1581

History In what year did G.T. Sampson invent the clothes dryer? 1892 1582 What female track star has held world records in the 100 Sports Florence “FloJo” Griffith-Joyner 1583 meter and 200 meter dash since 1988? What former all-star first baseman became the highest Science & Exploration ranking Black baseball executive in 1989 as president of Bill White the National League? 1584 What invention made James Forten one of the wealthiest Business & Education Sail controls for ships 1585 men in America? In 1978, Ronald McNair was accepted by NASA for its National Aeronautics and Space Sports astronaut candidate program. What is NASA’s full Administration name? 1586 Who was President of the United Negro College Fund Business & Education and Chief Executive Officer of the National Urban , Jr. 1587 League? In the 1950s, Joe Williams's vocals were featured on Entertainment Count Basie Orchestra 1588 what band's albums such as One O'Clock Jump ? Many rural black Kentuckians came to what city in History Kentucky after the Civil War to escape white vigilante Louisville 1589 groups? This athlete was a running back for the Chicago Bears. Entertainment He ran 1,852 yards to help the team reach the playoffs Walter Payton for the first time in 14 years. What was his name? 1590 Created by Rodney J. Reynolds in 1994, this magazine History American Legacy 1591 that focuses on black history and culture.

Page 90 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER He was the first black to serve as chairman of the Democratic National Committee in 1989. He was also Politics & Military Ronald Brown 2 the first black U.S. secretary of commerce. What was 1592 his name? 1593 History What is James Beckwourth recognized as? Frontiersman University of Kentucky football standout, Sonny Collins Science & Exploration 1 played how many seasons of professional football? 1594 What was the name of the group that sang the platinum Science & Exploration Heatwave 1595 record “Boogie Nights” in 1977? Gerald Neal, the first African American man elected to Science & Exploration 1990 the Kentucky Senate was first elected in what year? 1596 Raising $150,000 over seven years, this choir from Nashville traveled around the world singing spirituals the Fisk Jubilee Singers (from Fisk Science & Exploration and work songs to raise money for their college. What University) 1597 was the name of the choir? In 1917 A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen founded Entertainment The Messenger 1598 a radical monthly magazine called what? What indentured servant testified at a trial of a white Entertainment man in 1624 after proving was a free man because he John Phillip 1599 was baptized in England in 1612? What music is regarded by many as a form of street Politics & Military Rap 1600 poetry? 1601 Entertainment Who was known as the “Black Edison”? Granville T. Woods In 1884, the “Medico-Chirurgical Society” was formed. Sports a Black medical association 1602 What kind of association is this? In the 1930s and early 1940s many female gospel groups Arts were founded. Which group started as a male gospel The Roberta Martin Singers ensemble but added female voices in the 1940s? 1603 What Black American player broke Ty Cobb’s stolen History Lou Brock 1604 bases record with 893 steals? What was the only African American military women's Science & Exploration the 6888th Postal Unit 1605 unit to go overseas during World War II? In 1989 he became head coach at the University of Politics & Military Tennessee, the first African American head coach in the Allan W. Houston, Sr. 1606 Southeastern Conference. Name him. The television production of The Autobiography of Miss Sports Jane Pittman starred what actress who traced her family Cicely Tyson history from slavery to the Civil Rights era? 1607 Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1934, what poet and Science & Exploration Amiri Baraka 1608 playwright is nicknamed LeRoi Jones?

Page 91 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now , a by Gene Sports McFadden & John Whitehead was known as what in the Black National Anthem 16092 1979? In 1912, W.C. Handy, father of the blues, published History what song, one of the first to be published on sheet Memphis Blues 1610 music? Who composed Duke Ellington's orchestra’s theme Science & Exploration Billy Strayhorn 1611 song, “Take the A Train” in 1941? In 1988 Black American author was History Beloved awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for what novel? 1612 What Black American female comic was known as Science & Exploration Jackie Mabley 1613 “Moms”? Between 1972 and 1980 blacks won how many Olympic Sports more than 75 1614 medals in track and field events? How old was Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was Politics & Military 39 1615 assassinated? What Black American inventor received a patent for the Business & Education Clarence Nokes 1616 lawn mower and Venetian blind restringer? What was the significance of Granville T. Woods Arts It carried voices longer distances 1617 “telephone transmitter,” which he invented in 1884?

History From what college did Martin Luther King, Jr. graduate? Morehouse College 1618 George Washington commended what Black American Entertainment Phillis Wheatley 1619 woman for her literary achievements? In 1947 who was the first black to join the major leagues Politics & Military Jackie Robinson since Moses Fleetwood Walker played in 1885? 1620 was a trumpeter of cool jazz, modal jazz, Business & Education and jazz rock. He served as a bandleader for how many 2 1621 classic quintets in his career? What was the name of the first all Black Medical Science & Exploration Meharry Medical College 1622 school? What happened to Denmark Vessey after he was Sports convicted of raising an insurrection against slave He was hanged 1623 owners? Willis Reed became the general manager of what Science & Exploration New Jersey Nets 1624 professional basketball team? Who starred in the blockbuster movie Beverly Hills Science & Exploration Eddie Murphy 1625 Cop? Upon completing his education at Howard University, Phillip C. Brooks returned to Hopkinsville, Kentucky, History Brooks Memorial Hospital where he owned and operated what medical facility 1626 beginning in 1944?

Page 92 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Richard Allen was the first bishop of what is now the African Methodist Episcopal Entertainment oldest Black established church in the United States. Church 16272 What is the name of the church? Howard Rollins received an Oscar nomination for what Science & Exploration Ragtime 1628 movie? How many months would a slave ship usually stay on Arts the African coast to wait for available Africans, food Four to six months supplies, and the health of the Africans and crew? 1629 For what team was Willie Mays playing when his Politics & Military New York Giants 1630 famous over-the-shoulder catch occurred? Freedom's Journal , the first black newspaper published John B. Russwurm and Samuel E. Arts in America, was founded in 1827 in New York City by Cornish 1631 whom? An autobiographical account Politics & Military What is a slave narrative? 1632 dictated or written by former slaves Who served on the board of directors of the NAACP for Politics & Military Carl J. Murphy 1634 36 years? 1635 Sports With whom did the term “Black Power” originate? Richard Wright In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is a two- Arts time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which Toni Morrison became a motion picture, and in 1993 for Jazz . Name 1636 her. Sugar Ray Robinson ended his 200 professional bout Entertainment boxing career with a total of how many wins and 175 wins, 110 KOs 1637 knockouts? Who built San Francisco’s first hotel and opened History William Leidesdorff 1638 California’s first public school? Who did Muhammad Ali defeat on February 25, 1964 to Arts Sonny Liston 1639 win the heavyweight title? Who holds the record for most points scored in a single Entertainment 1640 basketball game (100)? During the Rome Olympics in 1960, Wilma Rudolph Entertainment became the fastest woman on earth. What was she Tennessee Tornado 1641 called? In 1996 Jesse Jackson, Jr. became a U.S. representative History Illinois 1642 from what state? What was the first southern city to integrate all of their Business & Education San Antonio, Texas 1643 public facilities? This former slave received a degree in Theology. He was also appointed chaplain to the all-black Twenty-fourth Sports Allen Allensworth Infantry by President Grover Cleveland in 1886. Who 1644 was he?

Page 93 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Scott Joplin, a pianist and composer in the 1890s, was Arts “King of ragtime” known as the “king of" what? 1645 2 The cash register was invented by what Black History F.A. Hilyer 1646 American? Despite only playing three seasons, who holds the UK career record for most pass interceptions (14), most History Daryl Bishop return yardage (376), and making more tackles (348)

1647 than any defensive back in UK history? In 1624 what was the first black child born in English Business & Education William Tucker 1648 America named? Josh Brown correctly spelled what word in 1993 to Science & Exploration become the first African American to win the Kentucky jodhpurs Education Association President's Spelling Bee? 1649 Who was the first Black American teenager to win the Politics & Military Zina Garrison 1650 Junior Girls Singles Title at Wimbledon? By 1993, Michael Jordan won how many straight NBA Sports Seven scoring crowns? 1651 A 50 cent coin was introduced in 1946 that honored Business & Education Booker T. Washington 1652 what famous Black American? The historic “March on Washington” occurred in what Entertainment 1963 1653 year? For what professional team did Ed “Too Tall” Jones play Sports Dallas Cowboys football? 1654 1655 Business & Education What is Little Richard’s given name? Richard Pennington Ratified in 1870, what Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the federal government and states Sports the Fifteenth Amendment from using a citizen's race, color, or previous status as a 1656 slave as a qualification for voting? In 1984, who negotiated the release of Lieutenant Robert History Jesse Jackson 1657 Goodman, a prisoner held captive in Syria? Who was the first Black American to die in the Arts Crispus Attucks 1658 Revolutionary War? Who was the first Black American to graduate from Science & Exploration John Russwurm 1659 college? Matthew Henson was with the first expedition to reach History North Pole 1660 what destination? Dorie Miller, a mess man with the Navy, manned a machine gun without experience and shot down four History the Navy Cross enemy aircrafts during the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942, he was awarded what honor for this heroic action? 1661

Page 94 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What famous Black American woman dedicated her life Business & Education to finding her lost family, which had been separated by Clara Brown 16622 slave owners? Who was the first Black American to pilot a space Science & Exploration Major Frederick D. Gregory 1663 shuttle mission?

Entertainment Who signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863? President Abraham Lincoln 1664 Who was responsible for performing the technique of History Dr. Charles Drew 1665 preserving for blood banks? Who was the first Black American to become captain of Sports Hugh Mulzac 1666 an American merchant marine ship?

When did Jackie Robinson break the color barrier by his Science & Exploration 1947 entrance into baseball’s National League? 1667 How many blacks served in the U.S. Congress during the Politics & Military Sixteen 1668 Reconstruction era? 1669 Arts How did Barney Ford make his fortune? As a hotel and restaurant owner What did Lewis Howard Latimer and Hiram S. Maxim Politics & Military Incandescent Electric Light 1670 invent? The first African American to die in World War II, Science & Exploration Robert H. Brooks passed for white when joining what National Guard 1671 reserve military force? Art Shell became the second Black football coach of History Los Angeles Raiders 1672 what team? 1673 Sports Eartha Kitt played what role in the Batman series? Cat Woman Shirley Ann Jackson was the first Black American to Politics & Military Physics 1674 earn a PhD from M.I.T. in what subject? What Broadway show became the longest running one- Entertainment The Lady and Her Music 1675 person show in the history of Broadway? Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, Science & Exploration Sam Cooke who recorded the number one 1957 hit "You Send Me"? 1676 Jackie Joyner-Kersee was awarded a basketball University of California at Los Science & Exploration 1677 scholarship to what university? Angeles (UCLA) Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name History (bell hooks); graduated from what high school in Attucks High School 1678 Hopkinsville, Kentucky? In what year did Macon B. Allen become the first Black History 1845 1679 American lawyer?

Science & Exploration What is Clerow Wilson, Jr.’s stage name? Flip Wilson 1680 What was the first record company to market rap music Sports Sugar Hill Records 1681 to the national audience?

Page 95 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What is the name of the newsletter which was originally Politics & Military edited by W.E.B. Du Bois and published by the NAACP 16822 in 1910? Who was the National League’s first Black American History Don Newcombe 1683 pitcher? What Ted Poston work was published after his death in Business & Education The Dark Side of Hopkinsville 1684 1974? Transferred to the 758th Tank Battalion after an incident in which he refused to move to the back of a civilian Sports bus, he was one of the more notable members of the first Jackie Robinson United States Army armored unit to be made up of African American soldiers. Name him. 1685 In 1969 James Evers was elected the first black mayor of Science & Exploration a Mississippi town since Reconstruction. Name the Fayette, Mississippi 1686 town. The men’s basketball team won a Gold Medal at the Arts 1992 Olympics in the “Dream Team” 1687 Barcelona, Spain. The team was known as what? Hopkinsville native, Raymond Burse earned what Sports scholarship and attended the , Rhodes Scholarship majoring in organic chemistry and graduating in 1975? 1688 Formerly the Virginia Theatre, what became the first History Broadway theater to bear the name of an African the 1689 American in 2005? In 1961 who became the first Black American to win the Sports Ernie Davis 1690 Heisman Trophy? In what year did Emmit Ashford become the first Black Sports 1966 American to umpire a major league baseball game? 1691 In 1976, Barbara Jordan gave a rousing keynote address Politics & Military at the Democratic National Convention for what US Jimmy Carter 1692 presidential candidate? What Black American was called in to assist a rescue Sports effort for six workers trapped by a gas explosion using Garrett Morgan 1693 his patented smoke mask? What was the significance of the 1944 US Supreme It banned the “white primary” which Science & Exploration prevented Blacks in the south from 1694 Court ruling in Smith v. Allwright? voting 1695 Sports What professional boxer is named “The Hit Man”? Thomas Hearns Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. was the first black general of Arts the U.S. Army 1696 which branch of the U.S. Armed Forces? What was the name of the flamboyant pilot known as Science & Exploration Hubert Julian 1697 Black Eagle? 1698 History What was Madame C.J. Walker’s real name? Sara Breedlove Walker Page 96 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER What famous sports figure received a patent on an Science & Exploration Jack Johnson 1699 improved monkey wrench? 2 What Black American served three times as a Head Sports Linesman in a , positions reserved for the Leo Miles 1700 highest-rated NFL officials? He is an essayist, public speaker, Sports Who is ? social activist, author, and 1701 professor. What author of My American Journey commanded the Entertainment 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division stationed at Colin Powell 1702 Ft. Campbell, KY in 1976? Created by John H. Johnson in 1943, what publication Entertainment similar in form to Reader’s Digest was later replaced by Negro Digest 1703 Black World?

Entertainment Who was the first Black American municipal judge? M.W. Gibbs 1704 What was the nickname of jazz saxophonist Coleman Politics & Military Bean 1705 Hawkins? What was the name of Eddie Murphy first movie which Arts grossed over 100 million dollars and propelled him into 48 hours 1706 movie stardom? Moneta Sleet, Jr., became the first African American to a photo of Coretta Scott King and History her daughter, Bernice, at Dr. Martin win a Pulitzer Prize in photography for what picture? 1707 Luther King, Jr.'s funeral Arthur Ashe remains the only Black American to gain Being ranked number 1 in men’s Science & Exploration 1708 recognition for what accomplishment? tennis What profession was held by Garrett Morgan and Lloyd Arts Inventor 1709 Hall? Who was the first Black American to obtain a Ph.D. in Business & Education Edward Bouchet 1710 Physics? In what year did Doug Williams became the first Black Sports 1988 1711 player to quarterback a Super Bowl victory? Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, this civil rights activist was the first African American president of the Paducah History Robert Alfonzo Coleman Local of the National Association of Letter Carriers and Mayor Pro Tem for 6 years. Name him. 1712 Milt Campbell became the first Black American to win Arts 1936 the decathlon during what year of the Olympic games? 1713 Charles Donaldson designed the sequence controller that History Apollo was used for the landing system of what spacecraft? 1714

Page 97 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER About what percentage of transatlantic slaves were Africans from the Gold Coast and West Central Africa, History about 50% 2 including modern-day Ghana, Angola, Congo, and 1715 ? A West Point graduate and 25-year veteran of the U.S. History Army, who became the first African American general Larry Jordan 1716 post commander at Fort Knox in 1993?

Science & Exploration Who was recognized as the “First Lady of Civil Rights”? Fannie Lou Hamer 1717 The popular sitcom Amos 'n' Andy originally aired as a Arts Sam 'n' Henry 1718 radio program with what name? Who led the NFL in rushing in eight of his nine seasons Entertainment Jim Brown (for a total of 12,312 yards) and scored 126 touchdowns? 1719 This minister’s given name is Frederick Eikerenkoetter (I´keren-cotter). He established the United Christian Business & Education Evangelistic Association in 1962 and was the first black Rev. Ike minister with a television show. What is the name he is 1720 known by? What Black leader promoted a nationalist movement Science & Exploration Marcus Garvey 1721 similar in concept to Paul Cuffe’s? In 1949, who became the first Black American to win History Jackie Robinson 1722 baseball’s Most Valuable Player award? 1723 History Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984? Bishop Desmond Tutu Sidney Poitier starred in a famous movie about an Science & Exploration Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner interracial marriage. What was the name of the movie? 1724 Who was the second African American mayor in Sports James W. Dulin 1725 Kentucky? In April, 1775, blacks in the military fought alongside Battles of Lexington and Science & Exploration their white counterparts in what American Revolution Concord 1726 battles? What Black American was acclaimed for his Science & Exploration involvement in the design of the Philadelphia Museum Julian Abele 1727 of Art? Born in Hopkinsville, this physician and surgeon Science & Exploration practiced in Henderson, Kentucky, for 50 years. Name James G. Glass 1728 him. Along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, what type of music is Entertainment Zydeco 1729 played with the accordion? What invention by Granville T. Woods helped farmers Politics & Military Electrically Heated Egg Incubator 1730 improve productivity? What major league baseball team was the last to Politics & Military Boston Red Sox 1731 integrate its team? 1732 Politics & Military What was Hank Aaron’s lifetime batting average? 0.310

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Slaves were known to revolt against the slave system. In South Carolina (twenty miles west Politics & Military 1739 the Stono Rebellion occurred in what colony? of Charleston) 1734 Who became the first Black player to quarterback a Politics & Military Doug Williams 1735 Super Bowl team to victory? Who played the role of Celie in the movie version of Business & Education Whoopi Goldberg Alice Walker’s best-selling book, The Color Purple ? 1736 What occupation do Iman, Beverly Johnson, and Arts Modeling Sims have in common? 1737 Born Gloria Jean Watkins in Hopkinsville, KY, she was a professor, feminist, cultural critic, poet, and author of more than thirty books and articles. She joined the Arts Her pen name "bell hooks" faculty at Berea College as a Distinguished Professor in Residence in 2004. She is she better known by what name? 1738 What famous cowboy involved in gun battles with Arts bandits and Indians earned the nickname “Deadwood Nat Love

1739 Dick” for his expert marksmanship?

Who was President ’s national security Arts Colin Powell advisor from 1987-1989? 1740 Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trapper and trader, was Entertainment the first black explorer in . In 1772 he Chicago established a trading post and founded what city? 1741

Entertainment How many operas did the composer Scott Joplin write? 2 1742

What section of New York City became the capital of History Harlem urban Black American culture? 1743 What physicist and Morehouse College graduate received the first Professor Arturo Miolati Prize for Sports Dr. Dolphus Milligan outstanding scientific achievement for his work on 1744 fragment molecules known as free radicals? Slaves held a variety of tasks such as skilled craftsmen, Agricultural labor in the Southern Politics & Military trappers, nurses, and house servants. What work did the colonies (They worked in the 1745 majority of slaves perform? fields.) For what talent did Elizabeth Taylor-Greenfield receive Business & Education Singing in a range of 27 octaves 1746 worldwide acclaim? Page 99 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER Where did Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., get his Business & Education 1747 doctorate? What Clarksville, TN native won the Miss USA pageant 2 Entertainment Rachel Smith 1748 in 2007 The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 destroyed what prosperous History Greenwood 1749 black community? When was the importation of slaves outlawed in the History 1808 1750 U.S.? What dispute led to the founding of the African Segregation of St. George's History 1751 Methodist Episcopal Church? Methodist Church

History At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.? About 1 million 1752 Mediating an end to an Arab Israeli History For what did Ralph Bunche win the Noble Peace Prize? 1753 conflict Who opened Clarksville, Tennessee's first and only History Dr. Robert T. Burt 1754 hospital until 1916 1755 History What poem did James Weldon Johnson write? "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" In what year did James Weldon Johnson write the poem History 1899 1756 "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"?

What poem is widely considered the Black National History "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" Anthem? 1757

History Who wrote the poem "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" James Weldon Johnson

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In what year was the first Civil Rights Movement sit-ins History 1960 held at the Woolworth in Greenboro, N.C.? 1759

In what city and state was the first Civil Rights History Greensboro, N.C. Movement sit-ins held? 1760 How many posthumus Grammy Awards did Ray Charles History 5 win? 1761

In what year did Bishop Desmond Tutu win a Nobel History 1984 Peace Prize for his anti-apartheid activism South Africa?

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In 1984 Bishop Desmond Tutu won a Nobel Peace Prize History Anti-Apartheid Activism for his what?

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Who won a Nobel Peace Prize for their Anit- Apartheid History Bishop Desmond Tutu 2 Activism in South Africa? 1764

History In what year did the U.S. military desegregate? 1948 1765

History What was Harriet Tubman's birth name Araminta Ross 1766

History Araminta Ross was who's birth name Harriet Tubman 1767 Who was the first black female to accept appointment as History Loretta Lynch 1768 the U.S.Attorney General? In what year did Loretta Lynch accept appointment as History 2015 1769 the U.S. Attorney General?

History In 2015 Loretta Lynch was appointed to what position? U.S. Attorney General 1770 In what year did Phylicia Rashad become the first History African American woman to win a Tony Award for Best 2004 1771 Lead Actress in a play? Who was the first African American woman to win a History Phylicia Rashad 1772 Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a play? What award was Phylicia Rashad given for the Best History Tony Award 1773 Lead Actress in a play? 1774 History In what year was the Black Panther Party founded? 1966 Who was the first Black justice appointed to the U.S. History Thurgood Marshall 1775 Supreme Court? In what year did Thurmond Marshall become the first History 1967 Black justice appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court? 1776 Interracial marriage was legally banned from what History 1664 until 1967 1777 years? What type of marriages were legally banned from 1664 History until the 1967 Loving vs. Virginia Supreme Court Interracial marriages 1778 ruling? 1779 History What was Nat Turners death date November 11, 1831 What African American male died leading a 1831 slave History Nat Turner 1780 revolt in Virginia? Who were the first group of African Americans ever History the Tuskagee Airmen 1781 trained as fighter pilots? The Tuskagee Airmen were the first group of African History Fighter 1782 Americans trained as what type of pilots? 1783 History In what year did the Tuskagee Airmen take skies? 1940 Who released a industry-redefining exclusively digital History Beyonce 1784 album 2013? Page 101 of 102 Black History Trivia Bowl Study Questions Revised September 13, 2018 B C D 1 CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER In what year did Beyonce release a industry-redefining History 2013 1785 exclusively digital album? In what year did Astronomer Benjamin Banneker 2 History 1792 1786 publish his first almanac? 1787 History Who published their first almanac in 1792? Atronomer Benjamin Banneker In what year was the Cheyney University of History 1837 1788 Pennsylvania founded? 1789 History What is the oldest HBCU of Pennyslyvania? Cheyney University What Black engineer holds three of IBM's personal History Mark Dean 1790 computer patents? What music program is the longest-running first run History nationally syndicated music program in television Soul Train 1791 history? 1792 History Who is the highest-grossing Black film director? F. Gary Gray Who was the first black woman ro receive a U.S. patent History Sarah E. Goode 1793 in 1885? In what year did Sarah E. Goode become the first History 1885 1794 woman to receive a U.S. patent? In 1885 Sarah E. Goode was the first black woman to History a U.S. patent 1795 receive what? 1796 History There are currently how many HBCUs? 106 Who was the first African American to write and direct a History Gordon Parks 1797 major Hollywood motion picture in 1969? In 1947 who became the first African American to play History Jackie Robinson 1798 in a Major League Baseball game? In what year did Jackie Robinson become the first History African American to play in a Major League Baseball 1947 1799 game? In what year did Oprah Winfrey Show end its 25-year History 2011 1800 run? In what year did Althea Gibson become the first African History 1957 1801 American Wimbledon champion? Who became the first African American Wimbledon History Althea Gibson 1802 champion? 1803 History What type of film did Melvin Van Peebles pioneer? Blaxploitation Films 1804 Science & Exploration Who was the first black astronaut to walk in space? Bernard Harris, Jr.

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