2020 Brainbowl Questions 7-12
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2020 Brainbowl Questions - Ages 7-12 Who was the 1st African American Officeholder in Matthias de Souza colonial America? What year and what state did Matthias de Souza, 1641 & Maryland the 1st African American office holder elected? Who was the 1st African American Municipal John Mercer Langston elected official: What year was John Mercer Langston, the 1st 1855 African American Municipal official elected? . What city did John Mercer Langston represent? Brownhelm Township in Ohio Who was the 1st African American State Supreme Jonathan Jasper Wright Court Justice? What year was Jonathan Jasper Wright elected to 1870 the South Carolina Supreme Court? Who was the 1st African American U.S. Joseph Rainey. Representative? What year was Joseph Rainey elected as US 1870 Representative? What party did Joseph Rainey belong to? Republican Who was the 1st African American Governor that P.B.S. Pinchback was appointed? What year was P.B.S. Pinchback the 1st African 1872 American governer appointed? What State did P.B.S. Pinchback represent? Louisiana Who was the 1st elected African American Woman Crystal Bird Fauset legislator? What year was Crystal Bird Fauset the 1st African 1938 American Woman legislator elected? What state did Crystal Bird Fauset represent? Pennsylvania Who was the 1st African American U.S. cabinet Robert C. Weaver member? What year was Robert C Weaver the 1st African 1966 American U.S Cabinet member appointed? What was Robert Weaver’s official title? Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 20. Who was the 1st African American Major party nominee for President and what year was he Sen. Barack Obama, 2008 nominated? Who was the 1st African American Admitted to the Macon B. Allen Bar: Who was the 1st African American Woman Charlotte Ray admitted to the bar: Who was the 1st African American Elected Mifflin W. Gibbs municipal judge: Who was the 1st African American Editor of the Charles Hamilton Houston Harvard Law Review: Who was the 1st African American Federal Judge: William Henry Hastie Who was the 1st African American Woman federal Constance Baker Motley judge: Who was the 1st African American U.S. Supreme Thurgood Marshall Court Justice: Who was the 1st African American President of the Dennis Archer American Bar Association: Who was the 1st African American Federal William Cooper Nell Employee? What federal job did William Cooper Nell hold? Clerk in a Boston Post Office Who was the 1st African American Voter? Thomas Peterson of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Who was the 1st African American that served as a Wiley G. Overton, 1891 New York City policeman? Who was the 1st to discover the Watergate break- Frank Willis, an African American Security Guard in? Who was the 1st African American to give a Keynote speech before a Democratic National Barbara Jordan, July 1976 Convention? Who was the 1st African American woman elected Unita Blackwell, 1976 Mayor in Mississippi? Who was the 1st African American U.S. Ebenezer D. Bassett ambassador? To what country was Ebenezer D Bassett an Haiti ambassador: Who was the 1st African American Nobel Peace Ralph J. Bunche Prize winner: Who was the 1st African American Woman U.S. Patricia Harris ambassador: Who was the 1st African American U.S. Andrew Young, 1977. Representative to the UN: Who was the youngest African American to win the Martin L. King Nobel Peace Prize? What was the 1st African American U.S Army unit to have black men comprise more than half of its 1st Rhode Island Regiment, troops: 1st Rhode Island Regiment, Who was the 1st African American Commissioned Robert Smalls officer in the U.S. Navy: Who was the 1st African American Combat pilot: Eugene Jacques Bullard Who was the 1st African American General: Benjamin O. Davis, Sr. Who was the 1st African American Woman Hazel W. Johnson general: Who was the 1st African American Woman to Janie L. Mines graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy Who was the 1st African American Chairman of the Colin Powell Joint Chiefs of Staff: Who was the 1st African American Woman Rear Lillian Fishburne Admiral in the United States Navy: When did the US Naval accept it’s 1st African September 1872 American? Who was the US Naval 1st African American? James Henry Conyers Who were the 1st African American Fighter Pilots in The Tuskegee Airmen the US Air Force? Who was the 1st African American soldier awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Vietnam Milton Lee Olive III War? What did Milton Lee Olive III do to earn the He threw himself on a grenade, sacrificing himself and to save the lives of his Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam? comrades. Who was the 1st African American woman to Col Stayce Harris command an Air Force Flying Squadron? Who was the 1st African American Patent holder? Thomas L. Jennings Who was the 1st African American Physician? James Derham What year did Thomas L Jennings get his 1st 1821 patent? Who was the 1st African American Woman Dentist? Ida Gray Who was the 1st African American to earn a M.D. James McCune Smith degree? What was the 1st National Monument dedicated to The George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri an African American? When was the George Washington Carver National 1953 Monument in Diamond, Missouri dedicated? Who was the 1st African American to earn a M.D. David Jones Peck degree from a U.S. Medical School? Who was the 1st African American Woman to Rebecca Lee Crumpler receive an M.D. degree? What African American was the 1st to earn a Ph.D. Clarence “Skip” Ellis in Computer Science? Who was the 1st African American Woman patent Judy Reed holder? What invention did Judy Reed get the patent for? A “dough Kneader and roller. Who was the 1st African American Female Dental Ida Gray Nelson Rollins Surgeon? What was the name of the 1st Black-owned Provident Hospital hospital: Who founded the 1st Black owned hospital? Daniel Hale Williams. What year was Provident Hospital, the 1st Black 1891 owned hospital founded? Who was the 1st African American Heart surgery Daniel Hale Williams pioneer? Who was the 1st African American Developer of Dr. Charles Drew the blood bank? Who was the 1st African American Member of the David Harold Blackwell National Academy of Sciences? Who was the 1st African American Astronaut? Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. Who was the 1st African American Implantation of Levi Watkins, Jr. heart defibrillator? Who was the 1st African American Astronaut to Guion Bluford travel in space? Who was the 1st African American Head of the Walter E. Massey National Science Foundation? Who was the 1st African American Woman Mae Jemison astronaut? Who was the 1st African American President of the Lonnie Bristow American Medical Association? 1. Who was the 1st African American College Alexander Lucius Twilight graduate (B.A.)? Who was the 1st African American Graduate of an Theodore Sedgewick Wright Ivy League School? What year did Theodore S. Wright graduate from 1828 Princeton Theological Seminary? Who was the 1st African American College Charles Lewis Reason professor? Who was the 1st African American Woman to complete 4 years of collegiate study from a Lucy Stanton college? Who Was the 1st African American woman to earn Mary Jane Patterson a B.A. degree college? Who was the 1st African American College Daniel A. Payne president? What was the 1st African American Non-white Paul Lawrence Dunbar High public high school? Who was the 1st African American Ph.D.? Edward A. Bouchet Who was the 1st African American Elected to Phi George Washington Henderson Beta Kappa? Who was the 1st African American Rhodes scholar? Alain L. Locke Name 3 of the 1st African American Women Georgiana Simpson, Sadie Tanner Mossell and Eva Beatrice Dykes Ph.D's: Who was the 1st African American Ivy League Ruth Simmons University president? What year was Ruth Simmons assigned to Brown 2001 University, an Ivy League School? Who was the 1st African American to receive an Booker T. Washington honorary degree from Harvard? Who was the 1st African American Poet? Lucy Terry Who was the 1st African American Published Briton Hammon autobiography? Who was the 1st African American Poet Phyllis Wheatley (published)? Who was the 1st African American Recognized Joshua Johnston artist? Who was the 1st African American Woman's Jarena Lee autobiography? Who was the 1st African American Male Novelist? William Wells Brown Who was the 1st African American Woman Harriett Wilson novelist? Who was the 1st African American Recognized James Conway Farley photographer? Who was the 1st African American Pulitzer prize Gwendolyn Brooks winner? Who was the 1st African American Pulitzer prize Charles Gordone winner in Drama? Who was the 1st African American Nobel Prize for Toni Morrison Literature winner? Who was the 1st African American Poet to read at Maya Angelou a Presidential Inauguration? What poem did Maya Angelou read at Bill Clinton’s “On the Pulse of Morning” Inauguration? What poet was the 1st African American to pass James Weldon Johnson the Florida Bar exam? Who wrote the 1st Novel by an African American to Frank Yerby be bought by Hollywood? What was the 1st African American Newspaper? Freedom's Journal Who published the 1st African American Magazine? David Ruggles What was the 1st African Daily newspaper? New Orleans Tribune, Who started the 1st family owned African American John H. Murphy Newspaper? What was the name of the 1st family owned The Afro-American African American Newspaper? Who was the 1st African American War Ralph W. Tyler Correspondent? Who was the 1st African American Anchor of a TV Bryant Gumbel Morning News Show? What African American magazine is a Mass Ebony Circulation Magazine? What year did Ebony 1st appear? 1945 Who was Ebony’s creator? John H.