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Black History Month

Entertainment

Question: What 1989 movie won several Academy Awards, including BestPicture?
Answer: Driving Miss Daisy

Question: Keenan Ivory Wayans is the producer of what TV comedyshow?
Answer: In Living Color

Question: Which rapper known for such albums as Black on Both Sidesbegan rhyming at age nine in his hometown of Brooklyn, NewYork?
Answer: Mos Def

Question: Influenced by pianist Earl "Fatha" Hines, he was interested inmusic early on and played piano and sang in the church choir.His first hit was "Straighten Up and Fly Right", based on one ofhis father's sermons. Name him
Answer: Nat King Cole

Question: Born in 1957, what is the full name of the director of the movieDo the Right Thing?
Answer: Shelton Jackson "Spike"Lee

Sports

Question:

How many of the original five Harlem Globetrotters were from Harlem?

Answer:

Question: What football star led the NFL in rushing during the 1992-93season and led his team to victory in Super Bowl XXII?
Answer: Emmitt Smith

Question: Who was the first baseball player to win the honor of “MostValuable Player” in both the National and American baseballleagues?
Answer: Frank Robinson

Question: The men‟s basketball team won a Gold Medal at the 1992Olympics inBarcelona, Spain. The team was known as what?
Answer: the “Dream Team”

Question: For what team did Jackie Robinson play in 1947?
Answer: The Brooklyn Dodgers

History

Question: What did William L. Still organize in 1880 for Black youth?
Answer: YMCA

Question: On January 1, 1863 what significant declaration did PresidentLincoln issue?
Answer: The EmancipationProclamation

Question: What preacher and abolitionist helped raise money for gifts forCivil War soldiers; gave rousing, inspirational anti-slaveryspeeches working with both black and white abolitionists; andhelped African-Americans relocate to the North?
Answer: Sojourner Truth

Question: By the time Thurgood Marshall reached the age of 40, whatnickname had he earned from the press?
Answer: Mr. Civil Rights

Question: What law prohibited slavery north and west of the 36-30 parallelwithin the Louisiana Territory?
Answer: Missouri Compromise

Politics

Question: Commissioned in 1943, the first group of black naval officerswere known as what?
Answer: the “Golden Thirteen”

Question: The first African American to die in World War II, Robert H.Brooks passed for white when joining what reserve militaryforce?
Answer: National Guard

Question: Who was the first Black American appointed to the U.S.Supreme Court?
Answer: Thurgood Marshall

Question: The first black elected to the Kentucky legislature, Charles W.Anderson was also appointed alternate delegate to what body?
Answer: United Nations

Question: What provision written in 1787 was included in the U.S.Constitution?
Answer: Three-fifths of all slavescounted for representation

Science

Question: Shirley Ann Jackson was the first Black American to earn a PhDfrom M.I.T. in what subject?
Answer: Physics

Question: What Black American woman used the trial and error method toinvent hair care products in 1905?
Answer: Madam C.J. Walker

Question: Born into slavery in Missouri, who worked his way throughschool as a farm hand and a janitor to become an agriculturalscientist whose discoveries revolutionized southern agricultureand helped the South move away from dependence on thecotton industry?
Answer: George Washington Carver

Question: The oil lubricating cup was invented by what Black American?
Answer: Elijah McCoy

Question: Major Frederick D. Gregory made his first space flight in 1985.In what year did he become the first black space commander?
Answer: 1989