Did You Know? QUIZ A Black History Knowledge Builder 2020 - AWS
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Did You Know? QUIZ A Black History Knowledge Builder 2020
Question 1: Which ship became renowned in July 1839 for a slave revolt by Mende captives who had been enslaved in Sierra Leone?
Answer: La Amistad
Question 2: The Spanish colonies in the Caribbean were among the last to abolish slavery. While the British colonies abolished slavery completely by 1834, when did Spain abolish slavery in Puerto Rico and Cuba?
Answer: 1873 in Puerto Rico and 1886 in Cuba.
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Question 3: Who became the first African American female billionaire in 2003?
Answer:
Oprah Winfrey
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Question 4:
What organization
helps fund
approximately 40
historically black
colleges and
universities?
Booker T. Washington, co-founder
of Tuskegee Institute
photo credit: Wikimedia Commons
Answer: United Negro College Fund
Question 5: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, TN at the Lorraine Hotel. Why was Dr. King in Memphis?
Answer: For the Sanitation Workers Strike
Question 6: The first rap song to achieve commercial success was “Rapper’s Delight.” What was the name of the group who recorded this single in 1979?
Answer:
The Sugar Hill Gang
Photo credit: Russell MondyQuestion 7:
In 1991, what became the first
black-controlled company in
the entertainment industry to
be listed on the New York
Stock Exchange?
Photo credit: Jeffrey ZeldmanAnswer: BET, Black Entertainment Network
Question 8: This Oscar nominated director passed away on April 29, 2019. His famous films were Boyz in the Hood, Poetic Justice and Baby Boy. He was 51 years old. Who was he?
Answer:
John Singleton
Photo taken form Wikimedia CommonsQuestion 9: Whose 1939 Easter Sunday Concert at the Lincoln Memorial broke racial barriers and was an important moment in the struggle for civil rights? _____ Pearl Bailey _____ Marian Anderson _____ Billie Holiday _____ Shirley Horn
Answer:
Marian Anderson
Photo by Addison Scurlock. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution,
National Museum of American History, Archives Center.Question 10: Who was the first African American to publish a book – Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral? _____ Madame C.J. Walker _____ Lorraine Hansberry _____ Phillis Wheatley _____ Elizabeth Nunez
Answer: Phillis Wheatley
Question 11: Stephanie Diana Wilson is the third African American woman astronaut flying on three space shuttle missions. There have been two others before her. Who were they? _____Carole Mosley Braun and Diana Ross _____Venus and Serena Williams _____Mae Jemison and Joan Higginbotham _____Judith Jamison and Kamala Harris
Answer:
Mae Jemison
and
Joan Higginbotham
https://pics.me.meQuestion 12: 2019 was the first year that women of African descent made history by being named as beauty queens. Miss America was Nia Franklin, Miss Universe was Zozibini Tunzi, Miss Teen USA was Kaliegh Garris, Miss World was Toni-Ann Singh, and Miss USA was Cheslie Kryst. Where are Miss World and Miss Universe from?
Answer: Jamaica and South Africa
Bonus question: What does the “H” in President Barack H. Obama’s middle name stand for? _____ Hamilton _____ Hasan _____ Houston _____ Hussein
Answer:
Hussein
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore
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