| MUSIC | TV/MOVIE | MILITARY TRIVIA | SPORTS | BLACK HISTORY |
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What is the name of the Black National Anthem?
Lift Every Voice
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What Movie did Retired Colonel Gregory D. Gadson play in?
Battleship
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What was the first war in which blacks served in every branch of the U.S. armed forces?
World War II
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At the age of 24, this golfer won the 82nd PGA Championship, beating Bob May in a three-hole playoff at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 20, 2000. Name him.
Tiger Woods
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Who was named the Mother of the Civil Rights Movement?
Rosa Parks
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On February 13, 1983 at the NBA Allstar game the Star Spangled Banner was sang by who?
Marvin Gaye
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In what TV series was a character named “Buckwheat” one of the stars?
The Little Rascals
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What is this group called?
The Golden Thirteen
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Jackie Robinson was an American Baseball player. What team did he play for?
The Brooklyn Dodgers
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Who was the leader of the movement to end South African apartheid ?
Nelson Mandela
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Along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, what type of music is played with the accordion?
Zydeco
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What television program has received over 25 Emmy awards and has been the highest-rated talk show in television history?
The Oprah Winfrey Show
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In 1942, what branch of the U.S. armed forces became the last to admit blacks?
U.S. Marine Corps
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Who was the NFL 2019 MVP?
Lamar Jackson
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August Jackson created what well-known desert?
Ice Cream
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Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is called “Father of the Blues”?
WC Handy
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What is the name of Oprah Winfrey‟s TV production company?
Harpo Productions
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Who was the First African American Female to become CMC for an Aircraft Carrier and RTC?
Master Chief Retired April Beldo
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Who was the first Black National League baseball player to hit 600 home runs?
Willie Mays
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Who was first woman assigned by the US Navy to study underwater acoustics?
Mary Middleton
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Which one of composer/pianist Anthony Davis' operas premiered in Philadelphia in 1985 and was performed by the New York City Opera in 1986?
X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X
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In 1975, who became the first African American to own and operate a television station in the United States, WGPR-TV in Detroit, MI?
William Venoid Banks
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Dorie Miller, a mess man with the Navy, manned a machine gun without experience and shot down four enemy aircrafts during the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1942, he was awarded what honor for this heroic action?
The Navy Cross
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A three-time heavyweight champion, who was stripped of his first championship title because he refused to fight in the Vietnam War?
Muhammad Ali
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Mary Eliza Merritt, the first African American nurse licensed in Kentucky, was awarded a certificate of merit from what U.S. President?
President Woodrow Wilson
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