| People | ||
| #1 | Rosa Parks | |
| #2 | This botanist became famous for his agricultural science involving peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soy beans. | George Washington Carver |
| #3 | Who recently gave a million dollar donation to the NAACP? (Hint: he owns his own film production company) | Tyler Perry |
| #4 | Who was the slave woman who is believed to have borne Thomas Jefferson at least four children? | Sally Hemings |
| #5 | Who is the creator of Kwanzaa? | Dr. Maulana Karenga |
| Firsts in History | ||
| #1 | Who was the first African-American Miss America? |
Vanessa Williams |
| #2 | This woman’s autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” is the first non-fiction work by an African-American woman to make the best-seller list. | Maya Angelou |
| #3 | Who was the first African-American to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? | Colin Powell |
| #4 | What was the nickname for the first all-Black 332d Fighter Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps, which escorted Allied bombers through European airspace on 1,578 missions during World War II? | Tuskegee Airmen |
| #5 | In 1940, I became the first African American actress to win an academy award. | Hattie McDaniel |
| Arts and Literature | ||
| #1 | Who was the first African American woman to host a nationally syndicated TV talk show? | Oprah Winfrey (Her show debuted in 1986.) |
| #2 | What name was given to the period of cultural rebirth that took place in Harlem, New York City? | the Harlem Renaissance (which emerged after World War I) |
| #3 | Did author Toni Morrison win a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved or The Bluest Eye? | Beloved (Published in 1970, The Bluest Eye was her first novel.) |
| #4 | What author gained national recognition with his novel Go Tell It on the Mountain? | James Baldwin, in 1953 (The novel is based partly on his experience as a Pentecostal preacher.) |
| #5 | B.B. King is one of the greatest blues performers of the 20th century. What do the letters “B.B.” stand for? | “Boy from Beale Street” (from his days as a Memphis disk jockey in the 1940s) |
| Music and Film | ||
| #1 | Who was the only other black actress to win the Academy Award's Best Supporting Actress Oscar since Hattie McDaniel in 1939? (Hint: won the Oscar for her role in the movie Ghost) |
Ntozake Shange |
| #5 | This popular singer and actor started touring with his family’s troupe, the Will Mastin Trio, at age three, and was a member of Frank Sinatra’s “Rat Pack”. |
Sammy Davis Jr. |
| Trivia | ||
| #1 | What was the informal system that helped slaves escape to the North during the mid-1800s? | Underground Railroad |
| #2 | What is the name given to the sea journey slaves made from West Africa to the Americas called? | the Middle Passage |
| #3 | What Supreme Court decision decreed that public schools should be integrated? | Brown v. Board |
| #4 | What was Black History Month originally called? | Negro History Week |
| #5 | What group of students were famous for challenging school segregation in the deep south? | The Little Rock Nine |
| Final Question | |