AFQB

Question 1

This Howard Unviersity graduate and jazz drummer is the first large-scale commercial African-American instrument manufacturer. What is his name and and what does he make?

Answer 1

Warren Shadd; pianos & keyboards

Question 2

“Freedom Summer” was a campaign in the South to register Black people to do what during the summer of 1964?

Answer 2

Vote

Question 3

This prominent black American was a civil-rights activist and lawyer, a Freedom Rider and the legal representative for Malcolm X.

Answer 3

Percy Ellis Sutton

Question 4

In 2001 she became the first black president of an Ivy League institution.

Answer 4

Ruth Simmons

Question 5

This man was a free black educator and Presbyterian minister who, in 1808, established a private school that was described as one of the best in the state and attended by both white and black students. Raleigh’s Chavis Park is named in his honor.

Answer 5

John Chavis

Question 6

Charles Lewis Reason (1818 - 1893) became the first African-American university professor at a predominantly white college, teaching at New York Central College. What subject did he begin teaching at the age of fourteen?

Answer 6

Mathematics

Question 7

In 1883 in New Bern, North Carolina, Samuel J Battle weighed in at 16 pounds and became the largest baby ever born in this state. What other distinction does he hold?

Answer 7

First African Amerian police officer in New York City

Question 8

On November 8, 2016, she became the second black woman selected to serve in the United States Senate.

Answer 8

Kamala Harris

Question 9

Name the first African American elected mayor of a metropolitan Southern city, and name the city he served in that role from 1973 to 1975.

Answer 9

Clarence Lightner, Raleigh

Question 10

Who was the first African American to become a U.S. Navy Master Diver, rising to the position in 1970 despite also having an amputated left leg?

Answer 10

Carl Maxie Brashear

Question 11

What is the name given to the all-Black regiments of the U.S. Army started in 1866, whose members have received more Medals of Honor than any other US military unit?

Answer 11

Buffalo Soldiers

Question 12

Columbia, SC native Charles Frank Bolden, Jr. was the NASA Administrator from 2009 until January 2017. What are two other titles he has held?

Answer 12

United States Marine Corps Major General & former NASA astronaut

Question 13

Jack Johnson was an inventor who patented a wrench in 1922. What other distinction does he hold?

Answer 13

First African American heavyweight boxing champion

Question 14

In 1983, he became the first Black astronaut to travel in space.

Answer 14

Guion Bluford

Question 15

By the 1920s, St. Agnes hospital was the largest hospital for blacks between Atlanta and Washington. On which college campus is it located?

Answer 15

St Augustine’s University

Question 16

George Washington Carver was one of the most prominent scientists and inventors of his time. He devised over 100 products - including dyes, plastics and gasoline, from which major crop?

Answer 16

peanuts

Question 17

Who is the portrait painter known for their highly naturalistic paintings of people with brown skin in heroic poses?

Answer 17

Kehinde Wiley

Question 18

She is considered the fastest woman of all time based on the fact that the world records she set in 1988 for both the 100 m and 200 m still stand and have yet to be seriously challenged.

Answer 18

Florence Griffith Joyner

Question 19

He was the only professional boxer to hold world championship titles in three weight divisions simultaneously. In 2007, The Ring magazine ranked him as the second-greatest fighter of the last 80 years.

Answer 19

Henry Armstrong

Question 20

Name the African American jockey who rode in and won the first Kentucky Derby in 1875, and name his horse.

Answer 20

Oliver Lewis; Aristides

Question 21

In 2015 she became the world’s first high school woman to break the 11-second barrier in the 100 meters sprint. What is her name and in what state does she attend high school?

Answer 21

Candace Hill, Georgia

Question 22

Name the first African-American inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Answer 22

Emlen Tunnell

Question 23

From your study materials, name one of the largest African American-owned money management and mutual fund companies in the US, and its female president.

Answer 23

Ariel Investments; Mellody Hobson

Question 24

This Philadephia native and Penn State University graduate was the chairman and CEO of Merck & Co from 2011 to 2021. He was the second African American to lead a major pharmaceutical company.

Answer 24

Kenneth Carleton Frazier

Question 25

Who is the American entrepreneur, producer and author who cofounded the hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings and created the clothing fashion lines Phat Farm, Argyleculture, and Tantris, and had a net-worth estimate of $340 million in 2011?

Answer 25

Russell Simmons

Question 26

Asa Philip Randolph founded the first union consisting of predominantly black workers, called what?

Answer 26

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Question 27

Name the Pullman porter union organizer who helped plan what would have been the first march on Washington in 1940 - but it never occurred because President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the defense industry to hire minority workers.

Answer 27

Cottrell Lawrence Dellums

Question 28

What event was one of the largest political rallies for human rights in US history and is credited with helping to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

Answer 28

March on Washington

Question 29

Who is nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America?

Answer 29

Rosa Parks

Question 30

To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the rights of blacks, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans; detractors accused him of preaching racism and violence. He has been called one of the greatest and most influential African Americans in history.

Answer 30

Malcolm X

Question 31

This prominent intellectual graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has also made three spoken word albums, including collaborations with Prince and Jill Scott.

Answer 31

Cornel West

Question 32

This innovative African-American educator served on education commissions for three U.S. presidents, and was the first to analyze and publish the experiences of female African Americans in college.

Answer 32

Jeanne Laveta Noble

Question 33

What American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian and civil rights activist was known as “The First Lady of The Struggle” because of her commitment to gain better lives for African Americans?

Answer 33

Mary McLeod Bethune

Question 34

Who was the first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point and when did he graduate?

Answer 34

Henry Ossian Flipper; 1877

Question 34

In February 2013, she was sworn in as Raleigh’s police chief, becoming the first black woman to hold the post of top cop in the city.

Answer 34

Cassandra Deck-Brown

Question 35

Leah Ward Sears was the first African-American female Chief Justice in the United States. In what year and in what state was she appointed?

Answer 35

1992; Georgia

Question 36

Who was the first African-American to hold a state-wide elected executive office in North Carolina?

Answer 36

Ralph Campbell

Question 37

To whom do we credit this quote: “In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”

Answer 37

Thurgood Marshall, first African American U.S. Supreme Court member

Question 38

Who once said: “You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve the people”?

Answer 38

Dr Cornel West

Question 39

Valerie L. Thomas is an African-American scientist and inventor. She invented the Illusion Transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980. Which government agency still uses this device today?

Answer 39

NASA

Question 40

Name the African American chemist who contributed to the science of food preservation. By the end of his career he had amassed 59 United States patents, and a number of his inventions were also patented in other countries.

Answer 40

Lloyd Augustus Hall

Question 41

This physicist, inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2015, received a bachelor’s degree with honors while earning eight varsity letters in basketball and football, and earned a Master of Science in Nuclear Physics in 1963 from Howard University, after only nine months of study.

Answer 41

George Edward Alcorn, Jr.

Question 42

This star athlete who won a silver medal in the long jump in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland, was also a physicist and engineer with dozens of patents dealing with gas dispersion and conversion.

Answer 42

Meredith Gourdine

Question 43

In the summer of 1959, he refused to leave a segregated Public Library without being allowed to check out his books. The library is now named after this American physicist and NASA astronaut.

Answer 43

Ronald Erwin McNair

Question 44

Which American biologist achieved renown in the 1990s for his pioneering work in tracing the ancestry of African Americans via DNA testing?

Answer 44

Rick Antonius Kittles

Question 45

Hadiyah-Nicole Green, one of only 66 black women to earn a Ph.D. in physics in the United States between 1973 and 2012, is an American medical physicist known for her development of a novel cancer treatment using laser-activated _____________?

Answer 45

nanoparticles