Quiz: Do You Know About Arkansas Black History?
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The Black History Quiz Bowl is a question and answer game of general knowledge and quick recall based on African-American History. Game questions include topics, from history, inventions, famous first, the arts and entertainment, social sciences, sports, and current events.
- 1.Who is known as the father of Black History?
- A.
Martin Luther King
- B.
Carter G. Woodson
- C.
Barack Obama
- D.
Nelson Mandela
- 2.Who invented the automatic fishing reel?
- A.
George Cook
- B.
W. B. Purvis
- C.
Lewis Latimer
- D.
O. Dorsey
- 3.Name the inventor of the adding machine?
- A.
John L. Love
- B.
Shelby Davidson
- C.
W. H. Richardson
- D.
Alexander Miles
- 4.Who invented the cellular phone?
- A.
Alfred Benjamin
- B.
L. C. Bailey
- C.
Lewis Latimer
- D.
Henry T. Sampson
- 5.Where was Malcolm X killed?
- A.
Massachusetts State Prison
- B.
His House, Queens
- C.
Downtown Boston
- D.
Audubon Ballroom, Manhattan
- 6.At its height, what was the slave population in the U.S.?
- A.
About 1 Million
- B.
About 2 Million
- C.
About 500,000
- D.
About 4 million
- 7.Who was the first African American Nobel Peace Prize winner?
- A.
Albert John Lutul
- B.
Ralph Bunche
- C.
Nelson Mandela
- D.
Martin Luther King Jr.
- 8.Who was the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator?
- A.
Edward Brooke
- B.
Hiram Revels
- C.
Carol Mosley Braun
- D.
Blanche K. Bruce
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