2010 Black Knowledge Bowl Study Guide

This guide contains actual questions and references to information that contestants must research themselves. The categories do not necessarily represent the competition categories (i.e. a category could be African American 1sts). All questions and information listed on this guide are fair game and may be reworded for the competition. Please take note that the championship round will incorporate some materials not listed on the study guide. The championship round is meant to be challenging but VERY fun. You will be issued a Game Structure document by the end of this week outlining contest details.

History
1. The first permanent Black residents in the U.S. arrived in Virginia in what year?

2. What was the name of the Black steamship line founded by Marcus Garvey? Was it? a. The Black Caravan b. The Black Star Line c. The African Express
3. George Washington Carter was born in which Missouri County? 4. At the beginning of the civil war, the Black population of the U.S. was? 5. Who led a major slave revolt in Virginia in 1831? 6. These Virginia laws deemed "All servants imported and brought into the Country...who were not Christians in their native Country to be slaves. Name the laws? 7. Who is Bessie Coleman? 8. The movement of 4.1 million African-Americans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1910 to 1930 is known as the what? 9. The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted for how many days? 10. Who popularized the slogan Black Power? a. Malcolm X b. Stokely Carmichael c. James Farmer 11. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in what year?

12. Who is Daisy Bates? 13. What is a Maroon settlement?

14. People United to Save Humanity, is an organization founded by: a. Thurgood Marshal b. Jesse Jackson c. Martin Luther King, Jr. 15. What black astronaut was killed in the 1986 Challenger tragedy? a. Leland Melvin b. Bobby Satcher c. Mae Jemison d. Ronald E. McNair
16. When was the NAACP founded?

17. What year was the Civil Rights Act passed? 18. What year was Malcom X assassinated? 19. He is famous for becoming the first African American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Who is he? a. Booker T. Washington b. Langston Hughes c. Ralph Bunche 20. 25 years after his death, he became the first African American on a postage stamp. Who is he? 21. Langston Hughes was born in which Missouri city? 22. Members of the Five Civilized Tribes held enslaved blacks, who migrated with the Five Civilized Tribes to the west during the 1830 Indian Removal and later were known as 23. Who was the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point? a. Peter Salem b. Benjamin Oliver Davis c. Henry Ossain Flipper 24. In the past 63 years, how many Black Americans have been honored with a U.S. Postage stamp? 25. The first and only national memorial and museum for United States Colored troops in the Civil War is called a. The Colored Civil War Museum b. The African American Civil War Memorial c. Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

26. This organization was known for negotiating the return of free African Americans back to

Africa?

Arts:
1. The film Carmen Jones starring Dorothy Dandridge was originally based on: a. French opera b. A Black folk play c. A French novel 2. In 1921, comedian Red Fox was born in what city? 3. He was the voice of Star Wars villain, Darth Vader. 4. Alex Haley is best known for authoring what two books? 5. What name was given to the Black theatre movement of the 60s and early 70s? 6. Paul Robeson starred in what famous play written by Shakespeare? a. A Midsummer Nights Dream b. Romeo & Juliette c. Othello 7. Rod Rogers, Alvin Ailey and Donald McKayle are all; a. Musicians b. Painters c. Dancers 8. Name the U.S. President that Phyllis Wheatley eulogized in one of her early poems. a. President John Adams b. President Thomas Jefferson c. President George Washington 9. This famous Black Painter is perhaps best known for his work The Banjo Lesson. He is 10. John Singleton is the first African American director ever to he nominated for an Academy Award. What was the name of his film? a. Poetic Justice b. Love Jones c. Boys N The Hood 11. Which Spike Lee film was the first student film to be showcased in Lincoln Centers New Directors New Films Festival? 12. Charles Fuller wrote a play that became a successful motion picture in the 1980s. Name the play. 13. What controversial book on the Black Middle Class did E. Franklin Frazier write? 14. This autobiography traces the rise of Booker T. Washington: educator and Black spokesman. Name this book. 15. She was the second American woman and the first Black poet to have a book of poems published. Was she:

a. Lucy Terry b. Phyllis Wheatley c. Sojourner Truth

16. In 1987, Toni Morrison published a novel dealing, in part, with the sufferings endured by Black mothers in slavery. Name this novel. a. Jazz b. Song of Solomon c. The Bluest Eye d. Beloved 17. In what time period did the Harlem Renaissance take place? a. 1920s & 1930s b. 1930s & 1940s c. 1940s & 1950s 18. In 1983, Alice Walker was the first African American woman to win a Pultzer Prize for Fiction for which book? a. Black Like Me b. The Color Purple c. Precious d. The Cake Walk 19. She is the first African American woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress? 20. Who was the publisher of the black newspaper The North Star? a. Frederick Douglass b. Martin Luther King c. Carter G. Washington d. Booker T. Washington 21. Nicknamed after the 1925 anthology The New Negro, the Harlem Renaissance was often referred to as: 22. Who wrote The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man? a. Martin Luther King Jr. b. Malcom X c. James Weldon Johnson d. Langston Hughes

Sports
1. Become familiar with the early history of the Kentucky Derby. 2. Who won the 1st Negro World Series in 1924? 3. In 1953, this San Francisco 49er became the first Black to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a single season. Who is he? 4. 5. He was the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915). a. Joe Louis b. Sugar Ray Lenard

c. Jack Galveston Giant Johnson d. Muhammad Ali 6. Who was the first African American woman to compete in the Grand Slam and win Wimbledon? a. Serena Williams b. Venus Williams c. Sheryl Miller d. Althea Gibson 7. 1951, New York Giants had the first all black outfield in the majors. Who were they? 8. In 1950, this Cleveland Brown became the NFLs first Black rushing leader. Who is he? 9. First African-American head coach to take team to Super Bowl: a. Lovie Smith, 2006 Chicago Bears; 10. In 1984, he became the became the first African-American collegiate coach to win the NCAA Championship. Who is he? 11. Sheryl Swoopes was the first woman to have an athletic shoe named after her. What was the name of the shoe? 12. In 1999, she became the first African-American woman coach to lead her women's basketball team to an NCAA national championship. What is her name? a. Lisa Leslie b. Willye Brown White c. Carolyn Peck d. Marion Jones 13. First African American head coach to win the NFL Super Bowl: 14. Which professional sports organization hired first African-American women referees for its regular season roster in 1997. a. NFL b. MLB c. NBA 15. Who was the first African-American head coach in the NBA? a. Julius Erving b. Wilt Chamberland c. Bill Russell 16. She was the first African American to win the national and the world championships as well as the first African American to win a medal in the Winter Olympic Games. 17. She was the first African American to be inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1997. 18. An early world boxing champion, he was the first black world champion of any sport. Who is he? 19. Nicknamed The Black Cyclone, he was the second African American athlete to become a world champion. Who is he?

20. Who is Vonetta Flowers? 21. Who was the first African American athlete to win a medal in the Olympic Games? 22. In 1968, they were band from the Olympic Games for bowing their heads and raising their fists on during the American National Anthem. Name them. 23. Jesse Owens was an outstanding track and field star. In what year did he win four (4) Olympic gold medals in track and field? a. 1932 b. 1935 c. 1936 d. 1937 24. In 1960, in Rome, Italy, she became the only American woman runner to win three (3) gold medals in the Olympic games. She became known as the Worlds Fastest Woman. Name this woman. 25. During the 1936 Olympics Adolph Hitler refused to shake the hand of this winner of four gold medals. Who was this person? a. Jesse E. Owens
b. Jack Johnson c. Wilma Rudolph

26. Muhammad Ali defeated this fighter to win the Heavyweight Championship of the World. Who was he? a. Floyd Patterson b. Sonny Liston c. Cleveland Williams 27. She won three Gold Medals during the 1984 Olympic Games that were held in Los Angeles, California.
Who was she? a. Evelyn Ashford b. Sheryl Miller c. Valerie Briscoe-Hooks

28. Name the African American baseball player who became the first Black pitcher in the American League when he joined the Cleveland Indians in 1948. 29. This University of Houston track star won the 1982 Sullivan Award, which is emblematic of the worlds
outstanding amateur athlete. Was he?

a. Sunder Nix b. Carl Lewis c. Hershel Walker 30. Name the African American man, who was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame twice, once as a player in 1989 and the time as a coach in 1998. 31. 17. On June 22, 1938, my first round knockout over Germanys Max Schmeling earned me the heavyweight boxing title. Who am I?

Science/Inventors

1. In 1891, he patented the design for a metal box with four legs which was the predecessor for todays mailbox. Who I am? 2. He presented the world a new invention when he connected a cloth to a stick handle using a medal clasp. Who is he and what did he invent? 3. Who is responsible for improving Edisons light bulb or electric lamp, by making a better filament? a. Thomas Stewart b. Granville Woods c. Joseph Nichols d. Lewis Latimer 4. He is responsible for inventing the potato chip? 5. This inventor is referred to as the Black Thomas Edison. 6. Who created the dust pan? a. Lloyd Ray b. George Crum c. Elijah McCoy d. Daniel Hale Williams 7. Dr. George Grant is known for inventing what? a. Golf Tee 8. Who is Johnson Lonnie? a. A rocket scientist who created the popular toy the Super Soaker. Who am I? Johnson, Lonnie 9. This Canadian-born son of a runaway slave invented the lubricating cup, which made possible the automatic oiling of machinery. Who is he? 10. Who invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long haul trucks in 1935? 11. In 1893, what black doctor performed the first successful open heart surgery? 12. A Black physician was a pioneer in the field of blood preservation. His research led to the founding of blood banks. a. Guion Bluford b. Fredrick Jones c. Benjamin Banneker d. Charles Drew 13. Who was the first African American to travel in space? 14. Name the Black man who drew the plans for the city of Washington, D.C. 15. Thomas L. Jennings is the first African American to what?

Economic Empowerment
1. Who is the first African-American billionaire? 2. Black Wall Street refers to what Tulsa, OK neighborhood? 3. The first self made African American and woman millionaire was? 4. This historic civil rights organization is dedicated to the economic empowerment of AfricanAmericans? 5. In 1982 and an estimated fortune of $500, he was the first black person to appear on the Forbes 400 Rich list. Who is he? 6. The owner of the first black-owned company to exceed $1 billion in annual sales. 7. Become familiar with the 2009 Forbes: The Wealthiest Black Americans 8. Become familiar with the African Americans on the Forbes: June 2008 June 2009 Wealthy List.

Political
1. The first Black woman judge, served in what state? a. New Jersey b. New York c. Massachusetts 2. Who was the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State? 3. There have only been 5 Black U.S. Senators. Name them: 4. Who is the first Black to serve as U.S. Supreme Court Justice? 5. Who was the first African America to serve as a mayor of a major U.S. city? a. Sharon Pratt Dixon Kelly, Washington, DC, 19911995. 6. Former U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan became the first African American person to deliver a keynote address at a National Democratic Party convention. What year did she do this? a. 1978 b. 1976 c. 1979 7. Dr. King ended his I Have a Dream speech by referring to this African American spiritual: a. Free At Last 8. A committee of the U.S. Congress investigated the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the President, John F. Kennedy. Who was the chair of this committee? a. Louis Stokes b. Condoleezza Rice c. Cardiss Collins

d. Vernon Jordan 9. In the 1984 presidential campaign, which candidate popularized the phrase the hands that picked cotton can pick the president?
10. Who is Violette N. Anderson? 11. Who were the Little Rock 9? 12. The Freedmans Bureau was designed to provide education for Blacks and poor whites was a part of what period in history? a. The Civil Right Movement b. The New Deal c. Reconstruction 13. What is the original name of The Freedmans Bureau? a. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands 14. The March of Washington Movement lasted for how long? 15. Who are considered the founders of the National Urban League?

16. Who Shirley Chisholm? 17. Who was the first black woman to head the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People? a. Rosa Parks b. Margaret Bush Wilson c. Afeni Shakur d. Angela Davis

Education
1. Black history week was initiated to recognize the accomplishments of Black people by what famous historian and Black educator: 2. Who is the 1st African American Ivy League President? 3. The United Negro College Fund was established to conduct annual fundraising campaigns on behalf of 40 accredited Black colleges and universities in which of the following years? a. 1965 b. 1970 c. 1944 4. How many Historically Black Colleges are there? 5. This gentleman was a scholar, philosopher, education, literary critic and the first Black to receive a Rhodes Scholarship. Was he: a. Earl Calloway b. Alain L. Locke c. Benjamin Mays

6. Name the first African American to become president of Georgetown University. 7. He was the first Black president of Howard University. Was he? a. Mordecai W. Johnson b. James B. Howard c. Alain Locke 8. Robert Tanner Jackson becomes first African American to receive a degree in what? 9. Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. was a physicist, mathematician and an engineer who earned a PhD. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1942. How old was he at the time of this achievement? 10. Lincoln University was originally founded as the: 11. How many HBCUs are located in the State of Missouri? 12. This HBCU was originally founded in 1837 as the Institute for Colored Youth? a. Cheyney University of Pennsylvania 13. Tennis great, Althea Gibson, was an athletics instructor at which HBCU? a. Langston University b. Howard University c. Spellman College d. Lincoln University 14. Spellman College, the first college for black women in the U.S.. Who were its founders? 15. In 1968, San Francisco State University becomes the first four-year college to establish what? a. A black culture center b. A black studies department c. A black studies minor 16. Name the person who was president of Morehouse College and later president of the Atlanta school board. 17. The 2nd week in February was originally initiated to honor the birthdays of Frederick Doublass and Abraham Lincoln. What was its title? a. Black Culture Awareness Week b. Black History Week c. Carter G. Woodson Week d. Negro History Week 18. In 1871, he became the first African American Professor at Harvard. Who is he? 19. T/F - 1865, Shaw University became the 1st institution for black education in the North. 20. In 1887, I became the he first African American to receive a degree from Washington University (Law School). Who am I?

Quotables
1. Who said "My mama used to tell me if you can't find something to live for, you best find something to die for"? 2. Who said, Freedom is never given; it is won is a quote by 3. Who said, Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land. 4. Who said, We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. 5. Who said, Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. 6. Who said, I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. 7. Who said, Our nation is a rainbowred, yellow, brown, black, and whiteand we're all precious in God's sight. a. Jesse Jackson 8. Who is famous for the tag line Yes We Can 9. Who said, You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. a. Frederick Douglass 10. Who said, Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can. a. Arthur Ashe 11. Who said, I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. a. Muhammad Ali 12. Who said, Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better a. MLK 13. Who said, Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice. a. Ray Charles

Music
1. Def Jam Records was created when? a. 1981 b. 1984 c. 1985 d. 1990 2. 1959, he founded Motown Records on an $800 loan and a little group called "The Miracles."

3. 1934, Ella Fitzgerald makes her first singing performance at the a. Alamo Drafthouse b. Fox Theater c. Apollo Theater in Harlem 4. In 1958, he became the first African American male to win a Grammy? 5. In 1974, this Kansas City born saxophonist won a Grammy award for best performance as a soloist. Who is it? 6. These members made up the Gap Band? 7. This area was considered the Harlem of the West 8. This artist earned eight Grammy awards on February 28, 1984. 9. Who wrote the Sinnerman that was on the Thomas Crown Affairs Movie Soundtrack? a. Gladys Knight b. Marian Anderson c. Nina Simone 10. What was the first U.S. record label owned and operated by African Americans? 11. Who wrote the song Butterflies on Michael Jacksons Invincible album? a. Floetry 12. What does The Isley Brothers, Nas, and Rihana have in common? 13. Which two famous Rap Artist got their start in the band Black Star? 14. Who was the first rap artist to perform on MTV Unplugged? a. Beastie Boys b. De La Soul c. LL Cool J d. A Tribe Called Quest 15. Name the music industry legend that has been nominated for a record 79 Grammy awards. 16. Who wrote Strange Fruit? 17. What was the name of Ray Charles first number one album? 18. Who wrote the words to the Negro National Anthem? Lift Every Voice and Sing? 19. Who wrote Master Blaster? 20. Who is the Father Of Gospel Music? 21. Which of the following is known as the Godfather of Soul a. Sammy Davis, Jr. b. George Clinton

c. James Brown

22. Which of the following is known as the The Prince of Motown"? 23. In the 1870s this Black University choir introduced and popularized choral arrangements of the spiritual throughout the world. Name this choir. 24. Who wrote the award winning music for the motion picture Shaft?

University of Missouri
1. He is the first African-American to have an academic building on campus building on campus named after him. Who is he? 2. Who is Dorothy J. Gaiter?

3. What is the Walter C. Daniel Resource Center? 4. In 2006, he was granted an honorary law degree by the University of Missouri? 5. In 1977, she became the first African American woman to be appointed to the University Of Missouri Board Of Curators. 6. What was the name of the Black student publication founded in 1969? 7. Who is Kellen Winslow? 8. He became the first African-American faculty member at the University of Missouri in 1969. 9. She ranks as the most decorated female athlete in University of Missouri history? 10. What year was the Black Studies Program created? 11. He was denied admission to MUs School of Law in 1936. 12. Who was one of the first Black students to enroll at MU and the first to graduate? a. Lloyd Lionel Gaines b. Derrick Peterson c. Gut T. Ridgel 13. MU established the first Black Culture House in what year? 14. Who was the first coordinator for the Black Studies Program? 15. In 1982, Clyde Ruffin established which of the following at MU: 16. MU did not officially recognize Martin Luther King Day until: 17. Who was the first Black pair to be crowned Homecoming king and queen?

18. Who is the first African American head coach at the University of Missouri? 19. How many buildings on the MU Campus are named after African Americans? 20. Who was the first scholarship African American fottball player at the University of Missouri? a. Norris Stevenson 21. He was the first Black faculty member at the MU School of Law. Who is he? 22. The Legion of Black Collegians was founded at the University of Missouri in what year? 23. He was a trailblazer in MU athletics as he was the African American athlete to receive a scholarship at Mizzou. What is his name?