African American History Jeopardy African American History Quiz

African American History Jeopardy

African American History Quiz Bowl $1 $1 $1 $2 $2 $2 $5 $5 $5 $10 $10 $10 $20 $20 $20

African $1 First American colony to recognize slavery in 1641

African $1 Massachusetts

African $2 First Black to own a movie & TV studio

African $2 Tyler Perry

African $5 First black woman to win Miss American Pageant

African $5 Vanessa Williams

African $10 First Black astronaut in the U. S.

African $10 Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr.

African $20 First Black Pulitzer Prize winner

African $20 Gwendolyn Brooks

American $1 Established Tuskegee Institute on July 4, 1881

American $1 Booker T. Washington

American $2 Activist for Black rights in South Africa

American $2 Nelson & Winnie Mandela

American $5 First Black to receive the Nobel Peace Prize

American $5 Ralph Bunche

American $10 First Black medical doctor in the U. S. –practice in New Orleans

American $10 Dr. James Derham

American $20 Founder of the city of Chicago

American $20 Jean Baptiste Pointe Du Sable

History $1 First Black United States Ambassador to the United Nations

History $1 Andrew Young

History $2 First Black World Heavyweight Boxing chamption

History $2 Jack Johnson

History $5 First school for Black nurses

History $5 Providence Hospital

History $10 Former Black executive director of the NAACP

History $10 James Weldon Johnson

History $20 World’s first Black female pilot

History $20 Bessie Coleman

Quiz$1 First Black female appointed to the U. S. presidential cabinet

Quiz $1 Patricia Harris

Quiz $2 First Black city Commissioner of Kalamazoo

Quiz$2 Arthur Washington, Jr.

Quiz$5 First two Black NFL coaches to reach the Superbowl

Quiz $5 Coach Dungy and Coach Love

Quiz $10 First Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church

Quiz $10 Richard Allen

Quiz $20 First American winner of the U. S. Open Tennis Championship

Quiz$20 Arthur Ashe

Bowl $1 “A mind is a terrible thing to waste”

Bowl $1 Slogan of United Negro College Fund

Bowl $2 First Black mayor of major city – 1967

Bowl $2 Carl Stokes ~ Cleveland, Ohio

Bowl $5 Name of the first slave ship to arrive in the U. S.

Bowl $5 Carl Stokes ~ Cleveland, Ohio

Bowl $10 Michigan’s first Black Congressperson

$10 Bowl Charles C. Diggs

Bowl $20 First Black to win an Academy Award for “Gone With the Wind”

Bowl $20 Hattie Mc. Daniel

Final Jeopardy Question Thurgood Marshall

Final Jeopardy Answer First Black justice on the U. S. Supreme Court

Final Jeopardy Category Supreme Court