Full Version: Black History Trivia
Today marks the beginning of Black History Month.
The way this will work is that I will ask the first question about Black History. Whoever answers the current question must ask the next.
Questions:
Who was the first person of African descent to dine with a sitting U. S. president?
Who was the president?
The way this will work is that I will ask the first question about Black History. Whoever answers the current question must ask the next.
Questions:
Who was the first person of African descent to dine with a sitting U. S. president?
Who was the president?
Sally Hemings?
QUOTE(Eeyore @ Feb 2 2006, 12:07 AM)
Sally Hemings?
Eeyore I'm sorry, but it wasn't Sally Hemings.
Condoleeza Rice? 
Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House in 1901. ( Which caused a total uproar by Democrats) Of course then the parties were opposite of today, how that switched I dont know.
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/tr&btw.jpg Cartoon Image.
What country was settled by freed African-American slaves?
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/tr&btw.jpg Cartoon Image.
What country was settled by freed African-American slaves?
QUOTE(Artemise @ Feb 2 2006, 08:34 AM)
Of course then the parties were opposite of today, how that switched I dont know.
I'm sorry, I know this is a trivia thread, but I take great offense to this "drive-by".
The only thing Democrats changed is their tactics. They have found that they can still oppress blacks economically, whereas Republicans are not satisfied with their physical liberation, but strive for their freedom from economic oppression also.
I would encourage you to read some Thomas Sowell if you'd like "the rest of the story".
QUOTE(Artemise @ Feb 2 2006, 08:34 AM)
Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House in 1901. ( Which caused a total uproar by Democrats) Of course then the parties were opposite of today, how that switched I dont know.
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/tr&btw.jpg Cartoon Image.
What country was settled by freed African-American slaves?
http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/tr&btw.jpg Cartoon Image.
What country was settled by freed African-American slaves?
Liberia, while not founded by, was settled by slaves...
Edited to add - Just in case that's the winner, whose quote is this?
QUOTE
Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!
QUOTE(BoF @ Feb 2 2006, 04:21 AM)
Today marks the beginning of Black History Month.
The way this will work is that I will ask the first question about Black History. Whoever answers the current question must ask the next.
Questions:
Who was the first person of African descent to dine with a sitting U. S. president?
Who was the president?
The way this will work is that I will ask the first question about Black History. Whoever answers the current question must ask the next.
Questions:
Who was the first person of African descent to dine with a sitting U. S. president?
Who was the president?
Ooh - good question. I don't know, but I'm going to guess it will have been a prominent African politician on a state visit (in either direction).
So I'll have to guess and say either Nelson Mandela (good guy) with Bill Clinton, or Idi Amin (bad guy) with Nixon/Carter.
Either that, or it will have been an actor or entertainer. Sammy Davis Jnr with Kennedy, perhaps? Bill Cosby with Reagan/Bush I? Maybe even Louis Armstrong with Eisenhower?
Or maybe it's a trick question - based on current theories of human evolution, we're all Africans, so it was Mrs George Washington?
Am I warm?
Tell us! Tell us!
Who was the first person of African descent to dine with a sitting U. S. president?
Who was the president?
Clue:
Eeyore was closest to the timeframe with Sally Hemings, but the dinner guest was before Jefferson. That gives two choices for the president, but who was the president's guest?
Who was the president?
Clue:
Eeyore was closest to the timeframe with Sally Hemings, but the dinner guest was before Jefferson. That gives two choices for the president, but who was the president's guest?
QUOTE(Yogurt @ Feb 2 2006, 09:22 AM)
Edited to add - Just in case that's the winner, whose quote is this?
QUOTE
Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!
I believe that was Frederick Douglass
QUOTE(tonyman @ Feb 2 2006, 01:23 PM)
I believe that was Frederick Douglass
My bad, the first question has not been answered correctly yet. You are correct on this though
I hope this isnt called cheating but...
On October 16, after an afternoon meeting at the White House with Booker T. Washington, President Theodore Roosevelt informally invited Washington to remain and eat dinner with him, making Washington the first black American to dine at the White House with the president. A furor arose over the social implications of Roosevelt's casual act.
Myy question
where and when was malcom X born
On October 16, after an afternoon meeting at the White House with Booker T. Washington, President Theodore Roosevelt informally invited Washington to remain and eat dinner with him, making Washington the first black American to dine at the White House with the president. A furor arose over the social implications of Roosevelt's casual act.
Myy question
where and when was malcom X born
QUOTE(BoF @ Feb 2 2006, 11:59 AM)
Who was the first person of African descent to dine with a sitting U. S. president?
Who was the president?
Clue:
Eeyore was closest to the timeframe with Sally Hemings, but the dinner guest was before Jefferson. That gives two choices for the president, but who was the president's guest?
Who was the president?
Clue:
Eeyore was closest to the timeframe with Sally Hemings, but the dinner guest was before Jefferson. That gives two choices for the president, but who was the president's guest?
Benjamin Banneker?
My guess is Samuel Fraunces, or Black Sam. And the President would be George Washington.
If so, then my question would be, the name of the slave who ran away from George in the fall of 1796? If not, so much for my question....
And re the drive-by, the rebuttal to the same:
http://www.theblackrepublican.net/archives/000248.html
If so, then my question would be, the name of the slave who ran away from George in the fall of 1796? If not, so much for my question....
And re the drive-by, the rebuttal to the same:
http://www.theblackrepublican.net/archives/000248.html
Another clue:
The answer is in David McCullough's John Adams. Adams entertained the first black dinner guest when the seat of government was still in Philadelphia. The guest was a representative of Toussaint L' Overture, leader of a slave rebellion in San Domingo.
Since this appears to be a hard question, I see no problem with going around my question to answer KHT's.
The answer is in David McCullough's John Adams. Adams entertained the first black dinner guest when the seat of government was still in Philadelphia. The guest was a representative of Toussaint L' Overture, leader of a slave rebellion in San Domingo.
Since this appears to be a hard question, I see no problem with going around my question to answer KHT's.
QUOTE(Juber3 @ Feb 2 2006, 02:02 PM)
where and when was malcom X born
Malcolm Little was born in Omaha, Nebraska on May 19, 1925
Martin Luther King Jr. got the credit, but without the logistical assistance of this openly gay man the March on Washington might never have happened. Who was he?
That would be Bayard Rustin. 
QUOTE(BoF @ Feb 2 2006, 02:46 PM)
Another clue:
The answer is in David McCullough's John Adams. Adams entertained the first black dinner guest when the seat of government was still in Philadelphia. The guest was a representative of Toussaint L' Overture, leader of a slave rebellion in San Domingo.
Since this appears to be a hard question, I see no problem with going around my question to answer KHT's.
The answer is in David McCullough's John Adams. Adams entertained the first black dinner guest when the seat of government was still in Philadelphia. The guest was a representative of Toussaint L' Overture, leader of a slave rebellion in San Domingo.
Since this appears to be a hard question, I see no problem with going around my question to answer KHT's.
Joseph Bunel
QUOTE(slim @ Feb 3 2006, 12:26 PM)
QUOTE(BoF @ Feb 2 2006, 02:46 PM)
Another clue:
The answer is in David McCullough's John Adams. Adams entertained the first black dinner guest when the seat of government was still in Philadelphia. The guest was a representative of Toussaint L' Overture, leader of a slave rebellion in San Domingo.
Since this appears to be a hard question, I see no problem with going around my question to answer KHT's.
The answer is in David McCullough's John Adams. Adams entertained the first black dinner guest when the seat of government was still in Philadelphia. The guest was a representative of Toussaint L' Overture, leader of a slave rebellion in San Domingo.
Since this appears to be a hard question, I see no problem with going around my question to answer KHT's.
Joseph Bunel
Slim got it. According to David McCullough, Joseph Bunel was the first person of African descent to dine with a sitting U. S president, John Adams.
Since slim didn't ask a question, I'll get the ball rolling again with an easier question.
New Question
In 1952 Ralph Ellison published an acclaimed first novel entitled Invisible Man.
How many other novels did Ellison publish before his death in 1994?
QUOTE(BoF @ Feb 3 2006, 05:18 PM)
How many other novels did Ellison publish before his death in 1994?
None?
Edited to add:
In case it's correct,
After serving in the U. S. Army in France I went on to be the first black American to obtain a doctorate in mathematics in the United States, who am I?
QUOTE(Yogurt @ Feb 3 2006, 04:29 PM)
QUOTE(BoF @ Feb 3 2006, 05:18 PM)
How many other novels did Ellison publish before his death in 1994?
None?
That's correct. Ellison's second novel was destroyed when his house caught fire in 1967. In 1981, Ellison quipped : "If I'm going to be remembered as a novelist, I'd better produce a few more books."
Ellison died thirteen years later at the age of 80, never haven written a second book (although he produced many many short stories and essays).
QUOTE
After serving in the U. S. Army in France I went on to be the first black American to obtain a doctorate in mathematics in the United States, who am I?
Elbert Frank Cox, from Cornell, in 1925. It was actually the first one awarded to a black anywhere in the world (mathematics was not a PhD subject in many universities at the time).
What self-educated black man published his own Farmer's Alamanac circa 1795?
Yogurt is correct! Ellison did publish a couple of books of essays and John Callahan produced another novel, Juneteenth, which was culled from about 2000 pages of manuscript Ellison left behind. Sadly, Ellison never published another novel after the highly successful Invisible Man.
Amlord's questions is now active:
What self-educated black man published his own Farmer's Alamanac circa 1795?
Amlord's questions is now active:
What self-educated black man published his own Farmer's Alamanac circa 1795?
Benjamin Banneker
I was the first black golfer to win a PGA tour event (in 1964).
I was the first black golfer to win a PGA tour event (in 1964).
QUOTE(slim @ Feb 4 2006, 02:38 AM)
I was the first black golfer to win a PGA tour event (in 1964).
No you weren't, Slim - that would be Pete Brown, who won the Waco Turner Open.
New question:
In what year was the first African-American ordained a priest by the Catholic Church?
QUOTE(Wertz @ Feb 5 2006, 01:55 PM)
QUOTE(slim @ Feb 4 2006, 02:38 AM)
I was the first black golfer to win a PGA tour event (in 1964).
No you weren't, Slim - that would be Pete Brown, who won the Waco Turner Open.
New question:
In what year was the first African-American ordained a priest by the Catholic Church?
1854, James Augustine Healy in France.
Keeping with the religious theme- what was the first year that the LDS church lifted the ban on blacks being baptized into the priesthhood?
The Church of Latter Day Saint’s lifted the ban on ordaining (not baptizing) black priests in 1978. Yet it was nine years later that Jesse Lee Thomas became the first black Mormon priest.
New question:
Which of the original 1950s black rock artists sold more records?
1. Little Richard
2. Fats Domino
3. Chuck Berry
4. Pat Boone
5. Bo Diddley
New question:
Which of the original 1950s black rock artists sold more records?
1. Little Richard
2. Fats Domino
3. Chuck Berry
4. Pat Boone
5. Bo Diddley
Which of the original 1950s black rock artists sold more records?
Little Richard,Fats Domino,Chuck Berry,Pat Boone,Bo Diddley
I'm just guessing here - Fats Domino?
Here's another trivia question?
Nine months before Rosa Parks made history by refusing to give up her
seat to a white man, another African-American was arrested for refusing to
give up her seat to a white person. What was her name?
Little Richard,Fats Domino,Chuck Berry,Pat Boone,Bo Diddley
I'm just guessing here - Fats Domino?
Here's another trivia question?
Nine months before Rosa Parks made history by refusing to give up her
seat to a white man, another African-American was arrested for refusing to
give up her seat to a white person. What was her name?
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