Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, February 24, 1991 TAG: 9102220029
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: CLARENCE N. BLAKE SPECIAL TO THE ROANOKE TIMES & WORLD-NEWS
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
\ 1. A Baptist clergyman born in Charleston, W.Va, he organizes economic self-help programs. In 1971 he became the first African-American member of the Board of Directors of General Motors.
a. Leon H. Sullivan
b. Lloyd A. Hall
c. Benjamin E. Swinson
d. Charles Funderburk
\ 2. In 1955, she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., thus helping to bring about the civil rights movement in the United States.
a. Barbara Hatton
b. Rosa Parks
c. Linda Washington
d. Ethel Hall
\ 3. A nationally renowned educator was born in in Altavista, Va. In 1983, she was elected president of the 20 million-member National Education Association (NEA). She served in this position for an unprecedented three terms.
a. Marcella Brooks
b. Louise K. Riddick
c. Jewel S. Carrington
d. Mary Hatwood Futrell
\ 4. This scientist was born in Lake City, S.C., on Oct. 21, 1950. In 1971, he graduated from North Carolina A&T University with a B.S. in physics. In 1975 he earned a Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1978, he became a NASA special-mission astronaut. He was killed when the ill-fated shuttle Challenger exploded in January 1986.
a. Ronald E. McNair
b. Alva L. Wilson
c. James E. Clyburn
d. James J. French
\ 5. Born on Jan. 17, 1931 in Richmond, this Howard University Law School graduate was elected in 1989 as the nation's first black state Governor.
a. Andrew F. Brimmer
b. David N. Dinkins
c. L. Douglas Wilder
d. Charles H. Houston
\ 6. Match the following sports stars with their nicknames.
a. William Perry
b. Reggie Jackson
c. Ervin Johnson
d. James Douglas
e. O.J. Simpson
f. Willie Stargell
g. Joe Louis
h. George Gervin
"Buster"
"Refrigerator"
"Mr. October" "Juice"
"The Brown Bomber"
"Ice Man"
"Magic"
"Pops"
\ 7. She was born in 1910 in Illinois. She became a renowned dancer, choreographer and anthropologist.
a. Pearl Primus
b. Katherine Dunham
c. Ellen Banks
d. Barbara Hendricks
\ 8. Founder and editor of the Journal of Negro History. In addition, he is the originator of "Black History Week," the precursor of Black History Month.
a. Paul C. Garrett
b. Walter C. Barrett
c. Herbert A. Marshall
d. Carter G. Woodson
\ 9. Match the followlng world renowned African-American authors with their major literary genre.
a. Gwendolyn Brooks
b. Lorriane Hansberry
c. Richard Wright
d. Langston Hughes
e. August Wilson
f. James Baldwin
g. Arna Bontemps
h. Sterllng Brown
i. Nikki Giovanni poet
playwright
novelist
essayist
\ 10. Match the media area with the persons who are associated with them.
Publisher & broadcast executive
Publisher
Founder, Baltimore Afro-American
Co-editor, 60 Minutes
Talk-show host
Anchorman for NBC TV's "Today Show"
First black regular anchorwoman
Columnist
Washinaton Post journalist
Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder
a. Earl G. Graves
b. John H. Johnson
c. Oprah Winfrey
d. Robert Johnson
e. Bryant Gumbel
f. Carole Simpson
g. Ed Bradley
h. Carl Rowan
i. William Raspberry
j. John Henry Murphy
\ 11. This native New Yorker advanced from U.S. Army ROTC cadet at Fordham University to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest-ranking military position in the U.S. Armed Forces.
a. Colin L. Powell
b. Daniel "Chappie" James
c. John "Mike" Brown
d. York C. Campbell
\ 12. Match the brief descriptions of the following black-oriented films with their titles.
James Earl Jones starred as the main character in a 1972 film version of a novel about the first black president of the United States.
Morgan Freeman plays in this 1989 dramatic movie about the real-life actions of stern New Jersey high school principal Joe Clark
Carl Weathers starred as a lawman determined to solve a series of crimes engineered by a corrupt but powerful industrialist. (1988)
This 1977 movie features Richard Pryor and Pam Grier. It centers around the life of black race-car driver Wendell Scott.
a. Lean on Me
b. The Man
c. Greased Lightning
d. Action Jackson
\ 13. Identify the author of the following
"If there is not struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
a. Nat Turner
b. Denmark Vesey
c. A. Philip Randolph
d. Frederick Douglass
\ 14. Match these classical musicians with what they are primarily noted for.
a. Leontyne Price
b. Marian Anderson
c. Michael Jordan
d. Andre Watts
e. Todd Duncan
f. Florence Price pianist
concert singer
opera singer
singer
conductor
composer
\ 15. Match the jazz musicians with what they are best known for.
a. Art Tatum b. Kenny Burrell
c. Gladys Knight
d. Branford Marsalis
e. Wynton Marsalis
f. Thelonious Monk
g. Mary Lou Williams
h. Quincy Jones
i. Bessie Smith
j. Ella Fitzgerald
composer/pianist
guitarist
trumpet
saxophone
pianist
composer
singer
blues singer
\ 16. From the following list of ten outstanding black athletes identify the Olympic events that each excelled in.
a. Rafer Johnson
b. Norvell Lee c. Zina Garrison
d. Wilma Rudolph
e. Jesse Owens
f. Sugar Ray Leonard
g. Jackie Joyner
h. Edwin Moses
i. Cindy Brown
j. Evelyn Ashfordi
tennis
boxing basketball
boxing
400m hurdles
100 m dash
heptathlon
dash/long jump
decathlon
400 m relay
\ 17. Identify the performing arts genre of the following African-American artists
a. Ira F. Aldridge
b. Katherine Dunham
c. Janet Collins
d. Yaphet Kotto
e. James Earl Jones f. Ethel Waters
g. Arthur Mitchell
h. Charles Gilpin
i. Ruby Dee
j. Nell Carter
Shakespearean actor
ballerina choreographer
dancer
actor
actress
18. To whom does this inscription, located on a memorial in Auburn, N.Y., refer?
I was conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years and I can say what most conductors can't say - I never ran my train off the track or lost a passenger.
a. Sojourner Truth
b. Charlotte L. Forten
c. Harriet R. Tubman
d. Fannie Lou Hamer
\ 19. Match the following clergymen's names with the phrase that best describes them.
Richard Allen (b. 1760)
Father Divine (b. 1874)
Patrick Healy (b. 1834)
Elijah Muhammad (b. 1897)
a. co-founder of the first black AME church (in Philadelphia)
b. organized black Muslim movement in the U.S.
c. founder of the Peace Mission Movement
d. Catholic priest and 1st black president of Georgetown University
\ 20. Match the following scientists with theses descriptions of their work.
Percy L. Julian
Harold Amog
Shirley Ann Jackson
Irene D. Long
Ernest E. Just
a. research scientist and cortisone discover
b. 1st African- American woman to earn a PH.D in physics
c. Biologist
d. Physician
e. bacterologist
\ \ Answers
(Award yourself 5 points for each correct answer). 1. Leon H. Sullivan 2. Rosa Parks 3. Mary Hatwood Futrell 4. Ronald E. McNair 5. L. Douglas Wilder 6. William Perry "Refrigerator"
Reggie Jackson "Mr October"
Ervin Johnson "Magic"
James Douglas "Buster"
O.J. Simpson "Juice"
Willie Stargell "Pops"
Joe Louis "Brown Bomber"
George Gervin "Ice Man" 7. Katherine Dunham 8. Carter G. Woodson 9. Brooks, poet; Hansberry, playwright; Wright, novelist; Hughes, poet; Wilson, playwright; Baldwin, essayist; Bontemps, novelist; Brown, poet; Giovanni, poet. 10. Graves, publisher & broadcast executive; John Johnson, publisher; Winfrey, talk show host; Robert Johnson, BET founder; Gumbel, Today Show anchor; Simpson, first regular woman anchor; Bradley, co-editor, 60 Minutes; Rowan, journalist; Raspberry, Washington Post journalist; Murphy, founder Afro-American. 11. Colin L. Powell 12. b, a, d and c. 13. d. Frederick Douglass 14. Price, singer; Anderson, concert singer; Jordan, conductor; Watts, pianist; Duncan, singer; Florence Price, composer. 15. Tatum, pianist; Burrell, guitarist; Knight, singer, Marsalis, saxophonist; Monk, pianist/composer; Williams, pianist; Jones, composer; Smith, blues singer; Fitzgerald, jazz singer. 16. Johnson, decathlon; Lee, boxing; Garrison, tennis; Rudolph; 100 m dash; Owen, dash/long jump; Leonard, boxing; Joyner, heptathlon; Moses, 400 m. hurdles; Brown, basketball, Ashford, 400 meter relay. 17. Aldridge, Shakespearean actor; Dunham, dancer/choreographer; Collins, ballerina; Kotto, actor; Jones, actor; Waters, actress; Mitchell, dancer; Gilpin, actor; Dee, actress; Carter; actress 18. Harriet R. Tubman 19. a, c, d, b 20. a, e, d, b, c,
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