Here's another round of African American firsts for this last weekend of Black History Month
1. Who was the first African American to win an Oscar?
a) Halle Berry b) Denzel Washington
c) Sidney Poitier d) Hattie McDaniel
2. To win a best actor Oscar?
a) Denzel Washington b) Sidney Poitier
c) Louis Gossett Jr. d) Jamie Foxx
3. To win best actress Oscar?
a) Whoopi Goldberg b) Halle Berry
c) Dorothy Dandridge d) Hattie McDaniel
4. To win a Tony?
a) Dorothy Dandridge b) Whoopi Goldberg
c) Juanita Hall d) Angela Bassett
5. Name the artist who has won an Oscar, an Emmy (a Daytime Emmy), and a Tony?
a) Whoopi Goldberg b) Denzel Washington
c) Halle Berry d) Jamie Foxx
6. This actor won three consecutive Emmys for outstanding lead actor in a drama series in the 1960s.
a) Sidney Poitier b) Harry Belafonte
c) Nat King Cole d) Bill Cosby
7. First anchor of a major broadcast network news program?
a) Bernard Shaw b) Max Robinson
c) Lester Holt d) Bryant Gumbel
8. First black woman inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
a) Tina Turner b) Bessie Smith
c) Aretha Franklin d) Diana Ross
9. First black woman to win Nobel Prize for literature?
a) Toni Morrison b) Zorz Neale Hurston
c) Nikki Giovanni d) Alice Walker
10. First African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for history?
a) John Hope Franklin b) Carter G. Woodson
c) David Levering Lewis d) Annette Gordon-Reed
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Answers : 1. d ; 2. b ; 3. b ; 4. c ; 5. a ; 6. d ; 7. b ; 8. c ; 9. a 10. d
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