How it works
These trivia questions for Black History Month ask what people built, wrote, won and changed, from Carter G. Woodson's first history week in 1926 to the ruling in Loving v. Virginia. Tap a choice to see the answer.
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Six rounds, from the movement to the track
After ten questions, Start from under the question holds six rounds: Leaders and the movement, Famous firsts, Inventors and scientists, Court cases and laws, Writers, artists and musicians and Sport. The first opens with the month itself: who launched Negro History Week, and why it sat in the second week of February.
For a classroom, a program night or a staff lunch
Read each question aloud, let the tables talk, then tap the choice: the reason shows under it with a link to its source. For a score, choose Scored round and press Start the round. After ten questions, Print lists them to trim, add to and put on paper.
- Read the line under the answer aloud: Bessie Coleman earned her pilot's license in France because American flight schools would not admit her.
- Start younger students on Leaders and the movement, which holds the most easy questions.
Questions and answers
Who are these questions for?
Adults and students from about middle school up. The set asks what people built, wrote, won and changed: Harriet Tubman's trips back to Maryland, Lewis Latimer's carbon filament, Alvin Ailey's dance company. Killings and attacks are not turned into quiz prompts.
Why are some famous names missing?
Living people are left out, as answers and as wrong choices, so the set stops short of several recent firsts. A fact about a living person can change, and a printed answer key cannot.
How were the answers checked?
Each answer was matched to the sentence that states it on the page linked under the question: a Wikipedia article for people, read October 1, 2026, and for laws and rulings a National Archives, Library of Congress or Smithsonian page, read October 3.