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Sports
Brain Bowl
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| As one of the first black cowboys, which steer wrestler is renowned as the inventor of the modern art of bulldogging | Bill Pickett |
| From 1898 to 1910, who was the fastest bicyclist in the world | Marshall “Major” Taylor |
| In the 1936 Berlin Olympics, who won an unprecedented four Gold Medals in track and field | Jesse Owens |
| In 1904, Charles Follis joined the Capital Blues of Shelby, OH as the first black player in what sport | Pro Football |
| In 1964, who was the first black NFL player to win Player of the Year | Lenny Moore |
| Who was the first African American Winter Olympics medalist, winning the Bronze Medal in the 1988 Winter Olympics in figure skating | Debbie Thomas |
| In 1968, who was the first African American to be inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame | Marion Motley |
| In 1992, what prestigious award did Arthur Ashe receive, making him the first person to attain this honor after retiring from a professional sport | Sportsman of the Year |
| What female basketball player scored 47 points in the final game of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament in 1993 | Sheryl Swoopes |
| Who are the only siblings in the history of tennis to face-off in four consecutive Grand Slam Finals | Serena Williams and Venus Williams |
| Who was the first black boxer to beat a white world heavy weight champion in the world | Jack Johnson |
| Jailed for his refusal to enter for the military draft for the Vietnam War, who is hailed by many as the greatest boxer of all time | Muhammad Ali |
| Known as the “brown bomber” who is one of the greatest heavy weight boxers of all time | Joe Lewis |
| Who broke the color barrier in major league baseball | Jackie Robinson |
| Known as the black “Babe Ruth”, who dominated the Negro leagues in hitting and home runs | Josh Gibson |
| Who was the first black referee in the NFL | Johnny Grier |
| Who were the first African Americans to play in the NBA in 1950 | Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd, Nat Sweetwater Clifton |
| In 1960, Wilt Chamberlin was the first and only player to do this in an NBA game | Score 100 points in a game |
| Born Lewis Alcindor, who changed the NCAA rule outlawing dunks in basketball games | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar |
| In 2008, who was the first African American NFL referee to officiate a Super Bowl | Mike Carey |
| Who was the first African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl in 1988 | Doug Williams |
| Who was the first African-American to play in the Masters Tournament and on the US Ryder Cup | Lee Elder |
| Who was the first black president of the United States Olympic Committee and was also the first African-American to coach a US team | Dr. LeRoy T. Walker |
| Who was the first boxer in history to win a divisional world championship five times | Sugar Ray Leonard |
| Who was the first African American male to win Wimbledon | Arthur Ashe |
| Who is known as the fastest woman alive with records in the 100 and 200 meters that still haven’t been broken after almost 30 years | Florence Griffith Joyner also known as “Flo Jo” |
| At the age of 14, who became the youngest amateur golfer to win the U.S. Amateur Championships | Tiger Woods |
| Who was the first African American pitcher to pitch in the World Series | Satchel Paige |
| During a 1968 Olympic Games victory stand demonstration, Thomas Smith and John Carlos bowed their heads and raised a fist to symbolize what | Power and Unity for Black America |
| Raised in Compton, CA what sisters dominated the women’s tennis scene in the 2000’s | Serena & Venus Williams |
| Who was the first man in history to set 3 Olympic records at the same games and still holds the title as the fastest man in the world | Usain Bolt |
| Who was the first African American to compete full time in a NASCAR series | Wendell Scott |
| Who was the first black coach in the NBA | Bill Russell |
| Who became the first African American to play in the NHL in 1958 | Willie O’Ree |
| Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, Wilt Chamberlain and Connie Hawkins were onetime team members of what organization | Harlem Globetrotters |
| Who was the first African American basketball coach at the University of Arizona and the first African American to be head coach of the NCAA Division I team | Fred Snowden (1936-1994) |
| What NFL player set the world record for the most one-handed catches in one minute with 33 catches | Odell Beckham Jr. (OBJ) |
| Who was the first Black female NFL referee which helped to pave the way for both African American and female referees | Maia Chaka |
| Who was the first African American woman (and an American woman in general) to win three Olympic gold medals in Track for the U.S. | Wilma Rudolph |
| The “Rumble in the Jungle” the first ever heavyweight title match to take place in Africa featured what two boxers | Muhammad Ali vs. George Foreman |
| Who were the first two African Americans to be in the NFL | Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall |
| Who is the first African-American to become the principal owner of a major professional sports team, owning the Charlotte Bobcats (now known as the Hornets) in the NBA | Robert L. Johnson |
| Who was the first African American to play in the PGA | Charlie Sifford |
| In what year did African Americans start to play in major professional sports | 1947 |
| Who became the first African-American head coach to win the Super Bowl when the Colts defeated the Chicago Bears on February 4, 2007 | Tony Dungy |
| Who was the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961 | Ernie Davis |
| Who in the NFL took a knee during the national anthem in 2017 to draw attention to various forms of systematic injustice and violence against African Americans throughout the country | Colin Kaepernick |
| Who retired with a perfect 50-0 record, making him the only fighter in history with as many fights to go undefeated with no ties | Floyd Mayweather Jr. |
| What major league baseball team was the last to integrate its team | Boston Red Sox |
| Who was the first black player drafted in the NBA | Chuck Cooper |
| Who were the two NFL African American coaches that competed in the 2007 Super Bowl | Tony Dungy – Indianapolis Colts and Lovie Smith – Chicago Bears |
| In what year did African Americans start playing in the NBA | 1950 |
| Maurice Ashley became the first African American Grandmasters in what game | Chess |
| Who was the first African American Football Coach for the University of Arizona | Kevin Sumlin |
| In 2018, the State of Arizona had three African American Head Football Coaches. Who were they | Kevin Sumlin – UofA Wildcats, Steve Wilks – Arizona Cardinals, Herm Edwards – ASU Sun devils |
| Who was the first African American male to receive an Olympic gold medal | John Baxter Taylor |
| Who is the first African American NFL football head coach | Fritz Pollard |
| What NFL team became the first team to integrate when they hired black players Kenny Washington and Woody Strode | LA Rams |
| Earlene Brown (1935-1983) is the first U.S. woman to earn an Olympic medal in what | Shot put |
| Who is the WNBA’s first MVP (1997) | Cynthia Cooper |
| Who is the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics | Dominique Dawes |
| Who is the first African American person to win medals in the Winter Paralympics and competed in ski racing | Bonnie St. John |
| Which softball player won gold and silver medals at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics, as well as being a professional all-star and college All-American, set records while competing at UCLA | Natasha Watley |
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