2013 Quiz Bowl



Greetings, McKinley High School invites you to participate in this years 2013 African American Quiz Bowl.  We will also be using less questions per round and geared specifically towards biographies of specific Civil Rights and historical figures who are male and which have impacted African American history. I have listed 68 biographies, no teams have seen this list until now, so be rest assured for a great competitive.  This website will be fully functional on Feb. 01st so please check back for updates




  1. Medgar Evers
  2. Emmett Till
  3. Muhammad Ali
  4. Dred Scott
  5. Nat Turner
  6. Jesse Owens
  7. Louis Armstrong
  8. Jim Brown
  9. Ray Charles
  10. Nat "King" Cole
  11. Duke Ellington
  12. Jimi Hendrix
  13. Michael Jackson
  14. Quincy Jones
  15. Wynton Marsalis
  16. Stevie Wonder
  17. Carter G. Woodson
  18. George Washington Carver
  19. James Baldwin
  20. Ralph Ellison
  21. Alex Haley
  22. Langston Hughes
  23. Elijah McCoy,
  24. George Washington Carver
  25. W. E. B. Du Bois
  26. Crispus Attucks
  27. Frederick Douglass
  28. John R. Lewis
  29. Benjamin O. Davis, Sr.
  30. David Dinkins
  31. Granville Woods
  32. Benjamin Banneke
  33. Tiger Woods
  34. Arthur Ashe
  35. Ralph Abernathy
  36. Stokely Carmichael
  37. Medgar Evers
  38. Marcus Garvey
  39. Muhammad Ali
  40. Jack Johnson
  41. Joe Louis
  42. Jesse Jackson
  43. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  44. Malcolm X
  45. Elijah Muhammad
  46. Benjamin Hooks
  47. Thurgood Marshall
  48. Kweisi Mfume
  49. Harry Belafonte
  50. Clarence Thomas
  51. Bill Cosby
  52. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  53. Kobe Bryant
  54. Wilt Chamberlain
  55. James Earl Jones
  56. Sidney Poitier
  57. Richard Pryor
  58. Paul Robeson
  59. Oprah Winfrey
  60. Barack Obama
  61. P. B. S. Pinchback
  62. Colin Powell
  63. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  64. Hank Aaron
  65. Satchel Paige
  66. A. Philip Randolph
  67. Charles Rangel
  68. Hiram R. Revels