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Week 1 Trivia Questions and Answers

Congrats to Sarah Campbell for winning the Week 1 drawing!

1. Who was the first Black scholarship athlete at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill?
ANSWER: Charlie Scott

2. Which University famously won the 1966 NCAA Basketball Championship fielding an all Black starting line up?
ANSWER: Texas Western College, now known as UTEP (University of Texas El Paso)

3. Which famous civil rights activist was born on January 15, 1929?
ANSWER: Martin Luther King Jr.

4. Who became the first Black woman to argue before the Supreme Court on January 29, 1926?
ANSWER: Violette Nealy Anderson


5. Which was the first Black coach to win the Super Bowl? When?
ANSWER: Tony Dungy, 2007

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