50 free DEI Trivia: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free DEI Trivia: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion questions with answers. Forty questions on diversity, equity and inclusion, put together for workplace DEI events, classrooms and quiz nights. The set is factual and neutral. It runs through the landmark American laws and court cases, from the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act to Brown v. Board, Loving v. Virginia, Title IX, the Americans with Disabilities Act and Obergefell. It also covers the people who broke barriers, including Thurgood Marshall, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sonia Sotomayor, Jackie Robinson, Sally Ride, Katherine Johnson, Kamala Harris and Barack Obama, plus activists such as Rosa Parks, Harvey Milk, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Judith Heumann, Marsha P. Johnson and Malala. A final stretch covers heritage months and key terms like intersectionality, microaggression and neurodiversity. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the laws, people and observances involved, and the sentence that establishes it is shown under each explanation.
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Q 01What is the 1964 US law outlawing discrimination by race, colour, religion, sex and national origin called?
The Civil Rights Act
It was signed by President Lyndon Johnson and also created the agency that enforces workplace fairness.
Q 02The landmark 1965 election law was designed to stop what?
Racial discrimination at the polls
It banned tactics like literacy tests that had kept many Black Americans from the polls.
Q 03Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ruled racial segregation unconstitutional in what?
Public schools
It overturned the 'separate but equal' doctrine for education.
Q 04The 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia struck down laws banning what?
Interracial marriage
Richard and Mildred Loving had been prosecuted in Virginia for their marriage.
Q 05The 2015 Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges guaranteed the right to marry to whom nationwide?
Same-sex couples
Before the ruling, same-sex marriage was already legal in 36 states.
Q 06In which year was the ADA, the landmark US law protecting disabled people from discrimination, passed?
1990
It requires public spaces and workplaces to be accessible.
Q 07The Equal Pay Act of 1963 aimed to abolish wage differences based on what?
Sex
It was signed by President John F. Kennedy to tackle the gap between men's and women's pay.
Q 08Title IX, passed in 1972, prohibits sex-based discrimination in which area of public life?
Schools and colleges
It is best known for expanding girls' and women's sports in schools and colleges.
Q 09The 1969 uprising seen as the start of the modern LGBTQ rights movement was at which New York bar?
The Stonewall Inn
The first Pride marches, a year later, marked its anniversary.
Q 10Juneteenth, made a US federal holiday in 2021, commemorates the end of what?
Slavery
It is celebrated on June 19, the date the news of emancipation reached enslaved people in Galveston, Texas.
Q 11Who was the first woman to serve as a US Supreme Court justice?
Sandra Day O'Connor
President Ronald Reagan nominated her in 1981.
Q 12Ruth Bader Ginsburg was the second woman and first of which faith on the Supreme Court?
Jewish
She became a champion of gender equality and a pop-culture icon late in life.
Q 13Who was the first African American justice on the US Supreme Court, appointed in 1967?
Thurgood Marshall
As a lawyer he had argued and won the Brown v. Board of Education case.
Sonia Sotomayor, appointed in 2009, was the first Supreme Court justice of which heritage?
Q 21In which city did Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay US elected officials, serve from 1977?
San Francisco
He served on the city's Board of Supervisors before his assassination in 1978.
Q 22Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta co-founded a union to fight for the rights of which group?
Farm workers
Their group grew into the United Farm Workers.
Q 23Dolores Huerta is credited with coining which rallying cry, later used by Barack Obama as 'Yes we can'?
Sí se puede
It became the motto of the farm workers' movement.
Latina
She grew up in the Bronx to a Puerto Rican family.
Q 15Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's colour line in 1947 with which team?
The Brooklyn Dodgers
His number 42 is now retired across all of baseball.
Q 16Sally Ride made history in 1983 by becoming the first American woman to do what?
Fly in space
At 32 she was also the youngest American to fly in space at the time.
Q 17In 2021 Kamala Harris became the first woman, first African American and first Asian American to hold which office?
Vice President
She is of Indian and Jamaican heritage.
Q 18Barack Obama, elected in 2008, broke which barrier as the 44th holder of his office?
First African American president
He served as the 44th president from 2009 to 2017.
Q 19Katherine Johnson, honoured in the film Hidden Figures, was a NASA mathematician who calculated what?
Spaceflight trajectories
John Glenn reportedly asked her to double-check the computer before his orbital flight.
Q 20Rosa Parks sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 by refusing to do what?
Give up her bus seat
Her quiet act of defiance became a turning point in the civil rights movement.
Q 24Judith Heumann, 'Mother of the Disability Rights Movement', helped lead which 1977 protest?
504 Sit-in
The sit-in pushed the government to enforce disability access rules.
Q 25Stonewall figure Marsha P. Johnson was a leading early activist for the LGBTQ community and which group in particular?
Transgender individuals
She helped found an organisation to support homeless transgender youth.
Q 26Malala Yousafzai became the youngest ever recipient of which honour in 2014?
The Nobel Peace Prize
She was 17 when she received it, after surviving a Taliban attack in Pakistan.
Q 27Who coined the concept of 'intersectionality' in 1989?
Kimberlé Crenshaw
She is a law professor who later founded a research centre on the idea at Columbia.
Q 28The term 'microaggression' was coined in 1970 by Harvard psychiatrist Chester Pierce to describe what?
Small everyday slights and snubs
He used it for the small slights he saw non-Black Americans direct at African Americans.
Q 29Neurodiversity is a framework that treats differences like autism and ADHD as what?
Natural variations in the brain
It reframes such traits as part of the normal range of human minds.
Q 30The US agency that enforces anti-discrimination laws at work, the EEOC, was created by which act?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
It investigates complaints of workplace discrimination.