Q 01/05

Who topped a 2004 poll of great Black Britons and was honoured with a 2016 statue outside St Thomas' Hospital in London?

A) Olaudah Equiano

B) Mary Seacole

C) Claudia Jones

D) Harold Moody

Answer · why

B) Mary Seacole

Mary Seacole won the 2004 vote for greatest Black Briton nearly 150 years after running her 'British Hotel' for sick and convalescent officers near Ba...

Q 02/05

Which Roman emperor, born at Leptis Magna in North Africa, died at Eboracum in AD 211 while campaigning in Britain?

A) Septimius Severus

B) Constantius Chlorus

C) Constantine

D) Caracalla

Answer · why

A) Septimius Severus

Septimius Severus came to Britain in 208 to conquer Caledonia and forced its tribes to give up territory, but he fell ill and died before the campaign...

Q 03/05

Lewis Hamilton, Formula One's first Black world champion, matched which driver's record of seven titles in 2020?

A) Ayrton Senna

B) Michael Schumacher

C) Alain Prost

D) Sebastian Vettel

Answer · why

B) Michael Schumacher

Michael Schumacher's seven titles had stood alone since 2004 until Hamilton clinched his seventh with a wet-weather win at the 2020 Turkish Grand Prix...

Q 04/05

Which rapper headlined Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage in 2019 wearing a stab vest designed by Banksy?

A) Dave

B) Skepta

C) Wiley

D) Stormzy

Answer · why

D) Stormzy

Stormzy, the first Black British solo artist to headline Glastonbury, broke up his set with a ballet interlude marking the arrival of ballet shoes mad...

Q 05/05

Who became the first Black woman elected to Parliament in 1987, and in 2024 earned the title Mother of the House?

A) Diane Abbott

B) Dawn Butler

C) Oona King

D) Valerie Amos

Answer · why

A) Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott has sat for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987; in 2019 she stood in at Prime Minister's Questions, the first Black MP to speak...