Q 01/05

Which president rang a church bell to open the National Museum of African American History and Culture?

A) George W. Bush

B) Barack Obama

C) Joe Biden

D) Donald Trump

Answer · why

B) Barack Obama

Barack Obama rang the Freedom Bell with four generations of the Bonner family, led by 99-year-old Ruth. The bell came from a Virginia church founded b...

Q 02/05

Which talk show host has a 350-seat theater named for her at the Smithsonian's African American history museum?

A) Oprah Winfrey

B) Whoopi Goldberg

C) Tyra Banks

D) Wendy Williams

Answer · why

A) Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey gave the museum $21 million in all, the largest gift it had received by the time its doors opened.

Q 03/05

Whose glass-topped casket, kept open at his 1955 funeral, is preserved by the Smithsonian?

A) Medgar Evers

B) James Chaney

C) Emmett Till

D) Jimmie Lee Jackson

Answer · why

C) Emmett Till

Emmett Till was 14 when he was murdered in Mississippi, and his mother insisted the world see what had been done to him. His death became a catalyst f...

Q 04/05

Which British monarch gave Harriet Tubman the shawl held by the Smithsonian's African American history museum?

A) King William IV

B) King Edward VII

C) King George V

D) Queen Victoria

Answer · why

D) Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria's gift of linen and silk sits in the collection beside Tubman's hymnal, her eating utensils and one of the few known photographic portr...

Q 05/05

Which rock and roll star's red Cadillac convertible sits in the Smithsonian's African American history museum?

A) Little Richard

B) Chuck Berry

C) Fats Domino

D) Bo Diddley

Answer · why

B) Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry owned the cherry-red Cadillac. He was among the first musicians inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986.