From: gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
   On 2/28/2025 7:20 PM, Mark Brader wrote:   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 2 - History - The First Black Person to...   
   >   
   > Black people were excluded from positions of power and influence in   
   > Western societies for much of history, so the first black person to   
   > achieve a significant position or honor in our society is usually   
   > remembered.  We'll name the position or honor and the decade it was   
   > achieved, and you tell us the person who achieved it.  For example,   
   > if we said "first black player in Major League Baseball, 1940s",   
   > you'd say "Jackie Robinson".   
   >   
   > 1. First black NHL player, 1950s.   
      
   Willie O'Ree; Willie O'Dell   
      
   > 2. First black mayor of New York City, 1990s.   
      
   David Dinkins   
      
   > 4. First black Governor-General of Canada, 2000s.   
      
   Michaelle Jean   
      
   > 5. First black person to win an acting Oscar, 1930s.   
      
   Hattie McDaniel   
      
   > 7. First black winner of a primetime Emmy award, 1960s.   
      
   Bill Cosby   
      
   > 8. First black baseball player to win a league MVP award *3 times*,   
   >     1950s.   
      
   Willie Mays   
      
   > 9. First black winner of a Grammy award, 1950s -- there were two   
   >     the same year, so name either one.   
      
   Ella Fitzgerald   
      
   > 10. First black person to campaign for President of the United   
   >     States *within one of the two major parties*, 1970s.   
      
   Shirley Chisholm   
      
   > * Game 1, Round 3 - Sports - Olympic Scandals   
   >   
   > Scandals and disgraces are nothing new to the Olympics.  Here are   
   > 10 questions about questionable deeds at the summer Olympics.   
   >   
   > 2. What did America runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos do at   
   >     the medal ceremony in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City that   
   >     got them banned from the Olympics for life?   
      
   raise their fists in the "black power" salute   
   (I'm not sure that they were actually banned from the Olympics for life,   
   though, at least not by the IOC)   
      
   > 3. Why was American athlete Jim Thorpe stripped of his gold   
   >     medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 summer games   
   >     in Stockholm?   
      
   he was deemed to have been a professional athlete   
      
   > 4. At the 1956 summer games in Melbourne the men's semifinal water   
   >     polo game became so acrimonious and violent that the police were   
   >     called, and it was later known as the "Blood in the Water" Match.   
   >     Which *two* teams were playing?   
      
   Hungary and Soviet Union   
      
   > 5. Tunisia was disqualified from the fencing portion of the   
   >     pentathlon at the 1960 summer games in Rome due to cheating.   
   >     What were they doing to cheat?   
      
   caused their fencing swords to register a hit even when one had not been   
   made   
   (I don't know if Tunisia did that in 1960, but I think somebody did that   
   at the Olympics)   
      
   --   
   Joshua Kreitzer   
   gromit82@hotmail.com   
      
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