Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Get here the list of some Juneteenth Trivia Questions and answers to test your knowledge.
Juneteenth Trivia Questions
1. In what year did Juneteenth become a federal holiday? Answer: 2021
2. In what year did Juneteenth first become recognized as a state holiday? Answer: 1980
3. Is Juneteenth recognized as a national holiday? Answer: No
4. Juneteenth is also called what? Answer: Emancipation Day
5. Juneteenth is commemorated in how many states? Answer: 47
6. Juneteenth recognizes the news of slavery’s end reaching Texas and other southwest states in what year? Answer: 1865
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7. The Confederate States of America is made up of how many states? Answer: 11
8. The first legislation to recognize Juneteenth Independence Day was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by who? Answer: Barbara-Rose Collins
9. The holiday Juneteenth is also commonly referred to as what? Answer: Emancipation Day
10. What is the date that Juneteenth is celebrated on? Answer: June 19th
11. What state was the first to establish Juneteenth as a state holiday under legislation and in what year? Answer: Texas in 1980
12. What year did Illinois officially recognize Juneteenth? Answer: 2003
13. What year did Juneteenth begin in the U.S.? Answer: 1865
14. What year did the Emancipation Proclamation first become effective? Answer: 1863
15. Which states currently do NOT recognize Juneteenth? Answer: North Dakota, South Dakota, and Hawaii
16. Which U.S. President issued the Emancipation Proclamation? Answer: Abraham Lincoln
17. Who began Juneteenth by enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas? Answer: General Gordon Granger
18. Who first introduced legislation to the U.S. House of Representatives recognizing Juneteenth as a holiday? Answer: Barbara-Rose Collins
19. Who started Juneteenth? Answer: General Gordon Granger
20. Why is it called Juneteenth? Answer: The name is a portmanteau of the day and the month for when it is observed; i.e. June + 19th = Juneteenth
21. How many enslaved people were estimated to be living in Texas in 1865? Answer: 250,000
22. In the early years of celebrating Juneteenth, what color of food did former slaves eat to symbolize the struggles they endured for their freedom? Answer: Red
23. In what city in Texas did General Gordon Granger announce the end of slavery? Answer: Galveston
24. In what year did Apple add Juneteenth into the iOS calendar as a United States holiday? Answer: 2018
25. In what year did the last U.S. state finally recognize Juneteenth as a holiday? Answer: 2021
26. In what year was the first issue of the antislavery newspaper “The North Star” published? Answer: 1847
27. In what year was the Juneteenth flag created? Answer: 1997
28. In what year was the text “June 19, 1865” added to the Juneteenth flag? Answer: 2007
29. In what year were the last slaves freed due to resistance by slave owners? Answer: 1868
30. Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since which other federal holiday was adopted in 1983? Answer: MLK Jr. Day
31. The bursting star depicted on the Juneteenth flag represents what? Answer: A new beginning
32. What are the colors on the Juneteenth flag? Answer: Red, white, blue
33. What flavor of soda is associated with celebrating Juneteenth? Answer: Strawberry
34. What is the name of the American abolitionist who was born into slavery but escaped with her infant daughter in 1826? Answer: Sojourner Truth
35. What is the name of the former slave who became the first person of color to graduate from the “United States Military Academy” at West Point? Answer: Henry Ossian Flipper
36. What is the name of the former slave who founded the abolition journal “The North Star”? Answer: Frederick Douglass
37. What is the name of the official order given by General Gordon Granger announcing that slavery had ended? Answer: General Order No. 3
38. What is the name of the slave who incited, and was ultimately hanged for, the rebellion known as the Southhampton Insurrection? Answer: Nat Turner
39. What is the period that occurred after the announcement by General Gordon Granger, in which former slaves left Texas for other states known as? Answer: The scatter
40. What symbol is on the Juneteenth flag? Answer: A star
41. What was the holiday originally called until it became commonly known as Juneteenth in the 1890s? Answer: Jubilee Day
42. What was the name of the 10 acres of land purchased by a group of former slaves used to celebrate Juneteenth in the 1870s? Answer: Emancipation Park
43. Which state was formed during the American Civil War? Answer: West Virginia
44. Which U.S. state was the last to recognize Juneteenth as a holiday? Answer: South Dakota
45. Which war prompted the end of slavery in the United States? Answer: The Civil War
46. Who designed the original Juneteenth flag? Answer: Ben Haith
47. Who is the African American author whose novel “Juneteenth” was published posthumously? Answer: Ralph Ellison
