Black Friday, September 24, 1869, resulted from Jay Gould and Jim Fisk's attempt to corner the U.S. supply of what?

Bjornstjerne Bjornson won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature; which fellow Norwegian, author of "The Master Builder," n… Black & Decker introduced which handy cordless household item in 1979? "Black Boy" is a 1945 autobiography by which author of "Native Son"? "Black, Brown and Beige" is a 1943 jazz suite by which bandleader nicknamed "Duke"? In the United States, Black History Month is observed during which month? "Black Rain," "Gladiator" and "Black Hawk Down" were all directed by whom? The stock market crash of October 24, 1929, was "Black Thursday"; what is the crash of October 19, 1987, called? Blackwell's, a famous bookshop founded in 1879, is in which British university city?