Cookout & Culture
How many days Kwanzaa lasts.
What is seven?
Ice Cube's character who owns the shop in Barbershop.
Who is Calvin?
Duke admitted its first Black undergraduates in this year.
What is 1963?
Known as the "Godfather of Soul."
Who is James Brown?
The first African American woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
The one ingredient that gets your potato salad banned from the cookout for good.
What are raisins?
In Waiting to Exhale, what Bernadine sets on fire.
What is her husband's car (with his clothes inside)?
Fuqua's BBSA grew out of this organization, founded in 1982 by Black MBA students.
What is the Black and Latino MBA Organization (BLMBAO)?
This Harlem theater is famous for its Amateur Night competition.
What is the Apollo Theater?
This Black inventor created the Super Soaker.
Who is Lonnie Johnson?
What Grandma heated on the stove to press your hair.
What is a hot comb (pressing comb)?
In Love & Basketball, what Monica and Quincy play one-on-one for.
What is his heart?
This Black architect designed Duke's campus, even though he wouldn't have been welcome on it in his time.
Who is Julian Abele?
Chuck Brown is the godfather of this D.C. music genre.
What is go-go?
This Black inventor created the three-position traffic signal and an early gas mask.
Who is Garrett Morgan?
The weapon that became famous during the 2023 Montgomery Riverfront Brawl.
What is a white folding chair?
In this 1999 movie, an author's novel threatens to expose secrets before his best friend's wedding.
What is The Best Man?
On Feb. 13, 1969, Black students from the Afro-American Society occupied this Duke administration building.
What is the Allen Building?
The country where amapiano originated.
What is South Africa?
They co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966.
Who are Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale?
In 2018, Twitter erupted trying to figure out who ___ Beyonce.
What is bit? (#WhoBitBeyonce)
Name all four actresses who play the bank-robbing friends in Set It Off.
Who are Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox, and Kimberly Elise?
Name any THREE of Duke's "First Five" Black undergraduates.
Who are Gene Kendall, Mary Mitchell Harris, Wilhelmina Reuben-Cooke, Cassandra Smith Rush, and Nathaniel White Jr.?
The first Black woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
The first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Ralph Bunche?