UGA
This was the first Black person to graduate from UGA.
(+100 extra points for knowing the College and the Degree they graduated with)
Who is Mary Frances Early?
(Master's Degree in Music Education)
This is what the genre R&B stands for.
(+200 points if you can guess what the term R&B was used to replace)
What is Rhythm and Blues?
(Used to replace the term "Race Music" as a general term for ALL African American music)
This is where MLK Jr. attended college?
(+200 if you can name his degree)
Where is Morehouse College?
(Degree in Sociology, 1948! He started college at 15!)
This is what famous scientist George Washington Carver is most famous for creating.
What is Peanut Butter?
Who was the first African American to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods?
These were the first two students to register at UGA after winning a legal battle to gain admission.
(FULL NAMES)
Who are Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter?
This is the most awarded black artist in history.
(+200 points if you can guess how many Grammys they have and how many nominations they have)
Who is Beyonce?
(35 Grammy Awards Won; 99 Nominations Accrued)
This was the Supreme Court case that stated segregation was legal and constitutional as long as facilities were "separate but equal".
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
This was what chef George Crum invented in 1853 after a disgruntled customer complained about their potato being too soft.
(+100 points if you know what they were first called)
What are Potato Chips?
(First called Saratoga Chips)
This person was the first to win a Nobel Prize in Literature?
(+100 if you can name 3 of their books)
Who was Toni Morrison?
(Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Sula, Recitatif, Jazz, Paradise, Love, Home, ETC!!!!!)
This notable Black football player helped lead UGA to their win in the 1980 National championship?
Who is Herschel Walker?
(+100 points if you are specific)
Where is New York?
(South Bronx/The Bronx)
This is the teenager who refused to give up her bus seat 9 months before Rosa Parks.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
This is what Garett Morgan created after driving though Cleveland, Ohio and wanting to improve safety on the road.
What is a Traffic Light?
Said "I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Who is Michael Jordan?
This Divine 9 Fraternity was first to come to UGA.
What is Alpha Phi Alpha?
(Zeta Pi Chapter)
This is the first Black artist to win a grammy?
(+100 points if you can name the song and/or the year)
Who was Ella Fitzgerald?
(For the song "First Lady of Song" in 1958)
This person is thought to be the richest person of all time, with a network of over 400 billion in modern day terms.
(Not Elon Musk, btw)
Who was Mansa Musa?
(Fun fact, during his Hajj to Mecca from Northern Africa, his excessive spending and gifts in Cairo tanked the Egyptian market for 10+ years)
Lisa Gelobter's invention of web animation technology allowed for the creation of this image format.
What are GIFs?
This was the amount of Black residents in the United States (based on the 2020 Census)
(+/- 5 million)
What is 46.9 Million?
The year that UGA was desegregated.
When was 1961?
This is the BEST selling album of all time.
(+200 for knowing the year it was released)
(+200 for knowing how many sales it had +/- 5 million)
What is Thriller by Michael Jackson?
(Released in 1982; Sold over 120 million copies)
Hattie McDaniel was the first Black person to win an Oscar for THIS movie.
(+100 points if you know the role they played and/or the award she won)
What was Gone with the Wind?
(She played a Slave named Mammy :( BOOOO!; She won Best Supporting Actress)
After a stabbing, Daniel Hale Williams successfully performed this surgery during an emergency procedure in 1893, making him the pioneer of this life changing operation.
What is Open Heart Surgery?
(He repaired a severed artery and a tear in the pericardium, helping the man live another 20+ years. Before this, it was thought to be too dangerous to operate on the heart)
Who was Booker T. Washington?