Sports
Clue: This boxing champion was known as “The Greatest” and won the 1960 Olympic gold medal.
Answer: Who is Muhammad Ali?
This Detroit-based label launched the careers of The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye.
What is Motown Records?
Clue: This 1980s sitcom followed the Huxtable family and showcased Black upper-middle-class life.
Answer: What is The Cosby Show?
Clue: He created innovative agricultural uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes.
Answer: Who is George Washington Carver?
Clue: Known for her record-breaking gymnastics career, she is the most decorated gymnast in history with more than 30 World and Olympic medals.
Answer: Who is Simone Biles?
Clue: This golfer became the first African American to win The Masters in 1997.
Answer: Who is Tiger Woods?
Clue: Known as the “Queen of Soul,” she sang hits like “Respect” and “Chain of Fools.”
Answer: Who is Aretha Franklin?
Clue: Will Smith played a teenage version of himself in this 90s sitcom set in Bel-Air.
Answer: What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
Clue: This mathematician’s work was essential to NASA’s space missions, including John Glenn’s orbit.
Answer: Who is Katherine Johnson?
Clue: Breaking a long-running horror trope, this rapper-actor became one of the first widely recognized Black characters to survive a major horror movie when he lived through Deep Blue Sea in 1999.
Answer: Who is LL Cool J?
Clue: This NFL quarterback became the first African American to win the Super Bowl MVP award.
Answer: Who is Doug Williams?
Clue: This musical style, born in the Bronx in the 1970s, includes MCing, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti.
Answer: What is hip-hop?
Clue: This show about HBCU life was a spin-off of The Cosby Show.
Answer: What is A Different World?
Clue: This sociologist wrote The Souls of Black Folk and co-founded the NAACP.
Answer: Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This actress played Debbie, the love interest in the hit movie Friday
Nia Long
Clue: Known as “The GWOAT,” this boxer is the first American—male or female—to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals in boxing.
Who is Claressa Shields
This legendary composer and producer wrote the score for The Color Purple and produced Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
Answer: Who is Quincy Jones?
Clue: Shonda Rhimes created this hit series about a brilliant crisis manager in Washington, D.C.
Answer: What is Scandal?
This hairstyle became famous in the 80's. Later becoming a joke and used in movies like "Coming to America".
Jerry Curl
Which legendary baseball player is known for the "Swing Man" logo
Who is Ken Griffey Jr.
Clue: This jazz musician is famous for his trumpet, gravelly voice, and the song “What a Wonderful World.”
Answer: Who is Louis Armstrong?
Clue: This 1990s sketch comedy show created by Keenen Ivory Wayans launched the careers of Jim Carrey, Jennifer Lopez, and several Wayans family members.
In Living Color
Clue: He wrote The Miseducation of the Negro and was a founder of Black History Month.
Answer: Who is Carter G. Woodson?