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100

These are the lyrics of the next line of the song: “Poison” by Bell Biv Devoe Lyrics:

"It's driving me out of my mind That's why it's hard for me to find Can't get it outta my head"

What is “Miss her, kiss her, love her”?

100

This person "floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee."

Who is Muhammad Ali?

100

This person worked at Red Lobster full-time while creating the FUBU clothing line.

Who is Daymond John?

100

This person was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit.

Who is Tiger Woods?

100

This person said, "The time is always right to do what is right"

Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?

200

These are lyrics of the next line of the song: “God’s Plan” by Drake:

"She say, 'Do you love me?' I tell her, 'Only partly.'

What is “I only love my bed and my mama, I’m sorry”?

200

This person won four Olympic gold medals in the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Germany.

Who is Jesse Owens?

200

This person became the first African American female millionaire with her revolutionary black hair products.

Who is Madame CJ Walker?

200

This person was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State.

Who is Colin Powell?

200

This person said, "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise."

Who is Maya Angelou?

300

These are the lyrics of the next line of the song: “Doves Cry” by Prince:

"How can you just leave me standing
Alone in a world that's so cold? So cold Maybe I'm just too demanding Maybe I'm just like my father, too bold Maybe you're just like my mother."

What is “She’s never satisfied”?

300

This person was the first African American to win a Grand Slam title.

Who is Althea Gibson?

300

This engineer worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and also invented the Super Soaker (water gun toy).

Who is Lonnie Johnson?

300

This person was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp.

Who is Booker T. Washington?

300

This person said, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”

Who is Barack Obama?

400

These are the lyrics of the next line of the song: “International Players Anthem (I Choose You)” by UGK:

"So I typed a text to a girl I used to see Sayin' that I chose this cutie pie with whom I wanna be And I apologize if this message gets you down."

What is “Then I CC’d every girl that I’d see see round town”?

400

This person is the only African American man to ever win a Wimbledon singles title.

Who is Arthur Ashe?

400

This person improved upon Thomas Edison’s light bulb invention with the creation of the carbon filament that created longer-lasting light bulbs.

Who is Lewis Howard Latimer?

400

This author became the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

Who is Toni Morrison?

400

This person said, “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

Who is Angela Y. Davis?

500

These are the lyrics of the next line of the song: “Lift every voice and sing”:

"Lift every voice and sing, ’Til earth and heaven ring, Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise."

What is “High as the listening skies”?

500

Although Jackie Robinson is often credited with breaking the color barrier in baseball in 1947, this man actually was the first.

Who is Moses Fleetwood Walker?

500

This person invented refrigerated trucks to improve transport of refrigerated goods for extended travel.

Who is Fredrick McKinley Jones?

500

This person was the first African American woman to win an Olympic gold medal.

Who is Alice Coachman?

500

This person said, “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”

Who is Coretta Scott King?

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