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100
Ashanti Douglas is known as the "Princess of Hip Hop". She attended the Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club in New York. This career got her at the top of the billboard charts and helped her earn a Grammy Award.
What is singing?
100
Nick Cannon took his first formal dance class when participating in programs at the Boys & Girls Clubs of East County in California. At age 17, Nick was a staff writer for the Nickelodeon show "All That". More recently he is known for being the host on this show.. "America's Got ______"
What is America's Got Talent?
100
Mike Carey, a member of the William J. Oakes Boys Club, was the first African-American to referee a super bowl for this sport.
What is football?
100
Dewey Stokes was one of the first members to attend the Boys & Girls Club of Columbus. He was an officer in this career - which is to protect and serve citizens, while driving around in a car with red and blue lights.
What is a police officer?
100
In 1906, Boys & Girls Clubs were started, but with this shorter name.
What is the Boys Club?
200
Jennifer Lopez was a member of the Performing Arts Program at Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club in New York. She is now a famous performer, known as a "triple threat". She is well known for acting, singing, and this art form.
What is dancing?
200
Kerry Washington attended the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club in the Bronx. This Club is known for producing Club members that achieve in the performing arts. She attended programs in dance, and after college got big roles in film and tv. Her first big movie was fourteen years ago, in this year.
What is 2004?
200
Sid Luckman, a member of the Brooklyn Boys & Girls Club, played for this football team from Chicago for 12 years.
What are the Chicago Bears?
200
Starting at age 5, Brooke Bennett attended the Jim Walter Interbay Boys & Girls Club because she liked the pool at the Club. In 2000, she won this colored medal for first place in swimming at the Olympics.
What is gold?
200
BGCs were first formed in 1906, but did not have the full name "Boys & Girls Clubs" until almost 90 years later, in this year.
What is 1990?
300
Rhett Akins attended the Boys & Girls Club of Valdosta in Georgia. He is a musician and is the father of another famous musician, Thomas Rhett. Both of these musicians make music in this genre of music.
What is country?
300
Denzel Washington is a huge supporter of National Boys & Girls Clubs. He says everything he knows is from a lesson learned at the Club. He has won Academy Awards for the movies he made with this career.
What is acting?
300
This professional basketball player is one of the most admired from the NBA. He founded the James R. Jordan Boys & Girls Club to honor his father.
Who is Michael Jordan?
300
Alex Filippenko honed his interest in astronomy at California’s Goleta Boys & Girls Club while on a field trip to go backpacking in the mountains for a week. Astronomers study this system which includes the planets, sun, moon, and stars.
What is the solar system?
300
Name two programs you can participate in at the Boys & Girls Club.
Answers will vary.
400
This musician attended the Highland Park Boys' Club. He has released seven albums and won five Grammy awards. He has also been part of a campaign for raising awareness of Boys & Girls Clubs.
Who is Usher Raymond IV?
400
Anthony Anderson is a film and tv actor. He attended the Watts/Willowbrook Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles. He was the voice of Bones (a bull) in this animated movie about a bull that is captured and determined to return to his family with the help of Bones and others.
What is Ferdinand?
400
Shaquille O'Neal attended the Newark Boys & Girls Club as a young person and dontated $1 million back to Clubs for technology centers. He is most famous for playing on the Lakers basketball team from this city in California.
What is Los Angeles?
400
Frank DeVito is an alumnus of the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club located in Brooklyn. He is an advertising executive that has done ads for this popular soda company.
What is Coca-Cola?
400
Across the United States, more of this gender attends Boys & Girls Clubs by about 10%.
What is male?
500
When Trey Songz moved, the Boys & Girls Club in this warm, sunny, southern state helped him adapt to his new home. It was during this time that he entered his first talent show. He has since won a Grammy award.
What is Florida?
500
Mark Wahlberg went to the Colonel Daniel Marr Boys & Girls Club in Massachusetts. He has starred in movies, including Planet of the Apes. Mark also had a band with this title "Marky Mark and the Funky _____"
What is Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch?
500
Sugar Ray Leonard is a professional boxer and was inducted into the International Boxer Hall of Fame. He joined the Boys Club of this rainy, forest-filled north-western state at the age of 7.
What is Washington?
500
Lucille O'Neal is an author and philanthropist. She is the mother of famous basketball player, Shaquille O'Neal. Lucille attended the Boys & Girls Club of Newark, located in the state with abbreviation NJ.
What is New Jersey?
500
Name two reasons why you love Boys & Girls Club.
Answers will vary.
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