BLACK HISTORY
The Black Panther Party was founded in this California city.
What is Oakland?
Spike Lee’s 1988 film set at fictional Mission College.
What is School Daze?
The Atlanta duo of André 3000 and Big Boi.
What is OutKast?
Ice Cube’s character in Barbershop.
Who is Calvin?
The part of your hair called “the kitchen.”
What is the nape of the neck?
The New Year’s Day dish eaten for luck.
What are black-eyed peas?
he 1963 bombing that killed four girls happened at this Birmingham church.
What is 16th Street Baptist Church?
The yearly football game between Grambling and Southern in New Orleans.
What is the Bayou Classic?
The group made up of T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli.
What is TLC?
The Wayans family sketch show where Jamie Foxx and Jim Carrey got their start.
What is In Living Color?
Someone “saditty” is acting this way.
What is stuck-up (bougie)?
The broth left in the pot after cooking greens.
What is pot likker?
The 1954 Supreme Court case that struck down school segregation.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The school whose band is the “Sonic Boom of the South.”
What is Jackson State?
“The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.”
The magazine Khadijah runs on Living Single.
What is Flavor?
What happens to your Black card when you mess up.
What is revoked?
Chitlins are made from this part of the pig.
What are intestines?
Huey Newton co-founded the Black Panthers with him.
Who is Bobby Seale?
The Cosby Show spinoff set at Hillman College.
What is A Different World?
Frankie Beverly’s band.
What is Maze?
The hangout spot on Martin.
What is Nipsey’s?
The hairline you lay with gel and a toothbrush.
What are your edges?
The Texas red soda that’s a Juneteenth staple.
What is Big Red?
Harriet Tubman’s birth name.
What is Araminta Ross?
The first Black Greek-letter fraternity, founded at Cornell in 1906.
What is Alpha Phi Alpha?
The rapper whose 1994 debut album was Illmatic. →
Who is Nas?
The country Prince Akeem comes from in Coming to America.
What is Zamunda?
What it means when someone is “invited to the cookout.”
What is being accepted as family?
Hoppin’ John is black-eyed peas cooked with this.
What is rice?
The North Carolina city where white supremacists overthrew the elected government in 1898.
What is Wilmington?
The first Black sorority, founded at Howard in 1908.
What is Alpha Kappa Alpha?
The DJ credited with starting hip-hop at a 1973 Bronx party.
Who is DJ Kool Herc?
The All in the Family spinoff about a dry-cleaning business owner.
What is The Jeffersons?
What a “mannish” little boy is acting.
What is too grown?
The Louisiana dish whose name comes from a West African word for okra.
What is gumbo?
The first Black person to win an Oscar, in 1940.
Who is Hattie McDaniel?
The school whose band is the “Marching 100.”
What is Florida A&M (FAMU)?
New Orleans’ “Queen of Bounce.”
Who is Big Freedia?
What Monica plays Quincy for in Love & Basketball.
The Gullah Geechee people are mostly found along the coast of these two states.
What are South Carolina and Georgia?
The cold cut made from hog’s head set in its own gelatin.
What is souse (hog head cheese)?
(DAILY DOUBLE): The largest slave revolt in the British colonies, in South Carolina in 1739.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
The only all-male HBCU in the country.
What is Morehouse?
The Chicago composer called the “Father of Gospel Music.”
Who is Thomas A. Dorsey?
The city where Cooley High is set.
What is Chicago?
What Grandma meant by “sweet milk.”
What is regular milk (not buttermilk)?
Edna Lewis’s classic 1976 cookbook.
What is The Taste of Country Cooking?
The all-Black Florida town where Zora Neale Hurston grew up.
What is Eatonville?
The purple-and-gold fraternity known as the “Ques.”
What is Omega Psi Phi?
Motown’s uncredited in-house studio band.
Who are the Funk Brothers?
The barbershop in Coming to America.
What is My-T-Sharp?
The Akan word, often shown as a bird looking back, meaning “go back and get it.”
What is Sankofa?
🎯 900 (DAILY DOUBLE): Leah Chase’s New Orleans restaurant that hosted civil rights meetings.
What is Dooky Chase’s?
The Union general who read General Order No. 3 in Galveston on June 19, 1865.
Who is Gordon Granger?
The choir that began touring in 1871 to raise money to save its school.
Who are the Fisk Jubilee Singers?
The singer known as the “Empress of the Blues.” →
Who is Bessie Smith?
The pioneer who made dozens of all-Black films starting in 1919.
Who is Oscar Micheaux?
The counterclockwise worship dance brought from Africa by enslaved people.
What is the ring shout?
The enslaved chef who trained in France and cooked for Thomas Jefferson.
Who is James Hemings?