BLACK HISTORY
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100

The Black Panther Party was founded in this California city.

What is Oakland?

100

Spike Lee’s 1988 film set at fictional Mission College.

What is School Daze?

100

The Atlanta duo of André 3000 and Big Boi.

What is OutKast?

100

Ice Cube’s character in Barbershop.

Who is Calvin?

100

The part of your hair called “the kitchen.”

What is the nape of the neck?

100

The New Year’s Day dish eaten for luck.

What are black-eyed peas?

200

he 1963 bombing that killed four girls happened at this Birmingham church.

What is 16th Street Baptist Church?

200

The yearly football game between Grambling and Southern in New Orleans.

What is the Bayou Classic?

200

The group made up of T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli.

What is TLC?

200

The Wayans family sketch show where Jamie Foxx and Jim Carrey got their start.

What is In Living Color?

200

Someone “saditty” is acting this way.

What is stuck-up (bougie)?

200

The broth left in the pot after cooking greens.

What is pot likker?

300

The 1954 Supreme Court case that struck down school segregation.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

300

The school whose band is the “Sonic Boom of the South.”

What is Jackson State?

300

“The Hardest Working Man in Show Business.”

  • Who is James Brown?
300

The magazine Khadijah runs on Living Single.

What is Flavor?

300

What happens to your Black card when you mess up.

What is revoked?

300

Chitlins are made from this part of the pig.

What are intestines?

400

Huey Newton co-founded the Black Panthers with him.

Who is Bobby Seale?

400

The Cosby Show spinoff set at Hillman College.

What is A Different World?

400

Frankie Beverly’s band.

What is Maze?

400

The hangout spot on Martin.

What is Nipsey’s?

400

The hairline you lay with gel and a toothbrush.

What are your edges?

400

The Texas red soda that’s a Juneteenth staple.

What is Big Red?

500

Harriet Tubman’s birth name.

What is Araminta Ross?

500

The first Black Greek-letter fraternity, founded at Cornell in 1906.

What is Alpha Phi Alpha?

500

The rapper whose 1994 debut album was Illmatic. →

Who is Nas?

500

The country Prince Akeem comes from in Coming to America.

What is Zamunda?

500

What it means when someone is “invited to the cookout.”

What is being accepted as family?

500

Hoppin’ John is black-eyed peas cooked with this.

What is rice?

600

The North Carolina city where white supremacists overthrew the elected government in 1898.

What is Wilmington?

600

The first Black sorority, founded at Howard in 1908.

 What is Alpha Kappa Alpha?

600

The DJ credited with starting hip-hop at a 1973 Bronx party.

Who is DJ Kool Herc?

600

The All in the Family spinoff about a dry-cleaning business owner.

What is The Jeffersons?

600

What a “mannish” little boy is acting.

What is too grown?

600

The Louisiana dish whose name comes from a West African word for okra.

What is gumbo?

700

The first Black person to win an Oscar, in 1940.

Who is Hattie McDaniel?

700

The school whose band is the “Marching 100.”

What is Florida A&M (FAMU)?

700

New Orleans’ “Queen of Bounce.”

Who is Big Freedia?

700

What Monica plays Quincy for in Love & Basketball.

  • What is his heart?
700

The Gullah Geechee people are mostly found along the coast of these two states.

What are South Carolina and Georgia?

700

The cold cut made from hog’s head set in its own gelatin.

What is souse (hog head cheese)?

800

(DAILY DOUBLE): The largest slave revolt in the British colonies, in South Carolina in 1739.

What is the Stono Rebellion?

800

The only all-male HBCU in the country.

What is Morehouse?

800

The Chicago composer called the “Father of Gospel Music.”

Who is Thomas A. Dorsey?

800

The city where Cooley High is set.

What is Chicago?

800

What Grandma meant by “sweet milk.”

What is regular milk (not buttermilk)?

800

Edna Lewis’s classic 1976 cookbook.

What is The Taste of Country Cooking?

900

The all-Black Florida town where Zora Neale Hurston grew up.

What is Eatonville?

900

The purple-and-gold fraternity known as the “Ques.”

What is Omega Psi Phi?

900

Motown’s uncredited in-house studio band.

Who are the Funk Brothers?

900

The barbershop in Coming to America.

What is My-T-Sharp?

900

The Akan word, often shown as a bird looking back, meaning “go back and get it.”

What is Sankofa?

900

🎯 900 (DAILY DOUBLE): Leah Chase’s New Orleans restaurant that hosted civil rights meetings.

What is Dooky Chase’s?

1000

The Union general who read General Order No. 3 in Galveston on June 19, 1865.

Who is Gordon Granger?

1000

The choir that began touring in 1871 to raise money to save its school.

Who are the Fisk Jubilee Singers?

1000

The singer known as the “Empress of the Blues.” →

Who is Bessie Smith?

1000

The pioneer who made dozens of all-Black films starting in 1919.

Who is Oscar Micheaux?

1000

The counterclockwise worship dance brought from Africa by enslaved people.

What is the ring shout?

1000

The enslaved chef who trained in France and cooked for Thomas Jefferson.

Who is James Hemings?


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