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What is the name of the black Greek sorority with the colors royal blue and pure white?
What is Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc
100
The recognition of Black history began as
A. A week
B. A day
C. It was always a month
What is a week
100
Hip Hop was birthed in this city in New York
What is the Bronx?
100
The first Black writer to win a Nobel Prize in Literature
Who is Toni Morrison ?
100
In this 1988 film, Eddie Murphy plays the son of a King who relocated to Queens, NY.
What is Coming to America
200
What are the organizations official auxiliaries?
Amicae
Archonettes
Amicettes
Pearlettes
Zeta Male Network
200
First Black Woman to enter space
Who is Mae Jemison?
200
First Black woman to win a Grammy?
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
Fun Fact: She was born in Newport News, VA
200
Who was the first African American to publish a book of poetry
Who is Phyllis Wheatley
200
Where were the first Africans brought to in America?
What is Point Comfort at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va
Extra fact: they were known as 20 and odd
300
What are the principles of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
What is Scholarship, Service, Sisterhood, and FINER Womanhood
300
This 1963 march brought over 250,000 people together in support of human civil rights and is where Martin Luther King Jr gave his now iconic "I Have a Dream" speech
What is the March on Washington
300
The first African American actress to win an Academy Award for best actress.
Who is Halle Berry?
300
Who wrote the bestselling memoir “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”?
Who is Maya Angelou
300
This woman revolutionized Black hair care with the invention of the hot comb.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker.
400
Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.
Who are the constitutionally bound Brothers of Zeta Phi Beta?
400
What year was the Emancipation Proclamation signed?
What is 1863?
400
This comedian was the first African American to achieve EGOT status
Who is Whoopi Goldberg
400
She was an investigative journalist and author of “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases” in 1892 was one of the founding members of the NAACP
Who is Ida B. Wells?
400
First African American to hold a seat on the Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall
500
What is the auxiliary composed of women who have not obtained a college degree, but wish to assist Zeta Phi Beta members in local activities.
Who are the Amicae
500
During her run for president, three separate assassination attempts were made this candidate...
Who is Shirley Chisholm
500
This black hair entrepreneur invented the hot comb.
Who is Madame CJ Walker?
500
This author wrote “Women, Race, & Class,” “Blue Legacies & Black Feminism”, “Abolition Democracy” and was named Time magazine’s “Woman of the Year” in 1971
Hint: Famous Afro
Who is Angela Davis?
500
What was the name of the only black high school in Princess Anne County Virginia
What is Princess Anne County Training School/Union Kempsville High School
600
What are the official auxiliaries of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
What is Amicae
Archonettes
Amicettes
Pearlettes
Zeta Male Network
600
He started a Muslim newspaper with the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Muhammad Speaks. Also, well known for the slogan "By Any Means Necessary"...
Who is Malcom X
600
Who wrote Lift Every Voice and Sing, The Negro National Anthem?
Who is James Weldon Johnson?
600
This person is known for writing the best selling 1976 novel “Roots: The Story of an American Family.”
Who is Alex Haley?
600
He was the first African American male to win Wimbledon and hails from Richmond, VA.
Who is Arthur Ashe
700
When and Where was Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. founded?
What is January 16, 1920 on the campus of Howard University/Miner Hall
700
The inventor of peanut butter.
Who is George Washington Carver?
700
This movie told the story of African-American women and their role at NASA
What is Hidden Figures?
700
What famous abolitionist wrote and delivered the speech “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852
Who is Frederick Douglass
700
He won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin, Germany.
Who is Jesse Owens
800
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. mission statement?
What is To foster the ideas of service, charity, scholarship, civil and cultural endeavors, sisterhood and finer womanhood.
800
In 1857, this thriving community of predominantly African-American homeowners were forced to move after the city of New York acquired the land through eminent domain to build what we now know as Central Park.
What is Seneca Village or Seneca Falls Village?
800
In 1959 he founded the Motown Record corporation, the first recording home of The Temptations, The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smoky Robinson, and Stevie Wonder...
Who is Berry Gordy Jr.?
800
This author wrote Giovanni's Room and If Beale Street could Talk?
Who is James Baldwin?
800
Which person was born in Massachusetts, was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D from Harvard and wrote 'Souls of Black Folk'?
Who is W.E.B. DuBois
900
What does ZETA represent?
What is ZEAL
900
Who was the first black governor in Virginia
Who is L. Douglas Wilder
900
This dance masterpiece told the African American story from slavery to freedom and remains the best-known and most-performed work of modern dance today.
What is Revelations by Alvin Ailey
900
In their book Mother to Son, this author wrote these famous words, "Well, son, I’ll tell you:Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair".
Who is Langston Hughes
900
This case resulted in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that no black-free or slave could be a US citizen?
What is the Dred Scott case.
*Fun Fact Dred Scott was born in Southampton County, VA (Present Day Franklin)
1000
Where is the national headquarters located
What is 1734 New Hampshire Avenue NW
Washington, D.C., USA
1000
This Constitutional Amendment gave Blacks equal protection under the law...
What is the 14th amendment
1000
This 1956 autobiography entitled "Lady Sings The Blues", is based on this singer's life
Who is Billie Holiday?
1000
Who wrote the bestselling memoir “Their Eyes were watching God and Barracoon”?
Who is Zora Neale Hurston
1000
What does the NAACP stand for?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People