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CULTURE 'REFINED'
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IN 1967, TEN TORONTONIANS, Of WEST INDIAN HERITAGE, FOUNDED WHAT POPULAR CULTURAL FESTIVAL?
CARIBANA
100
THE MOST COMMON WAY PEOPLE GIVE UP THEIR POWER IS BY THINKING THEY DON'T HAVE ANY
ALICE WALKER
100
BASOTHO BLANKETS ORIGINATE FROM WHAT COUNTRY?
LESOTHO
100
THIS 90S COMEDY SET IN PECKHAM, LONDON FEATURED THE AMBROSE FAMILY WHO OWNED A NEIGHBOURHOOD BARBERSHOP
DESMOND'S
100
BERNIE MAC, STEVE HARVEY, RICHARD PRYOR, D.L. HUGHLEY, CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER. WHO IS NOT ONE OF THE ORIGINAL KINGS OF COMEDY?
RICHARD PRYOR
200
IN 1946, NOVA SCOTIAN BUSINESSWOMAN VIOLA DESMOND CHALLENGED RACIAL SEGREGATION BY:
REFUSING TO LEAVE THE WHITES-ONLY SECTION OF A MOVIE THEATRE IN NEW GLASGOW.
200
IF THERE IS NO STRUGGLE, THERE IS NO PROGRESS
FREDRICK DOUGLASS
200
WHO WROTE THE 1958 CLASSIC "THINGS FALL APART"?
CHINUA ACHEBE
200
WHICH TV SHOW FEATURED THIS THEME SONG?
FAMILY MATTERS
200
WHO IS THE GODFATHER OF SOUL?
JAMES BROWN
300
MICHAËLLE JEAN, THE FIRST BLACK PERSON TO SERVE AS GOVERNOR GENERAL, WAS BORN IN THIS COUNTRY
HAITI
300
DO THE BEST YOU CAN UNTIL YOU KNOW BETTER. THEN WHEN YOU KNOW BETTER, DO BETTER.
MAYA ANGELOU
300
WRITERS TA-NEHISI COATES, ROXANE GAY, AND YONA HARVEY HAVE ALL WRITTEN ORIGINAL STORIES THAT CONTRIBUTED TO THE LARGER MYTHOS OF WHAT COMIC BOOK HERO?
BLACK PANTHER
300
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE RADIO STATION MARTIN PAYNE WORKED IN ON THE TV SHOW "MARTIN"?
WZUP
300
WHO BECAME THE FIRST-EVER AFRICAN-AMERICAN ON THE COVER OF THE VICTORIA'S SECRET LINGERIE CATALOG?
TYRA BANKS
400
IN 2010, THE MAYOR OF HALIFAX APOLOGIZED FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF WHAT HISTORIC BLACK COMMUNITY IN THE 1960S?
AFRICVILLE
400
A PROBLEM IS A CHANCE FOR YOU TO DO YOUR BEST.
DUKE ELLINGTON
400
BALDWIN'S SEMI-AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FIRST NOVEL "GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN" CAN BEST BE DESCRIBED AS BELONGING TO WHAT LITERARY GENRE?
BILDUNGSROMAN
400
WHO WAS THE ORIGINAL HOST OF THE TV SHOW, "SOUL TRAIN"?
DON CORNELIUS
400
FIRST AND ONLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTOR TO WIN ACADEMY AWARDS IN BOTH ACTING CATEGORIES (LEAD AND SUPPORTING)
DENZEL WASHINGTON
500
IN WHAT YEAR DID CANADA'S HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED FEBRUARY AS BLACK HISTORY MONTH?
1995
500
I AM LUCKY THAT WHATEVER FEAR I HAVE INSIDE ME, MY DESIRE TO WIN IS ALWAYS STRONGER
SERENA WILLIAMS
500
“THE BLUEST EYE,” WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1970, WAS THE FIRST NOVEL PUBLISHED BY WHAT AUTHOR?
TONI MORRISON
500
MAXINE SHAW ATTORNEY AT LAW IS A CHARACTER ON WHAT FAMOUS 90S SITCOM?
LIVING SINGLE
500
WHICH NIGERIAN AUTHOR FEATURES ON BEYONCE’S TRACK “FLAWLESS?”
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE