Music
What musical genre, known for its call-and-response style and expressive storytelling, evolved from Black American work songs and spirituals?
Soul music
The profanitly-laden children's book called Go the F*** to Sleep was an Amazon #1 bestseller in 2011, and was famously narrated on Audible by what celebrity?
Samuel L. Jackson
Simone Biles is the most decorated sportsperson in which sport?
Gymnastics
Which President officially recognized Black History Month?
Gerald Ford
Who starred as Annalise Keating in How To Get Away With Murder?
Viola Davis
What was Beyoncé’s first solo album called?
Dangerously In Love
What private men's HBCU in downtown Atlanta is the alma mater of Martin Luther King Jr., Spike Lee, and Samuel L. Jackson?
Morehouse College
In which team did Shaquille O’Neill finish his basketball career?
Boston Celtics
Who was the first African American and Native American woman to hold a pilot license?
Bessie Coleman
Which Disney Channel show did Zendaya make her acting debut in?
Shake It Up
Which popular rap artist's real name is Nayvadius Wilburn?
Future
What was Maya Angelou's first body of work?
I Know Why The Caged Birds Sing
Who is known for being the first African American prima ballerina?
Janet Collins
Who is the first Black woman to serve as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice?
Ketanji Brown
What acclaimed director is known for films such as “Malcolm X,” “Do the Right Thing,” and “BlacKkKlansman”?
Spike Lee
Ice Cube was one of the founding members of which hip-hop group?
N.W.A
What Black American civil rights leader and educator served as the first president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and founded the Niagara Movement?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Who received a replacement Olympic gold medal in 1996, 36 years after throwing the original in the Ohio River because he was refused service at a restaurant for the color of his skin?
Mohammad Ali
Who invented the three-position traffic signal in 1923 that includes the yellow light?
Garret Morgan
Who became the first Black American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in the film “Lilies of the Field” in 1963?
Sidney Poitier
In the 1973 song “Midnight Train to Georgia,” from what city does the train depart?
Los Angeles
Who was the first African-American student to graduate from Boston College?
Casper Augustus Ferguson
Who is the first and only tennis player to achieve a Career Golden Slam in both singles and doubles?
Serena Williams
Crispus Attucks, a stevedore of Wampanoag and African descent, became famous after his death at what pivotal event, which later made him an icon of the American abolitionist movement in the mid-19th century?
Boston Massacre
In 2002, Halle Berry made history by becoming the first Black American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. For which film did she win?
Monster's Ball