Black History (1)
This 1970s mini-series based on the novel by Alex Haley broke records when it aired and had episodes seen by 85% of all tv-owning households.
Roots (1977 mini-series)
This movement, founded in 2013, highlights incidents of police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people
Black Lives Matter
What brain chemical is known as the "cuddle" or "love hormone?"
Oxytocin
How many US adults experience mental illness each year?
Where does the name Humpback come from?
The name comes from the large hump that forms when they arch their backs before making a deep dive into the ocean.
What was Muhammad Ali's birth name?
Cassius Clay
This author famous for such works as "Beloved," "The Bluest Eye," and "Song of Solomon" that emphasized the experience of Black women in her writing became the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature in 1993.
Toni Morrison
Created the first Valentine's Day box of chocolates in the 1840s
Richard Cadbury
What percentage of mental illness begins of the age of 14?
50% of all lifetimes mental illness begins by age 14
Who is bigger, female or male?
Like most whales, females are larger than males
This 1967 Supreme Court case eliminated laws banning interracial marriage in the United States
Loving v. Virginia
This pioneering hip-hop classic is widely considered the "first" commercial hip-hop record.
"Rapper's Delight" by Sugarhill Gang (1979)
What state produces most of America's red roses?
California
Compared to suburban and urban residents, rural Americans must:
Must Travel __ as fax to their nearest hospital
And
Are __ as likely to lack broadband internet, limiting access to telehealth
Must Travel 2x as far to the nearest hospital
Are 2x as likely to lack broadband internet, limiting telehealth.
How large are Humpback Whales if comparing to a vehicle?
School bus
This artist is famous for her rendition of "Strange Fruit" recorded in 1939
Billie Holiday
In 2022, she became the first Black woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court
Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson
Animal which the Bronx Zoo will allow you to name after your loved one (or ex) for Valentine's Day
Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
What states have a postpartum depression rate higher than the national average of 13%
BONUS: if you get the percentages correct :)
21% in Alabama
22% in Mississippi
23% Arkansas
Are the humpback whales the biggest whale?
Humpback whales are not the biggest whales — that's the blue whale.
The movement of over 6 million Black Americans from the rural South to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970
The Great Migration / The Black Migration
This 1991 film produced and directed by Julie Dash was the first feature film directed by a Black woman distributed theatrically in the United States and follows the lives of 3 generations of Gullah women
"Daughter's of the Dust" (1991)
Century in which the first mention of St. Valentine's Day as a romantic holiday appears
1382 (Fourteenth Century)
How many people live in a designated Mental Health Professional shortage Area?
155 Million people
What does the scientific name Megaptera novaeangliae mean?
"big-winged New Englander" because the population that swam off New England was the best known to Europeans, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).