Carl Weathers
In his most famous role, Weathers plays Rocky's primary rival turn friend.
Who is Apollo Creed?
First Black student admitted to the University of Mississippi.
Who is James Meredith?
Let this groove, get you to move,
It's alright, alright
Let this groove, set in your shoes,
Stand up, alright
What is "Let's Groove Tonight"?
He played the role of George Jefferson. 100 pts for the show. 100 pts for the show his show spun off from. 100 pts for the actor's name.
What are the Jeffersons, All in the Family and Sherman Hemsley?
She wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
Before becoming a professional actor, Weathers was a professional football player playing for this NFL franchise that now calls Las Vegas its home.
Who are the Raiders?
She was the first Black US Congresswoman.
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
I see the crystal raindrops fall
And the beauty of it all
Is when the sun comes shining through
To make those rainbows in my mind
When I think of you sometime
And I wanna spend some time with you
What is "Just the Two of Us"?
She performed at last year's Super Bowl while pregnant.
Who is Rihanna?
The original and one an only GOAT. Floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.
Who is Muhammed Ali?
Daily Double
During all of the pre-fight pageantry before Apollo Creed's final fight, James Brown sang this song.
What is "Living in America"?
Well before Oprah produced a movie adaptation of her novel Beloved, she had become the first Black writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Who is Toni Morison?
How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance
By standing on the wall?
(Get your back up off the wall) tell me
How you gonna do it if you really don't wanna dance
By standing on the wall?
(Get your back up off the wall)
'Cause I heard all the people sayin'
What is "Get Down on It"?
Who is Hank Aaron?
Law school mentor of a future president and eventual First Lady.
Who is Michelle Obama?
In this comedy, Weathers plays a golf coach whose professional career was cut short after he lost his hand in an attack by an alligator.
What is Happy Gilmore?
It's "unforgettable" how he was the first Black host of a television show.
Who is Nat King Cole?
I want a lover with an easy touch
I want somebody who will spend some time
Not come and go in a heated rush
I want somebody who will understand
What is "Slow Hand"?
He was a star basketball player at Auburn before going pro and finally being one of the most popular basketball personalities and famous for being a "turrable" golfer.
Who is Charles Barkley?
The first Black woman to host a television show. To some she OWNS television.
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
He plays alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger as a team of Americans in a South American juggle that finds themselves prey for an out of this world being.
What is Predator?
He was the first Black coach in US professional sports.
Who is Bill Russell?
So come along, come on take a ride
There's a party over there, that ain't no lie
We're leavin' here in a cloud of smoke
And th-th-that-th-th-that-th-th-that's all folks
What is "Fantastic Voyage"?
Because of his status as a famous speaker, writer, and abolitionist, February being his birth month is considered one of the reasons February is Black History Month. He wrote "What to the Slave is the 4th of July."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
More streets are named after him than any other Black person in the country's history.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?