Black Musicians & Music
Black Artists & Representation in Media
Black Writers, Thinkers, Activists, Movements
Concepts about Black Identity & Terminology
Mr. Spencer
100
This music genre, created by Black youth in the Bronx, became a global cultural force.
Hip-Hop/Rap
100
This 2018 film was celebrated for its Afrofuturist representation of Black identity.
What is "Black Panther"
100
This civil rights leader and writer helped lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott and is known for promoting nonviolent resistance in the fight against racial segregation in the United States.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
100
What is Decolonization
The ongoing process of dismantling colonial ideologies, power structures, and practices that privilege Western perspectives while oppressing Indigenous peoples and their lands
100
Name one video game I have played recently (there are 5 answers)
Efootball/EAFC Sports/Fifa
CounterStrike
Football Manager 26
Smite 2
2k
200
This Beyoncé visual album centers Black Southern culture and Black womanhood.
Lemonade
200
This TV show follows the lives of Black youth in South London.
Top Boy
200
This movement, co-founded by Patrisse Cullors, focuses on ending systemic anti-Black violence.
What is the Black Lives Matter movement?
200
This term refers to racism embedded in laws, institutions, and policies.
What is systemic racism?
200
What is my favourite colour?
Blue
300
This rapper’s album To Pimp a Butterfly addresses Black identity and systemic racism.
Kendrick Lamar
300
This Jordan Peele film uses horror to critique racism and white liberalism.
What is "Get Out"
300
This Black Canadian businesswoman and civil rights activist challenged racial segregation in a Nova Scotia movie theatre in 1946 after refusing to leave the “whites-only” section.
Who is Viola Desmond?
300
This term refers to changing behaviour or speech to fit into dominant culture.
Code-Switching
300
How old is Mr. Spencer
27
400
This music genre emerged in New Orleans and became a key form of Black artistic expression.
What is jazz?
400
This term refers to brands using Black culture for profit without supporting Black communities.
What is cultural appropriation?
400
This Black author and activist wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
Maya Angelou
400
This term describes subtle, everyday acts of racism.
What are microaggressions?
400
Roughly how many shoes does Mr. Spencer own? (Have to get within 5 to get it correct)
50
500
This soul singer became known as the “Queen of Soul.”
Aretha Franklin
500
Name me any two black artists (non-musical)
Various Answers
500
This Black feminist scholar coined the term "intersectionality"
Kimberlé Crenshaw
500
This term refers to placing a single Black character in a cast to appear “diverse.
Tokenism
500
Who was my favourite basketball player growing up (You have 5 guesses)
Allen Iverson
750
This music genre emerged from African American communities in the Mississippi Delta.
The Blues
750
For Black people, particularly Black women, the term ____________ is a harmful racial stereotype and slur that portrays them as hypersexual, promiscuous, and predatory
Jezebel
750
Who is the first Black American to earn a PhD from Harvard University and one of the founders of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Who is W. E. B. Du Bois?
750
This political and cultural movement emphasized global Black unity and pride. What is it called?
Pan-Africanism
750
What sport is my sister an Olympian for?
Track and Field
1000
This song by Sam Cooke became an anthem of the Civil Rights Movement.
A Change is Gonna Come
1000
This Black American artist rose to prominence in the 1980s for his graffiti-inspired paintings that explored race, identity, power, and the commodification of Black bodies in art.
Who is Jean-Michel Basquiat?
1000
This Black Canadian journalist and activist authored The Skin We’re In, examining systemic anti-Black racism, policing, and everyday Black life in Canada.
Desmond Cole
1000
Why does Black feminist writing reject “one-size-fits-all” feminism? In other words, how might black feminism/feminists not feel represented within "regular" feminism.
What is it ignores race, class, and colonial history?
1000
What school year did I first start teaching at Westview as a Student Teacher?
(For example: 2011-2012, 2012-2013, etc...)
2021-2022