Black Math
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100

According to this 2014 Vine video 9+10 is equal to this integer

What is 21?

100

This woman's contributions to NASA were captured in a 2016 film sharing the name of this category. 

Katherine Johnson

100

A 1983 hit single by this artist is credited with breaking racial barriers at MTV by becoming the first music video by a Black artist put into heavy rotation. 

What is Billie Jean by Michael Jackson?

100

This was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship spanning the 1920s and 1930s.

What is the Harlem Renaissance?

100

This famous writer and poet was also Hollywood's first Black female director.

Who is Maya Angelou

200

According to Usher, it's been X amount of days and X amount of hours since his lover returned.

What are Fifty-leven days and umpteen hours?

200

Before Rosa Parks's infamous refusal to give up her seat on the bus, this young lady was the first to defy Jim Crow laws for Black Americans using public transportation. 

Claudette Colvin

200

As of 2023, this artist has won the most Grammy Awards of all time.

Who is Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter?

200

This poet and social activist authored one of the most well-known poems from the Harlem Renaissance era called I, too America.

Who is Langston Hughes?

200

This author finished his first novel, Go Tell it On The Mountain, in 1953 which was an autobiography about growing up in Harlem

Who is James Baldwin?

300

This vehicle, nicknamed the "Deuce and a Quarter" was introduced in 1959 to their competitors at Cadillac

What is the Buick Electra 225

300

This debonair fashion designer from NYC is best known for his appropriation of fashion house logos to suit his hip-hop clientele.

Who is Dapper Dan?

300

This best-selling R&B quartet gained notoriety for their contribution to the New Jack Swing era of music popularized in the early 90's with the hit song "Motown Philly"

Who are Boyz II Men?

300

This historically Black-LGBTQ+ scene inspired much of Beyonce's Renaissance World Tour production and visuals.

What is Ballroom?

300

This famous author was persecuted by the FBI in the 1970s for her vocal support of the Black Panther Party in California. At one point, she was even on the FBI's "Most Wanted" list.

Who is Angela Davis?

400

This phrase is often used to describe the amount people in a given area and usually references one mother as a unit of measurement.

What is "everybody and their grandmother was there"

400

In 1919, this woman patented the gas-fired furnace.

Who is Alice Parker?

400

Kim Kardashian isn't the only celebrity to wear one of Marilyn Monroe's hand-me-downs. This Jazz singer and civil rights activist faced similar backlash for burning a dress originally featured in "Gentleman Prefer Blondes"

Who is Abbey Lincoln?

400

This economic event in the 1930s is said to be the main cause of the Harlem Renaissance's decline.

What is the Great Depression?

400

In 2022 Netflix released a film adaptation of this 1929 novel, with the same name, regarding the lives of two black women whose appearance dictated their relationship and quality of life.

What is Passing by Nella Larsen?

500

This phrase is the opposite of a fraction and is often used as a unit of measurement to describe persons, places, or things that cannot be halved.

what is a whole?
500

The first Black woman to enter space on NASA's shuttle Endeavor.

Who is Mae Carol Jemison?

500

This musician commonly referred to as the "Father of Jazz" was an African American band leader and a musician who played a brass instrument similar to the trumpet.

What is a cornet?

500

This legendary nightspot located in Harlem NYC was known for featuring prominent Black entertainers such as Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, and Josephine Baker.

What is the Cotton Club?

500

Born in 1868, this American author, editor and activist was the first Black person to earn a PhD from Harvard University.

Who is WEB du Bois?

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