This African American basketball star made history becoming the first woman to dunk during a pro game in 2002.
Who is Lisa Leslie
100
Kenya's capital city
Nairobi
100
Colin Powell's parents immigrated from which country?
What is Jamaica
100
Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable was a Haitian-French Pioneer who founded the settlement that would later become which city?
What is Chicago?
100
The number of languages believed to be spoken in Africa today
What is 2000
200
6 time NBA Champion played for the Chicago bulls. Also won 2 Olympic gold medals
Who is Michael Jordan?
200
Liberia's capital city
What is Monrovia
200
This former senator from Illinois was elected President in 2008
Who is Barrack Obama?
200
Number of Countries in Africa
What is 54 and a couple of disputed territories (Western Sahara and Somaliland). South Sudan is Africa's newest country, officially born on July 9, 2011.
200
2006 was declared the "Year of African Languages" by which governing body?
What is African Union (AU).
300
Tiger Woods' actual first name
What is Eldrick?
300
Mali's capital city
What is Bamako
300
This great civil rights leader won the Nobel Peace Prize and was assassinated in 1968.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
300
Largest desert in Africa
What is the Sahara
300
The number of major linguistic categories that are used to classify the different dialects of African language.
What is 6
400
First Black NHL player, Willie O'Ree, played for which team?
What is Boston Bruins
400
Senegal's capital city
What is Dakar
400
First African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court
Who is Thurgood Marshall
400
Africa's largest lake.
What is Lake Victoria?
400
This language is most predominant among all languages in Africa.
What is Arabic? (In various dialects) has the highest number of speakers with over 170 million speakers, mostly living in North Africa and the Horn of Africa.
500
First athlete ever to win 4 gold medals at the Olympic games
Who is Jesse Owens
500
Capital city of Sierra Leone
What is Freetown
500
This slave sued for his freedom and lost his case in a major pre-Civil War Supreme Court decision.
Who is Dred Scott
500
Number of Ethnic Groups (tribes) in Africa
What is an estimated 3000, but the actual number could be much higher.
500
"Kwanzaa" translates to "first fruits" in this African Language.