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100

This island is the largest in Africa. 

What is Madagascar?

100

Trinidad & Tobago is home to this music genre.

What is Soca?

100

This is the most anticipated MHACASA event every year held in Chapin.

What is AC Day?

100

The first black President of Mount Holyoke College.

Who is Danielle Holley?

100

 This best new artist takes pride in her Jamaican and Guyanese Heritage.

Who is Olivia Dean?

200

This river is considered the longest in Africa(and in the world).

What is the Nile?

200

This is the biggest island/country in the Caribbean.

What is Cuba

200

The MHACASA Board holds many positions.

What is 17 positions?

200

This was the first black woman elected to Congress and was also a professor at Mount Holyoke.

Who is Shirley Chisholm?

200

This is a popular music genre originating from South Africa, characterized by a distinctive heavy bassline.

What is Amapiano?

300

This is an East African country that was never colonized.

What is Ethiopia?

300

This is the first Caribbean country to gain independence.

What is Haiti?

300

MHACASA was officially established during this year.

What is 1993?

300

This is the first known African American student at Mount Holyoke College.

Who is Hortense Parker?

300

This Afrobeats hit by a Nigerian artist became the first African-led song to surpass 1 billion streams.

What is “Calm Down” by Rema?

400

This mountain has the tallest peak in Africa and is located in Tanzania.

What is Mount Kilimanjaro? 

400

This country is the only country in the world with a Bible on the flag.

What is the Dominican Republic?

400

The first AC Days went by this name.

What is And Still We Rise?

400

The name of Mount Holyoke’s first black student organization founded in 1967.

What is the Afro-American society?

400

This Winter Olympics team is a global sensation coming from the heart of this Caribbean country.

What is the Jamaican Bobsled team?

500

The country was formerly known as Rhodesia.

What is Zimbabwe?

500

The Caribbean is home to this number of sovereign countries.

What is 16 countries?

500

In the 90s, MHACASA reserved the last week of October for this week-long event.

What is African and Caribbean Awareness Week?

500

The Betty Shabbaz Cultural Center was founded in this year.

When is 1968/1969?

500

This artist is the creator of the famous Afrobeat style of music(which influenced the popular genre of Afrobeats).

Who is Fela Kuti?

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