She was the first Black woman to be elected to the United States Congress
What is Shirley Chisholm?
100
She was the first woman to win a Academy Award for Best Actress.
What is Halle Berry?
100
This was the leading cause of death for Black women in 2006.
What is heart disease?
200
These are the two founders of Cornell University.
What is Andrew Dickson White and Ezra Cornell?
200
She was first self-made female American millionaire.
What is Madam C. J. Walker?
200
This TV mom was a successful lawyer and raised five children.
What is Phylicia Rashad/Clair Huxtable
200
People of color, who make up 35% of the US population, make up this percentage of the nation's 46.3 million, who are uninsured.
What is 54% (more than half)?
300
This event in 1969 led to the creation of the Africana Studies and Research Center.
What is the Willard Straight Hall Takeover?
300
The first woman and the first Black American woman inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.
What is Aretha Franklin?
300
An increase in enrollment at historically Black colleges and universities during the late 1980s and early 1990s has been credited to the success of this Black television show.
What is A Different World?
300
This STD is caused by the same class of virus as the chicken pox.
What is Herpes?
400
This is the number of colleges Cornell University is organized into.
What is seven?
400
She was born a slave in New York State, but was freed in 1827. She was an American preacher who dedicated her life to fighting for for civil and human rights.
What is Sojourner Truth?
400
This TV show was canceled after three seasons, but returned to television this year.
What is The Game?
400
This is how often (in years) a woman get a pap smear to detect cervical cancer.
What is once a year?
500
Cornell university has this number of living alumni.
What is 255,000?
500
She was the first Black woman in space.
What is Mae Jemison?
500
The brainchild of Keenen Ivory Wayans, this sketch comedy show had Fly Girls, Homey the Clown, a young Jim Carrey and just about every other member of the Wayans family.
What is In Living Color?
500
You should have a blood cholesterol screening beginning at this age.