Black History Jeopardy

AFRICA

100

He was born in the year 1918, in South Africa. As an adult he was put in jail for 27 years for fighting against unfair laws called Apartheid. Under these laws, Black South Africans were treated inhumanely , stripped of their land, forced to live separately from Whites, and did not have the right to vote.

This leader was later released to become one of the world’s most respected leaders and the first elected Black President of South Africa.

Nelson Mandela

200

Born in 1582, she would grow up to become Queen of Angola. For over 40 years she led her people in the fight against the enslavement of African people by the Portuguese.

Queen Nzinga

300

Known as one of the world’s great military strategist, born in Northern Africa, he lead an army of men, horses , and elephants across the Alps into Italy to battle the Romans.

Hannibal

400

Born in 1787,he is said to be one of the greatest military leaders in African history, and perhaps all of history. The Zulu’s grew from a small tribe of about 1500 people when he became king to one of over 250,000 by the time of his death. The Zulu’s were one of the most feared African people in Southern Africa. They were one of the few African people to defeat the British in battle.

Shaka Zulu

500

Thought to be the richest person of all time, he ruled the Mali Empire in west Africa during the 14th century. Under his rule, Mali was a place where many people from Europe and the Middle East went to study at the educational institution known as Timbuktu.

Mansa Musa

ABOLITIONISTS

100

Nicknamed, “ Black Moses”

Born into slavery, in the state of Maryland, around 1820, this woman later escaped  to the north, but returned many times to lead more then 300 African Americans to freedom.

Harriet Tubman

200

He was not African American,  but as the 16th president of our country, this leader issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which would later free African Americans from slavery.

Abraham Lincoln

300

Born a slave in the state of Maryland, as a boy he taught himself to read and write. Both of which was illegal.

Later he escaped and became an abolitionist speaking out against slavery, wrote several books, and started a newspaper called the “North Star”.

Frederick Douglass

400

Enslaved in the state of Virginia in 1831, this religious leader lead a slave rebellion that struck fear throughout our country’s slave –holding states. Many laws were passed that made it illegal for African Americans to be educated, gather in groups , and conduct church without a  white person being present.

Nat Turner

500

He lead the fight against France for his people's freedom from slavery, on the island of Hispanola, to establish what is now the nation of Haiti. Later he and his comrades freed enslaved African's on the eastern half of the island, from Spain, which today is known as the Dominican Republic.

Toussaint Louveture

Politics and Civil Rights

100

He is the first African American elected president of these United States. 

Barack Hussien Obama

200

Born October 3, 1954, he is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host on MSNBC, and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama.

Al Sharpton

300

In 1989, he was  the first African American elected mayor of New York City.

David Dinkins

400

In 1968 , she was the first black woman to be elected to Congress from Bedstuy, Brooklyn. 

In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

Shirley Chisholm

500

This religious leader led the Nation of Islam from 1934 until his death in 1975. He was a teacher of Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan and Muhammad Ali. 

His teachings included the importance of education, health eating, business ownership and the pursuit of a separate nation in these United States for African Americans.

Elijah Muhammud

BUSINESS& POLITICS

100

She is best known for her talk show , which was the highest-rated program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to  2013. 

She started a school in South Africa for girls and currently owns the television network channel “OWN”.

She has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is now North America's first and only African American multi-billionaire . 

Oprah Winfrey

200

Sarah Breedlove was her birth name. She was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the first female self-made millionaire in America.

Her fortune was made creating and selling haircare products to African American women.

Madame C. J. Walker

300

This former NBA Basketball player is joint owner  of 155 Five Guys Burgers restaurants, 17 Auntie Annies Pretzels restaurants, 150 car washes, 40 24-hour fitness centers, a shopping  center, a movie theater, and several Las Vegas nightclubs.

Shaquille O'Neal

400

With the help of his grandmother, at the age of 9, he asked her to teach him how to sew.

Developing this talent, he began creating bow ties, which he sold to several stores down south.

Now at the age of 16, this young man  runs his own company out of Memphis,  called “Mo Bows” , a $200, 000 business.

Moziah Bridges

500

Founder of the cable channel known as "BET" and former majority owner of the  Charlotte Bobcats now known as the Charlotte Hornets, this man became the first African American billionare.

Robert Johnson

ENTERTAINMENT

100

Born September 4, 1981 this American singer, songwriter, actress, record producer and dancer. was once the  lead singer of the R&B girl-group Destiny's Child. Later she became and is a solo artist with popular songs such as, "Single Ladies", "Love on Top" , and "Lemonade".

Beyonce

200

An American rapper, songwriter, and record producer. He is regarded as one of the most skillful and successful hip hop artists of this generation.

In 2017 , his single"Humble" topped the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Kendrick Lamar

300

Shattering records  as one of the highest grossing super hero movies , earning a Box Office Worldwide gross of over 1.3 Billion dollars in 2018, this movie was set in a fictitious African nation called Wakanda.

Black Panther

400

This extrordinary woman from Newark , NJ,  is a former American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, TV talk show host and producer. 

In 1989 she  released her debut album All Hail the Queen , featuring the hit single "Ladies First".

Queen Latifah

500

Born March 25, 1942 and recently passing on August 16, 2018, this amazing woman was an American singer, songwriter, civil rights activist, actress, and pianist. 

She's known as the " The Queen of Soul"!

One of her hit songs was known as "Respect" !!

Aretha Franklin

Inventors

100

The son of an African-American father and a Native American mother, this man was working as a chef in the summer of 1853 when he incidentally invented the potato chip.

George Crumb

200

Born to former slaves in 1877, this  man, later in 1914, invented a gas mask, known as the “Safety Hood and Smoke Protector”.

In 1923 he also invented the traffic light.

Garrett Morgan

300

Working along with Alexander Graham Bell, this man drew up the patent ( outline and pictures) for the telephone.

Later, he invented longer lasting light bulbs, that could be installed in homes and throughout the streets.

Lewis Latimore

400

An engineer for NASA, he also, in 1989, invented the popular toy known as the “Super Soaker” water gun.

Lonnie G. Johnson

500

While working at a U.S. Navy base in Virginia back in the 1950s and ’60s this woman playe a pivotal role in creating a popular form of technology that is now incorporated into cell phones, cars, and social media.

This technology we call the "GPS".

Gladys West