Black Women in the Arts & Humanities
Sweet Treats from Across the Globe
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Two's Company
Hootin' and Hollerin'
100

This woman

Who is Lauryn Hill?

100

This fruit is combined with sweet rice and coconut milk to create an iconic Thai dessert

What is mango?

100

This animated dog with an ironic name

Who is Courage?

100

This brother-sister duo has a combined total of 19 Grammys, most recently winning Song of the Year at the 2024 ceremony

Who are Billie Eilish and Finneas?

100

The illusionist and escape artist

Who is Harry Houdini?

200

This Nobel Prize winning writer penned classics like Jazz, Sula, and The Bluest Eye

Who is Toni Morrison?

200

Edmund requested this from the White Witch in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

What is Turkish delight?

200

This Nickelodeon original movie featured Keke Palmer and Max Schneider

What is Rags?

200
"Sons of Thunder"

Who are James and John?

200

The maneuver you have to perform if you don’t own a LifeVac

What is Heimlich?

300

This recently retired ballerina was the first Black woman to be promoted to principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre

Who is Misty Copeland?

300

This dessert

What is tanghulu?

300

The drama instructor at Hollywood Arts

Who is Sikowitz?

300
This Southern rap duo was the first hip-hop group to win the Grammy for Album of the Year

What is Outkast?

300

The capital city of the world’s happiest country

What is Helsinki?

400

This director was at the helm of films, documentaries, and TV dramas like Selma, 13th, and Queen Sugar

Who is Ava DuVernay?

400

Known for its crack pie and compost cookies, this NYC-based bakery was founded by Christina Tosi

What is Milk Bar?
400

The names of the two guys Miley Stewart was debating between in the “He Could be the One” era of Hannah Montana

Who are Jake and Jesse?

400

This pair also worked behind the scenes as writers for the early 2000s sitcom on which they portrayed an on again, off again couple

Who are Mindy Kaling and BJ Novak?

400

Latin for "you should have the body," this legal principle protects against unlawful detention

What is Habeas corpus?

500

With her 2002 play, Topdog/Underdog, she became the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Who is Suzan Lori-Parks?

500

This Middle Eastern dessert is a cheese pastry soaked in sweet syrup

What is knafeh?

500

Finish the lyric, “You don’t have a stack of cash or a flashy pad”

What is "I saw you last week driving a taxi cab"?

500

This fictitious duo goes on the run after a traffic stop turns deadly in a 2019 romance crime-drama written by Lena Waithe

Who are Queen & Slim?

500

Iguanas, alligators, frogs, and snakes all belong to this class

What is herpetofauna?