General Kowledge
Trinidad and Tobago gained independence in this year.
What is 1962?
Kobe Bryant’s nickname was “Black ___.”
What is Mamba?
In 2018, TIME magazine named Bishop Curry V one of its 30 Most Important Teenagers of this year.
What is 2018?
Shashemene lies about 240 km south of this Ethiopian capital.
What is Addis Ababa?
Wangari Maathai, Roy Allela and Beth Koigi all come from this East African country.
What is Kenya?
Its “Door of No Return” is a famous site off the coast of Dakar, Senegal.
What is Gorée Island?
The stadium in Bacolet, Tobago, is named after this footballer.
Who is Dwight Yorke?
Phillip Emeagwali was born in this Nigerian city.
What is Akure?
The Black Panther Party’s Ten-Point Platform demanded payment of this to African Americans, a topic still debated today.
What is reparations?
On Emancipation Day 2026, Port of Spain’s Oxford Street, where Kwame Ture was born, was renamed this.
What is Kwame Ture Street?
This St. Augustine steelband won Panorama in 2001, 2003 and 2004.
What is Exodus?
The Lakers retired these two jersey numbers for Kobe Bryant.
What are 8 and 24?
Alan Emtage named his search engine after this word, minus the “v.”
What is “archive”?
Marcus Garvey founded this organisation in 1914.
What is the UNIA (Universal Negro Improvement Association)?
The stadiums honouring Ato Boldon in Couva and Dwight Yorke in Bacolet were both built to host this 2001 tournament.
What is the FIFA Under-17 World Championship?
The second UN International Decade for People of African Descent began in this year.
What is 2025?
Born in Moruga, he grew up a block from Kwame Ture in Port of Spain and became a childhood friend.
Who is Darcus Howe?
In 1999, Mark Dean’s team tested the first microprocessor to reach this speed.
What is a gigahertz?
This reggae icon visited Shashemene in 1978 and called it his spiritual home.
Who is Bob Marley?
Winifred Atwell’s “Black and White Rag” later became the theme for this BBC sports programme.
What is Pot Black (snooker)?
Belize’s Mayan name Belinkin is interpreted this way.
What is “land facing the sea”?
In 1961, a 19-year-old Stokely Carmichael spent 49 days in this notorious Mississippi prison after a Freedom Ride.
What is Parchman Farm?
Malone Mukwende partnered with Neutrogena to create this social platform for Black and Brown communities’ skin advice.
What is Hulano?
The 1976 Senate committee that documented the COINTELPRO conspiracy was headed by this senator.
Who is Walter Mondale?
This Portuguese explorer first claimed Gorée Island in 1444.
Who is Dinis Dias?