Movies/TV Shows
What movie features a main character named Starr Carter?
The Hate U Give
What female artisit was born and raised in Houston, Texas and released a country song this year? (Double Points if you can say her full name)
Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter
Who is the black woman on our Canadian 10 dollar bill?
Viola Desmond
Name that athlete. He floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
True or False. Kaleb ref coaches and plays basketball.
True
What was the name of the 2018 primarily black cast film that grossed over a billion dollars worldwide and was based on a comic book superhero created by Stan Lee and took place in a mythical African nation?
Black Panther
What girl group formed in 1990 in Atlanta, Georgia features the singer “Left Eye”?
TLC
Which American civil rights activist is known fro her role in the Montgomery bus boycott? (Double points if you can name the year)
Rosa Parks - ”the mother of the freedom movement” in 1955
Who was the first African American to play Major League Baseball?
Jackie Robinson
Fill in the blanks. N_ GG _ R
Nagger
Name that film. Ever since her parents left her she has had a hard knock life with her foster mother, Miss Hannigan. However, all that changes when she meets billionaire Will Stacks. (Double Points if you can name the year the film came out!!)
Annie (2014)
Finish the lyric. ”Have you ever loved someone______________” (Double points if you can name the song AND artist)
Candy Rain by Soul For Real
“Have you ever loved someone
So much you thought you’d die?
Giving so much of yourself
It seems the only way”
Who made history with the first rap son to win Grammy Awards for Song and Record of the Year in 2019? (Double points if you can name the song)
Childish Gambino - This is America
Jesse Owens
What school hosted the Black Symposium?
What TV show features an Albino supervillain?
Black Lightning
Which city is widely known as the birthplace of Hip Hop? (A. Brooklyn, New York City, B. Compton, Los Angeles, C. The Bronx, New York City, D. Houston, Texas)
C. The Bronx, New York City
What was Black History Month previously known as?
Negro History Week
Who is the forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers?
LeBron James
Who are the 3 main characters in Hidden Figures?
Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Goble Johnson, Mary Jackson
In 2018, the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay went to an African American screenwriter for the first time. But this person also became the first Black person to be nominated in that category as well as in ones for Best Director and Best Picture (as a producer) for the same film. Name him or her.
Jordan Peele for “Get Out”
How did Aaliyah die? (Double points if you can name the year or age)
Airplane accident on August 25, 2001 at the ripe age of 22
Why was Black History Month placed in February?
It was the same month of the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass
Who holds the NBA records for highest career regular season scoring average of 30.12 points per game and highest career playoff scoring average 33.45 points per game?
Michael Jordan
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