Music
Who is the King of Pop?
Michael Jackson
Jackie Robinson was the first Major League Baseball Player
FALSE- Moses Fleetwood “Fleet” Walker
Speaker 1: "I'll play you!"
Speaker 2: "For what?"
Speaker 1: "...your heart.
Love & Basketball
Also a founder of the NAACP, who was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard University?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Who invented the hot comb?
Madame CJ Walker
Aubrey Graham is a famous rapper who goes by the name of
Drake
For what professional football team did Walter Payton play?
Chicago Bears
"Excuse me, brother, what we call drugs at 74th Street Baptist Church, we call a sinny sin sin."
Friday
Who was the first African American to be appointed Supreme Court Justice?
Thurgood Marshall
Who was the youngest prizefighter ever to win the heavyweight championship of the world?
Mike Tyson
Name the inspirational gospel singer who performed at President Barack Obama's first presidential inauguration in 2009. This person is also known as the "Queen of Soul”
Aretha Franklin
Who was the first Black golfer to win the Masters Golf Tournament?
Tiger Woods
Who was the first African American to win an Emmy?
Bill Cosby
Slave labor is responsible for the building of the White House, U.S. Capitol, and other early government buildings.
TRUE
Name a TV Show that Shonda Rhimes has produced
Grey’s Anatomy
Finish this lyric: “Earned all this money but they never take the country out me _______ swag”
I got a hot sauce in my bag
What boxer was known as the "Louisville Lip?"
Muhammad Ali
For what movie did Halle Berry win the Academy Award for Best Actress?
2002 Monsters Ball
He started the “Back to Africa Movement”, and was later deported back to his homeland in Jamaica?
Marcus Garvey
The woman who refused to give up her bus seat
Claudette Colvin
What does the term R&B music represent? This term was first used by Billboard magazine in the late 1940s.
Rhythm & Blues
What style of jump rope was made popular on the streets of American cities and employs two ropes, rapidly turning at once?
Double Dutch
What was the first black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?
BET Black Entertainment Television
What is the name of the sit-ins that started on February 1st of 1960?
Greensboro Sit-ins
The celebration of Black History Month began as
Negro History Week