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100

Who is the King of Pop?

Michael Jackson

100

Jackie Robinson was the first Major League Baseball Player

FALSE- Moses Fleetwood “Fleet” Walker

100


  • Speaker 1: "I'll play you!"

  • Speaker 2: "For what?" 

  • Speaker 1: "...your heart.

Love & Basketball

100

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

100

Who invented the hot comb?

Madame CJ Walker

200

Aubrey Graham is a famous rapper who goes by the name of

Drake

200

For what professional football team did Walter Payton play?

Chicago Bears

200

"Excuse me, brother, what we call drugs at 74th Street Baptist Church, we call a sinny sin sin."

Friday

200

Who was the first African American to be appointed Supreme Court Justice?

Thurgood Marshall

200

Who was the youngest prizefighter ever to win the heavyweight championship of the world?

Mike Tyson

300

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

300

Who was the first Black golfer to win the Masters Golf Tournament?

Tiger Woods

300

Who was the first African American to win an Emmy?

Bill Cosby

300

Slave labor is responsible for the building of the White House, U.S. Capitol, and other early government buildings.

TRUE

300

Name a TV Show that Shonda Rhimes has produced

Grey’s Anatomy 

400

Finish this lyric: “Earned all this money but they never take the country out me _______ swag”

I got a hot sauce in my bag

400

What boxer was known as the "Louisville Lip?"

Muhammad Ali

400

For what movie did Halle Berry win the Academy Award for Best Actress?

2002 Monsters Ball

400

He started the “Back to Africa Movement”, and was later deported back to his homeland in Jamaica?

Marcus Garvey

400

The woman who refused to give up her bus seat

Claudette Colvin

500

What does the term R&B music represent? This term was first used by Billboard magazine in the late 1940s.

Rhythm & Blues

500

What style of jump rope was made popular on the streets of American cities and employs two ropes, rapidly turning at once?

Double Dutch

500

What was the first black-owned company to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange?

BET Black Entertainment Television

500

What is the name of the sit-ins that started on February 1st of 1960?

Greensboro Sit-ins

500

The celebration of Black History Month began as

Negro History Week