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100
She holds the record for 30 world championships in gymnastics.
Who is Simone Biles?
100
He was the first black appointed to the US Supreme Court.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
100
She sang the most memorable and popular versions of "The Greatest Love of All" and "The Star Spangled Banner."
Who is Whitney Houston?
100
A pilot, she was accepted by the Caudron Brothers School of Aviation, a well-respected flight school run by the renowned builders of World War I aircraft.
Who is Bessie Coleman?
100
She has an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award and won the Oscar for "The Color Purple."
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
200
Once known as the "fastest woman alive," she won four Olympic gold medals.
Who is Florence Joyner Griffith?
200
Who was the first Black US General to serve as Secretary of State?
Who is General Colin Powell?
200
His old name was Robinson. He was blind and sang jazz, soul, rhythm and blues, gospel and country songs.
Who is Ray Charles?
200
When scientists could not prove any difference in the blood of different races, he created techniques for blood storage.
Who is Dr. Charles Drew?
200
He organized the first black owned dance company.
Who is Alvin Ailey?
300
As a shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Who is Kobe Bryant?
300
She is the first woman and African American to be the Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
300
A certain kind of Jamaican music about human rights and peace and love was his jam.
Who is Bob Marley?
300
Her still living cells, that continue to multiply to this present day, became one of the most important cell lines (called HeLa) in medical research and became the basis for polio and other vaccines, treatment of cancer and AIDs and many more discoveries.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
300
She’s 26 years old and read her poem, “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden’s inauguration and was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
400
Stephen Curry is credited with inspiriting basketball players to take what kind of shots?
Three-point shots.
400
BONUS!!!!!!!
This social and political movement spread all over the world after the death of George Floyd?
What is Black Lives Matter?
400
She sang for Presidents and is known as "The Queen of Soul."
Who is Aretha Franklin?
400
Young 38 yr old scientist at the National Institutes of Health who developed the COVID-19 vaccines and identified the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).
Who is Kizzmekia Corbett?
400
Starred in “The Defiant Ones” and was the first black male actor to win an Academy Award OSCAR. He acted in Broadway plays including “To Sir, with Love,” “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” “Black Board Jungle,” “Raisin in the Sun,” “Porgy and Bess.”
Who is Sidney Poitier?
500
Bonus!!!!!!!!
He claims that he was the greatest boxer of all time.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
500
She was an educator, started a school for Black girls, a philanthropist, civil rights activist, best friend of President Roosevelt's wife and Founder of the National Council of Negro Women.
500
BONUS!!!!!!!!!
What genre (or kind) of music is celebrating 50 years?
What is RAP MUSIC?
500
This MOVIE celebrated black women who worked at NASA and were the brains behind the launch of John Glen into space.
What is "Hidden Figures?" Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan pictured.
What is "Hidden Figures?"
500
Bonus !!!!Black fraternities and sororities are usually found on the campuses of these colleges and universities.
What are HBCUs? Historically black colleges and universities.