Black History Month Jeopardy....

African American Music

100

Who is ranked as the second best-selling female artist of the 21st century with record sales of over 37 million dollars?

Beyonce Knowles

200

Who was the first Female R&B Singer to go Diamond? (Just recently happened)

Lauryn Hill

300

Finish The Lyric :

How do I, ______________ To what we had...

How Do I, say goodbye to what we had...

400

Who was a famous rockstar and guitarist in the 1960s?

Jimi Hendrix

500

This famous rapper's real name is Lesane Parish Crooks.

Tupac Shakur (2Pac)

Quotes

100

Who said, "For Africa to me ... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."

Who is Maya Angelou?

200

Who said, "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

Who is BARACK OBAMA?

300

Who said, "The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us--that's where it's at."

Who is Jesse Owens?

400

Who said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

Who is Frederick Douglass?

500

"Flow like a butterfly, sting like a bee" was a quote relating to what famous boxer?

Who is Muhammad Ali?

Black Culture outside the U.S.

100

Who is, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999?

Nelson Mandela

200

Largest country with the biggest black populations?

Nigeria

300

The _____ is a colorful garment worn mostly in West Africa.

Dashiki

400

Who was a Mandinka warrior from the African village of Juffere? (Famous TV Series)

Kunta Kinte

500

What is the #1 language spoken in Africa?

Swahili

Black Card Revoked

100

If mama sent you to the store with $5, what were you suppose to bring back?

What is her change?

200

What did your parents say they you?

Food on the ______ & the Clothes on your ____!

Food on the Table & the Clothes on your Back!

300

A scrub is a ______?

What is a guy that can't get no love from me?

400

If Young Metro Don't trust you, what might Future do?

Shoot you

500

What was Black History Month originally called?

Negro History week

Famous African Americans

100

Who was the first African American Supreme Court Justice?

Thurgood Marshall

200

Which fourteen year old black boy was lynched for whistling at a white woman?

Who is Emmet Till?

300

Who is our 44th President?

Barack Obama

400

Who was an American preacher who dedicated her life to fighting for for civil and human rights?

What is Sojourner Truth?

500

Who came to prominence in Chicago as chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party?

Fred Hampton