BLACK HISTORY MONTH JEOPARDY

POLITICS

100

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO SERVE AS U.S SUPREME COURT JUSTICE

THURGOOD MARSHALL

200

BEFORE BARACK OBAMA BECAME PRESIDENT HE SERVED AS WHAT

SENATOR OF ILLINOIS 

300

WHAT U.S SUPREME COURT DECISION CREATED THE LEGAL FICTION OF "SEPERATE BUT EQUAL"

PLESSY VS. FERGUSON

400

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN SECRETARY OF STATE 

CONDOLEEZZA RICE

500

FAVORITE BLACK FRONT DESK PERSON AT VINE 

CHRISTINA 

FIRSTS

100

FIRST EVER AFRICAN AMERICAN ON THE COVER OF VICTORIA'S SECRET LINGERIE CATALOG

TYRA BANKS

200

FIRST BLACK TALK SHOW HOST

OPRAH WINFREY

300

FIRST BLACK MALE TO WIN AN ACADEMY AWARD

DENZEL WASHINGTON

400

FIRST PROFESSIONAL BLACK BASEBALL PLAYER

JACKIE ROBINSON

500

FIRST U.S TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETE TO WIN FOUR GOLD MEDALS IN A SINGLE OLYMPIAD

JESSE OWENS 

MISC

100

HIGHEST RANKING BLACK FAMILY SITCOM FOR 5 YEARS IN A ROW

THE COSBY SHOW

200

FIRST BLACK FEMALE MILLIONAIRE WHO PIONEERED THE HAIR INDUSTRY

MADAM C.J WALKER

300

RESPONSIBLE FOR MAKING OVER 500 PRODUCTS FROM PEANUTS AND SWEET POTATOES

GEORGE CARVER

400

FOUNDER OF NEGRO HISTORY WEEK WHICH LATER BECAME KNOWN AS BLACK HISTORY MONTH

CARTER G. WOODSON

500

THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE PRINCIPLE DANCER FOR THE AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE

MISTY COPELAND

GUESS ME

100

IN 1953 WHO WAS MARTIN LUTHER KING MARRIED TO 

CORETTA SCOTT

200

"THE GREATEST" IS THE NICKNAME COINED FOR WHICH BLACK ATHLETE 

MUHAMMAD ALI

300

BELIEVED BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD RETURN TO THEIR RIGHTFUL HOME IN AFRICA; WITH THE EXCEPTION OF LIGHTER SKINNED BLACKS DUE TO THEIR "WHITENESS"

MARCUS GARVEY

400

NAME 3 HBCU'S 

NORTH CAROLINA A&T STATE UNIVERSITY 

HAMPTON UNIVERSITY 

HOWARD UNIVERSITY 

SPELMAN 

MOREHOUSE 

VIRGINIA STATE  

FISK

500

SKOOL DAZE/ HE GOT GAME/ CROOKLYN ARE FAMOUS FILMS DIRECTED BY...

SPIKE LEE

WORKS OF ART

100

WROTE "I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS"

MAYA ANGELOU

200

FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO PERFORM AT THE SUPERBOWL 

ELLA FITZGERALD 

300

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore—

      And then run?

LANGSTON HUGHES

400

HIGHEST GROSSING BLACK ALBUM OF ALL TIME THUS FAR

THRILLER; MICHAEL JACKSON

500

ACCORDING TO GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS, WHAT BLACK SINGER IS THE MOST AWARD-WINNING FEMALE ARTIST 

WHITNEY HOUSTON