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100
This Disney movie features Princess Tiana, the first Black Disney princess.
What is The Princess and the Frog?
100
This month is celebrated in the United States to honor Black history.
What is Black History Month (February)?
100
She sang the song “Single Ladies.”
Who is Beyoncé?
100
He helped end slavery in the US and gave the "I have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
200
This 1990s TV show starred Will Smith as a teenager from West Philadelphia who moves to live with his aunt and uncle in California.
What is The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?
200
Who was the first African American millionaire?
Madam C.J Walker
200
Which city is widely acknowledged as the birthplace of hip hop?
The Bronx, NY
200
She escaped slavery and helped others escape through the Underground Railrod.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
This superhero movie is about the kingdom of Wakanda
What is Black Panther?
300
This movement worked to end segregation and unfair laws in the 1950s and 1960s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
300
This style of cooking includes foods like collard greens, cornbread, and sweet potatoes.
What is soul food?
300
He became the first Black president of the United States in 2008.
Who is Barack Obama?
400
This TV show starred a family called the Huxtables and was led by actor Bill Cosby.
What is The Cosby Show?
400
This South African leader spent 27 years in prison for fighting against apartheid (which is South Africa’s institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation).
Nelson Mandela
400
He is a basketball player known as “King James.”
Who is LeBron James?
400
She refused to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama.
Who is Rosa Parks?
500
This is known as the 1st Black sitcom.
Good Times
500
This holiday celebrates the end of slavery in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
500
He is known as the “King of Pop.”
Who is Michael Jackson?
500
He argued the historic 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, in which the Supreme Court declared "separate but equal" unconstitutional in public schools.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
600
Name the lead actor in the movie "Training Day", "The Equalizer", and "Flight".
Denzel Washington
600
An institution that is known for primarily providing higher education for African American students
What is an HBCU or Historical Black College or University?
600
As a child this is the time you had to be back in the house.
When the street lights came on.
600
She was a famous poet who wrote “Still I Rise.”
Who is Maya Angelou?
700
T'Challa, known as the Black Panther was played by which famous actor.
Who was Chadwick Boseman?
700
He was a Jamaican native who started the "Back to Africa Movement" and said, "a people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture, is like a tree without roots."
Who is Marcus Garvey?
700
This braided hairstyle has been worn for generations and is both protective and cultural.
What are box braids?
700
He broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947.
Who is Jackie Robinson?
800
This Pixar movie features Joe Gardner, a middle school band teacher who loves jazz music.
What is Soul?
800
He was a scientist who found many uses for peanuts?
Who was George Washington Carver?
800
This was a sign that it was a cleaning day in your house.
What is: when music is blasting from the speakers
800
She helped NASA send astronauts into space and was great at math.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
900
Name this character and the movie he belongs to.
Ed from Good Burger
900
This important amendment to the U.S. Constitution officially ended slavery in 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
900
This song is known as the Black National Anthem
What is "Lift Every Voice"
900
He was a powerful speaker and leader who encouraged Black pride in the 1960s.
Who is Malcolm X?
1000
This 1990s animated TV show featured Penny Proud and her family.
What is The Proud Family?
1000
This group of African American pilots served bravely in World War II and were known for their red-tailed planes.
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
1000
He is known as "the Godfather of Soul" and was one of the founding fathers of funk music and is known for his exciting performance and unique dance styles.
Who is James Brown?
1000
This leader was a formerly enslaved man who helped found an all-Black town in California in 1908.
Who is Allen Allensworth?