MUSIC
What do the letters for the cable network BET stand for?
Black Entertainment Television
The Globetrotters were a famous sports team of the 1960’s. Name the sport.
Basketball
What does HBCU stand for?
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
What was the eight-part miniseries, based on Alex Haley’s 1976 novel that broke viewership records at the time of its airing.
Roots
This person is best known for his discoveries on the uses for the peanut.
George Washington Carver
The Apollo Theater was opened in what city?
Harlem, NY
Who was the youngest prizefighter ever to win the heavyweight championship of the world?
Mike Tyson
What State has the most HBCUs?
Alabama (14)
Who went on to create and host the first all-Black cartoon, introduced in 1969 primetime special Hey, Hey, Hey, It’s Fat Albert — and starred as Cliff Huxtable in popular sitcom, which ran from 1984 to 1992?
Bill Cosby
This person invented the traffic light in 1922
Garret Morgan
Who wrote "Lift Every Voice & Sing" aka the Negro National Athem?
James Weldon Johnson
What boxer was known as the "Louisville Lip?"
Muhammad Ali
Which historically black sorority was founded second?
Delta Sigma Theta
What show, that broadcast in 1975, focuses on a prosperous black couple that were able to move from Queens to Manhattan, owing the success of a dry cleaning company?
The Jeffersons
Madame CJ Walker was the first African American to do what?
Self-made millionaire
Who made history with the first rap song to win Grammy Awards for Song and Record of the year in 2019?
Childish Gambino- This is America
Who was the first African American to coach a professional sports team?
Bill Russell
What was the first HBCU in the US to officially issue degrees to African Americans?
What is Lincoln University
What Comedian and actor was well known for filling in on The Late Show and for his role as Semmi, best friend to Eddie Murphy’s Prince Akeem in 1988 comedy Coming to America before he kicked off his own talk show?
Arsenio Hall
This person is best known for inventing the ironing board in 1892.
Sarah Boone
What was the first widely distributed label to be owned, operated, and marketed to African Americans?
Black Swan Records
Which African American Olympic track and field star was told by doctors that she would never walk again?
Wilma Rudolph
Which HBCU did W.E.B. DuBois attend?
Fisk University in 1885
What singer and actress took over the role as villain Catwoman on the 1960s live-action superhero series Batman from Julie Newmar, becoming the first Black entertainer to be cast in a comic book–based role?
Eartha Kitt
This person was a self-educated mathematician, astronomer, compiler of almanacs, and a farmer. He also helped survey the territory for the US Capital.
Benjamin Banneker