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100

The name of MLK's most famous speech

What is "I have a dream"?

100

This Quarterback was on the winning Super bowl team in 2025

Who is Jalen Hurts?

100

These 2 brothers played white women in the 2004 film 'White Chicks'

Who is Marlon & Shawn Wayans

100

This artist won Album of the year for the first time at the 2025 Grammy Awards in her 25+ year career 

Beyoncé

100

The Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) was founded in this year.

What is 2024?

100

This agricultural scientist, chemist, and inventor developed new products from peanuts, soybeans and sweet potatoes

Who is George Washington Carver ?

200

The first African American justice on the U.S Supreme court

Thurgood Marshall
200

These 2 athletes won 14 Grand Slam women's doubles titles when they played together

Who is Venus and Serena Williams?

200

This famous line from the 1998 film "The Temptations" has often been repeated for comedic effect 

What is 'aint nobody comin to see you Otis'

200

The album 'All eyez on me' was critically acclaimed for which 90's rapper?

Who is Tupac?

200

The Black Engineering Graduate Student Association (BEGSA) was founded in this year.

What is 2013?

200

The product that led to Madame CJ Walker becoming the first Black self-made millionaire.

What is the wonderful hair grower?

300

The state that Barack Obama was senator of before his presidency 

What is Illinois?

300

The first Black All-Around Gymnastics Champion

Who is Gabby Douglas?

300

This actor was the first African American to EGOT (also known as Emmy, Grammy, Oscar Tony) 

Who is Whoopi Goldberg? 

300
Diana Ross was a member of this motown group

What is the supremes?

300

The Black population of Stanford is this %.

What is 11%?

300

This 1990s toy was invented by Lonnie George Johnson, an entrepreneur and aerospace engineer.  

What is the super soaker?

OR

What is the nerf blaster?

400

In 1837, this was the first HBCU founded in the United States 

What is Cheyney University of Pennsylvania?

400
This athlete has won 11 NBA championships which is currently the standing record within the league

Who is Bill Russell?

400

This movie was responsible for this quote "We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile, you miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile, You fumble the football and i will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile"

What is Remember the Titans?

400

The first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Who is Aretha Franklin?

400

This department headed the committee for the first Afro-American Studies program at Stanford.

What is Anthropology?

400

This invented created the model used as the foundation for the global positioning system (GPS).

Who is Gladys West?

500

The person that started Black History Month

Who is Carter J. Woodson

500

Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Olympics for this sport

What is Track & Field?

500

This actor funded the tuition for Chadwick Boseman to attend a summer theater program at Oxford when he couldn't afford it

Who is Denzel Washington ?

500
Michael Jackson grew up in this state as a child before his move to California later in life

What is Indiana? 

500

This event took place at Stanford in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in which student activists interrupted the provost with a list of ten demands to improve the Black experience on campus.

What is Take Back the Mic?

500

This pioneer and chemist developed medicinal drugs from plants including cortisone, steroids, and birth control pills.

Who is Percy Julian?