Black Inventors
Quotes
African American Firsts
Funny Stuff
Film and Cinema
100

Gerald A. Lawson invented this, now popular device, which included the use of interchangeable cartridges.

What is At Home Gaming System

100

Who said, 'I never run my train off the track and never lost a passenger'?

Who is Harriet Tubman

100

Who was the first African American golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?

Who is Tiger Woods?

100

Told "bye" in the movie "Friday"

Felicia

100

This comedian turned actor has been noted for playing multiple different characters in the same film.

Who is Eddie Murphy?

200

Marie Van Brittan Brown invented this safety feature

What is Home Security System?

200

Who said "The time is always right to do what is right"?

Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.

200

Who was the first African American to serve as the United States Secretary of State?

Who is Colin Powell

200

Famously said that "George Bush doesn't like black people"

Who is Kanye West?

200

This 2015 Rap/Hip Hop biopic was centered around a group of famous rappers.

What is Straight Outta Compton?

300

Garrett Morgan invented the this

What is the traffic light?

300

Who said "Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."?

Who is Maya Angelou

300

Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?

Who is Booker T. Washington

300

Known for "Mmmmbopmmmbop"?

Who is Orlando Brown?

300

This black male actor has won two Oscar awards, as well as received nominations for four additional more.

Who is Denzel Washington?

400

Thomas Jennings was the first Black Man to receive a patent in 1821 when he invented this

What is dry cleaning?

400

Which famous athlete said "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."?

Who is Muhammad Ali

400

Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")

Who is Toni Morrison

400

Three items seen in Loc Dog's hair in the film "Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Juice In The Hood"?

Possible Answers: Condom; Pacifier; Bag of Weed; Dice

400

She wrote the Broadway choreo-poem play, 'For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf'?

Who is Ntozake Shange?

500

Known for inventing the electret microphone

Who is James Edward West?

500

Who said, “You are the perfect verse over a tight beat.”

Who is Dre from Brown Sugar

500

In what year were the first Africans brought to American to work as slaves?

What is 1619?

500

Finish this quote "Pam, is that your breath smellin' like"

What is boiled bologna?

500

Ava Duvernay directed this Netflix documentary special which won multiple Critics' Choice Documentary Awards

What is 13TH?