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This movie is about to break all kinds of records and is black as hell.
What is Black Panther?
100
She was an African American woman who was the progenitor of the HeLa cell line, one of the most important cell lines in medical research ever discovered.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
100
This artist won Best Rap Album this year AND last year.
Who is Kendrick Lamar?
100
He partnered regularly with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights Movement and was the field secretary for the NAACP while he was alive; his murder gave the movement fresh wind as an honored martyr.
Who is Medgar Evers?
100
The first Black woman to win Miss America.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
200
This hit by the Fast Life Yungstaz is the Black national anthem.
What is Swag Surfin'?
200
American astronomer, astrophysicist, and science communicator. Director of the Hayden Planetarium and the Rose Center for Earth and Space. Supported reclassifying Pluto as a dwarf planet, affectionately known as the man who killed Pluto.
Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson?
200
This legendary soul/funk artist performed at the Super Bowl during halftime in 1997.
Who is James Brown?
200
What amendment outlawed slavery throughout the United States?
What is the 13th amendment?
200
This man is believed to be the actual inspiration for the Lone Ranger.
Who is Bass Reaves?
300
This Disney movie tells the story of how the Jamaican bobsled team made "history" at the Olympics.
What is Cool Runnings?
300
She earned a M.S. and a Ph.D in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland before being selected by NASA as an astronaut.
What is Jeanette Epps?
300
She will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this coming April.
Who is Nina Simone?
300
He is best known for his work as an advisor to MLK, he played a key role in planning the March on Washington, and for his gay rights activism.
Who is Bayard Rustin?
300
This architect mastered the art of drawing upside down and won an architectural competition at the age of 25.
Who is Paul R. Williams?
400
She was the first Black woman to have her own talk show.
What is Della Reese?
400
She invented call waiting, caller ID and the touchtone phone.
What is Shirley Ann Jackson?
400
Who was the first Black artist to win a Grammy?
Who is Ella Fitzgerald?
400
Fifteen-year old who was making moves (to remain in her seat) nine months ahead of Rosa Parks.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
400
A term used by hypebeasts to describe a high level of style.
What is CLOUT?
500
At least five types of dances unique to contemporary African-American culture.
What is cat-daddying, jerking, milly-rocking, beefing it up, cranking that soulja boy, the whip, harlem shaking, New Orleans bouncing, teaching them how to dougie, the wobble, cabbage-patching, the running man; list exhaustive.
500
He took part in the first successful U.S. expedition to the North Pole reaching his destination on April 6, 1909.
What is Matthew Henson?
500
The number of years Drake had his streak on the Billboard Hot 100.
What is 8 years?
500
This is the year the NAACP was founded.
What is 1909?
500
Michelle Obama’s nutrition program that replaced candy in the vending machines with granola bars.
What is Let's Move?