Key Figures
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Tie Breaker
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She was the first female self-made millionaire in the United States.
Who was Madam C. J. Walker?
100
This is Berkeley Lab's 2023 Black History Month theme.
What is African-American/Black Women in STEM?
100
This scientist & inventor is best known for the more than 300 uses he devised for the peanut, including the invention of peanut butter. Also: was a nutritional advisor to Mahatma Gandhi.
Who is George Washington Carver (c.1864-1943)?
100
She is the most decorated US women's gymnast ever with 32 World Olympic Medals.
Who is Simone Biles?
100
This Marvel movie made 800 million making it the sixth-highest grossing movie of 2022.
What is Wakanda Forever?
100
This Black Panther Headquarters was located on the corner of these two streets before it was moved its Central Hdq to 85th and international Blvd in 1972.
14th and Peralta, West Oakland
200
This Atlanta-based speaker, author and courage coach who works with universities and organizations to help emerging leaders perform to their potential was a keynote speaker during Berkeley Lab's 2022 Black History Month events.
Who is Candace Doby?
200
The first "sit-in protest" took place at this segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
What is Woolworth's?
200
This chemist developed the first successful treatment for leprosy (Hansen's disease).
Who is Alice Ball (1892-1916)?
200
This vegan football is known for using his platform to affect change. He has made significant charitable contributions to oppressed communities and publicly protested police brutality and racial inequality.
Who is Colin Kappernick?
200
Octavia Butler is a science fiction writer who is considered the mother of this movement (in literature, movement, art, etc.)
What is Afrofuturism?
Octavia Butler (1947 - 2006)?
She is currently showcased at the Museum of California in Oakland's exhibit Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism.
300
He is the father of Black History Month.
Who is Carter G. Woodson?
300
Daily Double!!!
This is the National Black History Month 2023 theme.
What is The Power of Black Resistance?
The Black History Month 2023 theme, “Black Resistance,” explores how "African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms and police killings," since the nation's earliest days.
300
Benjamin Banneker taught himself astronomy and mathematics. He was able to predict events such as solar eclipses, sunrises and sunsets leading to his development of this annual calendar in 1792.
What is the Almanac?
300
First professional African American Baseball team?
What is the New York Cuban Giants?
300
In the 1970's, Clive Campbell's signature innovation used two turntables to switch back and forth repeatedly between two copies of the same record, extending the short drum break that the crowd most wanted to hear. He called his trick the Merry Go-Round. Today, it is known as the “break beat.”
Often referred to as the "Father of Hip Hop," this Jamaican-American DJ is credited for originating hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in the 1970s.
Who is DJ Kool Herc?
400
In March 2003, Vernice Armour, Captain, U.S. Marine Corps, flew with HMLA-169 during the invasion of Iraq, earning her title as this 'first'.
Who is America's first Combat Pilot?
She completed two combat tours in the Gulf.
400
During World War I, this infantry fought at Chateau-Thierry and Belleau Wood, with a total of 191 days in combat -- longer than any other American unit in the war.
Who are the Harlem Hellfighters?
400
Sarah Boone created this item because she knew Sailors would not be able to, or forget to take their dress uniforms to the dry cleaners.
What is an ironing board?
400
She became the first African American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre (ABT).
Who is Misty Copeland?
400
This famous jazz band leader was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on his 70th birthday.
Who is Duke Ellington?
500
Hiram Rhodes Revels was a Republican Party member who became the first African American to serve in the US Senate. He represented this state.
What is Mississippi?
500
These cultural traditions and art forms with strong roots in African culture were first introduced to Greek life in the early 1900s by Alpha Kappa Alpha and the Divine 9.
What are stepping and strolling?
Stepping is the art of creating a rhythmic beat utilizing the entire body— clapping or stomping or both. On the other hand, strolling is a synchronized modern dance style that many fraternities and sororities have come to embrace.
500
In 1969, James Harris was credited as the first Black nuclear chemist to co-discover these two elements.
What is rutherfordium (104) and dubnium (105)?
Harris was the head of the Heavy Isotopes Production Group, part of the Nuclear Chemistry Division of University of California-Berkeley.
500
This basketball star was the first Black NBA coach to also play on the team. He also marched with MLK and stood up for Muhammad Ali as well as winning the 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Who is Bill Russell?
500
This famous New York club gave a young Lena Horne her start in the music industry.
What is Cafe Society?