GSS History
What does GSS stand for?
What is Greener Scott Scholars?
I am so great at Bascketball, Hollywood put me in a movie called Space Jam
Who is Michael Jordan and/or Lebron James?
(One or both will work)
What is the name of the Black National Anthem?
What is Lift Every Voice?
I have the most music Grammy awards of all time
What is Beyoncé?
WAGBT?
(Hint: What you ask before the function)
"Who All Gon' Be There?"
Which two Harvard graduates is GSS named after? And why?
Who are Richard Theodore Greener and Alberta Virginia Scott? First black man and woman to graduate Harvard and Radcliffe.
There is only one number (#) retired in all of professional sports in America. Meaning, no one can or will ever have this number on their jersey again, out of respect to the player.
What is 42? (Jackie Robinson)
What is Negro History Week?
Which teen movie did Gabrielle Union get her breakthrough role in?
What is Bring it on?
YGMM?
You got McDonals money?
In what year was GSS founded?
What is 2018?
In 2012, Olympic gymnast BLANK became the first African American in history to win the individual all-around event. She also won gold medals for the U.S. in the team competitions at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.
Who is Gabby Douglas?
In what year did this celebration of the last slaves finding out they had been freed in Galveston, TX, become a national holiday?
When is 2021?
"Puff puff, give. Puff puff, give. You [messing] up the rotation."
Who is Smokey from Friday? OR What is Friday?
TTFOTF
(Hint: What your mom asks you to do before she comes home from work)
"Take the Food out the Freezer"
Who is the founder of GSS?
Who is Akiesha Ortiz?
What is the name of the female basketball player who scored 101 points in the first half of a high school basketball game?
Who is Lisa Leslie
Who started Black History Month in 1976?
Carter G. Woodson
I am a world famous Author, Social Activist, Poet, Washington High School graduate (SFUSD) and the first Black women to have her likeness depicted on the US quarter.
Who is Maya Angelou?
IYKCIGYSTCA
(Hint: When you're upset in public)
If you keep crying imma give you something to cry about.
GSS has mentors from every Harvard graduate school except...
What is the Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS)
This famous Black track and field athlete won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.
Who is Jesse Owens?
If Black History Month began in 1976, how many have fallen on a leap year?
(Include 1976)
13
Before I was a Princess, I was an actresses. Before I was an actresses, I was a student just like you.
Who is Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex?
(Meghan)
BBBTTTSLCO
(Hint: curfew?)
Be back by the time the street lights come on