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How many islands make up the Bahamas?
What is 700
100
Who invented America's first clock?
Who is Benjamin Banneker
100
What 1993 Disney comedy tells the story of Jamaica's four man bobsleigh team that became a global hit?
What is Cool Runnings
100
The dialect and idioms are influenced by African slaves, English Puritans and other settlers.
What is True
100
Who was the politician and educator that survived three assassination attempts during her campaign for the 1972 U.S. Presidential Election?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
200
How far, in miles, is the closest Bahamian island from the southern coast of Florida?
What is 50
200
who developed Peanut Better?
Who is George Washington Carver
200
Who broke Babe Ruth's home run record when he hit his 715th home run in 1974? He set a major league record with 755 home runs in his career?
Who is Henry ('Hank") Aaron
200
Who was the African-American to famously smuggled military to French allies during World War II? She did this by pinning secrets inside her dress, as well as writing them in invisible ink on her sheet music.
Who is Josephine Baker
200
What African-American soldiers served in the Spanish American War, various Indian Wars and helped to settle the West by installing telegraph lines, protecting wagon trains and defending new settlements? More than 20 of these heroic group of soldiers have received the highest military award, The Medal of Honor, the most any military unit has ever received.
Who are The Buffalo Soldiers
300
What country has the most southern islands in the Caribbean?
What is Trinidad and Tobago
300
Who was the first African-American to patent a fire extinguisher in 1872?
Who is Thomas J. Martin
300
Who was the first man to hold both the 100 meters and 200 meters world record?
Who is Usain Bolt
300
In what year did the island achieve independence from England?
What is 1962
300
Who was recognized for remaining on the New York Times paper back nonfiction bestseller list for two years- the longest running record in history?
who is Maya Angelou
400
What is the second largest Caribbean island?
What is Haiti?
400
Who created the heating system for New York City’s radio music hall, holds 39 U.S patents and 80 international patents pertaining to heating, refrigeration and temperature regulating systems?
Who is David Crosthwaite Jr.
400
Who is the African-American female dancer and choreographer that was the past artistic director of Alvin Ailey american dance theater?
Who is Judith Jamison
400
Who won the 2006 presidential elections in Haiti?
Who is Rene Preval?
400
What 1903 black Greek letter organization was the first collegiate organization ?
Who is Alpha Kappa Nu
500
In What region is Kentucky located?
What is the South/Southeast
500
History has credited Thomas Edison with the invention of the light bulb, but who had innovations towards its development making carbon filament that burn for several hours?
Who is Lewis Latimer
500
What African American female retired from boxing as the undefeated Super Middleweight Boxing Champion of the world with 21 knock-outs in 2007.
Who is Laila Ali?
500
What Jamaican born activist inspired a global mass movement to Africa? Hint: Garveyism
Who is Marcus Garvey
500
Who was a runaway slave from Kentucky and was the inspiration for the first usage of the term “Underground railroad?” This African- American’s owner assumed the slaved had drowned then he attempted his swim across the Ohio River. He told the local paper if he had escaped he must have traveled on “ Underground Railroad.”
Who is Tice Davids