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100
What is RILEY?
This was B. B. King's first name.
100
What is MALCOLM LITTLE?
This was Malcolm X's given name.
100
What is SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT?
This was Robert Weaver's title when he became a presidential cabinet member.
100
What is the AFRICAN MEETING HOUSE?
This was the first major building constructed by Black people in Boston.
100
What is THE LIFE OF BUMPY JONES?
The movie Shaft was based on this.
200
What is EDWARD KENNEDY ELLINGTON?
this was Duke Ellington's real name.
200
What is BLACK MOSES?
This was Marcus Garvey's nickname.
200
What is IT WAS CONTROLLED BY SLAVE MUTINEERS?
This was significant about the slave ship Amistad.
200
What is PACE PHONOGRAPHICAL CORPORATION?
This was the first record company operated by an African American in America.
200
What is EMMITT TILL?
This was the name of the 14-year-old boy who was brutally killed for allegedly whistling at a White woman.
300
What is BOTANY AND AGRICULTURE?
This was George Washington Carver's major while in college.
300
What is STAGECOACH MARY?
This was Mary Field's nickname.
300
What is $3.40?
This was the amount of the first royalty check for Berry Gordy, Jr., founder of Motown Records.
300
What is TO KILL OR DRIVE AWAY LEADING NEGROES AND ONLY LET THE HUMBLE AND SUBMISSIVE REMAIN?
This was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan.
300
What is NICODEMUS?
This was the name of the all-Black town founded by W. H. Smith in Kansas.
400
What is SATCHMO?
This was Louis Armstrong's nickname.
400
What is CASSIUS MARCELLUS CLAY?
This was Muhammad Ali's given name at birth.
400
What is DORA BABBIGE?
This was the birth name of international vaudeville performer Dora Dean.
400
What is ARIZONA?
This was the last state to recognize Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a state holiday.
400
What is JAMAICA TRAIN?
This was the name of the crude sugar refining process Norbert Rillieux's invention made obsolete.
500
What is SARA BREEDLOVE WALKER?
This was Madam C. J. Walker's real name.
500
What is COTTON BROKER?
This was Purvis' grandfather's occupation.
500
What is APRIL 4, 1968?
This is the date when Martin Luther King was assassinated.
500
What is TWELVE STROKES?
This was the margin of victory in Tiger Woods's Masters win in 1997.
500
What is THE UNITED STATES HOTEL AND RESTAURANT?
This was the name of the enterprise Barney Ford formed in Nicaragua.






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