Arts: BHM Trivia Bowl

Along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, what type of music is played
with the accordion?

Who wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" ?

Which one of composer/pianist Anthony Davis' operas
premiered in Philadelphia in 1985 and was performed by the
New York City Opera in 1986?

Since 1987, who has held the position of director of jazz at
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City?

Of what profession were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston,
and Countee Cullen, major contributors to the Harlem
Renaissance?

Who wrote Clotel , or The President’s Daughter , the first
published novel by a Black American in 1833?

Who published The Escape , the first play written by a Black
American?

What is the given name of blues great W.C. Handy?

What aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville native,
served as editor of three African American weeklies: the
Indianapolis Recorder , the Freeman , and the Indianapolis
Ledger ?

Nat Love wrote what kind of stories?

Cartoonist Morrie Turner created what world famous syndicated
comic strip?

Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is called
“Father of the Blues”?

Georgia Douglas Johnson was a poet during the Harlem
Renaissance era. She often held writers‟ workshops at her
home in what city?

Growing up with a white Jewish mother and an AfricanAmerican
father, who wrote Devil in a Blue Dress , A Red
Death , White Butterfly , and Black Betty ?

Strongly influenced by Alice Walker's The Color Purple , what
award-winning author created the enduring character of Easy
Rawlins featured in a series of novels?

Known for his social and political views, who published The
Souls of Black Folks in 1903?

Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss
America?

In addition to her outstanding career as a singer, what was
Marian Anderson appointed to by President Dwight D.
Eisenhower?

Name the three journalist sons of educator, poet, and author
Ephraim Poston?

What Hopkinsville natives and brothers owned and edited The
Detroit Contender ?

Gustavus Vassa was a slave who had written the first
autobiography. His African name was Olaudah Equiano. How
many volumes made up his narrative?

Harlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond was born in
Georgetown, British Guiana and penned what book that consists
of a collection of ten stories?

In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the
Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels. She is a two-time
winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which became a motion
picture, and in 1993 for Jazz . Name her

Born in Hopkinsville, KY, what pianist and arranger formed his
own jazz band and recorded the albums Your Daddy's Dogin'
Around and Blues for the Red Boy?

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis has been a prominent figure in jazz
since the 1980s. He is the spokesperson for what group,
representing a younger generation of jazz musicians?

This first Gloria Naylor novel consisted of tales from seven
black women who wound up on a dead-end street in a ghetto in
the North. It was made into a television movie. What is the
name of the novel?

What New York library houses rare collections of Black culture?

In the 1930s and early 1940s many female gospel groups were
founded. Which group started as a male gospel ensemble but
added female voices in the 1940s?

What was the name of Charles W. Chestnut‟s final novel?

For what work did August Wilson win two Pulitzer Prizes for
Drama?

Sallie Martin was the “mother of gospel music.” She and
Thomas A. Dorsey founded what group in 1933?

Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing what Black
American magazine?