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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America | Vanessa Williams |
| Who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in An Officer and A Gentleman | Louis Gossett, Jr. |
| Who played the role of Celie in the movie version of Alice Walker’s best-selling book, The Color Purple | Whoopi Goldberg |
| What actress won an Academy Award for her supporting role in the movie Ghost | Whoopi Goldberg |
| Who was the rapper whose first album was titled “All Hail the Queen” | Queen Latifah |
| Dorothy Maynor was invited to join the Boston Symphony Orchestra in what role | Vocalist |
| Who was the first black singer to appear with the Grand Ole Opry in 1967 | Charley Pride |
| Who was the first African American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera | Marian Anderson |
| Who was the first African American dancer on the 1960’s Jackie Gleason show | Mercedes Ellington |
| Once criticized for his derogatory lyrics against law enforcement, which entertainer was 2014’s highest paid entertainer | Dr. Dre |
| Who was part of the all-girls group “Girls Tyme” when she was 12 years old | Beyoncé |
| What two artists have the hit record “Club going up on a Tuesday” | iLoveMakonnen and Drake |
| John Singleton’s 1991 Boys in the Hood, was influential in which rappers rise to stardom | Ice Cube |
| Who was the female singer that recorded more number one hits than anyone else in 1990 | Mariah Carey |
| Who won the first-ever Grammy for Best Rap Performance | Will Smith & partner Jazzy Jeff |
| What performer’s hair caught on fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial | Michael Jackson |
| Who was the most influential figure of Reggae music that died in 1981 | Bob Marley |
| In 1993 Angela Bassett became the first African American woman to win the best actress Golden Globe Award for her role in what movie | What’s Love Got to Do with It |
| In 2001, what African American male won the Academy Award for both lead and supporting actor in Glory and Training Day | Denzel Washington |
| In 2002, who became the first African American woman to win the Academy Award for best actress for her role in Monster’s Ball | Halle Berry |
| Who was the black actor who costarred in the movie The Matrix | Laurence Fishburne |
| Who was the first black actor to win an Academy Award for best actor in 1964 | Sidney Poitier |
| Keenan Ivory Waynes’ show In Living Color won what award in 1990 | Emmy Award |
| What was the first non-burlesque Broadway production staged, with an all-black company and cast | Virginia |
| What year did Oprah Winfrey launch her Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) | 2011 |
| Who won the 2000 Antoinette Perry award for best actor in a musical | Brian Stokes Mitchell |
| The reputed king of cornet playing in New Orleans in the 1900’s, he was the first African American to introduce New Orleans Jazz to a northern audience | King Oliver |
| Who was the premier blues and jazz singer of the 1920’s | Bessie Smith |
| What does KRS-One stand for | Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody |
| Who is the winner of 25 Grammy’s, the most by any African American in history | Stevie Wonder |
| Who was known as the greatest guitarist of the1960’s | Jimi Hendrix |
| What was the name of Eddie Murphy’s first movie, which grossed over 100 million dollars and propelled him into movie stardom | 48 hours |
| Blues vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist John Brim also owned what businesses in Chicago | A dry-cleaning business & record store |
| Who was the first African American woman to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939) | Hattie McDaniel |
| What TV comedy show made Eddie Murphy a household name | Saturday Night Live |
| In 2003, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in the film Chicago | Queen Latifah |
| What hip-hop group created the theme song “Fight the Power” to Spike Lee’s film “Do the right thing” | Public Enemy |
| Who won a Grammy Award in 1992 for “Unforgettable”, a musical tribute to her a late father | Natalie Cole |
| What movie is based on the events of the life of Navy master diver Carl B. Brashear | Men of Honor |
| Who is called the “Queen of hip-hop soul” | Mary J. Blige |
| Keenan Ivory Wayans produced what award winning TV comedy show | In Living Color |
| Who won the award for Best Supporting actor in the film “Glory” which was based on America’s first unit of black soldiers in the Civil War | Denzel Washington |
| In what year did Disney first officially “coronate” it’s first African American Princess, Tiana | 2010 |
| Which African American Superstar attended the High School for Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, TX | Beyoncé Knowles |
| What Grammy Award winning quartet from Philadelphia that has sold over four million copies of their album “Cooley High Harmony” | Boys II Men |
| What show was a spin-off of The Cosby Show and took place on a college campus | A Different World |
| What African American actor won an Academy Award for playing the role of Ray Charles in the movie “Ray” | Jamie Foxx |
| Who directed the 2018 movie Black Panther | Ryan Coogler |
| In 2002, who released his first live album, “One Nite Alone… Live!” | Prince |
| What is the name of the actor who was also President Barack Obama’s classmate at Harvard University | Hill Harper |
| Who is the only musician outside of the classical and jazz genres to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music | Kendrick Lamar |
| Who is the executive producer of the 2021 children's show “Waffles and Mochi | Michelle Obama |
| Who was the first African American to hold the Artistic Director Position at Louis Vuitton and was the CEO of the brand Off White | Virgil Abloh |
| What Nigerian music artist won BET’s Award for Best international Act in 2023 | Burna Boy |
| Who wrote “I Can’t Breathe” in honor of George Floyd and donated all the song’s proceeds to Black Lives Matter | H.E.R. |
| What Disney 2020 Film by Beyonce celebrates the resilience and excellence of Black culture | “Black is King” |
| In 2023 Ruth E Carter was the first black woman to win 2 Oscars for costume design for what film | “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” |
| Tracy Chapman became the first Black songwriter to receive The Country Music Award’s Song of the Year Award in 2023 for her song “Fast Car” that was written in what year | 1988 |
| In 2021, what Lil Naz X’s song made history- receiving 14-times Platinum Staus Recording Industry Association of America | Old Town Road |
| At age 33 Jon Batiste received what esteemed award from the American Jazz Museum | Lifetime Achievement Award |
| Who has received 13 Primetime Emmy Awards and has been dubbed “The Queen of Drag” | RuPaul Andre Charles |
| Marian Anderson was the first African American to perform with what group | The Metropolitan Opera |
| In 2014 and again in 2017, who received two Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Game Show Host and Outstanding Talk Show Host | Steve Harvey |
| Michael Jackson was often referred to by what honorific nickname | “The King of Pop” |
| Rappers Delight, the song that became the first top 40 Hip-Hop hit, was written by who | Sugarhill Gang Jan. 1980 |
| What film was influential in Ice Cube’s rise to stardom | John Singleton’s 1991 “Boys in the Hood.” |
| Who was the first black woman to receive the Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama for Shonda Rhimes’ show “How to Get Away With Murder” | Viola Davis |
| What type of popular music originating among African American communities contains words that are recited rapidly and rhythmically | Rap |
| What music artist was awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World by the United Nations in 1978 | Bob Marley |
| Who founded the first black owned major recording company, Motown Recording Corporation | Berry Gordy |
| Singer, songwriter and pianist, Nat King Cole was the first African American to do what in 1956 | Host a national television program |
| The dance Twekrin originated in what region of the world | West Africa |
| Tyra Banks was the first African American woman on the covers of what magazines | GQ magazine and the Sports Illustrated |
| In 2006, who was named the most awarded female artist of all time by Guinness World Records | Whitney Houston |
| Who played the saxophone helping to pioneer and influence the free jazz movement | John Coltrane |
| Aretha Franklin was the first female artist to be inducted into what in 1987 | The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
| James Brown performed in front of a televised audience in Boston the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated and was often given credit for what | Preventing riots |
| Who was known as a musical genius and pioneer in blending gospel and the blues | Ray Charles |
| Oprah Winfrey was the first African American star to be on the cover of what magazine | Vogue |
| Run- D.M.C became the first rap act to appear on the cover of what magazine | Rolling |
| Which composer and pianist become America’s most accomplished jazz bandleader during the so-called swing era | Duke Ellington |
| Where did Gospel Music emerge in the 1890’s | Holiness or Pentecostal churches of the urban North and South |
| What songwriter and performer ushered in the cultural transition from Rhythm and blues to rock and roll | Chuck Berry |
| KRS-One started what movement in 1988/1989 in response to violence in Hip-Hop and black communities | “Stop the Violence Movement” |
| What part of the U.S. did Blues music emerge from | The Mississippi Delta |
| Spirituals are also called what type of music | Sorrow Songs |
| In 1974, Grandmaster Flash originated what Dj technique that has become a staple sound of rap music | Scratching |
| What 1977 show transformed American television as well as America’s knowledge and perspective on U.S. History of Slavery | Roots |
| Beyonce was the first African American woman to win what ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) award | Pop Music Songwriter of the Year |
| What was the highest rated talk show in television history | The Oprah Winfrey Show |
| The platinum song “Ain’t No Stoppin Us Now” by McFadden and Whitehead was called what in 1979 | The Black National Anthem |
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