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Literature
Brain Bowl
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What Gloria Naylor novel consisted of tales from seven black women who wound up on a dead-end street in a ghetto in the North | The Women of Brewster Place |
| Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing what Black American magazine | The Nation |
| What is the name of the newsletter that was originally edited by W.E.B. Du Bois and published by the NAACP in 1910 | The Crisis |
| Who is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Waiting to Exhale | Terry McMillan |
| Published in 1982, Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple became a monumental bestseller and won what coveted awards | Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award |
| What was the name of the newspaper started by Malcolm X | Muhammad Speaks |
| Which was the first African American newspaper | The Freedom Journal |
| What is Maya Angelou's first autobiography | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| In 1983, who became the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction | Alice Walker |
| Solomon Northup wrote what classic | Twelve Years a Slave |
| What black owned and edited newspaper played a pivotal role in fostering the great migration | The Chicago Defender |
| Who was a Grammy Award winner for his audio books, ‘Dreams from My Father’ and ‘The Audacity of Hope’ that won Best Spoken Word Album in 2008 | President Barack Obama |
| What colonial poet wrote about various subjects with religious and moral themes including His Excellency, General Washington | Phillis Wheatley |
| Who authored three autobiographies/slave narratives | Frederick Douglass |
| Name the famous work by Paul Laurence Dunbar | We Wear the Mask |
| Who authored the Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison |
| Still I Rise and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings are famous works of what author | Maya Angelou |
| Which poet is considered the "Mother" of current Black women's poetry because of her noteworthy, insightful and unstereotypical analysis of poor, urban Black people | Gwendolyn Brooks |
| Who wrote the poem "Bars Fight" | Lucy Terry Prince |
| Two plays that were written by African American women and produced on Broadway were | A Raisin in the Sun and For Colored Girls |
| A combination of poetry, dance, music and drama, like For Colored Girls, is an example of what literature form | Choreopoem |
| What was Frances Harper’s first novel containing the story of a young woman of mixed race who lives through the Civil War and embraces her African American identity | Lola Leroy |
| Which novel did folklorist Zora Hurston write | Their Eyes Were Watching God What book was made into a movie about Dr. Ben Carson’s life |
| Where is Langston Hughes from | Joplin, Missouri |
| Where does the book “The Fire Next Time” take place | Harlem, New York |
| Who wrote “The Fire Next Time” | James Baldwin |
| Who is the first Black poet to speak at a U.S. Presidential inauguration | Amanda Gorman |
| What Black woman author wrote “Ain’t I a woman | ” Bell Hooks |
| Where is Nikki Giovanni from | Knoxville, Tennesse |
| Who wrote the book “Blues People” | Amiri Baraka |
| Who wrote the book “Shake Loose My Skin” | Sonia Sanchez |
| Who was the Harlem Renaissance, a time in which Black literary arts thrived, funded by | The Harmon Foundation |
| When did Black people begin to learn to read and write | Beginning of the American Revolution (1775-1783) |
| Why did the slaves learn to read and write | To forge free papers to aid other slaves to freedom |
| What Rap Artist has won a Pulitzer Prize due to his album “DAMN” | Kendrick Lamar |
| What is a book title banned in Florida by a Black Artist | Amanda Gorman’s “The Hill We Climb” |
| Who is the first Black person to ever publish a book | Poet Phillis Wheatley |
| What is the oldest Black-owned bookstore in America | Marcus Books, founded in 1960, is based in Oakland, CA. |
| What movement gave rise to African American literature | The Harlem Renaissance |
| Who was the first African American to publish a poem in the US | Jupiter Hammon in 1711 |
| What triggered the Black Arts Movement | The Assassination of Black Nationalist Leader Malcolm X in 1965 |
| What was the goal of the Black Arts Movement | To create an art expression that would fight for Black people’s liberation |
| Who is considered the father of the Black Arts Movement | Amiri Baraka |
| When was the book “The Bluest Eye” banned | March 1999 |
| What college did Nikki Giovanni teach at | Virigina Tech |
| What famous book did Angela Davis write | Are Prisons Obsolete |
| Who wrote “The Bluest Eye” | Toni Morrison |
| Data Portraits Visualizing Black America, is a book created by whom | W.E.B. Dubois |
| Where did Paul Lawrence Dunbar grow up | Dayton, Ohio |
| Approximately how many poems did Paul Lawrence Dunbar publish in his lifetime | 400 |
| What book is written by Richard Wright | Native Son |
| What book is written by Octavia Butler | Parable of the Sower |
| What book did Alex Haley write | The Autobiography of Malcolm X |
| What book did Ralph Ellison write | Juneteenth |
| What book was written by Colson Whitehead | Underground Railroad |
| What book was written by Elanor Taylor Bland | Whispers in the Dark |
| What book is written by Ibram X. Kendi | Stamped from the beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America |
| What book is written by Claude Brown | The Children of Ham |
| What book is written by Gil Scott Heron | The Vulture |
| What book is written by Ta Nehisi Coates | The memoir: Between the World and Me |
| Where does “Go Tell It On The Mountain” get its name from | An African American Spiritual |
| Who is the author of Notes of a Native Son | James Baldwin |
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