# CATEGORY QUESTION ANSWER - Hopkinsville

1 2011/2012 Black History trivia Bowl study Questions #CATEGORYQUESTIONANSWER1 ArtsAlong the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, what type of music is played with the accordion?Zydeco2 ArtsWho wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"?Zora Neale Hurston3 ArtsWhich one of composer/pianist Anthony Davis' operas premiered in Philadelphia in 1985 and was performed by the New York City Opera in 1986? X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X4 ArtsSince 1987, who has held the position of director of jazz at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City?

2 Wynton Marsalis5 ArtsOf what profession were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen, major contributors to the Harlem Renaissance?Writers6 ArtsWho wrote Clotel, or The President s Daughter, the first published novel by a Black American in 1833?William Wells Brown7 ArtsWho published The Escape, the first play written by a Black American?William Wells Brown8 ArtsWhat is the given name of blues great Handy?William Christopher Handy 9 ArtsWhat aspiring fiction writer, journalist, and Hopkinsville native, served as editor of three African American weeklies: the Indianapolis Recorder, the Freeman, and the Indianapolis Ledger?

3 William Alexander Chambers 10 ArtsNat Love wrote what kind of stories?Westerns11 ArtsCartoonist Morrie Turner created what world famous syndicated comic strip?Wee Pals12 ArtsWho was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is called Father of the Blues ?WC Handy13 ArtsGeorgia Douglas Johnson was a poet during the Harlem Renaissance era. She often held writers workshops at her home in what city?Washington, 14 ArtsGrowing up with a white Jewish mother and an African-American father, who wrote Devil in a Blue Dress, A Red Death, White Butterfly, and Black Betty?

4 Walter Mosley15 ArtsStrongly 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?Walter Mosley16 ArtsKnown for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903? Du Bois17 ArtsWho was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America?Vanessa Williams18 ArtsIn addition to her outstanding career as a singer, what was Marian Anderson appointed to by President Dwight D. Eisenhower?US Delegate to the United States19 ArtsName the three journalist sons of educator, poet, and author Ephraim Poston?

5 Ulysses, Robert, and Ted Poston20 ArtsWhat Hopkinsville natives and brothers owned and edited The Detroit Contender?Ulysses and Robert Poston21 ArtsGustavus Vassa was a slave who had written the first autobiography. His African name was Olaudah Equiano. How many volumes made up his narrative? Two22 ArtsHarlem Renaissance writer Eric Walrond was born in Georgetown, British Guiana and penned what book that consists of a collection of ten stories?Tropic Death Page 1 of 72 2011/2012 Black History trivia Bowl study Questions #CATEGORYQUESTIONANSWER23 ArtsIn 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels.

6 She is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved which became a motion picture, and in 1993 for Jazz. Name Morrison24 ArtsBorn 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? Todd Washington Rhodes25 ArtsTrumpeter 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?The Young Lions 26 ArtsThis 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.

7 It was made into a television movie. What is the name of the novel?The Women of Brewster Place28 ArtsWhat New York library houses rare collections of Black culture?The Schomburg Center29 ArtsIn 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? The Roberta Martin Singers30 ArtsWhat was the name of Charles W. Chestnut s final novel?The Quarry31 ArtsFor what work did August Wilson win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama?The Pittsburgh Cycle32 ArtsSallie Martin was the mother of gospel music .

8 She and Thomas A. Dorsey founded what group in 1933?the National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses 33 ArtsLangston Hughes was responsible for publishing what Black American magazine?The Nation34 ArtsGeorge Shirley was a tenor and member of what opera company?the Metropolitan Opera35 ArtsWhat Broadway show became the longest running one-person show in the history of Broadway?The Lady and Her Music36 ArtsWhat was the name of the first novel published by Charles W. Chestnut?The House Behind the Cedars37 ArtsWhat Ted Poston work was published after his death in 1974?

9 The Dark Side of Hopkinsville38 ArtsWhat is the name of the sculpture designed as a tribute to the four Black girls killed during a church bombing in Alabama in 1963?The Crucifixion39 ArtsWhat is the name of the newsletter which was originally edited by Du Bois and published by the NAACP in 1910?The Crisis40 ArtsWhat is the name of the Harlem club where many famous Black American entertainers began their careers?The Cotton Club41 ArtsPopularized by the 1923 musical Runnin' Wild, what 1920s dance is believed to have started in a coastal city of South Carolina?

10 The Charleston42 ArtsWhat musical genre emerged from three heavily populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East Texas?The blues43 ArtsAin t No Stoppin Us Now, a platinum hit by Gene McFadden & John Whitehead was known as what in 1979?the Black National Anthem44 ArtsVibraphone player Lionel Hampton started his career in 1936 with which band?the Benny Goodman QuartetPage 2 of 72 2011/2012 Black History trivia Bowl study Questions #CATEGORYQUESTIONANSWER45 ArtsErnest J. Gaines is a short story writer who wrote a 1971 historical novel turned television movie whose main character was a 110 year-old woman who narrated her personal The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman46 ArtsFormerly the Virginia Theatre, what became the first Broadway theater to bear the name of an African American in 2005?