Black History Trivia Bowl (Art)

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

Zydeco

Who wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God?”

Zora Neale Hurston

Which one of the composer/pianist Anthony Davis’ operas premiered in the Philadelphia in 1985 and was preformed by the NY city Opera in 1986?

X: The Life and Times of Malcom X

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

Wynton Marsalis

What profession were Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen?

Writers

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

William Wells Brown

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

William Wells Brown

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

(William) Christopher Handy

What aspiring fiction writer and Hopkinsville native served as editor of three African American weeklies?

(William) Alexander Chambers

Nat Love wrote what kinds of stories?

Westerns

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 for the Pulitzer prize for Beloved which became a motion picture and in 1993 for Jazz. Name her.

Toni Morrison

What pianist and arranger formed his own jazz band and recorded the albums, Your Daddy’s Dogin’s Around and Blues for the Red Boy?

Todd Washington Rhodes

Trumpeter Wynton Maraslis is the spokesperson for what group, representing a younger generation of jazz musicians?

The Young Lions

This is the first Gloria Naylor novel consisted of tales from 7 black women who wound up on a dead-end street in a ghetto in the North. What was the name of the novel?

The Women of Brewster Place

What New York library houses rare collections of Black culture?

The Schomburg Center

Which group started as a male gospel ensemble but added female voices in 1940s?

The Roberta Martin Singers

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

The Quarry

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

The Pittsburgh Cycle

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

The National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses

The first known slave narrative was A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Suprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, A Negro Man. In what year was it published?

1760

How old was Langston Hughes when his poetry was first published?

19 years old

How many operas did the composer Scott Joplin write?

2 operas

Miles Davids was a trumpeter of cool, modal, and rock jazz. He served as a bandleader for how many classic quintets in his career?

2