O'Keeffe Heritage Bowl Questions Part 1

HISTORY: What was the name of the network of hiding places which helped enslaved Africans to escape to freedom?

ENTERTAINMENT: In 2001, for what film did Denzel Washington become the second African American man to win an Academy?

ENTERTAINMENT: Who played the role Celie in the movie version of Alice Walker's best-selling book, The Color Purple?

ARTS: Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing what Black American Magazine?

HISTORY: Where did the "sit-in" movement begin?

ARTS: What is the name of the Harlem club where many famous Black American entertainers began their careers?

ENTERTAINMENT: What artist recored the song "I Will Always Love You," "The Greatest Love of All," and ?

BUSINESS AND EDUCATION: Who founded the magazine Ebony?

BUSINESS AND EDUCATION: Who became the first African American female Billionare in 2004?

ARTS: In 1993, she became the first black to be honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature for six novels.

BUSINESS AND EDUCATION: Whose sales of innovative beauty products sold throughout the US and the Caribbean?

HISTORY: What civil rights leader was the co-founder of the NAACP and the Pan-African Movement?

BUSINESS AND EDUCATION: What occupation do Iman, Beverly Johnson, and Naomi Sims have in common?

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

ENTERTAINMENT: The Guinness Book of World Records lists what Michael Jackson album the best selling album of all times?

ARTS: Who was the first Black American Woman chosen as Miss America?