BHM Brain Bowl #3

Nominated for a National Book Award, what is Maya Angelou's first autobiography?

Keenan Ivory Waynes’ show In Living Color won what award in 1990.

She served for 2 years as a Buffalo soldier before a doctor discovered that she was a woman, leading to her discharge.

She was a New Orleans-based printmaker who played a role in the collection and curation of African-American art.

The “father of gospel music” was Thomas A. Dorsey. How many songs did he compose?

Named the 60s greatest guitarist, he changed the way electric guitar was played & influenced a generation of musicians.

Name the wooden shacks that were used on the coast of Africa to keep captured slave awaiting transport to the Americas.

Published in 1982, Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple became a monumental bestseller and won what coveted awards?

This 1st Gloria Naylor novel related tales from 7 black women who wound up on a dead-end street in a ghetto.

The Bluest Eye and "Recitatif" are fictional works, written by _______.

The 1st fine arts graduate of Howard Univ. in '24 and the 1st Black woman to have a Whitney Museum solo art exhibition.

Name the household item Thomas W. Stewart invented.

Of what profession were these Harlem Renaissance contributors: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, & Countee Cullen?

Name the song that became the first top 40 Hip-Hop hit in January 1980.

Pres. Eisenhower appointed Marian Anderson, who also had an outstanding singing career, to [this] important position.

Name the honor that Benjamin O Davis Jr and the 332nd Fighter Squadron were awarded for their service.

She is the first African American woman to win the ASCAP pop music songwriter of the year award.

Name the scientist whose research led to an efficient method of storing large quantity of blood plasma in blood banks.

The 1st black female astronaut and doctor who went on to research various vaccines together with the CDC.

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

Maurice Ashley becomes the first African American Grandmasters in what game?

Name the '89 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff appointed as '01 Secretary of State during Pres. GW Bush’s 1st term.

Scott Joplin used this instrument to play his ragtime music.

Landmark US Supreme Court case that declared state laws separating black & white public schools unconstitutional.

Known as the black “Babe Ruth” he dominated the Negro leagues in hitting and home runs.

The son of an enslaved black woman and a white man, this artist has had more than 80 portraits attributed to him.

The 1st Black to become principal owner of a major pro sports team, the Charlotte Bobcats (now the Hornets) in the NBA.

Name the black mathematician who was a surveyor on the team that planned the District of Columbia.

Known as the “brown bomber” he is one of the greatest heavy weights of all time.

The most famous of the black abolitionists, he escaped to Freedom in 1831 by impersonating a free black sailor.

Of African-American &Native American heritage, she achieved int'l fame and recognition as a fine arts world sculptor.

Name the HS that was integrated by the "Little Rock 9": 9 Black American students in Little Rock, Arkansas.

One of the top neurosurgeons in the world, this doctor considered running for president in 2016.

Name the forward who scored 47 points in the final game of the NCAA tournament in 1993.

Music historians refer to what type of music as the first Black American music?

Once criticized for his derogatory lyrics against law enforcement, this entertainer was 2014’s highest paid entertainer.

President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed this African American attorney as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

On September 2, 1941 who became the first black officer to fly an aircraft alone?

Name George Washington Carver’s mule-drawn wagon that visited area farmers to teach them about improving crop yields.

She became the first African American female neurosurgeon in the United States.

Name the space shuttle commanded by Frederick Drew Gregory.

Known collectively as [this], 4,000+ black women enlisted in the Army to serve in support roles before the end of WW1.

Raised in Compton, CA these sisters dominated the women’s tennis scene in the 2000’s.

Name the 1st black woman to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in her role as Mammy. (Gone with the Wind-1939).

Name the invention created by J.L. Love.

Name the two NFL African American coaches that competed in the 2007 Super Bowl.

The first known poem written by an African American was "Bars Fight," by ______.

Known as golf’s most prestigious event, Robert Lee Elder was the first African American to play in this event.

Lewis Latimer made the patent drawings for the first _________________.

Name the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy in 1961.

Name the sculpture designed as a tribute to the four Black girls killed during a church bombing in Alabama in 1963.

She was the first licensed African American pilot.

Name the type of music that is regarded by many as a form of street poetry.

Known as the "Mother" of current Black women's poetry because of her noteworthy analysis of poor, urban Black people.

These soldiers were stablished by Congress in 1866 as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the regular U.S. Army.

Still I Rise and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings are famous works of ______.

Shirley Ann Jackson was the first Black American to earn a PhD from M.I.T. in ____ (what) subject?

Name the hip-hop group that created the theme song “Fight the Power” to Spike Lee’s film “Do the right thing”.

Paul Williams served as co-architect for this major international airport.

Name the measuring instrument invented by Frederick Jones.

The “Rumble in the Jungle” the first ever heavyweight title match to take place in Africa featured what two boxers?

On 1/20/86, this astronaut was 1 of 6 crewmembers that died when the space shuttle Challenger exploded after lift-off.

The type of music Louis Armstrong helped revolutionize and establish as the nation’s 1st highly popular Black art form.

Name the rapper who’s first album was titled “All Hail the Queen”

Name the 1st African American to graduate from the UofA Law School and be admitted into the Arizona State Bar in 1948?

Name the first African American woman to win the Academy Award for best actress for her role in Monster’s Ball in 2002.

Name the book that was made into a movie about Dr. Ben Carson’s life.

The NAACP wanted Pres. Woodrow Wilson’s admin to start what Ft Dodge officer’s training school in Des Moines, IA?

The Northwest Neighborhood Center was renamed as ______________ in honor of a longtime Tucson resident.

The first African American male to win Wimbledon.

She was the premier blues and jazz singer of the 1920’s; she changed the way jazz was played with her singing?

She was the 1st black woman to become president of the the historical Black College, Spellman College.

Name the two things accomplished by the Compromise of 1850

Senator Carol Mosely Braun was elected to serve in which state?

These were used in the Underground railroads to communicate and hung outside of safe houses to impart information.

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

Phillip Downing invented this communication tool.

Matthew Henson was with the first expedition to reach this famous destination.

One of the first black cowboys, this steer wrestler is renowned as the inventor of the modern art of bulldogging.

L. Douglas Wilder, was elected the first Black American governor of what state in 1989?

Popularized by the 1923 musical Runnin' Wild, what dance is believed to have started in a coastal city of S. Carolina?

President Jimmy Carter honored the 761st Tank Battalion, an all-black unit, for fighting in what war?

On Aug. 30, 1983, aboard the Challenger he became the first African American astronaut to fly into space.

Solomon Northup wrote the classic _________________.

Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, Wilt Chamberlain and Connie Hawkins were onetime team members of the _________________.

Name the African American teenager who was murdered in Mississippi for reportedly flirting with a white woman.

Langston Hughes was responsible for publishing this Black American magazine.

Name the 1st black intercollegiate 1906 fraternity at Cornell Univ. (1st to have more than 1 college chapter).

The 1st African American Winter Olympics medalist who won the Figure Skating Bronze Medal in the 1988 Winter Olympics.

The 332nd command destroyed 111 planes in the air, 150 on the ground, & never lost a single bomber. Name the commander.

She has 3 poetry collections, was named US Poet Laureate in June '17, & won Pulitzer Prize in '11 for Life on Mars.

Name the famous work by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Name the executive order issued by Pres. Abraham Lincoln on Jan 1, 1863, freeing all slaves in the United States?

Name the only NFL team who currently has two black quarterbacks on their roster. (Russell Wilson & Tarvaris Jackson)

She was the first African American Grammy winner in 1958.

The first black Greek sorority was founded at ________________.

She was the first American female elected to the US Senate.

This 1977 show transformed American television as well as America’s knowledge and perspective on American Slavery.

She is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Beloved, which became a motion picture, and in 1993 for Jazz.

Keenan Ivory Wayans produced this award winning TV comedy show.