BHM Brain Bowl #4

What singer was often given credit for preventing riots with his performance the day after the MLK assassination?

W.E.B. Du Bois called them “sorrow songs” as they had a distinctive style different from standard English renditions.

What does KRS-One stand for?

What name was given to the Escape System used by the slaves to find safety in the north?

What 2 artists have the hit record “Club going up on a Tuesday” currently on heavy rotation on popular radio stations?

What movie is based on the events of the life of Navy master diver Carl B. Brashear?

Though untrained, he shot down enemy aircrafts during the Pearl Harbor attack and received The Navy Cross honor in 1942.

What colonial poet wrote about various religious and moral subjects including His Excellency, General Washington?

What is the name of the newsletter that was originally edited by W.E.B. Du Bois and published by the NAACP in 1910?

What did George Washington Carver use to develop postage stamp glue?

What NFL player set the world record for the most one-handed catches in one minute with 33 catches?

This U.S. Army Brigadier General became the first African American female to command a mostly all male battalion.

This female singer recorded more number one hits than anyone else in 1990 did.

We are the only siblings in the history of tennis to face-off in four consecutive Grand Slam Finals. Who are we?

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

What soldiers were originally members of the U.S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the US Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas?

What occupation do Iman, Beverly Johnson, and Naomi Sims have in common?

What Amendment forbids the fed. Gov't & states from using race, color, or prior slave status as a voting qualification?

This Arizona post was known as the traditional home of the Black Buffalo Soldiers.

This retired principal with TUSD was named the 1996 “Woman of the Year” by the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce.

What common saying refers to a famous Black American inventor?

Two out of every ten Africans that left the coast of Africa on slave ships died during this trip to the Americas.

This team flew missions in World War II, and never lost a bomber to enemy aircraft.

This music genre is rhyming story telling by one or more speakers over an often borrowed or sampled musical selection.

This term refers to African Americans who were formerly slaves and were emancipated by the civil war.

What organization helps fund over forty Black American colleges?

This term was given to racist and discriminatory laws that treated African Americans like second-class citizens.

What abolitionist became the highest-ranking black of the Civil War when he was commissioned as a field officer?

This is the world’s oldest and largest association of historically Black colleges and universities.

What breakthrough medical procedure was performed by Dr. Daniel Hale Williams?

This Pinal County community began as a segregated town for African American cotton workers during the great migration.

This actress won an Academy Award for her supporting role in the movie Ghost.

This Tucson-raised black woman was selected as the 1st black Assistant Superintendent in TUSD and retired in 1982.

What television program has received over 25 Emmy awards and has been the highest rated talk show in television history?

This case began with a class-action lawsuit filed by parents of Latino and Black students against TUSD.

What African American actor won an Academy Award for playing the role of Ray Charles in the movie “Ray”?

What does CORE mean?

This surgeon served as a professor of surgery at Howard University for 25 years.

What is the real name of Famous Amos?

What major league baseball team was the last to integrate its team?

This reputed 1900s New Orleans king of cornet was the first Black to introduce New Orleans Jazz to a northern audience.

Until recently broken by Barry Bonds, he was Major League baseball’s all-time home run leader.

What Black American inventor patented the cotton planter and seed planter?

What is the oldest Black church in Tucson, Arizona?

What president initially rejected the service of Black slaves in the Union Army during the Civil War?

What company’s popular commercial featured a tape recording of Ella Fitzgerald’s voice shattering a glass?

What section of New York City became the capital of urban Black American culture?

This Grammy Award winner won Best Spoken Word Album in 2008 for ‘Dreams from My Father’ and ‘The Audacity of Hope’.

This person became the first African American to perform with the Metropolitan Opera.

What Hopkinsville natives and brothers owned and edited The Detroit Contender? •

What Black American woman founded the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls, Inc.?

This artist won a Pulitzer Prize for his Jazz Composition “Blood on the Fields”

This American entrepreneur, producer, and author was one of the co-founders of Def Jam Records.

What hip-hop group became the first rap act to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone and make a video appearance on MTV?

What Harlem theatre is a showcase for Black talent?

This person was appointed President of the American Bar Association in 2002.

Transferred to the 758th Tank Battalion after an incident in which he refused to move to the back of a civilian bus.

What award-winning author created the enduring character of Easy Rawlins featured in a series of novels?

This segregated TUSD School educated black students up to High School and was later known as Spring Middle School.

What record company helped bring Mahalia Jackson’s gospel music to a large audience?

This Harlem company was founded in 1940 to provide opportunities for black actors, writers, directors and technicians

What 1987 play, written by Alfred Unry, became a movie in 1989?

This former slave is said to be the first African American to set foot on Arizona soil.

This individual helped more than 300 slaves escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad.

This type of music emerged in the Mississippi Delta after the Civil War, but its exact origin is a mystery.

What is the name of the institute that was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881?

What Black American inventor worked for both General Electric and Westinghouse?

What Black American inventor patented the hearing aid?

This person was the CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone developing an educational model used in cities across the nation.

What magazine is called “The Magazine of Today’s Black Woman”?

What black female inventor patented a home security system?

This African American surgeon was most distinguished for his pioneer work in the field of kidney transplantations.

What is the name of the colorful fabric worn by African royalty?

This West Africa dance includes hip and buttocks gyrations to the sound of rhythmic drums and has filled pop culture.

This composer and pianist in the late 20s/30’s became America’s most accomplished jazz bandleader during the swing era.

This US Supreme Court case declared state laws separating public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.

This Astrophysicist started a firestorm when he and colleagues decertified Pluto as a major planet.

What Black American inventor received a patent for the guitar?

What did Alice Parker invent?

What major organization grew out of the national Negro committee conference of 1909?

What New York library houses rare collections of Black culture?

This black owned and edited newspaper played a pivotal role in fostering the great migration.

This doctor was instrumental for his work in the detection and treatment of syphilis.

What black support unit got supplies to advancing American forces and did yeoman service during '94 Battle of the Bulge?

What famous inventor did Lewis Latimer work with in the development of the electric light bulb?

What Black slave helped Cyrus McCormick invent his famous reaper?

What musical genre arose from these populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East TX?

What social club provided entertainment for the local Black community?

Walter Mosley was influenced by The Color Purple by Alice Walker, when creating this character in a series of novels.

What Black American sailor won the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Battle of Mobile Bay at Ft. Gaines?

What does NAACP stand for?

What did James E. West invent?

What performer’s hair caught on fire during the filming of a Pepsi commercial?

What artist recorded the songs, “I will always love you”, “The greatest love of all” and “I wanna dance with somebody”?

This President instructed the WA Redskins to hire black players or be evicted from the District of Columbia Stadium.

What is the name of Oprah Winfrey’s TV Production Company?

To what position was Colin Powell appointed, making him the highest-ranking military officer?

What Black American designed homes for celebrities such as Cary Grant and Frank Sinatra?

What popular string instrument did slaves bring to America in the 17th century?

This amendment declared "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude...shall exist within the United States".