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Brain Bowl Team
African American Hisotry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem? | • Arthur Mitchell |
| What museum has the most stolen African Artifacts? | The British Museum |
| What African American artist rose to success during the 1980s for his work in the graffiti and street art movement? | Jean - Micheal Basquiat |
| Who was the famous African American artist known for his collages and prints? | Romare Bearden |
| What renowned black painter became famous for his vibrant, abstract works during the Harlem Renaissance? | Aaron Douglas |
| Which African American sculptor is known for creating the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C.? | Thomas Ball |
| What was the time period after WWI when black writers and artists created poetry, plays, music, painting, sculpture, and cultural criticism that celebrated African American life? | Harlem Renaissance |
| Who has held the position of director of jazz at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City since 1987? | Wynton Marsalis |
| Who published The Escape, the first play written by a Black American? | William Wells Brown |
| Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and called “Father of the Blues”? | WC Handy |
| What award-winning author created the enduring character of Easy Rawlins featured in a series of novels? | Walter Mosley |
| Who published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903? | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| What New York library houses rare collections of Black culture? | The Schomburg Center |
| What 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 Crucifixion |
| What is the name of the Harlem club where many famous Black American entertainers began their careers? | The Cotton Club |
| Popularized by the 1923 musical Runnin' Wild, what 1920s dance is believed to have started in a coastal city of South Carolina? | The Charleston |
| What musical genre emerged from three heavily populated black isolated areas: the Mississippi Delta, the Piedmont, and East Texas? | The blues |
| . “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now,” a platinum hit by Gene McFadden & John Whitehead was known as what in 1979? | The Black National Anthem |
| Formerly the Virginia Theatre, what became the first Broadway Theater to bear the name of an African American in 2005? | The August Wilson Theatre |
| What Harlem theatre is a showcase for Black talent? | The Apollo |
| “Go Down, Moses” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen” are known as what type of songs? | Spirituals |
| Music historians refer to what type of music as the first Black American music? | Spiritual |
| Who is the director, screenwriter and actor whose films continue to be controversial and push racial boundaries? | Spike Lee |
| Who was the first Black American painter to win national recognition? | Robert Scott Duncanson |
| What type of music is regarded by many as a form of street poetry? | Rap |
| Scott Joplin used what instrument to play his ragtime music? | Piano |
| Founded in 1905, what was the first black symphony called? | Philadelphia Concert Orchestra |
| Who was the “father of gospel music”? | Thomas Dorsey |
| Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was the first original script by a Black woman to be produced? | Maya Angelou |
| Who was the author of the hit play A Raisin in The Sun? | Lorraine Hansberry |
| What is the name of the colorful fabric worn by African royalty? | Kenta Cloth |
| What type of music did Louis Armstrong revolutionize and help establish as the nation’s first highly popular Black art form? | Jazz |
| What section of New York City became the capital of urban Black American culture? | Harlem |
| What type of folk art was seen on the New York subway cars in the 1970s? | Graffiti |
| Born into slavery, who is America’s earliest-known professional African American artist? | Joshua Johnson |
| Who founded the Museum of African American Arts in 1976? | Samella Lewis |
| Who was the first woman of African American and Native American heritage to achieve international fame and recognition as a sculptor in the fine arts world? | Edmonia Lewis |
| Russell Simmons was the co-founder of what record label? | Def Jam Records |
| Which August Wilson play won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award? | Fences |
| Who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Jazz Composition “Blood on the Fields”? | Wynton Marsalis |
| Who directed an award-winning documentary “When the Levees Broke” about the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina and ways in which the storm’s aftermath affected African Americans? | Spike Lee |
| What 1987 play, written by Alfred Unry, became a movie in 1989? | Driving Miss Daisy |
| Who is the celebrated African American artist famous for his illustrations of everyday life in the Harlem Renaissance? | Jacob Lawrence |
| What African American artist is renowned for her use of quilting to tell stories and convey cultural heritage? | Faith Ringgold |
| Which black artist gained international acclaim for his mixed-media artwork, including "The Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian"? | David Hammons |
| Who is the contemporary African American artist known for his large-scale, colorful depictions of urban life? | Kehinde Wiley |
| Who is the first African American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art? | Alma Thomas |
| Which African American photographer is celebrated for his powerful images documenting the Civil Rights Movement? | Gordon Parks |
| Which African American artist is known for his vivid depictions of African American life, often portraying jazz musicians and the Harlem Renaissance? | Archibald Motley |
| Which African American artist is known for his portrayals of African American folklore and the rural South, including works like "The Baptism"? | Horace Pippin |
| Who is the contemporary African American artist recognized for his socially engaged and politically charged works, such as "Black Like Me"? | Glenn Ligon |
| What prominent African American sculptor is known for her bronze figures, including the famous work "Mother and Child"? | Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller |
| Who is the African American artist renowned for his depictions of African American history and culture, including the series "The Migration of the Negro"? | Jacob Lawrence |
| Which African American artist is recognized for her paintings depicting the struggles and triumphs of African American women, like "The Breakthrough"? | Elizabeth Catlett |
| What African American artist is celebrated for his innovative use of materials, particularly glass, in works like "Bound Man"? | Rashid Johnson |
| Who is the first African American to receive a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), known for his abstract expressionist paintings? | Norman Lewis |
| Which African American artist gained fame for his portrayal of African American life in the rural South, as seen in "American Gothic"? | Charles White |
| Who is the contemporary African American artist known for his politically charged and socially engaged works, including the piece "I Am a Man"? | Hank Willis Thomas |
| What African American artist is celebrated for his contributions to the Black Arts Movement and his painting "The Death of Nat Turner"? | Jacob Lawrence |
| Who is the renowned African American photographer known for capturing intimate and powerful moments during the Civil Rights Movement? | Carrie Mae Weems |
| Which African American artist is known for his role in the Afrofuturism movement, exploring themes of race and technology in works like "The Ark of the Covenant"? | Wangechi Mutu |
| Who is the contemporary African American artist recognized for his large-scale portraits of African American men, challenging stereotypes and perceptions? | Titus Kaphar |
| What influential African American artist is known for his dynamic abstract expressionist paintings, such as "Autumn Rhythm"? | Norman Lewis |
| Who is the African American sculptor celebrated for his carved wooden figures, often depicting African American life and culture? | Sargent Johnson |
| Which African American artist is known for his vibrant, narrative quilts, like "The Freedom Quilt"? | Michael A. Cummings |
| Who is the African American sculptor of the work "The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist"? | Michael Rakowitz |
| Which African American artist is recognized for his powerful and emotional depictions of African American life, including "The Card Players"? | Henry Ossawa Tanner |
| Who is the contemporary African American artist celebrated for her innovative use of materials, including hair, in works like "Epiphany"? | Lorna Simpson |
| What influential African American artist is known for his role in the Black Arts Movement and his poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"? | Langston Hughes |
| Who is the African American artist recognized for his abstract paintings and association with the Color Field movement, as seen in "Coolade"? | Sam Gilliam |
| Which African American artist is known for her powerful and symbolic sculptures, including "Lift Every Voice and Sing"? | Augusta Savage |
| Who is the renowned African American artist and filmmaker known for her experimental, avant-garde works, such as "Meshes of the Afternoon"? | Maya Deren |
| What influential African American artist is celebrated for his contributions to the jazz and blues scene, often depicted in his paintings like "Homage to Duke"? | Romare Bearden |
| What African American artist is recognized for his intricate woodcarvings and sculptural pieces that often incorporate African and African American themes? | James Washington Jr. |
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