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Black History Bowl - Arts

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is called “Father of the Blues”?

a)

Blind Mello Jellin

b)

WC Handy

c)

Ma Ramey

2.

Georgia Douglas Johnson was a poet during the Harlem Renaissance era. She often held writers’ workshops at her home in what city?

a)

New York, New York

b)

Atlanta Ga

c)

Washington, D.C

3.

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

a)

W.E.B. Du Bois

b)

Carter G. Woodson

c)

Richard Wright

4.

Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America?

a)

Kenya Moore

b)

Vanessa Williams

c)

Suzette Charles

5.

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?

a)

The Crucible

b)

The Crucifixion

c)

The Cross

6.

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

a)

The Defender

b)

The Crisis

c)

The Times

7.

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

a)

The Boom Boom Room

b)

The Savoy

c)

The Cotton Club

8.

What Harlem theatre is a showcase for Black talent?

a)

The Apollo

b)

The Cotton Club

c)

The Savoy

9.

Who wrote the song Maple Leaf Rag?

a)

Stanley Joplin

b)

Janice Joplin

c)

Scott Joplin

10.

Kunta Kinte was one the characters in what Alex Haley book?

a)

Queen

b)

Roots

c)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

11.

What one-time Negro League professional baseball player, turned-artist created collages on the lifestyles of blacks in the 1960s?

a)

Romare Bearden

b)

Roman Bolden

c)

Rachel Bearden

12.

Who was the first Black American painter to win national recognition?

a)

Robert Scott Duncanson

b)

Jacob Lawrence

c)

Michael Jean Bisquet

13.

Julian Abele was involved in the design of what museum?

a)

New York Philharmonic

b)

Philadelphia Museum of Art

c)

Smithsonian Museum

14.

What actor appeared in the play Emperor Jones in 1925?

a)

Paul Robeson

b)

Sidney Portier

c)

Isaiah Washington

15.

Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally recognized for his writing?

a)

Paul Lawrence Dunbar

b)

Richard Wright

c)

Zora Neal Hurston

16.

For what profession is Leona Mitchell known?

a)

Blues Singing

b)

Gospel Singing

c)

Opera Singing

17.

In 1955, Arthur Mitchell became the first black man to dance for a major ballet company in 1955. Name the company

a)

Atlanta Ballet

b)

New York City Ballet

c)

Baltimore Ballet

18.

Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was the first original script by a Black women to be produced?

a)

Alice Walker

b)

Maya Angelou

c)

Gloria Bynum

19.

She was known as the “queen of gospel music.” Her first recording “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold over a million copies in 1945. What was her name?

a)

Yolanda Adams

b)

Mahalia Jackson

c)

CeCe Winans

20.

Who played the character “Fiddler” in the television miniseries Roots in 1977

a)

Denzel Washington

b)

Foster Whitaker

c)

Lou Gossett, Jr.

21.

What writer created the character Jesse B. Semple, the quintessential middle-aged man in Harlem?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Richard Wright

c)

James Baldwin

22.

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

a)

Rasta Cloth

b)

Kenta Cloth

c)

Kilt

23.

What type of music did Louis Armstrong revolutionize and help establish as the nation’s first highly popular Black art form?

a)

Rock and roll

b)

Jazz

c)

Gospel

24.

What famous Black author said, “Black writers do more than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of racial oppression”?

a)

Langston Hughes

b)

Richard Wright

c)

James Baldwin

25.

Who wrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

a)

Harriet Griswald

b)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

c)

Harriet Veasy

26.

Popular in the 1920s and 1930s, what type of musical groups were the Harmonizing Four and the Dixie Hummingbirds?

a)

Gospel Choirs

b)

Gospel quartets

c)

Gospel Groups

27.

Who wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in 1845?

a)

Alex Haley

b)

Frederick Douglass

c)

Frederick Washington

28.

Who was the first Black American woman to be recognized as an award-winning composer?

a)

Florence Price

b)

Florence Johnson

c)

Florence Polk

29.

Who was the first Black American to achieve fame as a sculptress?

a)

Edmonia Leis

b)

Erica Leis

c)

Esther Leis

30.

A painting of what African American performer was unveiled in 1902 at the coronation of King Edward VII and exhibited at the Paris Expo?

a)

Dora Dean

b)

Dean Dora

c)

Donna Dean

31.

Alice Walker’s Meridian is a novel about what?

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Civil Rights Movement

c)

The Boll Weevil

32.

In 1969, who founded the Dance Theater of Harlem, the first professional all-black classical ballet company?

a)

Arthur Mitchell

b)

Arturo Mitchell

c)

Antoinette Mitchell

33.

This writer won a Pulitzer Prize chronicling his seven generation family from West Africa in the story Roots. Name him.

a)

Toby

b)

Kunta Kinte

c)

Alex Haley

d)

Langston Hughes

34.

Noted sports editor Edward Clayton was the first editor of what popular magazine?

a)

Ebony

b)

Jet

c)

Essence

35.

In what year did the first Broadway play written by a Black American woman open in New York?

a)

1972

b)

1959

c)

1910

d)

1956

36.

The New Orleans Tribune, the first black daily newspaper was founded in New Orleans in what year?

a)

1864

b)

1875

c)

1888

d)

1896

37.

The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in what year?

a)

1808

b)

1852

c)

1820

d)

1855

38.

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

a)

19

b)

20

c)

21

d)

22

39.

How many operas did the composer Scott Joplin write?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4