WorksheetsBlack History Bowl - Arts
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 20mins
Who was born in Florence, Alabama in 1873 and is called “Father of the Blues”?
Blind Mello Jellin
WC Handy
Ma Ramey
Georgia Douglas Johnson was a poet during the Harlem Renaissance era. She often held writers’ workshops at her home in what city?
New York, New York
Atlanta Ga
Washington, D.C
Known for his social and political views, who published The Souls of Black Folks in 1903?
W.E.B. Du Bois
Carter G. Woodson
Richard Wright
Who was the first Black American woman chosen as Miss America?
Kenya Moore
Vanessa Williams
Suzette Charles
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 Crucible
The Crucifixion
The Cross
What is the name of the newsletter which was originally edited by W.E.B. Du Bois and published by the NAACP in 1910?
The Defender
The Crisis
The Times
What is the name of the Harlem club where many famous Black American entertainers began their careers?
The Boom Boom Room
The Savoy
The Cotton Club
What Harlem theatre is a showcase for Black talent?
The Apollo
The Cotton Club
The Savoy
Who wrote the song Maple Leaf Rag?
Stanley Joplin
Janice Joplin
Scott Joplin
Kunta Kinte was one the characters in what Alex Haley book?
Queen
Roots
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
What one-time Negro League professional baseball player, turned-artist created collages on the lifestyles of blacks in the 1960s?
Romare Bearden
Roman Bolden
Rachel Bearden
Who was the first Black American painter to win national recognition?
Robert Scott Duncanson
Jacob Lawrence
Michael Jean Bisquet
Julian Abele was involved in the design of what museum?
New York Philharmonic
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Smithsonian Museum
What actor appeared in the play Emperor Jones in 1925?
Paul Robeson
Sidney Portier
Isaiah Washington
Who was the first Black American poet to be nationally recognized for his writing?
Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Richard Wright
Zora Neal Hurston
For what profession is Leona Mitchell known?
Blues Singing
Gospel Singing
Opera Singing
In 1955, Arthur Mitchell became the first black man to dance for a major ballet company in 1955. Name the company
Atlanta Ballet
New York City Ballet
Baltimore Ballet
Whose screenplay, Georgia, Georgia, was the first original script by a Black women to be produced?
Alice Walker
Maya Angelou
Gloria Bynum
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?
Yolanda Adams
Mahalia Jackson
CeCe Winans
Who played the character “Fiddler” in the television miniseries Roots in 1977
Denzel Washington
Foster Whitaker
Lou Gossett, Jr.
What writer created the character Jesse B. Semple, the quintessential middle-aged man in Harlem?
Langston Hughes
Richard Wright
James Baldwin
What is the name of the colorful fabric worn by African royalty?
Rasta Cloth
Kenta Cloth
Kilt
What type of music did Louis Armstrong revolutionize and help establish as the nation’s first highly popular Black art form?
Rock and roll
Jazz
Gospel
What famous Black author said, “Black writers do more than merely exhibit rage – they must analyze the roots of racial oppression”?
Langston Hughes
Richard Wright
James Baldwin
Who wrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Griswald
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Veasy
Popular in the 1920s and 1930s, what type of musical groups were the Harmonizing Four and the Dixie Hummingbirds?
Gospel Choirs
Gospel quartets
Gospel Groups
Who wrote Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave in 1845?
Alex Haley
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Washington
Who was the first Black American woman to be recognized as an award-winning composer?
Florence Price
Florence Johnson
Florence Polk
Who was the first Black American to achieve fame as a sculptress?
Edmonia Leis
Erica Leis
Esther Leis
A painting of what African American performer was unveiled in 1902 at the coronation of King Edward VII and exhibited at the Paris Expo?
Dora Dean
Dean Dora
Donna Dean
Alice Walker’s Meridian is a novel about what?
Reconstruction
Civil Rights Movement
The Boll Weevil
In 1969, who founded the Dance Theater of Harlem, the first professional all-black classical ballet company?
Arthur Mitchell
Arturo Mitchell
Antoinette Mitchell
This writer won a Pulitzer Prize chronicling his seven generation family from West Africa in the story Roots. Name him.
Toby
Kunta Kinte
Alex Haley
Langston Hughes
Noted sports editor Edward Clayton was the first editor of what popular magazine?
Ebony
Jet
Essence
In what year did the first Broadway play written by a Black American woman open in New York?
1972
1959
1910
1956
The New Orleans Tribune, the first black daily newspaper was founded in New Orleans in what year?
1864
1875
1888
1896
The novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in what year?
1808
1852
1820
1855
How old was Langston Hughes when his poetry was first published?
19
20
21
22
How many operas did the composer Scott Joplin write?
1
2
3
4
