Quiz
1.
Who was the first African American to win an Academy Award?
2.
Singer-actor Paul Robeson starred in the musical Showboat in 1928, singing his famous rendition of which song?
3.
Who was the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize?
4.
Which record company was founded by Berry Gordy, Jr. in Detroit in 1959?
5. The Harlem Renaissance, a period of artistic flowering among African-American writers and artists that was centered in Harlem, occurred roughly during which decade?
6. Which African-American entertainer was the first to star in his own television series?
7. Who wrote the jazz classic "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"?
8.
In 1955, contralto Marian Anderson became the first African American to sing on stage at which auditorium?
9. At the Academy Awards held in 2002, which actors won Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars?
10.
Dancer-choreographer Alvin Ailey's best-known solo piece, Cry, was originally intended as a tribute to whom?
2.
Singer-actor Paul Robeson starred in the musical Showboat in 1928, singing his famous rendition of which song?
"Ol' Man River"
5. The Harlem Renaissance, a period of artistic flowering among African-American writers and artists that was centered in Harlem, occurred roughly during which decade?
1920s
6. Which African-American entertainer was the first to star in his own television series?
Nat King Cole
7. Who wrote the jazz classic "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"?
Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
8.
In 1955, contralto Marian Anderson became the first African American to sing on stage at which auditorium?
The Metropolitan Opera House, New York
9. At the Academy Awards held in 2002, which actors won Best Actor and Best Actress Oscars?
Denzel Washington and Halle Berry
10.
Dancer-choreographer Alvin Ailey's best-known solo piece, Cry, was originally intended as a tribute to whom?
To his mother, and to all black women