1.
Name the actor who played the role of Brutus Jones in the
classic film The Emperor Jones ?
2.
Who played the character of Georgia Brown in the film Cabin in the Sky?
3.
Denzel Washington has two Academy Awards. True False
4.
This woman performed on Broadway, became the toast of France,
performing in French films such as Tam
Tam, although she is an unsung decorated hero in France she traveled a long
way from St. Louis poverty, in which she was born, but will probably be
remembered for her Banana Dance.
5.
“This is for the brothers who ain’t here…” is a famous line from
what 1970s coming of age film? Hint, as
Cochise pours libations he says this to the other folk present.
6.
This film brought rap music to a mass audience and includes such
musical numbers as RUN-DMC’s “King of Rock” and “It’s Like That,” Shelia E’s “A
Love Bizarre” and “Holly Rock.”
7.
Identify the queen of Blaxploitation film and add five more
points if you can include the corresponding first film that elevated her an to
iconic action woman.
8.
“He’s ah bad mother…”
9.
A Raisin
in the Sun was written by?
10.
This tragic actress is most noted for her starring role in Carmen Jones.
11.
This best selling novel became a block buster film, with a
successful sound track about the lives and loves of four upper middle-class
African American women.
12.
This Julie Dash film has been described as a poem come to life
about the “scraps of memories” myth, folklore, history and Black women’s lives
associated with Ibo landing.
13.
Jackie Robinson plays himself in The Jackie Robinson Story.
True False
14.
Hattie McDaniel as Mammy in Gone
With the Wind is her first role playing a servant. True
False
15.
She was billed as “the screen’s first Black Love Goddess” at the
age of sixteen, and she became known as the first “tragic mulatto” character in
film.
16.
The first film previewed at the White House and President
Woodrow Wilson believed it to be accurate.
17.
An Ethiopian-born filmmaker spent about twenty years
researching, writing, funding, and getting this powerful slave epic to the
screen where the story–line moves from one character to the next. Do you know the title of this 1994 film?
18.
“They don’t die, they multiply!” was a line comedian Robin
Harris used when referring to ?
19.
Name the two sisters in The
Color Purple ?
20.
This gripping film is the directorial debut of Kasi Lemmons, it
is told by a young girl about a summer in the life of her Creole family in
Louisiana. Can you identify the film?
21.
She has performed in film since 1959, was nominated for an
academy Award for her work in Sounder, and
has received many accolades for her theater performance as Mrs. Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful.
1. Paul Robeson; 2. Lena Horne; 3.
True; 4. Josephine Baker; 5. Cooley High;
6. Krush Groove; 7. Coffy, Pam Grier; 8. Shaft; 9. Lorraine Hansberry;
10. Dorothy Dandridge; 11. Waiting
to Exhale; 12. Daughters of the Dust;
13. True; 14. False; 15. Nina Mae McKinney; 16. The Birth of a Nation; 17. Sankofa;
18. Bebe’s Kids; 19. Nettie, Celie;
20. Eve’s Bayou; 21. Cicely Tyson
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