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Movie Buffs Quiz


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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