Black History Feud by 5-4-Fighting [Game Over]

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DO NOT READ THIS THREAD BEFORE YOU POST YOUR ANSWERS

Try to think of the most popular answer, to get the most people matching you. Scoring - Any answer duplicated by anyone else is worth 100 points divided by the number of entrants. For example: 50 entrant game = 2 pts per answer. If 4 people match that means they each get 8 pts for that answer. No matches = 0 points.

FORMATTING OF ANSWERS IS IMPORTANT!

Write your answers like this; Do not repeat the questions, no periods at the end of answers, no spaces between lines, no comments, no fancy list coding. If you need to comment or clarify your answers, do it AFTER the list of answers. Thanks.
JUST LIKE THIS:

1. answer
2. response
3. rejoinder

The game will end either when we have 50 entrants, or at 4:30 PM Central on Wednesday, 7/23/08 whichever comes first. Good luck!

  1. Name a music artist(s) for whom a biopic has been filmed, either as a television or theatrical release.
  2. Besides the Williams sisters, name a top-20 tennis player, past or present.
  3. Name a female blues singer from the pre-40s.
  4. Name a state that abolished or introduced measures to abolish slavery pre-Emancipation Proclamation.
  5. Name an artist of any genre from the era of the Harlem Renaissance.
  6. Name a black football quarterback, past or present.
  7. Name a currently working black male artist (i.e., painting, sculpture, etc.).
  8. Name an actor who has been nominated for an Academy Award.
  9. Name a former or current mayor of a major American city.
  10. Name one of the Pointer sisters.

ADDED BY THE MODS AT THE REQUEST OF 5-4-Fighting:

All answers (except the state) should be people who are black, and the answer to any non-specific questions, can be either male or female.

  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Billie Holiday
  4. Pennsylvania
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Michael Vick
  7. Gilbert Young
  8. Sidney Poitier
  9. Marion Barry
  10. Ruth
  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Bessie Smith
  4. New York
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Warren Moon
  7. Kara Walker
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. David Dinkins
  10. June Pointer
  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Billie Holliday
  4. Massachusetts.
  5. Paul Dunbar (?)
  6. Donovan McNabb
  7. No Idea
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. Andrew Young
  10. Anita (?)

I’m going to assume that where it isn’t specified (as in #1 and #2), you do still mean a black person.

  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Billie Holiday
  4. Kentucky
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Doug Williams
  7. Art McPainter :dubious:
  8. Morgan Freeman
  9. Marion Barry
  10. June

God, I suck. I was a Googling fiend. And even then I “flunked” one.

  1. Ray Charles

  2. Arthur Ashe

  3. Ella Fitzgerald

  4. Pennsylvania

  5. Duke Ellington

  6. Michael Vick

  7. Martin Puryear

  8. Denzel Washington

  9. Marion Barry

  10. June

  11. This was really tough, my first 2 guesses are deceased (Basquiat and Gordon Parks).

  1. Tina Turner
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Billie Holliday*
  4. Maryland
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. James Harris*
  7. no idea
  8. Halle Berry
  9. Kwame Kilpatrick
  10. Ruth

*If you hadn’t specified blues, I’d have said Josephine Baker.
*Why so specific? I was hoping to be able to put Paul Robeson in there.

  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Billy Holiday
  4. Missouri
  5. James Baldwin
  6. Donovan McNabb
  7. Chris Ofili
  8. Forest Whitaker
  9. Marion Barry
  10. Anita
  1. Charlie Parker
  2. Ash
  3. Billie Holiday
  4. Vermont
  5. Paul Robeson
  6. Michael Vic
  7. Denzel Washington
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. David Dinkins
  10. Anita
  1. Tina Turner
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Bessie Smith
  4. Massachussetts
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. I don’t do football
  7. Chris Ofili
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. Ray Nagin
  10. Mary?

(OK, I guess I don’t do the Pointer sisters, either.)

  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Billie Holiday
  4. Pennsylvania
  5. Louis Armstrong
  6. Byron Leftwich
  7. Gilbert Young
  8. Sidney Portier
  9. Andrew Young
  10. Ruth
  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Billie Holiday
  4. Pennsylvania
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Dante Culpepper
  7. Jacob Lawrence
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. Marion Barry
  10. June Pointer

Notes:
3. Bessie Smith is the better answer, but i’m betting Billie Holiday will be more popular.

  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Bille Holiday
  4. Vermont
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Warren Moon
  7. David Driskell
  8. Halle Berry
  9. Ray Nagin
  10. June

I assumed the intent was to answer the questions with people who are black even though several of the questions didn’t specific that.

I’ll also admit I had to look up answers for 7 and 10. I don’t follow modern art and couldn’t name any current artists from memory, black or otherwise and I didn’t know the first name of any of the Pointer Sisters.

Looking at other people’s answers, I see I should have gone with my first guess for 9 and said Barry but I figured Nagin would be better known nowadays.

And I now see Jacob Lawrence passed away in 2000, making it unlikely he’s currently working. :smack:

  1. Tina Turner
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Billie Holliday
  4. New York
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Doug Williams
  7. Raymond Saunders
  8. Sidney Poitier
  9. Marion Barry
  10. Anita Pointer

*3- I wanted to put Ma Rainey, but I didn’t think it would be a popular answer

  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Bessie Smith
  4. Massachusettes
  5. Dizzy Gillespie
  6. Warren Moon
  7. Kara Walker
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. David Dinkins
  10. Bonnie Pointer

I think it’s going to be interesting to see just how many candidates we end up with for “fourth Pointer Sister.” :smiley:

  1. Ray Charles
  2. Althea Gibson
  3. Billie Holliday
  4. Massachussetts
  5. Langston Hughs
  6. Doug Williams
  7. Geoffrey Holder
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. David Dinkins
  10. Anita
  11. Since he was always a black quarterback
  12. Reaching into the esoteric there
  1. Name a currently working black male artist (i.e., painting, sculpture, etc.).

Did I just call Kara Walker a man?!?! :smack: In my own feud thread too. This, along with my place-centric choices of “New York (4)” and “David Dinkins (9),” doesn’t bode well for me, I’m afraid.

  1. Billie Holliday
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Ella Fitzgerald
  4. New York
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Donte Culpepper
  7. pass
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. Mayor Nagin
  10. Anita