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

The Game Room
41
  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Bessie Smith
  4. Massachusetts
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Donovan McNabb
  7. Chris Ofili
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. Marion Barry
  10. Anita
42
  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Billy Holiday
  4. Massachusetts
  5. Michael Jackson
  6. Michael Vick
  7. Michael Jackson
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. Marion Berry
  10. Michael Jackson
43

  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.

  11. Billie Holiday

  12. Arthur Ashe

  13. Ethel Waters

  14. Massachusetts

  15. Paul Robeson

  16. Doug Williams

  17. Jacob Lawrence

  18. Sidney Poitier

  19. Tom Bradley

  20. Ruth

Okay, I will freely admit that I did not know an answer to #7, and Jacob Lawrence came up in a search on google. I’m also uncertain about #4. And okay, #8 … as an Academy Award winner, of course he was also nominated. :slight_smile:

44
  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Bessie Smith
  4. Connecticut
  5. Aaron Douglas
  6. Donovan McNab
  7. Chris Ofili
  8. Will Smith
  9. Marion Barry
  10. Anita

I don’t predict a top ten in this one.

45
  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Bessie Smith
  4. Massachusetts
  5. Cab Calloway
  6. Donovan McNabb
  7. No clue
  8. Jamie Foxx
  9. Marion Barry
  10. Althea?

Joe

46

Waitaminit, are we allowed to Google? I just assumed we weren’t, but you know what happens when you assume…

Joe

47
  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Lena Horne.
  4. Pennsylvania.
  5. Langston Hughes.
  6. Michael Vick
  7. Chris Ofili.
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. Marion Barry.
  10. Ruth.
48

A tad to America-centric for me to jump on the bandwagon…

And I wouldn’t have had a clue on anything but no. 8

49
  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Billie Holiday
  4. Rhode Island
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Donovan McNabb
  7. pass
  8. Sidney Poitier
  9. Harold Washington
  10. June Pointer
50

Sure! I do it all the time. :slight_smile:

51

Ooh, right! Wait until the next feud, ivan astikov’s gonna be all over you Doper’s! :smiley:

52

My take on it is this: I try not to, but if it’s necessary, I feel honor-bound to disclose that I did so. YMMV.

53
  1. Billie Holiday (Lady Sings the Blues)
  2. Yannick Noah
  3. Bessie Smith
  4. Massachusetts
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Michael Vick
  7. Charles Bibbs
  8. Denzel Washington
  9. Tom Bradley*
  10. June
  • My heart screams David Dinkins - I voted for Dinkins
54

I did a paper on Jacob Lawrence for an “Anthropology of the African American” course in undergrad, he was seriously cool. He seems to have passed on without notifying me, so you and I are probably going to be the only ones who give him as an answer. :slight_smile:

55
  1. Billie Holiday
  2. Althea Gibson
  3. Bessie Smith
  4. Ohio
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Donovan McNabb
  7. pass :frowning:
  8. Sidney Poitier
  9. Carl B. Stokes
  10. Anita

I feel bad that I had to pass on #7.

56

Well, shit. Now I know…

Joe

57

It doesn’t seem to help me win, though… :frowning:
Sigmagirl is #39.

58

My personal take on googling in the Feud: I often do it double-check a gut reaction answer when I’m not sure it’s correct. I know Feuds are about matching others, not necessarily getting the right answers, but I’d be embarrassed if my answer was **totally **wrong. My football answer in this Feud is an example. Doug Williams sprang to mind immediately, since I seemed to remember a big deal about him starting in the Super Bowl many years ago, but since I don’t follow sports at all, I checked to make sure.

Then there are Feuds where I am totally stumped for an answer or two. I google or wiki for those also.

But if I can’t answer at least half of the questions without outside assistance, then I skip that Feud, since it stops being fun for me, and doesn’t seem sporting besides.

YMMV

59

Thus my bowing out of the Broadway Feud.

60
  1. Ray Charles
  2. Arthur Ashe
  3. Ella Fitzgerald
  4. Massachusetts
  5. Langston Hughes
  6. Michael Vick
  7. Kara Walker
  8. Morgan Freeman
  9. Michael Nutter
  10. Anita Pointer