Jeopardy! Round, Double Jeopardy! Round, or Tiebreaker Round clues (36 results returned)

#9001, aired 2023-12-25AFRICAN AMERICANA $1200: This Harvard professor's "The Signifying Monkey" traces the bond between Black oral tradition & literature Henry Louis Gates
#8752, aired 2022-11-29NOBEL LITERATURE PRIZE WINNERS $1200: This 1993 winner often focused on African-American culture in novels like "Jazz" & "Tar Baby" Morrison
#8636, aired 2022-05-09PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $800: African-American detective Virgil Tibbs must solve a murder in the Deep South in this John Ball novel from 1965 In the Heat of the Night
#7720, aired 2018-03-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: In 1972 this author created the Kinte foundation Alex Haley
#7720, aired 2018-03-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: "Snow-white Moslem head-dress around a dead black face" is from Margaret Walker's poem "For" this slain leader Malcolm X
#7720, aired 2018-03-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Until they achieve a satisfying relationship with a man, 4 women are doing this Terry McMillan book title Waiting to Exhale
#7720, aired 2018-03-16AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This author of "Kindred" & "Xenogenesis" combined African-American culture with science fiction themes Octavia Butler
#7646, aired 2017-12-04LITERATURE ACROSS AMERICA $800: (Hi, I'm Mark Allan from WDTN.) In his poem "Sympathy", Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote "I know why the caged bird sings"... giving this other African-American poet the title of her 1969 memoir (Maya) Angelou
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city Pittsburgh
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: Here's this poet & author; note the color she's wearing (Alice) Walker
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: Langston Hughes wrote, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like" this, later the title of a play A Raisin in the Sun
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: "My Bondage and My Freedom" from 1855 is his second autobiography Frederick Douglass
#7354, aired 2016-07-28AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: This novel by Zora Neale Hurston tells the story of Janie Crawford & her 3 marriages Their Eyes Were Watching God
#7204, aired 2015-12-311940s FICTION $1600: A classic of African-American literature, his 1940 novel "Native Son" was adapted into a play the following year Richard Wright
#6735, aired 2013-12-20LITERATURE $800: Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this African-American writer put out "Notes Of A Native Son" James Baldwin
#5924, aired 2010-05-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: He wrote the acclaimed "Roots", a 7-generation family chronicle (Alex) Haley
#5924, aired 2010-05-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: He created the reluctant private eye Ezekiel Rawlins, nicknamed "Easy" Walter Mosley
#5924, aired 2010-05-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: His 1940 novel "Native Son" was adopted by the Book of the Month Club (Richard) Wright
#5924, aired 2010-05-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: This 1953 novel by James Baldwin is based on his own experiences as a teenaged preacher Go Tell It on the Mountain
#5924, aired 2010-05-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: His "Souls of Black Folk" expressly attacked Booker T. Washington, the most powerful black American of that time (W.E.B.) Du Bois
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Alex Haley described this 1976 blockbuster as "faction", a combination of fact & fiction Roots
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: This poet & author called the first volume of her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1200: His autobiography "Black Boy" was originally the first section of a longer work called "American Hunger" Richard Wright
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Introduced in "Devil in a Blue Dress", Easy Rawlins is the hero of several mysteries by this author Walter Mosley
#5177, aired 2007-02-27AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: While serving time in prison, he wrote "Soul on Ice", a series of essays on prejudice & racism Eldridge Cleaver
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: Perhaps he was just being modest when he said that his "Invisible Man" was "not an important novel" (Ralph) Ellison
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from outside of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) A vision of little scraps of Sunday dresses in this author's "Song of Solomon" refers to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church Toni Morrison
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $1600: Her bestseller "Waiting to Exhale" focused on 4 black women living in Phoenix & hoping to find Mr. Right Terry McMillan
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2,000 (Daily Double): This 1983 Pulitzer Prize winner is written in the form of letters, mostly from Celie to her sister & to God The Color Purple
#4986, aired 2006-04-24AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In the title of the late August Wilson's Tony-nominated play, this man's "Come and Gone" Joe Turner
#4920, aired 2006-01-20FAMOUS WOMEN $400: Born in Lorain, Ohio in 1931, this African-American woman won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 Toni Morrison
#4485, aired 2004-02-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $200: In December 1993 Toni Morrison became the first African-American woman awarded this international literature prize the Nobel Prize
#3377, aired 1999-04-20AFRICAN-AMERICAN FIRSTS $400: This "Beloved" author was the first African-American to win a Nobel Prize for Literature Toni Morrison
#2872, aired 1997-02-11AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" is a 1970 autobiography by this African-American poet Maya Angelou
#2705, aired 1996-05-10LITERATURE $1,200 (Daily Double): An African-American woman named Sula Peace is the heroine of this "Beloved" author's novel "Sula" Toni Morrison
#2655, aired 1996-03-01AMERICAN LITERATURE $1000: In this Hemingway story, a writer dies from a gangrenous leg while on an African safari The Snows of Kilimanjaro

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Players (3 results returned)

Ariella Goldstein, a junior from Muhlenberg College 2009 College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 20 and from Cortlandt Manor,...
Beth Ford, a professor of African-American literature from Wellesley, Massachusetts Season 25 player (2009-06-11).
Dan Smith, a student from Chicago, Illinois Season 25 3-time champion: $69,200 + $1,000. Dan Smith - a...



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