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Double theTalent!

Oldies but Goodies

Ladies’ Night

AnythingGoes

Who Knew that?

Double the Talent! 10 points

• My real name is James Todd Smith.

• I almost always wear a hat and 1 pant leg rolled up

• I star on a very popular crime TV show (it’s a spinoff of another crime TV show).

Double the Talent! 10 points

• LL Cool J

Double the Talent! 20 points

• I began singing when I was a boy – in a church choir.

• I discovered Justin Beiber via youtube.com

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• Usher

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• I won a Grammy Award for the song “Summertime” during my rap carrer

• Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. [1998]

• I have three children.

• My wife is also an actress.

Double the Talent! 30 points

• Will Smith

Double the Talent! 40 points• I enjoyed singing in my church choir and was

inspired by such musical artists as Sam Cooke, Stevie Wonder, and Michael Jackson.

• Left public school for private, home-tutoring to concentrate on my music career

• Played against my slick R&B image as a band geek and love interest for Kaitlin Cooper on the fourth season of The O.C.

• Made my film debut in Stomp the Yard (2007

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• Chris Brown

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• Starred in 30 movies

• Played the trumpet

• Performed with many other singers during the early 1900s

• King of Jazz

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• Louis Armstrong

Oldies but Goodies: 10 points

• blind from birth - mainly because I was a premature baby

• no sense of smell due to a car crash

Oldies but Goodies: 10 points

• Stevie Wonder

Oldies but Goodies: 20 points

• “My Girl”

• must successful group of the Motown Records

Oldies but Goodies: 20 points

• The Temptations

Oldies but Goodies: 30 points

• we were a group of 5 siblings from Gary, IN

• 2 of us made it as solo artists

• 1 of us made it BIG and died in 2009

Oldies but Goodies: 30 points

• The Jackson Five

Oldies but Goodies: 40 points

• received a lifetime achievement award at the 2007 Black Entertainment Awards in Los Angeles.

• wrote two autobiographies: Secrets Of A Sparrow: Memoirs 1993 and Goin' Back (a scrapbook collection of photos & poems)

• played little league baseball, tap danced and took majorette lessons as a child. It wasn't until her early teens that she developed an interest in singing

Oldies but Goodies: 40 points

• Diana Ross

Oldies but Goodies: 50 points

• best known for his smash hit "All Night Long.“

• honored with a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in June of 2003

• wanted to become an Episcopalian Priest when he was young.

Oldies but Goodies: 50 points

• Lionel Richie

Ladies’ Night: 10 points

• born in a parish in Barbados• Her ex-boyfriend was sentenced to five

years of probation, six months of community service and one year of domestic violence counseling as a result of his attack on her in February, 2009

Ladies’ Night: 10 points

• Rihanna

Ladies’ Night: 20 points

• wishes her ears were smaller, because to her they are too big

• named Forbes Richest Celebrity Under 30, with a total earnings of $80 million.

• her & her husband, Jay-Z, were named the richest celebrity couple of 2008, with a combined earnings of $162 million.

Ladies’ Night: 20 points

• Beyonce

Ladies’ Night: 30 points

• stated in an interview with AOL that her first musical interest was to be a singer, not a rapper

• does voice-overs on the Pizza Hut commercials

• quit smoking after she saw The Oprah Winfrey Show guest Dr. Oz demonstrate the effects of cigarettes

• first hip-hop artist honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Ladies’ Night: 30 points

• Queen Latifah

Ladies’ Night: 40 points

• was paid US$1 million to sing just four songs at a New Year's Eve party at the Nikki Beach Club on the Caribbean island of St Barts. The party was held by Libyan dictator Colonel Gaddafi's son, Saif

• owns a dog named Jackson P. Muttley - Jack in short

• worst selling album, Glitter, was released on the tragic day of September 11, 2001.

Ladies’ Night: 40 points

• Mariah Carey

Ladies’ Night: 50 points

• Turned down a track scholarship to Hampton University to pursue her singing career

• Born to a Half African-American, Half Chinese father and an African-American mother

• Movies: John Tucker Must Die, Coach Carter, Resident Evil

Ladies’ Night: 50 points

• Ashanti

Who Knew That? 10 points

• Real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.• started rapping at age 8• got his start as part of the Hot Boys• Is giving up music to pursue a career in

skateboarding

Who Knew That? 10 points

• Lil’ Wayne

Who Knew That? 20 points

• murdered• the song "I'll be Missing You" was dedicated

to him

Who Knew That? 20 points

• Biggie Smalls

• A.k.a. Notorious B.I.G.

Who Knew That? 30 points

• He has two poetry books which are The Rose That Grew From Concrete and Inside a Thug's Heart.

• first major role with acting was as Travis in the play "A Raisin in the Sun”

Who Knew That? 30 points

• Tupac

Who Knew That? 40 points

• real name: Cameron Jibril Thomaz• military family• moved around a lot - Pittsburgh and South Carolina, Georgia, Oklahoma, Germany, Japan, and England• mother served in Operation Desert Storm

Who Knew That? 40 points

• Wiz Khalifa

Who Knew That? 50 points

• real name: Juaquin Malphurs• born in South Jamaica, Queens, New York• Named after the Muppets character Fozzie

Bear's catch phrase

Who Knew That? 50 points

• Waka Flocka Flame

Anything Goes: 10 points

• often has an Afro• Still drives his 1992 Acura Legend because it

"keeps me grounded."• Christopher Brian Bridges• breakthrough with his album titled "Back

for the First Time"

Anything Goes: 10 points

• Ludacris

Anything Goes: 20 points

• trademark - bandaid• lived in Spain as a child• always wears clothing bearing the logos of

St. Louis' sports teams

Anything Goes: 20 points

• Nelly

Anything Goes: 30 points• Hardcore rapper

• real name: Curtis James Jackson II

• Teamed up with high-profile car maker Pontiac to produce his own customized G8 sedan (November 2007)

• Briefly arrested Sept 8th, 2006 in New York City, cited for making an unsafe lane change, as well as driving without his license, vehicle insurance and registration

• appeared on the "8 Mile" (2002) soundtrack

Anything Goes: 30 points

• 50 Cent

Anything Goes: 40 points

• accepted into the Professional Performance Arts School of Manhattan and her musical talent as well as her grades allowed her to graduate, as valedictorian, at only sixteen.

• secret talent is that she is a very good swimmer

• born as Alicia Cook

Anything Goes: 40 points

• Alicia Keys

Anything Goes: 50 points

• trademark is her braids

• favourite TV shows are Moesha, Beavis & Butt Head, Parent Hood, Family Matters and Home Improvement

• thinks her eyes are too far apart

• played in Moesha, I Still Know What you Did Last Summer, Cinderella (Roger’s and Hammerstein’s version), and had a small role in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch

Anything Goes: 50 points