Double the
Talent!
Oldies but
Goodies
Ladies’
Night
Who Knew
that?
Anything
Goes
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Double the Talent! 10 points
• My real name is James Todd Smith.
• I almost always wear a hat and 1 pant leg
rolled up
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
Double the Talent! 20 points
• Usher
Double the Talent! 30 points
• 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, hometutoring to concentrate on my music career
• Played against his slick R&B image as a
band geek and love interest for Kaitlin
Cooper on the fourth season of The O.C.
• Made his film debut in Stomp the Yard
(2007
Double the Talent! 40 points
• Chris Brown
Double the Talent! 50 points
• and Inside a Thug's Heart.
• first major role with acting was as Travis in
the play "A Raisin in the Sun”
Double the Talent! 50 points
• Tupac
Oldies but Goodies: 10 points
• blind from birth - mainly because he 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, Chris Brown, 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 big
• named Forbes Richest Celebrity Under 30,
with a total earnings of $80 million.
• me & the 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 Mehmet 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 Colonal Gaddafi's son Saif
• owns a dog named Jackson P. Muttley Jack in shor
• 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
• Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.
• started rapping at age 8
• got his start as part of the Hot Boys
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
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? 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? 40 points
• Wiz Khalifa
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)
• apBriefly 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
registrationpeared 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 &
ButtHead, 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, Cinderall (Roger’s and
Hammerstein’s version), and had a small
role in Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Anything Goes: 50 points