About BALAA
Instruments
Black History
HBCUs
Brain Power
Who dat is?
100
The year that BALAA was founded.
What is 2019?
100
It's silver, slender, and played "to the side"
What is a flute?
100
The first black First Lady of the United States.
Who is Michelle Obama?
100
BALAA's inaugural Concrete Crankfest featured the Trojan Explosion Marching Band from this school.
What is Virginia State University?
100
An invisible force that make objects fall.
What is gravity?
100
Who is Zya aka DootE?
200
The EXACT name of the marching band program at BALAA.
What is The Empire Marching Elite (TEME).
200
This instrument uses a slide instead of valves.
What is a trombone?
200
The American jazz trumpeter, vocalist, and composer nicknamed “Satchmo”.
Who is Louis Armstrong?
200
The first High School Band Day BALAA attended was with its subsidary NSBC at this university.
What is South Carolina State University (SCSU)?
200
92 - 1 + 5 =
What is 85?
200
Who is Kamryn?
300
Elizabeth Campbell's Executive Board position at BALAA.
What is Director of Communications?
300
The real name for the instrument that we call a tuba.
What is a sousaphone?
300
This legendary jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer known as the "Picasso of Jazz".
Who is Miles Davis?
300
"The real HU" is a phrase used by which two universities?
What are Howard University and Hampton University?
300
The process where plants convert light energy into their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
300
Who is Julien?
400
The full name of the Deputy Executive Director of BALAA.
Who is Mahli Mathias?
400
The only black woodwind instrument we have at BALAA.
What is a clarinet?
400
The first African-American elected as Mayor of New York City.
Who is David Dinkins.
400
The state of Ohio has two HBCUs, Central State University (CSU), and this one.
What is Wilberforce University (WU)?
400
Plants release oxygen and animals exhale this.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)
400
Who is Quincy?
500
This BALAA member is our longest standing member to date.
Who is Blake Punter?
500
Trumpets use the treble clef, trombones use this.
What is the bass clef?
500
This public space was built on top of Seneca Village, a thriving community of free Black property owners.
What is Central Park?
500
This school is currently the nation's largest historically black college or university (HBCU).
What is North Carolina A&T?
500
The largest and deepest ocean in the world.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
500
Who is Jalan?
600
The high school where BALAA launched the marching band program.
What is Susan McKinney HS?
600
What is a mellophone?
600
Who is Assata Shakur?
600
The band at this university is known as Sonic Boom of the South.
What is Jackson State University (JSU)?
600
(22 - (5 + 7))/(23 - (5 (3) + 6)
What is 5?
600
Who is Parker?