Q 01/05

Lauryn Hill grew up in South Orange, a suburb in which US state?

A) New Jersey

B) New York

C) Pennsylvania

D) Maryland

Answer · why

A) New Jersey

New Jersey. Fame did not move her far: by 1999 she had bought a second house in the same town and turned her childhood home into a recording studio.

Q 02/05

The cover of Hill's solo debut has her portrait carved into what?

A) A tree trunk

B) A church pew

C) A school desk

D) A park bench

Answer · why

C) A school desk

A school desk. Hill posed for photos at her own old high school, then asked for a new direction, and a retoucher made one portrait look as if it had b...

Q 03/05

In Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Hill played which surly Catholic-school student?

A) Denise Hicks

B) Rita Watson

C) Maria Rivera

D) Tanya Roberts

Answer · why

B) Rita Watson

Rita Watson. Director Bill Duke said the rap she reels off in one classroom scene was never scripted: 'That was all Lauryn.'

Q 04/05

Before Sister Act 2, Hill played troubled teenager Kira Johnson on which soap opera?

A) General Hospital

B) All My Children

C) The Young and the Restless

D) As the World Turns

Answer · why

D) As the World Turns

As the World Turns. Her pay from the soap and from Sister Act 2 went into the Fugees, helping to keep the trio going before it had a record deal.

Q 05/05

The title of Hill's 1998 solo debut was partly inspired by a 1933 book by which historian?

A) W. E. B. Du Bois

B) Booker T. Washington

C) Marcus Garvey

D) Carter G. Woodson

Answer · why

D) Carter G. Woodson

Carter G. Woodson. Hill first meant to name the album after The Education of Sonny Carson, until her collaborators steered her to a humbler title echo...