Q 01/05

Lauryn Hill was born in East Orange and raised in South Orange, both in which US state?

A) New Jersey

B) New York

C) Pennsylvania

D) Maryland

Answer · why

A) New Jersey

At her high school she ran track, cheered, founded the gospel choir and was a classmate of actor Zach Braff.

Q 02/05

Which record label signed the Fugees in 1993?

A) Def Jam Recordings

B) Bad Boy Records

C) Columbia/Ruffhouse

D) Death Row Records

Answer · why

C) Columbia/Ruffhouse

Hill used her earnings from acting to help finance the group before the deal; their name derived from 'refugee', a slur aimed at Haitian Americans.

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

She sang 'His Eye Is on the Sparrow' and 'Joyful, Joyful' in the film, and director Bill Duke said her rap in one scene was entirely improvised.

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

An agent noticed her in Club XII, MC Lyte's off-Broadway hip-hop take on Twelfth Night, and got her the recurring role.

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

Woodson's The Mis-Education of the Negro shared the honour with a film and autobiographical novel, The Education of Sonny Carson.