Question
Lorna McDaniel recorded the belief that people who ate salt couldn’t do this activity. A “password” is used to perform this activity in one variation on a motif recorded dozens of times in the oral history Drums and Shadows. A song named for this activity declares “Meet that hypocrite on the street / First thing he’ll do is show his teeth / Next thing he’ll do is tell a lie / And the best thing to do is pass him by.” Stories about people performing this activity may have been inspired by an 1803 mass suicide at Igbo Landing. Virginia Hamilton’s collection of (*) African American folktales is named for people who could do this activity. Folktales about this activity inspired Faith Ringgold’s Tar Beach and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, which ends with Milkman Dead learning to do it. For 10 points, name this activity that slaves imagined performing in spirituals like “All God’s Chillun Got Wings.” ■END■
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Summary
Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 15 | 93% | 40% | 33% | 112.43 |