Question

In the 1940s, Billboard magazine began using this phrase in place of "race music." For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this phrase that the recording industry used as a catch-all label for secular music made by and marketed toward Black Americans.
ANSWER: Rhythm and Blues [or R&B]
[10e] The ASCAP composers' boycott and musicians' strike during World War II helped R&B supplant this genre as the dominant style of popular music. Benny Goodman was known as the "King" of this style.
ANSWER: swing [accept "King of Swing"; prompt on jazz]
[10m] Big Mama Thornton created a hit 1952 recording of this R&B song, though three years later, a white artist would record it as a rock-and-roll song with Freddie Bell’s lyrics like “You ain’t never caught a rabbit” and “Cryin’ all the time.”
ANSWER: “Hound Dog” (The artist was Elvis Presley.)
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TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Adlai E. Stevenson AUni of Illinois Laboratory0101020
Alabama Cyber TechFremd010010
Audrain County ATNorthview010010
BelmontInnovation Academy A10101030
Detroit Catholic Central ALexington0101020
EastchesterNorthmont010010
Hinsdale Central AWestwood010010
Johns CreekRichard Montgomery010010
Lambert AMontgomery Blair A0101020
LindberghWalter Payton A0101020
Strake Jesuit AHunter A010010
Thomas Jefferson AStrake Jesuit B010010

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2025 PACE NSC06/07/2025Y1215.00100%42%8%