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Episode 1’s main connection was “Beyoncé.” Below you can read all the answers that have to do with Beyoncé.
THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER
Beyoncé, born and raised in the United States, was allowed to sing the American national anthem ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ at several important moments during her career, such as during Obama’s inauguration in 2013.
RIHANNA
Rihanna scored the hit ‘Umbrella’ together with Beyoncé’s husband Jay-Z. He also wrote ‘Run This Town’ for her.
AMERICAN FOOTBALL
Beyoncé performed twice during the Super Bowl, the final of the American football season.
SUPER BOWL
Beyoncé gave a memorable performance at the Super Bowl Half Time Show in both 2013 and 2016. Previously, in 2004, she sang the national anthem before the match.
CLOUSEAU
The bassist of the Belgian band Clouseau, Vincent Pierins, scored a number 1 hit in the American Bill Board Club Songs with a remix of ‘Blow’, a song by Beyoncé.
LEOPARD
For the announcement of her visual album ‘Black is King’, she posed in a leopard suit that fashion house Valentino had worked on for more than 1,000 hours.
Image: Still of Beyoncé from “Black Is King”. By Travis Matthews for Disney+
DIAMOND
For an advertising campaign for jewelry brand Tiffany, Beyoncé was the first black woman ever to wear the famous yellow Tiffany diamond: 128 carats, worth 30 million dollars.
THE PINK PANTHER
In the 2006 Pink Panther film, starring Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau, Beyoncé played the role of Xania.
FINGER
Beyoncé has a tattoo of the Roman numeral IV on her finger that is significant: her birthday is on the fourth of the month, just like Jay-Z. They got married on April 4 (4/4) and their daughter’s name is Ivy: when you pronounce that it sounds like IV.
WEDDING
Beyoncé is married to rapper Jay-Z.
GOLD
A gadfly with a ‘golden butt’ is named after Beyoncé. The fly, called Scaptia beyonceae, has golden hairs on its behind. Beyoncé also won many gold records and ‘Gold Member’ is one of her songs.
© Door Bryan D. Lessard – CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19228670
Door Bryan D. Lessard – CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19228670
RING
In one of Beyoncé’s biggest hits, ‘Single Ladies’, from 2008, she sings: ‘If you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it’.
PYRAMID
Beyoncé visited Egypt in 2009 and sang ‘Ave Maria’ in one of the pyramids at Giza. Other pyramids also crossed her career. For example, her performance at Coachella in 2018 was a spectacle, especially because of the pyramid-shaped stage. A few years earlier, she was the first female headline act in 20 years on Glastonbury’s famous ‘Pyramid Stage’. Finally, she was once expelled from a pyramid in Egypt by an archaeologist for allegedly behaving rudely.
MANY MORE
Jay-Z and Beyonce appear in front of the real Mona Lisa in the 2018 clip ‘Apeshit’.
MUSEUM
A photo of Beyoncé from Vogue magazine is officially a work of art: it was purchased by the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. She is also in various wax museums; Madame Tussauds Amsterdam has a wax figure of her.
LOUVRE
In 2014, Beyoncé and Jay-Z rented the entire Louvre in Paris to record the video for their song ‘Apeshit’.
ZIGGO DOME
Beyoncé performed in the Amsterdam Ziggo Dome in 2014 with ‘The Mrs. Carter Show’.
MICHELLE
Beyoncé was in Destiny’s Child with Michelle Williams.
Door Pete Sekesan from New York, USA – DW2Q0666, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50397869
PEACE
Beyoncé performed the song “I Was Here” in front of the United Nations General Assembly Hall, calling it a “hymn for world peace.”
SASHA
Sasha Fierce is Beyoncé’s alter ego. ‘I am….Sasha Fierce’ is Beyoncé’s third solo album.
BLACK
Beyoncé identifies as black, something she emphasizes in songs like “Brown Skin Girl” and “Black Parade.”
Beyoncé has African roots. During a performance in Nigeria in 2006 she said: ‘My ancestors are from here’. She also collaborated with several African artists for the 2020 visual album ‘Black is King’. The film was shot in various locations in Africa, such as Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa.
RIJKSMUSEUM
Beyoncé hung as art in the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden: a life-size photo of Beyoncé as Nefertiti was part of an exhibition about the influence of Egypt on artists.
Beyoncé was born in Houston, United States.
OBAMA
At President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009, she sang Etta James’ “At Last.” When he was re-elected, she was allowed to sing again, this time the American national anthem. The Obamas, in turn, attended a Beyoncé concert in Paris.
LEMONADE
Lemonade is Beyoncé’s sixth studio album.
BONNIE & CLYDE
The song ’03 Bonnie & Clyde’ was the first musical collaboration between Jay-Z and Beyoncé, then his girlfriend.
4 Beyoncé’s fourth studio album is called ‘4’, her favorite number.
KELLY
Kelly Rowland, like Beyoncé, was a member of Destiny’s Child.
THE LION KING
Beyoncé voiced Nala in the 2019 remake of ‘The Lion King’.
TINA
Tina Knowles is her mother’s name.
TRIO
The band that Beyoncé was a part of until 2006, Destiny’s Child, was a trio.
SIR
Sir is her son’s name.
ALREADY SEEN
Beyoncé released the song ‘Déja Vu’ in 2006.
COUNTDOWN
The song ‘Countdown’ is a single from Beyoncé’s fourth studio album ‘4’.
DUBAI
On the album ‘Renaissance’, which Beyoncé released in 2022, she honors black and queer pioneers from the house and disco scene of the 1970s. That is precisely why Beyoncé faced a lot of criticism when she performed in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, in early 2023. Emirates, where homosexuality is punishable.
HONING
Like a true ‘Queen Bey’, Beyoncé keeps more than 80,000 bees in her backyard that produce hundreds of jars of honey per year.
SOLANGE
Beyoncé has one sister, Solange, who is also a singer herself.
2023-10-28 19:20:58
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