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Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:07 am
It is the middle of Black History Month, and Blabberwock asked me to post this week instead of her, so here is a quick quiz about African-American history. This is a little unusual for this forum, so I am happy to provide more hints. Many of the questions are related to each other, which is a general hint in itself.
1. This landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court set the stage for most of the social changes that took place in the southern United States in the second half of the 20th century. It was a class action suit filed in 1951 in a federal district court by 13 parents from a small city on behalf of their 20 children. The parents had tried to enroll their children in the nearest public schools, but were denied on the basis of race. The suit asked that their city reverse its policy of racial segregation in schools. The district court ruled against them, citing legal precedent from an 1896 ruling by the US Supreme Court that had established the “separate but equal” doctrine. When the Supreme Court first heard the appeal, it could not reach a decision. One of the justices died, and Earl Warren became the new Chief Justice. Under Warren, the court heard the case again in 1954 and unanimously ruled that segregation in schools was an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Name the famous case and the city and state it started from.
2. One year after the famous Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, on December 1, this political protest began in a southern city. The protest continued for over a year, until a federal court ruling against the practice that the protest targeted. What was the protest, and where did it take place? Bonus points for naming the person whose arrest triggered the year-long protest.
3. This Roman emperor’s reign was in the 2nd century CE. His most historic accomplishment was comprehensively defeating the Persian empire and seizing its capital Ctesiphon, thereby extending the Rome's eastern frontier to the Tigris river in modern Iraq. With the succession of his sons, he founded the last dynasty in imperial Roman history. He was born in the Africa province of Rome, in modern Libya, of an African (or Punic) father and a Roman mother. Name this emperor who black historians consider the most powerful black figure in ancient history -- and before Barack Obama, the most powerful black man in history.
4. This silent movie was the first big box office success in film history. It told the story of two families, the pro-Union Northern Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy Southern Camerons. It was the first movie to be shown at the White House, when Woodrow Wilson was president. The film quotes Wilson’s views about the Ku Klux Klan, as shown in the picture below.
The film is controversial for its portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force, and was banned in several cities, and it was used by the Klan as a recruiting tool. Name this movie.
5. This group of fighter pilots who fought in the Second World War were part of two units of the US Army Air Corps: the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group. At a time when black people could not drink from the same water fountains as white people in the southern states, these black soldiers flew fighter planes in the war. They saw action in Sicily and mainland Italy, and served as escorts for bombing operations over France and Germany. The name by which they are known to history refers to a small town in Alabama, which incidentally is the birthplace of the person whose arrest initiated the political protest mentioned above. Name this group of pilots.
6. He was born to a black slave mother and a white plantation owner in Virginia, and was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. As a young man, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines, and taught himself to read and write. After undertaking a long journey to the Hampton Institute where freedmen could get an education, he faced one test for admission: cleaning a dirty room. He performed a thorough job of sweeping and dusting, and secured a place at the school. In later years, he became the main spokesman for black people as Jim Crow segregation too root in the south. In 1881, he became the founding leader of an institute (today university) in the little Alabama town referenced above in the question about pilots. Name this man.
7. This African country was founded as a home for the freed black slaves of America. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and the Ivory Coast on the east. It is one of only two countries in Africa to never have been colonized by Europeans. Today the country is known for having the only female elected head of state on the continent. Name this country. Bonus points for naming its head of state.
8. A famous man once said: “Many years ago, when Abraham Lincoln was shot … Secretary Stanton stood by the dead body of the great leader and said these words: Now he belongs to the ages. And in a real sense, we can say the same thing about Mahatma Gandhi, and even in stronger terms: Now he belongs to the ages… And Mahatma Gandhi may well be God's appeal to this generation, for in a day when sputniks and explorers dash through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. Today, we no longer have a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” Name the man.
9. In the summer of 1964, in the heart of the Deep South, a local black man and his two like-minded Jewish colleagues from New York were lynched by the local Ku Klux Klan with active collaboration from the sheriff’s department. Their crime: attempting to register black citizens to vote. The murders of James Chaney, Michael Schwermer and Andrew Goodman and the subsequent federal investigation inspired an Academy-award winning movie. Name the movie.
10. After four unsuccessful runs for president, this southern politician became known to history as “the most influential loser” in 20th century American politics. He served four terms as governor of his state, the last ending in 1987. When term-limited out in 1967, he did a Lalu and got his wife elected as governor. In his first inaugural speech, which he made standing on the gold star marking the spot where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the first president of the abortive Confederacy, he uttered his most infamous line: “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” When his state's public university was desegregated in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, this governor stood in the way of federal marshals trying to enforce federal law. Name this politician from the Democratic party who later switched sides.
1. This landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court set the stage for most of the social changes that took place in the southern United States in the second half of the 20th century. It was a class action suit filed in 1951 in a federal district court by 13 parents from a small city on behalf of their 20 children. The parents had tried to enroll their children in the nearest public schools, but were denied on the basis of race. The suit asked that their city reverse its policy of racial segregation in schools. The district court ruled against them, citing legal precedent from an 1896 ruling by the US Supreme Court that had established the “separate but equal” doctrine. When the Supreme Court first heard the appeal, it could not reach a decision. One of the justices died, and Earl Warren became the new Chief Justice. Under Warren, the court heard the case again in 1954 and unanimously ruled that segregation in schools was an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Name the famous case and the city and state it started from.
2. One year after the famous Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, on December 1, this political protest began in a southern city. The protest continued for over a year, until a federal court ruling against the practice that the protest targeted. What was the protest, and where did it take place? Bonus points for naming the person whose arrest triggered the year-long protest.
3. This Roman emperor’s reign was in the 2nd century CE. His most historic accomplishment was comprehensively defeating the Persian empire and seizing its capital Ctesiphon, thereby extending the Rome's eastern frontier to the Tigris river in modern Iraq. With the succession of his sons, he founded the last dynasty in imperial Roman history. He was born in the Africa province of Rome, in modern Libya, of an African (or Punic) father and a Roman mother. Name this emperor who black historians consider the most powerful black figure in ancient history -- and before Barack Obama, the most powerful black man in history.
4. This silent movie was the first big box office success in film history. It told the story of two families, the pro-Union Northern Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy Southern Camerons. It was the first movie to be shown at the White House, when Woodrow Wilson was president. The film quotes Wilson’s views about the Ku Klux Klan, as shown in the picture below.
The film is controversial for its portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force, and was banned in several cities, and it was used by the Klan as a recruiting tool. Name this movie.
5. This group of fighter pilots who fought in the Second World War were part of two units of the US Army Air Corps: the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group. At a time when black people could not drink from the same water fountains as white people in the southern states, these black soldiers flew fighter planes in the war. They saw action in Sicily and mainland Italy, and served as escorts for bombing operations over France and Germany. The name by which they are known to history refers to a small town in Alabama, which incidentally is the birthplace of the person whose arrest initiated the political protest mentioned above. Name this group of pilots.
6. He was born to a black slave mother and a white plantation owner in Virginia, and was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. As a young man, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines, and taught himself to read and write. After undertaking a long journey to the Hampton Institute where freedmen could get an education, he faced one test for admission: cleaning a dirty room. He performed a thorough job of sweeping and dusting, and secured a place at the school. In later years, he became the main spokesman for black people as Jim Crow segregation too root in the south. In 1881, he became the founding leader of an institute (today university) in the little Alabama town referenced above in the question about pilots. Name this man.
7. This African country was founded as a home for the freed black slaves of America. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and the Ivory Coast on the east. It is one of only two countries in Africa to never have been colonized by Europeans. Today the country is known for having the only female elected head of state on the continent. Name this country. Bonus points for naming its head of state.
8. A famous man once said: “Many years ago, when Abraham Lincoln was shot … Secretary Stanton stood by the dead body of the great leader and said these words: Now he belongs to the ages. And in a real sense, we can say the same thing about Mahatma Gandhi, and even in stronger terms: Now he belongs to the ages… And Mahatma Gandhi may well be God's appeal to this generation, for in a day when sputniks and explorers dash through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. Today, we no longer have a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” Name the man.
9. In the summer of 1964, in the heart of the Deep South, a local black man and his two like-minded Jewish colleagues from New York were lynched by the local Ku Klux Klan with active collaboration from the sheriff’s department. Their crime: attempting to register black citizens to vote. The murders of James Chaney, Michael Schwermer and Andrew Goodman and the subsequent federal investigation inspired an Academy-award winning movie. Name the movie.
10. After four unsuccessful runs for president, this southern politician became known to history as “the most influential loser” in 20th century American politics. He served four terms as governor of his state, the last ending in 1987. When term-limited out in 1967, he did a Lalu and got his wife elected as governor. In his first inaugural speech, which he made standing on the gold star marking the spot where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the first president of the abortive Confederacy, he uttered his most infamous line: “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” When his state's public university was desegregated in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, this governor stood in the way of federal marshals trying to enforce federal law. Name this politician from the Democratic party who later switched sides.
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by Kris Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:31 am
charvaka wrote:It is the middle of Black History Month, and Blabberwock asked me to post this week instead of her, so here is a quick quiz about African-American history. This is a little unusual for this forum, so I am happy to provide more hints. Many of the questions are related to each other, which is a general hint in itself.
1. This landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court set the stage for most of the social changes that took place in the southern United States in the second half of the 20th century. It was a class action suit filed in 1951 in a federal district court by 13 parents from a small city on behalf of their 20 children. The parents had tried to enroll their children in the nearest public schools, but were denied on the basis of race. The suit asked that their city reverse its policy of racial segregation in schools. The district court ruled against them, citing legal precedent from an 1896 ruling by the US Supreme Court that had established the “separate but equal” doctrine. When the Supreme Court first heard the appeal, it could not reach a decision. One of the justices died, and Earl Warren became the new Chief Justice. Under Warren, the court heard the case again in 1954 and unanimously ruled that segregation in schools was an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Name the famous case and the city and state it started from.
>>>Brown vs. the Board of Education
2. One year after the famous Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, on December 1, this political protest began in a southern city. The protest continued for over a year, until a federal court ruling against the practice that the protest targeted. What was the protest, and where did it take place? Bonus points for naming the person whose arrest triggered the year-long protest.
>>>>Blacks having to sit in the back of buses, Montgomery, Alabama- Rosa Parks
3. This Roman emperor’s reign was in the 2nd century CE. His most historic accomplishment was comprehensively defeating the Persian empire and seizing its capital Ctesiphon, thereby extending the Rome's eastern frontier to the Tigris river in modern Iraq. With the succession of his sons, he founded the last dynasty in imperial Roman history. He was born in the Africa province of Rome, in modern Libya, of an African (or Punic) father and a Roman mother. Name this emperor who black historians consider the most powerful black figure in ancient history -- and before Barack Obama, the most powerful black man in history.
>>>>Phillipus the Arab?
5. This group of fighter pilots who fought in the Second World War were part of two units of the US Army Air Corps: the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group. At a time when black people could not drink from the same water fountains as white people in the southern states, these black soldiers flew fighter planes in the war. They saw action in Sicily and mainland Italy, and served as escorts for bombing operations over France and Germany. The name by which they are known to history refers to a small town in Alabama, which incidentally is the birthplace of the person whose arrest initiated the political protest mentioned above. Name this group of pilots.
>>>Red tails?
6. He was born to a black slave mother and a white plantation owner in Virginia, and was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. As a young man, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines, and taught himself to read and write. After undertaking a long journey to the Hampton Institute where freedmen could get an education, he faced one test for admission: cleaning a dirty room. He performed a thorough job of sweeping and dusting, and secured a place at the school. In later years, he became the main spokesman for black people as Jim Crow segregation too root in the south. In 1881, he became the founding leader of an institute (today university) in the little Alabama town referenced above in the question about pilots. Name this man.
>>>>WE DuBois
7. This African country was founded as a home for the freed black slaves of America. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and the Ivory Coast on the east. It is one of only two countries in Africa to never have been colonized by Europeans. Today the country is known for having the only female elected head of state on the continent. Name this country. Bonus points for naming its head of state.
>>>>Liberia, Sirleaf Johnson?
8. A famous man once said: “Many years ago, when Abraham Lincoln was shot … Secretary Stanton stood by the dead body of the great leader and said these words: Now he belongs to the ages. And in a real sense, we can say the same thing about Mahatma Gandhi, and even in stronger terms: Now he belongs to the ages… And Mahatma Gandhi may well be God's appeal to this generation, for in a day when sputniks and explorers dash through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. Today, we no longer have a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” Name the man.
>>>>John Foster Dulles?
10. After four unsuccessful runs for president, this southern politician became known to history as “the most influential loser” in 20th century American politics. He served four terms as governor of his state, the last ending in 1987. When term-limited out in 1967, he did a Lalu and got his wife elected as governor. In his first inaugural speech, which he made standing on the gold star marking the spot where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the first president of the abortive Confederacy, he uttered his most infamous line: “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” When his state's public university was desegregated in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, this governor stood in the way of federal marshals trying to enforce federal law. Name this politician from the Democratic party who later switched sides.
>>>George Wallace
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by Guest Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:34 am
charvaka wrote:8. A famous man once said: “Many years ago, when Abraham Lincoln was shot … Secretary Stanton stood by the dead body of the great leader and said these words: Now he belongs to the ages. And in a real sense, we can say the same thing about Mahatma Gandhi, and even in stronger terms: Now he belongs to the ages… And Mahatma Gandhi may well be God's appeal to this generation, for in a day when sputniks and explorers dash through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. Today, we no longer have a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” Name the man.
martin luther king!
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by indophile Wed Feb 15, 2012 9:12 am
1. Brown vs. Board of Education
2. Birmingham, Alabama, Segregation in public places and public transportation, Rosa Parks.
3. Hannibal
5. Tuskagee Airmen
7. Liberia
10. George Wallace
2. Birmingham, Alabama, Segregation in public places and public transportation, Rosa Parks.
3. Hannibal
5. Tuskagee Airmen
7. Liberia
10. George Wallace
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by doofus_maximus Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:30 am
charvaka wrote:It is the middle of Black History Month, and Blabberwock asked me to post this week instead of her, so here is a quick quiz about African-American history. This is a little unusual for this forum, so I am happy to provide more hints. Many of the questions are related to each other, which is a general hint in itself.
1. This landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court set the stage for most of the social changes that took place in the southern United States in the second half of the 20th century. It was a class action suit filed in 1951 in a federal district court by 13 parents from a small city on behalf of their 20 children. The parents had tried to enroll their children in the nearest public schools, but were denied on the basis of race. The suit asked that their city reverse its policy of racial segregation in schools. The district court ruled against them, citing legal precedent from an 1896 ruling by the US Supreme Court that had established the “separate but equal” doctrine. When the Supreme Court first heard the appeal, it could not reach a decision. One of the justices died, and Earl Warren became the new Chief Justice. Under Warren, the court heard the case again in 1954 and unanimously ruled that segregation in schools was an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Name the famous case and the city and state it started from.
Brown Vs Board of Education.
2. One year after the famous Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, on December 1, this political protest began in a southern city. The protest continued for over a year, until a federal court ruling against the practice that the protest targeted. What was the protest, and where did it take place? Bonus points for naming the person whose arrest triggered the year-long protest.
Montgomery, AL. Rosa parks was denied a seat at the front of the bus.
3. This Roman emperor’s reign was in the 2nd century CE. His most historic accomplishment was comprehensively defeating the Persian empire and seizing its capital Ctesiphon, thereby extending the Rome's eastern frontier to the Tigris river in modern Iraq. With the succession of his sons, he founded the last dynasty in imperial Roman history. He was born in the Africa province of Rome, in modern Libya, of an African (or Punic) father and a Roman mother. Name this emperor who black historians consider the most powerful black figure in ancient history -- and before Barack Obama, the most powerful black man in history.
4. This silent movie was the first big box office success in film history. It told the story of two families, the pro-Union Northern Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy Southern Camerons. It was the first movie to be shown at the White House, when Woodrow Wilson was president. The film quotes Wilson’s views about the Ku Klux Klan, as shown in the picture below.
The film is controversial for its portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force, and was banned in several cities, and it was used by the Klan as a recruiting tool. Name this movie.
Birth of a Nation
5. This group of fighter pilots who fought in the Second World War were part of two units of the US Army Air Corps: the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group. At a time when black people could not drink from the same water fountains as white people in the southern states, these black soldiers flew fighter planes in the war. They saw action in Sicily and mainland Italy, and served as escorts for bombing operations over France and Germany. The name by which they are known to history refers to a small town in Alabama, which incidentally is the birthplace of the person whose arrest initiated the political protest mentioned above. Name this group of pilots.
Tuskegee Airmen.
6. He was born to a black slave mother and a white plantation owner in Virginia, and was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. As a young man, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines, and taught himself to read and write. After undertaking a long journey to the Hampton Institute where freedmen could get an education, he faced one test for admission: cleaning a dirty room. He performed a thorough job of sweeping and dusting, and secured a place at the school. In later years, he became the main spokesman for black people as Jim Crow segregation too root in the south. In 1881, he became the founding leader of an institute (today university) in the little Alabama town referenced above in the question about pilots. Name this man.
HOWARD ?!!!
7. This African country was founded as a home for the freed black slaves of America. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and the Ivory Coast on the east. It is one of only two countries in Africa to never have been colonized by Europeans. Today the country is known for having the only female elected head of state on the continent. Name this country. Bonus points for naming its head of state.
Liberia
8. A famous man once said: “Many years ago, when Abraham Lincoln was shot … Secretary Stanton stood by the dead body of the great leader and said these words: Now he belongs to the ages. And in a real sense, we can say the same thing about Mahatma Gandhi, and even in stronger terms: Now he belongs to the ages… And Mahatma Gandhi may well be God's appeal to this generation, for in a day when sputniks and explorers dash through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. Today, we no longer have a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” Name the man.
MLK
9. In the summer of 1964, in the heart of the Deep South, a local black man and his two like-minded Jewish colleagues from New York were lynched by the local Ku Klux Klan with active collaboration from the sheriff’s department. Their crime: attempting to register black citizens to vote. The murders of James Chaney, Michael Schwermer and Andrew Goodman and the subsequent federal investigation inspired an Academy-award winning movie. Name the movie.
Mississippi Burning.
10. After four unsuccessful runs for president, this southern politician became known to history as “the most influential loser” in 20th century American politics. He served four terms as governor of his state, the last ending in 1987. When term-limited out in 1967, he did a Lalu and got his wife elected as governor. In his first inaugural speech, which he made standing on the gold star marking the spot where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the first president of the abortive Confederacy, he uttered his most infamous line: “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” When his state's public university was desegregated in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, this governor stood in the way of federal marshals trying to enforce federal law. Name this politician from the Democratic party who later switched sides.
Wallace.
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by Maria S Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:43 am
Carvaka!
Nice of you to celebrate Black History Month.
Took a quick glance at the answers..most of them are right (answered by more than one poster).
I'll answer one..since, no one has it right (so far).
#6 Booker T. Washington.
Nice of you to celebrate Black History Month.
Took a quick glance at the answers..most of them are right (answered by more than one poster).
I'll answer one..since, no one has it right (so far).
#6 Booker T. Washington.
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:16 pm
Correct. The Board of Education of which city and state?Kris wrote:1. Brown vs. the Board of Education
Correct, racial segregation in transit vehicles.Kris wrote:2. Blacks having to sit in the back of buses, Montgomery, Alabama- Rosa Parks
No.Kris wrote:3. Phillipus the Arab?
That is one of the names they are known by, although I was thinking of the other name, the Tuskegee Airmen.Kris wrote:5. Red tails?
No.Kris wrote:6. WE DuBois
Correct.Kris wrote:7. Liberia, Sirleaf Johnson?
No.Kris wrote:8. John Foster Dulles?
Correct.Kris wrote:10. George Wallace
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:17 pm
Correct.Huzefa Kapasi wrote:charvaka wrote:8. A famous man once said: “Many years ago, when Abraham Lincoln was shot … Secretary Stanton stood by the dead body of the great leader and said these words: Now he belongs to the ages. And in a real sense, we can say the same thing about Mahatma Gandhi, and even in stronger terms: Now he belongs to the ages… And Mahatma Gandhi may well be God's appeal to this generation, for in a day when sputniks and explorers dash through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. Today, we no longer have a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” Name the man.
martin luther king!
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:18 pm
Correct. Which city and state?indophile wrote:1. Brown vs. Board of Education
Correct.indophile wrote:2. Birmingham, Alabama, Segregation in public places and public transportation, Rosa Parks.
No, I will give a hint in a little bit.indophile wrote:3. Hannibal
Correct.indophile wrote:5. Tuskagee Airmen
Correct, and the president is Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson.indophile wrote:7. Liberia
Correct.indophile wrote:10. George Wallace
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:20 pm
Correct. Which city and state?doofus_maximus wrote:1. Brown Vs Board of Education.
Correct.doofus_maximus wrote:2. Montgomery, AL. Rosa parks was denied a seat at the front of the bus.
Correct.doofus_maximus wrote:4. Birth of a Nation
Correct.doofus_maximus wrote:5. Tuskegee Airmen.
No.doofus_maximus wrote:6. HOWARD ?!!!
Correct.doofus_maximus wrote:7. Liberia
Correct.doofus_maximus wrote:8. MLK
Correct.doofus_maximus wrote:9. Mississippi Burning.
Correct.doofus_maximus wrote:10. Wallace.
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:20 pm
Yes, that is the correct answer.Maria S wrote:Carvaka!
Nice of you to celebrate Black History Month.
Took a quick glance at the answers..most of them are right (answered by more than one poster).
I'll answer one..since, no one has it right (so far).
#6 Booker T. Washington.
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Wed Feb 15, 2012 10:30 pm
Update with hints... one question and part of another remain.
1. This landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court set the stage for most of the social changes that took place in the southern United States in the second half of the 20th century. It was a class action suit filed in 1951 in a federal district court by 13 parents from a small city on behalf of their 20 children. The parents had tried to enroll their children in the nearest public schools, but were denied on the basis of race. The suit asked that their city reverse its policy of racial segregation in schools. The district court ruled against them, citing legal precedent from an 1896 ruling by the US Supreme Court that had established the “separate but equal” doctrine. When the Supreme Court first heard the appeal, it could not reach a decision. One of the justices died, and Earl Warren became the new Chief Justice. Under Warren, the court heard the case again in 1954 and unanimously ruled that segregation in schools was an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Name the famous case and the city and state it started from.
Hint: The case was Brown v. Board of Education. Which city's Board of Education was one of the parties to this case?
3. This Roman emperor’s reign was in the 2nd century CE. His most historic accomplishment was comprehensively defeating the Persian empire and seizing its capital Ctesiphon, thereby extending the Rome's eastern frontier to the Tigris river in modern Iraq. With the succession of his sons, he founded the last dynasty in imperial Roman history. He was born in the Africa province of Rome, in modern Libya, of an African (or Punic) father and a Roman mother. Name this emperor who black historians consider the most powerful black figure in ancient history -- and before Barack Obama, the most powerful black man in history.
Hint: He is one of the few Roman emperors who are commonly referred to by historians using two names. Unlike say Augustus, Claudius, Caligula, Nero, and Constantine; like Marcus Aurelius and Julius Caesar. His first name means "n-th" where n is a small positive integer.
1. This landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court set the stage for most of the social changes that took place in the southern United States in the second half of the 20th century. It was a class action suit filed in 1951 in a federal district court by 13 parents from a small city on behalf of their 20 children. The parents had tried to enroll their children in the nearest public schools, but were denied on the basis of race. The suit asked that their city reverse its policy of racial segregation in schools. The district court ruled against them, citing legal precedent from an 1896 ruling by the US Supreme Court that had established the “separate but equal” doctrine. When the Supreme Court first heard the appeal, it could not reach a decision. One of the justices died, and Earl Warren became the new Chief Justice. Under Warren, the court heard the case again in 1954 and unanimously ruled that segregation in schools was an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Name the famous case and the city and state it started from.
Hint: The case was Brown v. Board of Education. Which city's Board of Education was one of the parties to this case?
3. This Roman emperor’s reign was in the 2nd century CE. His most historic accomplishment was comprehensively defeating the Persian empire and seizing its capital Ctesiphon, thereby extending the Rome's eastern frontier to the Tigris river in modern Iraq. With the succession of his sons, he founded the last dynasty in imperial Roman history. He was born in the Africa province of Rome, in modern Libya, of an African (or Punic) father and a Roman mother. Name this emperor who black historians consider the most powerful black figure in ancient history -- and before Barack Obama, the most powerful black man in history.
Hint: He is one of the few Roman emperors who are commonly referred to by historians using two names. Unlike say Augustus, Claudius, Caligula, Nero, and Constantine; like Marcus Aurelius and Julius Caesar. His first name means "n-th" where n is a small positive integer.
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by Kris Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:07 pm
3. This Roman emperor’s reign was in the 2nd century CE. His most historic accomplishment was comprehensively defeating the Persian empire and seizing its capital Ctesiphon, thereby extending the Rome's eastern frontier to the Tigris river in modern Iraq. With the succession of his sons, he founded the last dynasty in imperial Roman history. He was born in the Africa province of Rome, in modern Libya, of an African (or Punic) father and a Roman mother. Name this emperor who black historians consider the most powerful black figure in ancient history -- and before Barack Obama, the most powerful black man in history.
Hint: He is one of the few Roman emperors who are commonly referred to by historians using two names. Unlike say Augustus, Claudius, Caligula, Nero, and Constantine; like Marcus Aurelius and Julius Caesar. His first name means "n-th" where n is a small positive integer.
>>Quintus something- no idea
Hint: He is one of the few Roman emperors who are commonly referred to by historians using two names. Unlike say Augustus, Claudius, Caligula, Nero, and Constantine; like Marcus Aurelius and Julius Caesar. His first name means "n-th" where n is a small positive integer.
>>Quintus something- no idea
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by Kris Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:24 pm
Kris wrote:3. This Roman emperor’s reign was in the 2nd century CE. His most historic accomplishment was comprehensively defeating the Persian empire and seizing its capital Ctesiphon, thereby extending the Rome's eastern frontier to the Tigris river in modern Iraq. With the succession of his sons, he founded the last dynasty in imperial Roman history. He was born in the Africa province of Rome, in modern Libya, of an African (or Punic) father and a Roman mother. Name this emperor who black historians consider the most powerful black figure in ancient history -- and before Barack Obama, the most powerful black man in history.
Hint: He is one of the few Roman emperors who are commonly referred to by historians using two names. Unlike say Augustus, Claudius, Caligula, Nero, and Constantine; like Marcus Aurelius and Julius Caesar. His first name means "n-th" where n is a small positive integer.
>>Quintus something- no idea
>>>>>Wait-- Is it Septimus Severus??
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:33 pm
Yes it is.Kris wrote:Kris wrote:3. This Roman emperor’s reign was in the 2nd century CE. His most historic accomplishment was comprehensively defeating the Persian empire and seizing its capital Ctesiphon, thereby extending the Rome's eastern frontier to the Tigris river in modern Iraq. With the succession of his sons, he founded the last dynasty in imperial Roman history. He was born in the Africa province of Rome, in modern Libya, of an African (or Punic) father and a Roman mother. Name this emperor who black historians consider the most powerful black figure in ancient history -- and before Barack Obama, the most powerful black man in history.
Hint: He is one of the few Roman emperors who are commonly referred to by historians using two names. Unlike say Augustus, Claudius, Caligula, Nero, and Constantine; like Marcus Aurelius and Julius Caesar. His first name means "n-th" where n is a small positive integer.
>>Quintus something- no idea
>>>>>Wait-- Is it Septimus Severus??
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by Maria S Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:12 am
Good.
Since I like quotes..May I post some interesting quotes in this thread (with still Black History theme) and ask if you and and others want to guess who said/where these lines were said?
1) “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”
2) "They [Abortion opponents] love little babies, as long as they're in somebody else's uterus."
3) “Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”
With movie connections:
4) "Look at you; you're black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman. You're nothing at all."
5) "Doesn't matter if glass is half empty or full, what matters is whether you have a glass"
Since I like quotes..May I post some interesting quotes in this thread (with still Black History theme) and ask if you and and others want to guess who said/where these lines were said?
1) “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”
2) "They [Abortion opponents] love little babies, as long as they're in somebody else's uterus."
3) “Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”
With movie connections:
4) "Look at you; you're black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman. You're nothing at all."
5) "Doesn't matter if glass is half empty or full, what matters is whether you have a glass"
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:54 am
Only part of one question remains. What city did the case Brown v. Board of Education come from? The city is located on a river that the state it is in is named for, and is the state capital although not its largest city. The name of the city means "to dig good potatoes" in a native American language. In March 2010, the city's mayor issued a proclamation calling for the city to be called "Google" for a month. The original case was against the city's Board of Education; in more recent times, the state's Board of Education has acquired notoriety for its decision to eliminate the theory of evolution from the state's teaching standards. Name the city and the state.
PS: At least one member of this forum is from that state.
PS: At least one member of this forum is from that state.
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:12 am
The Color Purple. The protagonist's husband says this to her.Maria S wrote:4) "Look at you; you're black, you're poor, you're ugly, you're a woman. You're nothing at all."
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by Maria S Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:55 am
I know Brown vs. Board of Education- Plaintiffs were from Kansas. Perhaps Topeka? (sounds like a Native American name).
Ok, thank you Carvaka for attempting to answer my questions!
4) You are right..it's those famous lines were written by Alice Walker. In the movie- Danny Glover says those lines to Oprah (don't have to explain why those lines take on an extra significance because of her).
The rest:
1) “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”
-Dr. Marian Wright Adelman (Founder of the Children's Defense Fund).
2) "They [Abortion opponents] love little babies, as long as they're in somebody else's uterus."
-Dr. Joycelyn Elders (First Black Woman Surgeon General of the US) who was asked to resign by Pres. Clinton's admn- for her out spokenness about Public Health issues..esp. when she said Masturbation can be encouraged vs. Multiple partners to prevent STDS.
3) “Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”
-Sen. Carol Mosley Braun (First Black Woman Senator- US Congress)
5) "Doesn't matter if glass is half empty or full, what matters is whether you have a glass"
-Actress Octavia Spencer (Nominated for an Oscar- Supporting Actress Role- for her performance in the movie "The Help").
*If you see my comments to you in your movie review of "The Long Walk Home"..I mentioned to you that I watched "The Help" during my flight to India- never heard about it, but thought you may be interested in it! The movie certainly got my attention!
Ok, thank you Carvaka for attempting to answer my questions!
4) You are right..it's those famous lines were written by Alice Walker. In the movie- Danny Glover says those lines to Oprah (don't have to explain why those lines take on an extra significance because of her).
The rest:
1) “You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.”
-Dr. Marian Wright Adelman (Founder of the Children's Defense Fund).
2) "They [Abortion opponents] love little babies, as long as they're in somebody else's uterus."
-Dr. Joycelyn Elders (First Black Woman Surgeon General of the US) who was asked to resign by Pres. Clinton's admn- for her out spokenness about Public Health issues..esp. when she said Masturbation can be encouraged vs. Multiple partners to prevent STDS.
3) “Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”
-Sen. Carol Mosley Braun (First Black Woman Senator- US Congress)
5) "Doesn't matter if glass is half empty or full, what matters is whether you have a glass"
-Actress Octavia Spencer (Nominated for an Oscar- Supporting Actress Role- for her performance in the movie "The Help").
*If you see my comments to you in your movie review of "The Long Walk Home"..I mentioned to you that I watched "The Help" during my flight to India- never heard about it, but thought you may be interested in it! The movie certainly got my attention!
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:21 pm
Correct! All questions have been answered now.Maria S wrote:I know Brown vs. Board of Education- Plaintiffs were from Kansas. Perhaps Topeka? (sounds like a Native American name).
I hope the lead lady in The Help wins Best Actress.
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Re: Wednesday Trivia #13: Feb 15, 2012
by charvaka Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:40 pm
Here are the answers to this quiz.
1. This landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court set the stage for most of the social changes that took place in the southern United States in the second half of the 20th century. It was a class action suit filed in 1951 in a federal district court by 13 parents from a small city on behalf of their 20 children. The parents had tried to enroll their children in the nearest public schools, but were denied on the basis of race. The suit asked that their city reverse its policy of racial segregation in schools. The district court ruled against them, citing legal precedent from an 1896 ruling by the US Supreme Court that had established the “separate but equal” doctrine. When the Supreme Court first heard the appeal, it could not reach a decision. One of the justices died, and Earl Warren became the new Chief Justice. Under Warren, the court heard the case again in 1954 and unanimously ruled that segregation in schools was an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Name the famous case and the city and state it started from.
Answer: Oliver Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka. The city was Topeka, KS. Brown, a welder for the Santa Fe Railroad (now part of BNSF), was the first plaintiff in alphabetical order of last name.
2. One year after the famous Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, on December 1, this political protest began in a southern city. The protest continued for over a year, until a federal court ruling against the practice that the protest targeted. What was the protest, and where did it take place? Bonus points for naming the person whose arrest triggered the year-long protest.
Answer: The bus boycott of Montomery, AL which started when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in a bus to a white man. Martin Luther King, who rose to national prominence during this boycott, later quoted the sentiment of the protest in the words of an old black woman: "my feets is tired, but my soul is rested."
3. This Roman emperor’s reign was in the 2nd century CE. His most historic accomplishment was comprehensively defeating the Persian empire and seizing its capital Ctesiphon, thereby extending the Rome's eastern frontier to the Tigris river in modern Iraq. With the succession of his sons, he founded the last dynasty in imperial Roman history. He was born in the Africa province of Rome, in modern Libya, of an African (or Punic) father and a Roman mother. Name this emperor who black historians consider the most powerful black figure in ancient history -- and before Barack Obama, the most powerful black man in history.
Answer: Septimius Severus. The story that he was black is disputed. If he was part Punic (Phoenician) as mainstream historians believe, he would be considered closer in ethnicity to the Lebanese people than to the people of sub-Saharan Africa.
4. This silent movie was the first big box office success in film history. It told the story of two families, the pro-Union Northern Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy Southern Camerons. It was the first movie to be shown at the White House, when Woodrow Wilson was president. The film quotes Wilson’s views about the Ku Klux Klan, as shown in the picture below.
The film is controversial for its portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force, and was banned in several cities, and it was used by the Klan as a recruiting tool. Name this movie.
Answer: The Birth of a Nation
5. This group of fighter pilots who fought in the Second World War were part of two units of the US Army Air Corps: the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group. At a time when black people could not drink from the same water fountains as white people in the southern states, these black soldiers flew fighter planes in the war. They saw action in Sicily and mainland Italy, and served as escorts for bombing operations over France and Germany. The name by which they are known to history refers to a small town in Alabama, which incidentally is the birthplace of the person whose arrest initiated the political protest mentioned above. Name this group of pilots.
Answer: The Tuskegee Airmen, also known as the Red Tails. Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, AL, and Booker T. Washington was the first head of the Tuskegee Institute.
6. He was born to a black slave mother and a white plantation owner in Virginia, and was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. As a young man, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines, and taught himself to read and write. After undertaking a long journey to the Hampton Institute where freedmen could get an education, he faced one test for admission: cleaning a dirty room. He performed a thorough job of sweeping and dusting, and secured a place at the school. In later years, he became the main spokesman for black people as Jim Crow segregation too root in the south. In 1881, he became the founding leader of an institute (today university) in the little Alabama town referenced above in the question about pilots. Name this man.
Answer: Booker T. Washington
7. This African country was founded as a home for the freed black slaves of America. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and the Ivory Coast on the east. It is one of only two countries in Africa to never have been colonized by Europeans. Today the country is known for having the only female elected head of state on the continent. Name this country. Bonus points for naming its head of state.
Answer: Liberia, and its president is Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson.
8. A famous man once said: “Many years ago, when Abraham Lincoln was shot … Secretary Stanton stood by the dead body of the great leader and said these words: Now he belongs to the ages. And in a real sense, we can say the same thing about Mahatma Gandhi, and even in stronger terms: Now he belongs to the ages… And Mahatma Gandhi may well be God's appeal to this generation, for in a day when sputniks and explorers dash through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. Today, we no longer have a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” Name the man.
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.
9. In the summer of 1964, in the heart of the Deep South, a local black man and his two like-minded Jewish colleagues from New York were lynched by the local Ku Klux Klan with active collaboration from the sheriff’s department. Their crime: attempting to register black citizens to vote. The murders of James Chaney, Michael Schwermer and Andrew Goodman and the subsequent federal investigation inspired an Academy-award winning movie. Name the movie.
Answer: Mississippi Burning.
10. After four unsuccessful runs for president, this southern politician became known to history as “the most influential loser” in 20th century American politics. He served four terms as governor of his state, the last ending in 1987. When term-limited out in 1967, he did a Lalu and got his wife elected as governor. In his first inaugural speech, which he made standing on the gold star marking the spot where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the first president of the abortive Confederacy, he uttered his most infamous line: “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” When his state's public university was desegregated in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, this governor stood in the way of federal marshals trying to enforce federal law. Name this politician from the Democratic party who later switched sides.
Answer: George Wallace of Alabama
1. This landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court set the stage for most of the social changes that took place in the southern United States in the second half of the 20th century. It was a class action suit filed in 1951 in a federal district court by 13 parents from a small city on behalf of their 20 children. The parents had tried to enroll their children in the nearest public schools, but were denied on the basis of race. The suit asked that their city reverse its policy of racial segregation in schools. The district court ruled against them, citing legal precedent from an 1896 ruling by the US Supreme Court that had established the “separate but equal” doctrine. When the Supreme Court first heard the appeal, it could not reach a decision. One of the justices died, and Earl Warren became the new Chief Justice. Under Warren, the court heard the case again in 1954 and unanimously ruled that segregation in schools was an unconstitutional violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Name the famous case and the city and state it started from.
Answer: Oliver Brown et al v. Board of Education of Topeka. The city was Topeka, KS. Brown, a welder for the Santa Fe Railroad (now part of BNSF), was the first plaintiff in alphabetical order of last name.
2. One year after the famous Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, on December 1, this political protest began in a southern city. The protest continued for over a year, until a federal court ruling against the practice that the protest targeted. What was the protest, and where did it take place? Bonus points for naming the person whose arrest triggered the year-long protest.
Answer: The bus boycott of Montomery, AL which started when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat in a bus to a white man. Martin Luther King, who rose to national prominence during this boycott, later quoted the sentiment of the protest in the words of an old black woman: "my feets is tired, but my soul is rested."
3. This Roman emperor’s reign was in the 2nd century CE. His most historic accomplishment was comprehensively defeating the Persian empire and seizing its capital Ctesiphon, thereby extending the Rome's eastern frontier to the Tigris river in modern Iraq. With the succession of his sons, he founded the last dynasty in imperial Roman history. He was born in the Africa province of Rome, in modern Libya, of an African (or Punic) father and a Roman mother. Name this emperor who black historians consider the most powerful black figure in ancient history -- and before Barack Obama, the most powerful black man in history.
Answer: Septimius Severus. The story that he was black is disputed. If he was part Punic (Phoenician) as mainstream historians believe, he would be considered closer in ethnicity to the Lebanese people than to the people of sub-Saharan Africa.
4. This silent movie was the first big box office success in film history. It told the story of two families, the pro-Union Northern Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy Southern Camerons. It was the first movie to be shown at the White House, when Woodrow Wilson was president. The film quotes Wilson’s views about the Ku Klux Klan, as shown in the picture below.
The film is controversial for its portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force, and was banned in several cities, and it was used by the Klan as a recruiting tool. Name this movie.
Answer: The Birth of a Nation
5. This group of fighter pilots who fought in the Second World War were part of two units of the US Army Air Corps: the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bombardment Group. At a time when black people could not drink from the same water fountains as white people in the southern states, these black soldiers flew fighter planes in the war. They saw action in Sicily and mainland Italy, and served as escorts for bombing operations over France and Germany. The name by which they are known to history refers to a small town in Alabama, which incidentally is the birthplace of the person whose arrest initiated the political protest mentioned above. Name this group of pilots.
Answer: The Tuskegee Airmen, also known as the Red Tails. Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, AL, and Booker T. Washington was the first head of the Tuskegee Institute.
6. He was born to a black slave mother and a white plantation owner in Virginia, and was freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. As a young man, he worked in salt furnaces and coal mines, and taught himself to read and write. After undertaking a long journey to the Hampton Institute where freedmen could get an education, he faced one test for admission: cleaning a dirty room. He performed a thorough job of sweeping and dusting, and secured a place at the school. In later years, he became the main spokesman for black people as Jim Crow segregation too root in the south. In 1881, he became the founding leader of an institute (today university) in the little Alabama town referenced above in the question about pilots. Name this man.
Answer: Booker T. Washington
7. This African country was founded as a home for the freed black slaves of America. It is bordered by Sierra Leone on the west, Guinea on the north and the Ivory Coast on the east. It is one of only two countries in Africa to never have been colonized by Europeans. Today the country is known for having the only female elected head of state on the continent. Name this country. Bonus points for naming its head of state.
Answer: Liberia, and its president is Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson.
8. A famous man once said: “Many years ago, when Abraham Lincoln was shot … Secretary Stanton stood by the dead body of the great leader and said these words: Now he belongs to the ages. And in a real sense, we can say the same thing about Mahatma Gandhi, and even in stronger terms: Now he belongs to the ages… And Mahatma Gandhi may well be God's appeal to this generation, for in a day when sputniks and explorers dash through outer space and guided ballistic missiles are carving highways of death through the stratosphere, no nation can win a war. Today, we no longer have a choice between violence and nonviolence; it is either nonviolence or nonexistence.” Name the man.
Answer: Martin Luther King, Jr.
9. In the summer of 1964, in the heart of the Deep South, a local black man and his two like-minded Jewish colleagues from New York were lynched by the local Ku Klux Klan with active collaboration from the sheriff’s department. Their crime: attempting to register black citizens to vote. The murders of James Chaney, Michael Schwermer and Andrew Goodman and the subsequent federal investigation inspired an Academy-award winning movie. Name the movie.
Answer: Mississippi Burning.
10. After four unsuccessful runs for president, this southern politician became known to history as “the most influential loser” in 20th century American politics. He served four terms as governor of his state, the last ending in 1987. When term-limited out in 1967, he did a Lalu and got his wife elected as governor. In his first inaugural speech, which he made standing on the gold star marking the spot where Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the first president of the abortive Confederacy, he uttered his most infamous line: “I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” When his state's public university was desegregated in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling mentioned above, this governor stood in the way of federal marshals trying to enforce federal law. Name this politician from the Democratic party who later switched sides.
Answer: George Wallace of Alabama
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