Rosa Parks Trivia Quiz

[Jasmine]

I originally put out this quiz at the LNF site, in early 2023. See how many you can get right!

1. Rosa Parks’s full name was:
A. Rosa Dorothy Parks
B. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
C. Rosa Esther McAfee Parks

2. What year did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat for a white passenger?
A. 1953
B. 1955
C. 1956

3. What was Rosa Parks’s occupation at the time?
A. File clerk at a local high school
B. Cafeteria worker
C. Seamstress at a department store

4. What was the name of the bus driver who told Parks to give up her seat?
A. Harold Niven
B. Ira B. White
C. James F. Blake

5. How old was Rosa Parks at the time?
A. 33
B. 42
C. 46

6. What was Parks’s reported response to the bus driver’s demand?
A. “I don’t think I should have to stand up”
B. “I was here first, sir.”
C. “Go f—- yourself, you honky-ass heathen.”

7. How long did the resulting boycott of Montgomery buses last?
A. Six weeks
B. 10 months
C. Over a year

8. What posthumous distinction did Rosa Parks have?
A. First woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda
B. First woman to be depicted on a U.S. postage stamp
C. Named the Civil Rights movement’s “Pioneer of the Century”

9. What honorary title did the U.S. Congress give Rosa Parks?
A. “The First Lady of Civil Rights”
B. “The Mother of the Freedom Movement”
C. Both A and B

10. What is the title of Rosa Parks’s autobiography?
A. The Good Fight
B. My Story
C. Making History

[O Really]

I don't know enough to guess, but I have preferences. I'd like the bus driver to be Ita White and be told to f---- himself.

[Vrede too]

I don't know enough to guess, but I have preferences. I'd like the bus driver to be Ira White and be told to f--- himself.

Ditto.

She also kicked the arresting cop in the groin.

[GoCubsGo]

We didn't learn this one in school.

[Jasmine]

Okay, then, here are the answers just FYI!

1. Rosa Parks’s full name was:
A. Rosa Dorothy Parks
B. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks <——
C. Rosa Esther McAfee Parks

2. What year did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat for a white passenger?
A. 1953
B. 1955 <——
C. 1956

3. What was Rosa Parks’s occupation at the time?
A. File clerk at a local high school
B. Cafeteria worker
C. Seamstress at a department store <——

4. What was the name of the bus driver who told Parks to give up her seat?
A. Harold Niven
B. Ira B. White
C. James F. Blake <——

5. How old was Rosa Parks at the time?
A. 33
B. 42 <——
C. 46

6. What was Parks’s reported response to the bus driver’s demand?
A. “I don’t think I should have to stand up” <——
B. “I was here first, sir.”
C. “Go f—- yourself, you honky-ass heathen.”

7. How long did the resulting boycott of Montgomery buses last?
A. Six weeks
B. 10 months
C. Over a year <——

8. What posthumous distinction did Rosa Parks have?
A. First woman to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda <——
B. First woman to be depicted on a U.S. postage stamp
C. Named the Civil Rights movement’s “Pioneer of the Century”

9. What honorary title did the U.S. Congress give Rosa Parks?
A. “The First Lady of Civil Rights”
B. “The Mother of the Freedom Movement”
C. Both A and B <——

10. What is the title of Rosa Parks’s autobiography?
A. The Good Fight
B. My Story <——
C. Making History

[O Really]

I've been to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute/Museum. I should have learned more details about Rosa there.

[Vrede too]

We didn't learn this one in White school.

Ftfy.

I've been to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute/Museum. I should have learned more details about Rosa there.

https://b2793320.smushcdn.com/2793320/w ... p=1&webp=1

I would have gotten 6 correct, but more by guessing than knowing.

[GoCubsGo]

We didn't learn this one in White school.

Ftfy.

I've been to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute/Museum. I should have learned more details about Rosa there.

https://b2793320.smushcdn.com/2793320/w ... p=1&webp=1

I would have gotten 6 correct, but more by guessing than knowing.

You would've beaten me.