Mlk Trivia Question and Answers
1.
What does MLK stand for?
Answer:
Martin Luther King Jr.
2.
In what year was Martin Luther King Jr. born?
Answer:
1929
3.
Where was Martin Luther King Jr. born?
Answer:
Atlanta, Georgia.
4.
What is the name of Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous speech delivered during the March on Washington?
Answer:
"I Have a Dream."
5.
In what year did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver the "I Have a Dream" speech?
Answer:
1963
6.
What award did Martin Luther King Jr. receive in 1964?
Answer:
Nobel Peace Prize.
7.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.’s mentor from whom he learned about nonviolence?
Answer:
Mahatma Gandhi.
8.
Which organization did Martin Luther King Jr. help co-found in 1957?
Answer:
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).
9.
What was the name of the campaign aimed to end economic injustice that King launched in the late 1960s?
Answer:
The Poor People's Campaign.
10.
What was the name of Martin Luther King Jr.'s wife?
Answer:
Coretta Scott King.
11.
Where did Martin Luther King Jr. graduate with his PhD in theology?
Answer:
Boston University.
12.
What was the name of the Birmingham campaign that King led in 1963 to protest segregation?
Answer:
Birmingham Campaign.
13.
Which U.S. President signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, significantly due to King's efforts?
Answer:
Lyndon B. Johnson.
14.
Which famous African American leader did Martin Luther King Jr. share a birthday with?
Answer:
Harriet Tubman.
15.
What was Martin Luther King Jr.'s father’s profession?
Answer:
Baptist minister.
16.
In what city did King deliver his final sermon before his assassination?
Answer:
Memphis, Tennessee.
17.
What major award was posthumously given to King by President Ronald Reagan?
Answer:
The Presidential Medal of Freedom.
18.
What was the title of King’s first book, published in 1958?
Answer:
"Stride Toward Freedom."
19.
In what year was the Voting Rights Act passed, solidifying civil rights for African Americans?
Answer:
1965
20.
Where did Martin Luther King Jr. lead a march to demand equal rights in 1965?
Answer:
Montgomery, Alabama.
21.
What religious affiliation did Martin Luther King Jr. identify with?
Answer:
Baptist.
22.
What is the name of Martin Luther King Jr.'s memoir, published posthumously in 1997?
Answer:
"The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr."
23.
What was the name of the high school from which Martin Luther King Jr. graduated?
Answer:
Booker T. Washington High School.
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