Question | Answer | % Correct |
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Who refused to give up her bus seat in 1955? | Rosa Parks | 98%
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What was Alabama's most important crop before the Civil War? | Cotton | 93%
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What country controlled the coasts of Alabama much of the years between 1513–1821? | Spain | 88%
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What fictional Alabaman travelled the world and said "life is like a box of chocolates"? | Forrest Gump | 82%
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Who was history's first deaf-blind college graduate? | Helen Keller | 82%
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What Harper Lee novel that tells the story of a right-doing lawyer and his family? | To Kill a Mockingbird | 78%
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What rock band made the song "Sweet Home Alabama"? | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 72%
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What "fat" celebration first took place in Alabama's city of Mobile in 1703? | Mardi Gras | 67%
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In what city did three civil rights marches begin in 1965? | Selma | 60%
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What black college trained the first African-American flying unit in the United States? | Tuskegee | 57%
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What holiday was Alabama the first state to recognize in 1836? | Christmas | 53%
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What is the name of the sports teams of the University of Alabama, whose football rivalry with Auburn University has been called the "Iron Bowl"? | Crimson Tide | 48%
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What governor wanted "segregation forever" (but later recanted)? | George Wallace | 45%
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In what city were NASA rockets developed? | Huntsville | 44%
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What rocket sent the first Americans to moon - and was built in the city above? | {Saturn} V | 44%
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What number in the United States was first called in Haleyville, Alabama in 1968? | 911 | 41%
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What scientist was dubbed the "Black Leonardo" by Time magazine in 1941? | George Washington Carver | 35%
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What type of weed was introduced to the United States and "ate the South"? | Kudzu | 28%
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