| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 90%
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| Who was history's first deaf-blind college graduate? | Helen Keller | 83%
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| What fictional Alabaman travelled the world and said "life is like a box of chocolates"? | Forrest Gump | 81%
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| What Harper Lee novel that tells the story of a right-doing lawyer and his family? | To Kill a Mockingbird | 77%
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| What rock band made the song "Sweet Home Alabama"? | Lynyrd Skynyrd | 71%
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| What "fat" celebration first took place in Alabama's city of Mobile in 1703? | Mardi Gras | 64%
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| In what city did three civil rights marches begin in 1965? | Selma | 61%
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| What black college trained the first African-American flying unit in the United States? | Tuskegee | 59%
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| What holiday was Alabama the first state to recognize in 1836? | Christmas | 51%
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| What is the name of the sports teams of the University of Alabama, whose football rivalrywith Auburn University has been called the "Iron Bowl"? | Crimson Tide | 49%
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| In what city were NASA rockets developed? | Huntsville | 46%
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| What rocket sent the first Americans to moon - and was built in the city above? | {Saturn} V | 43%
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| What governor wanted "segregation forever" (but later recanted)? | George Wallace | 42%
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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 | 30%
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