Annual Martin Luther
King Day History Quiz
Due to
discrimination and
anti-Black bias, many
Americans don’t know
enough about this great
man. Try these quiz and
you can see how little
the schools, news media
and establishment have
told you about the only
American with his own
holiday.
1) Name the judge
who has sealed
King's FBI
surveillance file
until the year 2027.
A) The Honorable
John Lewis Smith,
Jr.
2) According to
whose 1989 biography
did King spend his
last night on earth
in an adulterous
liaison?
A) Reverend Ralph
Abernathy. And
the Walls Came
Tumbling Down
3) According to
whose 1989 biography
did King spend his
last morning on
earth physically
beating a woman?
A) Reverend Ralph
Abernathy. And
the Walls Came
Tumbling Down
4) Who was the U.S.
Attorney General who
ordered the FBI to
wiretap King?
A) Robert F.
Kennedy. See David
Garrow’s biography
“Bearing the Cross.”
5) Who was the
Assistant Director
of the FBI who wrote
a letter to Sen.
John P. East (R-NC)
describing King's
conduct of
"orgiastic and
adulterous
escapades, some of
which indicated that
King could be
bestial in his
sexual abuse of
women."
A) Charles D.
Brennan
6) Who called King a
"hypocrite
preacher."
A) President Lyndon
B. Johnson
7) What U.S.
newspaper reported
that King had
plagiarized his
doctoral thesis at
Boston University.
A) The Wall Street
Journal. In 1991
The Journal of
American History
admitted that
“plagiarism was a
general pattern
evident in nearly
all of his academic
writings.”
8) Whom did King
plagiarize in more
than 50 complete
sentences in his
doctoral thesis?
A) Dr. Jack Boozer
9) Who was the
Chairman of the
National Endowment
for the Humanities
who purposely
suppressed knowledge
of King's plagiarism
of his doctoral
thesis?
A) Lynne Cheney,
wife of Vice
President Richard
Cheney
10) What was Martin
Luther King's real
name?
A) Michael King, Jr.
In 1935 his father,
Michael King,
declared to his
congregation that he
wound henceforth be
known as Martin
Luther King and his
son would be known
as Martin Luther
King, Jr.
11) In his first
public sermon at the
Ebenezer Baptist
Church in 1947 who
did King plagiarize?
A) Harry Emerson
Fosdick
12) Name the man who
served as King's
personal secretary
from 1955 to 1960,
had joined the Young
Communists League at
New York City
College in 1936,
went to prison for
draft evasion in
1944, and in 1953
was sentenced to 60
days in jail in
California "lewd
vagrancy and
homosexual
perversion."
A) Bayard Rustin
13) According to
whom had King
"privately described
himself as a
Marxist."
A) His biographer,
David J. Garrow
14) Who edited
King's book Stride
Toward Freedom?
A) Communist Stanley
Levison
15) Who made the
following speech?
That's exactly what
we mean--from every
mountain side,
let freedom ring.
Not only from the
Green Mountains
and White Mountains
of Vermont
and New Hampshire;
not only from the
Catskills
of New York;
but from the Ozarks
in Arkansas,
from Stone Mountain
in Georgia,
from the Blue Ridge
Mountains
of Virginia
--let it ring not
only for the
minorities of the
United States,
but for the
disinherited of all
the earth–may the
Republican party,
under God, from
every mountainside,
LET FREEDOM RING!
A) Archibald Carey,
Jr., at the 1952
Republican National
Convention. Carey
and King knew each
other.
No questions correct
means you are
exactly the kind of
citizen your masters
desire.
1-3 questions
correct means you
could be dangerous.
4-6 questions
correct means you
need
electro-convulsive
therapy.
7-10 questions
correct means you
are a hater.
11 or more questions
correct means you
are a terrorist.
Turn yourself in now
for re-education and
your life will be
spared.
Happy slain civil
rights leader and
Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate Reverend
Doctor Martin Luther
King, Jr. Day!
