Q 01/05

Which actor who plays Marvel's Nick Fury served as an usher at Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral?

A) Don Cheadle

B) Giancarlo Esposito

C) Samuel L. Jackson

D) Danny Glover

Answer · why

C) Samuel L. Jackson

Samuel L. Jackson was a Morehouse College student in Atlanta at the time. A year later he and other students held the college's trustees hostage to de...

Q 02/05

Which Chicago Bulls legend left basketball in 1993 to play minor league baseball in Alabama?

A) Michael Jordan

B) Scottie Pippen

C) Dennis Rodman

D) Charles Barkley

Answer · why

A) Michael Jordan

Michael Jordan batted .202 for the Double-A Birmingham Barons in 1994. He returned to the Bulls the next year and led them to three more championships...

Q 03/05

Which tennis champion won the 2017 Australian Open while already pregnant with a first child?

A) Coco Gauff

B) Sloane Stephens

C) Madison Keys

D) Serena Williams

Answer · why

D) Serena Williams

Serena Williams took her 23rd major singles title at that tournament, passing Steffi Graf's Open Era record. She revealed the pregnancy that April, wh...

Q 04/05

Which future movie star won the first rap Grammy as half of a duo with DJ Jazzy Jeff?

A) Ice Cube

B) Tupac Shakur

C) LL Cool J

D) Will Smith

Answer · why

D) Will Smith

Will Smith and his partner won in 1989 for Parents Just Don't Understand. His later solo hits Men in Black and Gettin' Jiggy wit It each earned him an...

Q 05/05

Which Los Angeles Lakers great won an Academy Award for the animated short film Dear Basketball?

A) Magic Johnson

B) Kobe Bryant

C) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

D) Elgin Baylor

Answer · why

B) Kobe Bryant

Kobe Bryant wrote the poem behind the film to announce his retirement in 2015. The veteran animator Glen Keane directed the short, and John Williams w...