Q 01/05

Coretta Scott King paid the hospital bill when which future Oscar-winning actress was born in the Atlanta area in 1967?

A) Halle Berry

B) Julia Roberts

C) Nicole Kidman

D) Sandra Bullock

Answer · why

B) Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts was born to parents who ran an integrated Atlanta acting school that the King children attended. Mrs. King settled the bill because the ...

Q 02/05

Which future Emmy-winning actor did Coretta Scott King babysit during her student years in a small Ohio town?

A) Martin Sheen

B) Ted Danson

C) John Lithgow

D) Henry Winkler

Answer · why

C) John Lithgow

John Lithgow spent his childhood in Yellow Springs, where the future Mrs. King was training to be a music teacher. She looked after him years before e...

Q 03/05

Where did Coretta Scott King and her new husband spend their 1953 wedding night, as no nearby hotel took Black guests?

A) A funeral home

B) A church basement

C) A railway sleeper car

D) A college dormitory

Answer · why

A) A funeral home

A funeral home took in the newlyweds because no hotel near her hometown would rent a room to a Black couple. They had just married on the lawn of her ...

Q 04/05

Which senator was silenced in 2017 for reading aloud a 1986 letter by Coretta Scott King opposing a judicial nominee?

A) Kamala Harris

B) Amy Klobuchar

C) Kirsten Gillibrand

D) Elizabeth Warren

Answer · why

D) Elizabeth Warren

Elizabeth Warren was barred from the rest of the debate, so she finished reading the letter on a live stream outside the chamber. It had argued agains...

Q 05/05

Which television host gave Coretta Scott King a new Atlanta condominium after an intruder broke into her longtime home?

A) Barbara Walters

B) Phil Donahue

C) Oprah Winfrey

D) David Letterman

Answer · why

C) Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey made the gift years after a man who later admitted killing women got into the old house at night and found Mrs. King sitting in bed.