Q 01/05

Which beloved public television host was born in Daytona Beach and later spent twenty years in the Air Force?

A) Fred Rogers

B) Jim Henson

C) Bob Ross

D) LeVar Burton

Answer · why

C) Bob Ross

Bob Ross found painting at a USO art class while stationed in Alaska. Its snowy peaks became the mountains he later painted for viewers on The Joy of ...

Q 02/05

Which activity, a Daytona Beach tradition since the early 1900s, is still allowed on stretches of its hard-packed sand?

A) Driving cars

B) Riding horses

C) Landing planes

D) Lighting bonfires

Answer · why

A) Driving cars

Driving cars on the sand is capped at 10 mph today. The same beach once hosted land speed record runs at more than 270 mph.

Q 03/05

Which baseball pioneer played an integrated spring training game in Daytona Beach a year before his major league debut?

A) Satchel Paige

B) Jackie Robinson

C) Larry Doby

D) Roberto Clemente

Answer · why

B) Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson took the field on March 17, 1946, after Jacksonville and Sanford had locked their stadiums rather than let him play. The Daytona Beach...

Q 04/05

Which driver nicknamed the King holds the record with seven Daytona 500 victories, the last of them in 1981?

A) Jeff Gordon

B) Cale Yarborough

C) Bobby Allison

D) Richard Petty

Answer · why

D) Richard Petty

Richard Petty won his seven between 1964 and 1981, three more than anyone else. He later voiced a race car called the King in the Pixar film Cars.

Q 05/05

Which educator opened a Daytona Beach school for Black girls in 1904 that grew into a university bearing her name?

A) Mary McLeod Bethune

B) Charlotte Hawkins Brown

C) Ida B. Wells

D) Zora Neale Hurston

Answer · why

A) Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune began with five girls and her own son as pupils. Her statue now stands for Florida in the US Capitol, where it replaced one of a C...