Q 01/05

Which relative of Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead inside Ebenezer Baptist Church in June 1974?

A) His sister

B) His widow

C) His mother

D) His daughter

Answer · why

C) His mother

His mother, Alberta Williams King, was at the church organ during a Sunday service when a gunman opened fire, six years after her son's assassination....

Q 02/05

What carried Martin Luther King Jr.'s casket through Atlanta after his 1968 funeral at Ebenezer Baptist Church?

A) A mule-drawn wagon

B) A horse-drawn caisson

C) A black Cadillac hearse

D) A flatbed truck

Answer · why

A) A mule-drawn wagon

A mule-drawn wagon, a simple wooden farm cart pulled by mules named Belle and Ada, carried him past more than 100,000 onlookers on the way to a second...

Q 03/05

Martin Luther King Sr., pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church for four decades, was born with which first name?

A) Marcus

B) Michael

C) Matthew

D) Malcolm

Answer · why

B) Michael

Michael was the name both he and his eldest son carried until the 1930s, when the pastor renamed them after the Protestant reformer Martin Luther.

Q 04/05

Which senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church became Georgia's first Black US senator in 2021?

A) Jon Ossoff

B) Cory Booker

C) William Barber II

D) Raphael Warnock

Answer · why

D) Raphael Warnock

Raphael Warnock became Ebenezer's senior pastor in 2005, and he kept the post after entering the Senate.

Q 05/05

What does Ebenezer, the Hebrew name chosen by the founders of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, mean?

A) Stone of help

B) House of bread

C) Gift of God

D) Place of rest

Answer · why

A) Stone of help

Stone of help is what an Old Testament prophet called the memorial he raised after the Israelites beat the Philistines, a story the church's founders ...