Q 01/05

Which federal judge sentenced IWW leaders in 1918 and later became the first commissioner of baseball?

A) Kenesaw Mountain Landis

B) William Howard Taft

C) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

D) Louis Brandeis

Answer · why

A) Kenesaw Mountain Landis

Kenesaw Mountain Landis gave the union's top officers 20 years each after a five-month mass trial. Two years later baseball's owners hired him as comm...

Q 02/05

Which celebrated author, later portrayed in The Miracle Worker, joined the IWW in 1912 and wrote for the union?

A) Jane Addams

B) Margaret Sanger

C) Helen Keller

D) Edith Wharton

Answer · why

C) Helen Keller

Helen Keller explained her choice in a piece titled Why I Became an IWW, linking her activism to her concern about blindness. She wrote for the union ...

Q 03/05

Which Swedish-born IWW songwriter was executed by a Utah firing squad in 1915 after a disputed murder trial?

A) Frank Little

B) Joe Hill

C) Wesley Everest

D) Tom Mooney

Answer · why

B) Joe Hill

Joe Hill asked to be cremated, and packets of his ashes were later scattered in every one of the lower 48 states except Utah. President Woodrow Wilson...

Q 04/05

Which Cork-born organizer, once called the most dangerous woman in America, helped found the IWW in 1905?

A) Florence Kelley

B) Rose Schneiderman

C) Frances Perkins

D) Mother Jones

Answer · why

D) Mother Jones

Mother Jones earned the label from a West Virginia prosecutor at her 1902 trial for ignoring an injunction against striking miners' meetings. A magazi...

Q 05/05

Which one-eyed former miner opened the IWW's founding convention in 1905 and later died an exile in Moscow?

A) Bill Haywood

B) Samuel Gompers

C) John Mitchell

D) Terence Powderly

Answer · why

A) Bill Haywood

Bill Haywood skipped bail in 1921 while appealing a long prison sentence and fled to Soviet Russia. Half of his ashes were buried in the Kremlin wall ...