Q 01/05

What was Joe Louis's famous nickname?

A) The Cinderella Man

B) The Manassa Mauler

C) The Ambling Alp

D) The Brown Bomber

Answer · why

D) The Brown Bomber

White sportswriters tried out several racist coinages before that one stuck.

Q 02/05

What was the champion's full birth name?

A) Louis Joseph Brown

B) Joseph Lewis Barrows

C) Joseph Louis Barrow

D) Joe Louis Brooks

Answer · why

C) Joseph Louis Barrow

Legend says he wrote his first two names so large on an amateur entry form that there was no room for the last.

Q 03/05

In which state was Louis born in 1914?

A) Michigan

B) Mississippi

C) Georgia

D) Alabama

Answer · why

D) Alabama

He was the seventh of eight children of sharecroppers in Chambers County, and both his parents were children of former slaves.

Q 04/05

To which city did Louis's family move in 1926, where he grew up and learned to box?

A) Cleveland

B) Detroit

C) New York

D) Chicago

Answer · why

B) Detroit

They fled the South after being shaken by a gang of Ku Klux Klan men, part of the Great Migration.

Q 05/05

Louis is rumoured to have hidden his boxing gloves from his mother inside what?

A) A toolbox

B) A violin case

C) A Bible

D) A lunch pail

Answer · why

B) A violin case

His mother had wanted him to learn the violin.