Q 01/05

Which actor plays defence lawyer Bryan Stevenson in the 2019 film Just Mercy?

A) John Boyega

B) Michael B. Jordan

C) John David Washington

D) Chadwick Boseman

Answer · why

B) Michael B. Jordan

Michael B. Jordan also produced the film through his company Outlier Society, one of six production outfits credited on it.

Q 02/05

Which actor plays the wrongly convicted Walter McMillian in the 2019 film Just Mercy?

A) Jamie Foxx

B) Denzel Washington

C) Forest Whitaker

D) Don Cheadle

Answer · why

A) Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx earned a Screen Actors Guild nomination for supporting actor, the same category the Black Reel Awards nominated him in.

Q 03/05

Walter McMillian was tried for a murder in which small Alabama town, best known as Harper Lee's home?

A) Tuscaloosa

B) Phenix City

C) Monroeville

D) Scottsboro

Answer · why

C) Monroeville

Monroeville, the model for Maycomb in To Kill a Mockingbird, is the memoir's central irony: a town that celebrates a novel about a wrongly accused Bla...

Q 04/05

Dozens of witnesses, including a police officer, saw McMillian at what event when the 1986 murder took place?

A) A church fish fry

B) A family funeral

C) A high school football game

D) A logging crew shift

Answer · why

A) A church fish fry

A church fish fry on McMillian's own front lawn was his alibi, and the jury ignored every Black witness who swore to it under oath.

Q 05/05

McMillian's jury voted for life, yet he was sentenced to death under which now-abolished Alabama practice?

A) Jury nullification

B) Judicial override

C) Summary judgment

D) Directed verdict

Answer · why

B) Judicial override

Judicial override let an elected trial judge replace a jury's life verdict with death; nearly seventy Alabama judges used it more than a hundred times...