Q 01/05

Which labor union did Ronald Reagan lead as president long before he reached the White House?

A) Actors' Equity Association

B) Directors Guild of America

C) Screen Actors Guild

D) American Federation of Musicians

Answer · why

C) Screen Actors Guild

Screen Actors Guild members made him their president twice, from 1947 to 1952 and again in 1959. In his second spell he secured pensions and residual ...

Q 02/05

Which inflatable animal, nicknamed Scabby, do US unions set up outside workplaces during disputes?

A) Rat

B) Snake

C) Skunk

D) Weasel

Answer · why

A) Rat

Scabby the Rat got the name in a 1990 members' contest run by an Illinois local of the operating engineers' union. Its maker's sales doubled within a ...

Q 03/05

Which former Teamsters president vanished from a suburban Detroit restaurant parking lot in 1975?

A) Dave Beck

B) Jimmy Hoffa

C) George Meany

D) Frank Fitzsimmons

Answer · why

B) Jimmy Hoffa

Jimmy Hoffa was declared legally dead in 1982. He had driven to the Machus Red Fox for a meeting, and phoned his wife from a payphone to complain that...

Q 04/05

Which 1979 film won Sally Field an Oscar as a textile worker who unionizes her Southern mill?

A) Punchline

B) Steel Magnolias

C) Absence of Malice

D) Norma Rae

Answer · why

D) Norma Rae

Norma Rae is based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton, a textile worker and union organizer. The film also won the Oscar for Best Original Song.

Q 05/05

Martin Luther King Jr. was in Memphis in April 1968 backing a strike by which city employees?

A) Sanitation workers

B) Bus drivers

C) Public school teachers

D) Hospital orderlies

Answer · why

A) Sanitation workers

Sanitation workers walked out after two colleagues, Echol Cole and Robert Walker, were crushed to death in a garbage compactor while sheltering from t...