Q 01/05

Elected from inner-city Brooklyn, Shirley Chisholm protested being put on which House committee?

A) Public Works

B) Agriculture

C) Foreign Affairs

D) Merchant Marine

Answer · why

B) Agriculture

Agriculture made no sense for a city district, she argued, and party leaders moved her to Veterans' Affairs. A Brooklyn rabbi had urged her to use the...

Q 02/05

Which segregationist rival did Shirley Chisholm visit in the hospital after he was shot in 1972?

A) Strom Thurmond

B) Lester Maddox

C) Orval Faubus

D) George Wallace

Answer · why

D) George Wallace

George Wallace was her ideological opposite, and the visit angered many of her backers. Years later he helped win Southern votes for one of her minimu...

Q 03/05

Which Oscar winner plays Shirley Chisholm in Shirley, the 2024 film about her presidential campaign?

A) Regina King

B) Viola Davis

C) Angela Bassett

D) Octavia Spencer

Answer · why

A) Regina King

Regina King signed on in 2021 with John Ridley writing and directing, and the film arrived three years later.

Q 04/05

Which 2020 presidential candidate's logo echoed the red and yellow of Shirley Chisholm's 1972 run?

A) Elizabeth Warren

B) Amy Klobuchar

C) Kamala Harris

D) Tulsi Gabbard

Answer · why

C) Kamala Harris

Kamala Harris chose the colors as a tribute, and she launched her run in January 2019, 47 years after Chisholm announced hers in January 1972.

Q 05/05

Brooklyn-born Shirley Chisholm spent ages five through nine living on which Caribbean island?

A) Trinidad

B) Barbados

C) Grenada

D) Antigua

Answer · why

B) Barbados

Barbados gave her a strict British-style schooling that she credited for her ease with words, and an accent she kept for life.