Q 01/05

What did Don Cornelius later admit about the dancers who solved Soul Train's Scramble Board each week?

A) They got the answers beforehand

B) They practiced with easier letters

C) Losing couples were edited out

D) Staff mouthed hints off camera

Answer · why

A) They got the answers beforehand

They got the answers beforehand: Cornelius said the game was set up so everybody won, because he did not want young Black viewers to watch a couple fa...

Q 02/05

Which Underground Railroad conductor was among the Black icons spelled out on Soul Train's Scramble Board?

A) Sojourner Truth

B) Harriet Tubman

C) Ida B. Wells

D) Rosa Parks

Answer · why

B) Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman suited a show named after a train: she made some 13 missions along the Underground Railroad and led about 70 people out of slavery.

Q 03/05

Which dance did Michael Jackson turn into a craze by performing it during 'Dancing Machine' on Soul Train?

A) The Hustle

B) The Bump

C) The Bus Stop

D) The Robot

Answer · why

D) The Robot

The Robot finally reached viewers in full on Soul Train: a month earlier, a cameraman on a Bob Hope special had cut away from Michael just as he did t...

Q 04/05

Soul Train dancer Fred Berry became famous playing the beret-wearing Rerun on which 1970s sitcom?

A) Welcome Back, Kotter

B) What's Happening!!

C) Sanford and Son

D) The Jeffersons

Answer · why

B) What's Happening!!

What's Happening!! cast Berry as Freddie 'Rerun' Stubbs from 1976 to 1979, after he had shown off a step called the slo-mo on the Soul Train Line.

Q 05/05

TSOP, the Soul Train theme that became the first TV theme to top the Hot 100, stands for The Sound of where?

A) Pittsburgh

B) Port-au-Prince

C) Philadelphia

D) Portland

Answer · why

C) Philadelphia

Philadelphia was where the single's studio band was based, and the track held the No. 1 spot for two weeks in 1974.