Q 01/05

What was Sugar Ray Robinson's birth name?

A) Raymond Lee Walker Jr.

B) Walker Smith Jr.

C) Robert Lee Smith

D) Ray Charles Robinson

Answer · why

B) Walker Smith Jr.

Walker Smith Jr. never went back to it once his ring name stuck: 'Sugar Ray Robinson had a nice ring to it,' he said. 'Sugar Walker Smith wouldn't hav...

Q 02/05

Robinson's father farmed cotton, peanuts and corn in which Southern state before moving the family to Detroit?

A) Mississippi

B) Kentucky

C) Georgia

D) Tennessee

Answer · why

C) Georgia

Georgia, though accounts still disagree about where he was born: his own memoir says Detroit, soon after the move north, while others give the Georgia...

Q 03/05

Why did Sugar Ray Robinson first box under the name Ray Robinson?

A) He used another boy's AAU membership card

B) A promoter thought it sounded better

C) He was hiding from the police

D) His stepfather was called Robinson

Answer · why

A) He used another boy's AAU membership card

He used another boy's AAU membership card: too young to be registered himself, he was sent into the ring on the card of a Ray Robinson who had given u...

Q 04/05

Which trainer, often credited with first calling Robinson 'sweet as sugar', guided him for his whole career?

A) Ray Arcel

B) Cus D'Amato

C) Angelo Dundee

D) George Gainford

Answer · why

D) George Gainford

George Gainford is often given the line, though some accounts credit a sportswriter or a woman at ringside. He stayed with Robinson from the amateur d...

Q 05/05

Robinson's wife Edna Mae was the cover star of the first issue of which new magazine in 1951?

A) Jet

B) Ebony

C) Life

D) Look

Answer · why

A) Jet

Jet put Edna Mae Robinson on the cover of its first issue in November 1951, wearing a $10,000 mink coat that her husband had given her for her birthda...