The Crossover
The Newbery award winning author of The Crossover.
Who is Kwame Alexander?
The NFL Team for which Saquon Barkley plays running back.
Who are The Philadelphia Eagles?
The European Royal whose assassination by Gavrilo Princip, started WW1.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary?
The author of "All Quiet on the Western Front."
Who was Erich Maria Remarque?
The Alabama city in which events occurred that launched the Civil Rights Movement.
What is Montgomery?
The basketball playing Bell twins in 'The Crossover."
Who are Josh & Jordan?
The NBA team that has had a father and son play together on court.
Who are The Los Angeles Lakers?
(LeBron James and son Bronny).
The years between which WW1 was fought.
What were 1914 to 1918?
The book's protagonist.
Who was Paul Bäumer?
The 15 year old schoolgirl who refused to give up her seat...9 months before Rosa Parks did.
Who is Claudette Colvin?
The profession of Dr. Crystal Stanley-Bell, the twins' Mom, in 'The Crossover.'
What is the Assistant Principal at Reggie Lewis Junior High?
The WNBA team for which #22 Caitlin Clark plays Guard.
What is The Indiana Fever?
The most deadly contagious disease in recorded history, which, soon after WW1 ended in 1918, infected 500 million people (a third of the world's population at that time), killing an estimated 50 to 100 million.
What was The Spanish Flu?
The domineering drill sergeant who had been a postman in civilian life.
Who was Corporal Himmelstoss?
The non-violent protest that led to the Montgomery Improvement Association having their case heard in the Alabama Supreme Court.
What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott?
Where the twins' Dad, Chuck Bell, had previously played basketball professionally.
What is Europe?
The NHL's all-time leading goalscorer, who broke Wayne Gretsky's record in 2025.
Who is Alexander Ovechkin, The Washington Capitals (Russian) Left Guard & Captain?
The years between which WW2 was fought.
What were 1939 to 1945?
The justification for soldiers to demand rations for a company of 150 men (when there were only 80 of them).
What was the death of 70?
The Amendment plaintiffs used to successfully argue their 'Browder vs Gayle' Supreme Court case to abolish Jim Crow segregation.
What is The Fourteenth Amendment to The Constitution of The United States?
What Josh's Mom's phone call (that interrupted him before he could make his 50th free throw) was about.
What was Chuck's fatal heart attack?
The team for which wide receiver Matthew Golden, 23rd pick of the 2025 NFL Draft by The Green Bay Packers, played college football.
What is Texas?
The country from which America withdrew its remaining forces in Kabul on August 30th 2021, signaling the end of its war against The Taliban.
What is Afghanistan?
The area between opposing front lines, full of waterlogged bomb craters, gas and rat infested bodies, across which soldiers had to charge when they were ordered "over the top."
What is No Man's Land?
The city in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
What is Memphis, Tennessee?
At 6:05 p.m. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, MLK was shot dead on the balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel by James Earl Ray with a Remington .30-06
It prompted the 'Holy Week Uprisings'...major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in 43 deaths nationwide and millions of dollars in extensive property damage.