Friday Night Lights Quizzes

Friday Night Lights Quiz 1

1 What part of Texas is Odessa part of?
South Texas

North Texas

East Texas

West Texas
2 The town of Odessa relied exclusively on what industry?
copper

farming

steel

oil and gas
3 Odessa has an abundance of what?
car thieves

shopping malls

churches

lawyers
4 Some white people in Odessa had become afraid of which group “taking over”?
Negroes

Dutch

Asians

Mexicans
5 Permian High School was established in what year?
1957

1960

1959

1967
6 Permian’s football team was named after which animal?
tigers

lions

mustangs

panthers
7 Which year does the author follow Permian’s team in?
1980

1978

1988

1990
8 What was the popular moniker that Permian fans used for their team?
Power football

Terminator football

Mojo football

Cowboy football
9 The school’s “spirit squad” was known as what?
The Panther Cubs

The Pepettes

The Panther Boosters

The Pantherettes
10 Some members of the “spirit squad” spent how much of their own money on an individual player?
$100

$40

$20

$50
11 The first big school pep rally for the boys is called what?
The Great Panther Feed

The Watermelon Feed

The Sendoff Bash

The Wildcat Cheer
12 The name of Permian’s great running back was projected on screen at the Pep Rally was?
Shawn Crow

Jim Steadman

Don Billingley

Boobie Miles
13 Who did Coach Gaines say would be the team’s new all time great running back?
Ivory Christian

Don Billingsley

Mike Winchell

Boobie Miles
14 Boobie’s favourite shoes are of which brand?
Converse

Adidas

Reebok

Nike
15 Boobie Miles suffered and injury to which part of his body?
knee

ankle

head

groin
16 How is L.V. related to Boobie?
uncle

grandfather

nephew

father
17 Where did L.V. grow up?
East Odessa

The Hood

The Odessa Ghetto

"Niggertown"
18 Mike Winchell started playing which sport as a child?
football

soccer

baseball

wrestling
19 Mike Winchell experienced the death of which family member?
Father

Brother

Mother

Sister
20 Mike was ashamed to let people do what?
help him with his stutter

help him with his school studies

enter his house

help him out financially
21 Charlie Billingsley had a scholarship to which university?
University of Texas

Texas A & M

Kentucky

Alabama State
22 Odessa didn’t publicly recognize desegregation until what year?
1973

1962

1972

1983
23 Permian finally enacted on desegregation because of what?
there were finally enough black politicians in Odessa to force the issue

the state was forcing them

the Federal Government was forcing them

they needed black athletic talent on their football team
24 Off the field Ivory Christian felt what about football?
excited

depressed

cynical

ambivalent
25 Ivory Christian became obsessed with what?
religion

track and field

girls

drinking

Why will Jerrod McDougal not be playing college football?

In context, Jerrod was far too small to play football at the college level. Recognizing this, he decided that he would focus on coaching and mentoring high school athletes.

Asked by mar m #1339203

Answered by jill d #170087 on 3/13/2024 10:34 PM