The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 Quizzes

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 Quiz 1

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1 Where was Wilona born?

Alabama

Georgia

Michigan

Louisiana
2 In what city do the Watsons live?

New York

Detroit

Flint

Chicago
3 What do the Watsons call their car?

The Silver Bullet

The Yellow Submarine

The Green Machine

The Brown Bomber
4 What is Daddy Watson's nickname for Moses Henderson?

Chicken Lips

Longshanks

Bonehead

Hambone
5 Which aunt's house do the Watsons go to when it gets too cold?

Aunt Celia's

Aunt Cydney's

Aunt Robyn's

Aunt Sands's
6 What are Byron and Kenny supposed to do to the family car?

Scrape the ice off the windshield

Fill it with gas

Wash it

Replace its oil
7 Whose lips are frozen to the car's rear-view mirror?

Byron's

Dad's

Joey's

Kenny's
8 What do the neighbors call the Watson family?

The Weird Watsons

The Woeful Watsons

The Wacky Watsons

The Wailing Watsons
9 What does Wilona do when she gets angry?

Speaks in a different language

Does not speak at all

Speaks in a heavy Southern accent

Squeezes her eyes shut
10 During the frozen lips fiasco, Joey makes an allusion to which Greek mythological figure?

Narcissus

Athena

Dionysus

Celeste
11 Which poet's work is Kenny asked to read in front of Byron's class?

Maya Angelou's

Ezra Pound's

Langston Hughes's

Walt Whitman's
12 Who is the biggest fourth grade bully?

Larry Dunn

Rufus

LJ Jones

Kenny
13 Who is "king" of Clark Elementary?

Buphead

Kenny

Larry

Byron
14 What nickname does everyone give Kenny because he is so smart?

Egghead

Poindexter

Edison

Einstein
15 Aside from his smarts, what else does Kenny get teased for?

His skin color

His spiked hair

His big feet

His lazy eye
16 Who is Rufus's little brother?

Carl

Christopher

Cody

Cole
17 Kenny is surprised to hear that Rufus has done what before?

Shot a gun

Kissed a girl

Won lottery money

Traveled abroad
18 Rufus comes over every day to play with Kenny's toy...

cars.

trains.

jungle animals.

dinosaurs.
19 What is the name of the game that Rufus and Kenny play with Kenny's toys?

Dark vs. Light

Americans vs. Nazis

Cowboys vs. Indians

Good Guys vs. Bad Guys
20 Who used to steal Kenny's toys?

Cody

LJ Jones

Joey

Buphead
21 Rufus gets upset because Kenny laughs along with everyone else about his...

glasses.

accent.

hair.

clothes.
22 Who pushes Kenny to apologize for insulting Rufus?

Byron

Wilona

Daniel

Joey
23 Why does Byron say the garbage truck that comes in the morning really does?

Clears up all the snow

Takes bullied kids to school

Drops off crates full of welfare food

Picks up dead, frozen people from the street
24 Who steals Kenny's pair of gloves?

Rufus

Larry

Byron

Cody
25 What color are Kenny's gloves dyed after they are stolen?

Red

Gray

Black

Blue

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