a) 3 years
b) 5 years
c) 7 years
d) 9 years

• A1) Atlanta, Georgia. MLK came into the world on January 15, 1929, the son of Alberta and Martin Sr., who was also a minister.
• A2) Baptist. MLK first became a pastor in Montgomery, Alabama at age 24.
• A3) "Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation." (Lincoln was referring to the Declaration of Independence.)
• A4) Lincoln Memorial. MLK gave his historic speech in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963 to a group that he helped organized for a march in support of desegregation. His actions helped spawn the 1964 Civil Rights Act and earned him a Nobel Peace Prize.
• A5) 11. After saying, "I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream", he specifically listed six of his dreams and added, "I have a dream today" twice.
• A6) Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray assassinated MLK on April 4, 1968, nine months before his 40th birthday.

The group chose the letters just to be near the beginning of the alphabet.

a) Abysmally Bad Concoction
b) Alphabet Band City
c) Another Band from Chesterfield
d) none of the above

• Q1) In what city was MLK born?
• Q2) What denomination was the church that MLK was a minister in?
• Q3) In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln referred to an event "Four score and seven years ago". In his "I have a dream" speech, MLK used a similar phrase. How many score ago and what event?
• Q4) Where did MLK deliver this speech?
• Q5) How many times did MLK say the word "dream" in this speech? (Take the point if you're within two on either side and two points if you get it exactly.)
• Q6) In what city was MLK murdered and by whom?