Com 225 Final Exam WELL ELABORATED WITH QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
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Com 225 Final Exam WELL ELABORATED WITH QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
All-American Girls Pro Baseball League - CORRECT ANSWER Female baseball league where women were still enforced to by feminine and had to play in dresses, wear make-up, take a manners class, and speak about their husband, boyfr...
Com 225 Final Exam WELL ELABORATED
WITH QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
All-American Girls Pro Baseball League - CORRECT ANSWER Female baseball league
where women were still enforced to by feminine and had to play in dresses, wear make-
up, take a manners class, and speak about their husband, boyfriends, or their single
status (implying they are looking for a man)
Kingdome Demolition - CORRECT ANSWER Imploded in 2000 and the Kingdome debt
lasted 15 years longer than the stadium itself
Dr. Bennet Omalu - CORRECT ANSWER First neuro-Dr. to see a correlation with NFL
head injuries and brain damage
Mike Webster - CORRECT ANSWER Died at age 50 after years of dementia and
homelessness and was a former NFL Pittsburgh Steeler and member of the Hall of
Fame - was diagnosed with CTE
Frank Gifford - CORRECT ANSWER Former NFL MVP became a broadcaster after his
retirement and was one of the first athletes to transition from the field to the broadcast
booth
- Died at age 84 and his brain biopsy found he had CTE
Jackie Robinson - CORRECT ANSWER The face of racial integration of the MLB -
broke baseball's color barrier. "Wrote" a column in the Pittsburgh Courier, largest black
newspaper, but actually Wendell Smith was the ghost writer
Cassius Clay and Muhammad Ali - CORRECT ANSWER Cassius Clay defeated Sonny
Liston for the heavy weight boing title. After Clay won, he renounced his "slave name"
and changed his name is Muhammad Ali and joined "Black Muslims"
Jesse Owens - CORRECT ANSWER Black Olympic athlete
Jack Johnson - CORRECT ANSWER Boxer, most famous African athlete in the world.
Beat top white fighter, Jeffries in 15 rounds and outraged people. The fight was banned
from viewing in many cities because it was shown as an "unfortunate display of race
antagonism," according to Teddy Roosevelt
- Refused to fight black boxers - enraged the African American community
- Married 3 times - all to white women
- Arrested for taking his wife across state boarders to Atlantic City
, Joe Louis - CORRECT ANSWER Black heavy weight boxer who was portrayed in the
media as a clean-living man
- After beating M Schmeling, Joe was an American Hero and was marketed for war
propaganda for WWII
Max Schmeling - CORRECT ANSWER German heavy weight boxer who was a favorite
of Adolf Hitler - Fought Joe Louis and the fight was portrayed as Germany vs. America
and Joe Louis (America) won
Wendell Smith - CORRECT ANSWER Journalist who advocated for the integration of
the MLB - basically getting rid of the Negro Leagues and having all the black players
play with the white players - Smith and Lacy were the first African American writers
accepted into the Baseball Writers Association of America
Sam Lacy - CORRECT ANSWER Journalist who advocated for the integration of
professional baseball
James Naismith and the YMCA - CORRECT ANSWER Invented basketball
Kenesaw Mountain Landis - CORRECT ANSWER First baseball commissioner
Branch Rickey - CORRECT ANSWER
Eric Lindell - CORRECT ANSWER1924 Olympic athlete favored to win the 100-meter
dash but the race was held on a Sunday so he didn't run. Won the 400-meter dash
instead on a weekday
Billy Sunday - CORRECT ANSWER Popular NLF outfielder and a strongly Conservative
Cristian who used baseball metaphors in his sermons
Sandy Koufax - CORRECT ANSWER Baseball star who refused to pitch in the World
Series in 1965 because it fell on Yom Kippur
Hank Greenberg - CORRECT ANSWER Baseball star who even in his home town,
Detroit, felt Anti-Semitism
Spiral of Silence - CORRECT ANSWER Fear of isolation when the group or public
realizes that the individual has a divergent opinion from the status quo
- Fear of reprisal or more extreme isolation, in the sense that voicing said opinion might
lead to a negative consequence beyond that of mere isolation (loss of a job, status, etc.)
Husain Abdullah - CORRECT ANSWER Praised Allah after scoring a touch down
Tim Tebow - CORRECT ANSWER Cristian football player who made the move,
"Tebowing," a viral trend. Part of "Focus on the Family" anti-abortion ad
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