The Ku Klux Klan Trivia Quiz

Answer: 1865-1866

It was established during a meeting in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six former Confederate officers. An early recruit was the famous Nathan Bedford Forrest, who later became its first leader.

Answer: kuklos

The word means "circle" in Greek.

Answer: white women being violated by Afro-Americans

Although the KKK website claims that the newly freed Blacks roamed the country, killing white children and raping white women, there is no proof whatsoever that Afro-Americans committed such acts.

Answer: Grand Wizard of the Empire

A convention signed in 1867 designated the Klan as an Invisible Empire and provided for a supreme official, called Grand Wizard of the Empire, who wielded total power and was assisted by ten Genii. Other important officials of the Klan were the Grand Dragon of the Realm, who was assisted by eight Hydras, the Grand Titan of the Dominion, assisted by six Furies, and the Grand Cyclops of the Den, assisted by two Nighthawks.

Answer: 1869

From 1868-1870, federal troops withdrawn from the South and the Klan was dominated by rougher elements of the society, who didn't believe in the Klan's doctrine but were psychos that found joy in killing innocent people. Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest felt that the Klan was getting corrupt, and officially disbanded it in 1869. Local organizations, known as Klaverns, however, continued to act on their own, calling and considering themselves members of the Klan.

Answer: Burning crosses

The concept of the burning cross was to spread the light of Christ into the world of ignorance (more realistically, spread the light of white superiority into the world of "ignorant" blacks). However, when cross burnings didn't stop civil rights activists (Black leaders and lawyers, especially Jewish ones), the Klan went on to beatings and public whippings. Lynchings were usually used on blacks. Often, big groups of people would take part in lynching, ranging from teenagers to eighty-year-old hardcore racists.

After the lynchings, the mob proudly posed for pictures with the victim still hanging from the tree. Many such pictures were displayed in public places in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia until the late forties and early fifties. Genital mutilation was basically a thing unheard of in the long list of Klan atrocities.

Answer: Nazi Germany

In 1940 the Klan joined with the German American Bund, an organization financed in part by the government of Nazi Germany, and soon started receiving funding from the German government. It didn't last very long though. Four years later, the Nazis were defeated by Allied troops.

Answer: Samuel Green

With his death in the late forties, the Klan broke down into small independent, competing groups. By the way, the rest are all characters from John Grisham novels!

Answer: 40,000

There was a drastic increase in membership after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed.

Answer: David Duke

He was elected to the Lousiana House of Representative in 1989. Membership in the Klan decreased during the late eighties and early nineties. In 1989, the estimated membership was 5000. A branch was opened in Toronto, Canada in 1980. The Klan no longer uses lynchings or other types of mob violence; they've resorted to peaceful demonstrations. To this day, however, they are working for white supremacy in the United States of America - a nation they claimed was built by the whites and should remain of the whites and for the whites.