Friday Night Lights Quizzes

Friday Night Lights Quiz 1

By Tiger Thakkar · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed May 31, 2015

1 What part of Texas is Odessa part of?

South Texas

West Texas

North Texas

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

oil and gas

steel

copper

farming
3 Odessa has an abundance of what?

car thieves

churches

shopping malls

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

Mexicans

Dutch

Negroes

Asians
5 Permian High School was established in what year?

1959

1960

1957

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

mustangs

tigers

lions

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

1990

1980

1978

1988
8 What was the popular moniker that Permian fans used for their team?

Terminator football

Cowboy football

Mojo football

Power football
9 The school’s “spirit squad” was known as what?

The Pepettes

The Panther Boosters

The Panther Cubs

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

$100

$50

$20

$40
11 The first big school pep rally for the boys is called what?

The Great Panther Feed

The Sendoff Bash

The Wildcat Cheer

The Watermelon Feed
12 The name of Permian’s great running back was projected on screen at the Pep Rally was?

Jim Steadman

Don Billingley

Shawn Crow

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

Don Billingsley

Ivory Christian

Boobie Miles

Mike Winchell
14 Boobie’s favourite shoes are of which brand?

Converse

Reebok

Adidas

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

groin

ankle

head

knee
16 How is L.V. related to Boobie?

grandfather

uncle

father

nephew
17 Where did L.V. grow up?

"Niggertown"

The Hood

East Odessa

The Odessa Ghetto
18 Mike Winchell started playing which sport as a child?

soccer

wrestling

baseball

football
19 Mike Winchell experienced the death of which family member?

Brother

Father

Sister

Mother
20 Mike was ashamed to let people do what?

help him out financially

enter his house

help him with his stutter

help him with his school studies
21 Charlie Billingsley had a scholarship to which university?

Texas A & M

Alabama State

Kentucky

University of Texas
22 Odessa didn’t publicly recognize desegregation until what year?

1962

1973

1983

1972
23 Permian finally enacted on desegregation because of what?

there were finally enough black politicians in Odessa to force the issue

the Federal Government was forcing them

the state was forcing them

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

ambivalent

cynical

depressed

excited
25 Ivory Christian became obsessed with what?

track and field

drinking

religion

girls

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