1.  Who introduced the Korean martial arts to Texas (in fact to the whole USA)?

2.  Who was the promoter of the Houston "Karate Olympics" tournament of the '60s and '70s?

3.  What champion woman competitor from the '60s and '70s was forced into retirement by mononucleosis?

4.  Who coached Texas' first full-contact competition team?

5.  Who was Jhoon Rhee's first black belt in America and would go on to become the "Father of Texas Blood 'n' Guts Karate?"

6.  What former US Marine and top-ten competitor was known as the "fighting fireman?"

7.  Who won the title at the first-ever National Championships in Washington DC?

8.  Who are the well-known Ft. Worth brothers who moved to Washington DC to work with Jhoon Rhee and would start their own chain of schools?

9.  Allen Steen started one of the first company martial arts programs at Texas Instruments in the early 1960s. Who took over that program and has run it for over 25 years?

10.  Who was the tough black belt and Addison police officer who was killed in the line of duty in a drug raid?

11.  Who was the first woman trainer of the original National Karate League?

12.  What point and full contact champion was known as the "Golden Greek?"

13.  Who is the tough, tall Texan who moved to Oklahoma to help establish karate in that state?

14.  Who was Pat Burleson's woman champion black belt of the 1960s who was also a nurse?

15.  Who was Demetrius Havanas' teenaged phenom of the '70s and '80s?

16.  What was the name of Mr. Steen's chain of schools?

17.  Who was known as the "Whirlwind" and "Steen's Mean Machine?"

18.  What former great fighter opened a school with Skipper Mullins?

19.  What tough Texas black belt founded the Shin Toshi System and moved to Utah?

20.  What competitor of the '60s was also an accomplished classical guitarist and nicknamed the "weird hippy?"

21.  What Texas champion was known as the "four fingers of death?"

22.  Who was Pat Burleson's top black belt who moved to Vegas to start a school?

23.  What champion of the '60s (and a Dallas Police officer) was known as the "King Kong of karate?"

24.   What is the name of the famous Korean grandmaster from Houston who teaches at Rice University and founded Cha Yon Ryu?

25.   Name the late Aikido master who ran a martial arts store in old East Dallas for many years?

26.   Who was Allen Steen's first female black belt?

27.   Who was Allen Steen's youngest black belt?

28.  What Texan was named Black Belt Magazine's Man of the Year in 1983?

29.   Who was the Texas Karate Institute's tough Comanche Indian black belt?

30.   What husband and wife black belt team went to Louisiana in the 1970s to start a school?

31.  What husband and wife team started the Dragon School of Tae Kwon Do?

32.  What was the name of Mr. Steen's original association and to what did the name change in the 1970s?

33.   Who was the Korean Moo Duk Kwan grandmaster who came to Dallas and began training the Ericksons, among others?

34.   What well-known black belt was a staple at the old TI class and is now Chairman of the High-Dan board of the American Karate Black Belt Association Chin Sook Hagi Kwan?

35.  Who is the three-time US Champion who moved to Mexico City to establish a martial arts chain in that country?

36.  What Texas black belt has had a long career with the Oklahoma Drug Enforcement Bureau?

37.   Houston produced perhaps the best female competitor Texas has every seen. What is her name?

38.   What Hall of Fame martial artist and writer established also founded a Jujitsu system?

39.   Who is the Texas black belt who is the only man to hold legitimate world titles in point-karate, kick-boxing and professional boxing?

40.  What famous Judo master ran a dojo near Love Field for many decades?

41.   Where did Keith Yates's Southwest Tae Kwon Do Association get its name?

42.  Who appeared on the cover of the STA's first newsletter in 1983?

43.  When the STA grew to more than just Texas and more than just Tae Kwon Do, the name was changed to what?

44.  Which A-KaTo black belt started the martial arts program at the famed Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research?

45.   Keith Yates started the first martial arts for-credit program in the Southwest at SMU in 1972. Who took over for Mr. Yates and still runs the program today?

46.  What former Probation Officer is now the martial arts "pro" at the Cooper Institute?

47.   Who is now the senior instructor of the Dragon school?

48.   Name Mr. Yates's youngest black belt?

49.   Who is the black belt who originally came from the American Tae Kwon Do Assoc. (ATA) and has become a master
instructor in the A-KaTo?

50.   Who was the aikido expert who helped start the A-KaTo kobudo program along with Mr. Yates and Mr. Proctor?

51.  What late martial artist also had a great influence on that kobudo curriculum?

52.  Which A-KaTo black belt has only missed ONE kobudo class in over thirteen years of the program.

53.  Who is the highest ranking woman in Nam Seo Kwan Tae Kwon Do?

54.  Which A-KaTo black belt went from Virginia to Texas to California and now runs a successful dojo outside of Los Angeles?

55.  Who has a large school in South Texas but originally hails from Chicago?

56.   Who owns a martial arts school in Denison and once disarmed a robbery suspect in a grocery store?

57.   What husband and wife black belt team conducts women's self-defense seminars all over Texas?

58.  What A-KaTo black belt was the editor of Martial Arts Professional magazine and also built his own house in Hawaii?

59.  Who is the A-KaTo black belt who earned his first dan from Roy Kurban and who also holds a doctorate in philosophy?

60.  Which A-KaTo black belt served two tours of military duty in the Persian Gulf?

1.  Jhoon Rhee

2.  George Minshew

3.  Joy Turberville

4.  Larry Caster

5.  Allen Steen

6.  Skipper Mullins

7.  J. Pat Burleson

8.  John and Pat Worley

9.  Royce Young

10.  Ronnie Cox

11.  Brandy Lackland

12.  Demetrius Havanas

13.  Jim Butin

14.  Phylis Evetts

15.  Raymond McCallum

16.  Texas Karate Institute

17.  Fred Wren

18.  Max Alsup

19.  Mickey Fisher

20.  Harold Gross

21.  D.P. Hill

22.  Chuck Loven

23.  Ed Daniel

24.  Kim Soo

25.  Bill Sosa

26. Marian Erickson

27.  Keith Yates

28.  Roy Kurban

29.  Tim Tieyah

30.  Jim and Janice Miller

31.  Jack and Marian Erickson

32.  Southwest Karate Black Belt Assoc. / American Karate Black Belt Assoc.

33.  Ye Mo Ahn

34.  James Toney

35.  David Moon

36.  John Duncan

37.  Linda Denley

38.  Duane Ethington

39.  Troy Dorsey

40.  Vince Tamura

41.  From Mr. Steen's original Southwest Karate Black Belt Assoc.

42.  Bob Woerner

43.  American Karate and Tae Kwon Do Organization

44.  Tom Thompson

45.  Bryan Robbins

46.  Mike Proctor

47.  Al Thibodoux

48.  Thomas Merhout

49.  Kelly Cox

50.  Jon Baughman

51.  Garrett Seaback

52.  Randy Miller

53.  Caroline Goodspeed

54.  Jon Alster

55.  Dick Strom

56.  Sam Perez

57.  Paul and Meg Hinkley

58.  Arnold Howard

59.  Buddy Matthews

60.  Rodney Yates

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