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Tough People to Know

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Tough People to Know game quiz
"Here are the names of famous people--the kinds of names that might ring a little bell far back in your mind. Do you know who they are? Have fun trying to guess their identities!"

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Franklin Pierce Adams
    American humorist
    English naval officer
    Character on MASH
    American educator


2. Nathaniel Bacon
    English essayist
    American lawyer
    Irish-born British painter
    English-born colonist


3. Henry Campbell Bannerman
    British Prime Minister
    American astronomer
    American jurist and confederate official
    Scottish playwright


4. Thomas Edmund Dewey
    American librarian
    American politician
    English courtier
    American army aviator


5. Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Dutch pathologist
    American inventor
    American author
    American clergyman


6. David Glasgow Farragut
    Scottish financier
    American admiral
    Irish philanthropist
    Dutch aircraft designer


7. John Garfield
    English inventor
    U.S. President
    American actor
    Norwegian economist


8. Chester Gould
    Canadian tennis player
    American cartoonist
    British golfer
    Welsh sculptor


9. Hannibal Barca
    English statesman
    English ruling family
    Carthaginian general
    Egyptian concubine


10. Henrik Ibsen
    Icelandic speed skater
    Swedish explorer
    Norwegian dramatist
    Danish conductor


11. Eastman Johnson
    American genre painter
    Belgian filmmaker
    American inventor
    Spanish prelate


12. Michael Kidd
    American outlaw
    American choreographer
    Scottish-born pirate
    Irish-born Jesuit missionary


13. Isaac Newton Lewis
    American labor leader
    American firearms inventor
    English 'Gothic@ author
    American theater patron


14. Ngaio Marsh
    Japanese author
    French illustrator
    American paleontologist
    New Zealand author


15. Frederick North
    American military colonel
    English translator
    American frontiersman
    English prime minister


16. Eugene Ormandy
    Canadian chemist
    French journalist and pacifist
    American athlete
    Hungarian-born American conductor


17. Boris Pasternak
    Russian author
    American actor and theater manager
    French chemist
    Arctic explorer


18. William Clarke Quantrill
    U.S. Vice President
    American confederate guerrilla leader
    8th Marquis of John Sholto Douglas
    American conductor


19. Dan Rice
    English portrait painter
    American circus clown
    British architect
    American playwright


20. John Thomas Scopes
    American teacher
    American oil executive
    American astronomer
    American lawyer


21. Louis Comfort Tiffany
    American jeweler and merchant
    American painter and decorator
    American jurist
    American tenor


22. Galina Ulanova
    Russian-born ballerina
    Russian chemist
    Russian spy
    First female astronaut


23. Alfred Lewis Vail
    English manufacturer
    Swiss professional skier
    American telegraph pioneer
    French clothing designer


24. David Walker
    American abolitionist
    American adventurer
    Irish playwright
    America's Cup winner


25. Xanthippe
    Wife of Socrates
    Character in 'Midsummer Night's Dream'
    Greek soldier
    Spanish missionary in the Orient


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