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Buried in Baltimore

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Buried in Baltimore game quiz
""The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living." Marcus Tullius Cicero "

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1. Which presidential assassin's body was first buried in an Old Penitentiary storage room, then a Washington Aresenal warehouse, and finally four years after death came to rest in an unmarked grave in their family's plot at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore?
    Leon Czolgosz
    John Wilkes Booth
    Charles Julius Guiteau
    Lee Harvey Oswald


2. If you ask my cousin Vinny he'll tell you which actor that played Herman Munster is interred in an unmarked grave in Finksburg, Maryland. Who was it?
    Fred Gwynne
    Boris Karloff
    John Carradine
    Vincent Price


3. It was such a titanic loss that it was a night to remember in 2002 when this author was reported to have passed away and was to be buried at Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery. Who was it?
    Charles Dickens
    Walter Lord
    Rudyard Kipling
    Robert Louis Stevenson


4. Which multi-talented sideshow performer buried at Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery never took half measures in perfecting his craft and made many say "Eek" when they actually meant to say what?
    Chang & Eng Bunker
    Tom Thumb
    Joseph Merrick
    Johnny Eck


5. Which wisecracking Algonquin Round Table member's unclaimed ashes had a postumous journey of approximately 20 years and finally came to rest in a memorial garden outside the NAACP's Baltimore Headquarters?
    Ambrose Bierce
    Mae West
    W. C. Fields
    Dorothy Parker


6. It was in the heat of the night when which well-rooted actor "tibb-toed" into another world and came to rest in suburban Baltimore's Woodlawn Cemetery?
    LeVar Burton
    Wesley Snipes
    Will Smith
    Howard Rollins


7. Which bombastic lawyer that found himself in the dawn's early light penning a national anthem has not only been buried in Baltimore, but in Frederick, Maryland, too?
    F. Lee Bailey
    Francis Scott Key
    Melvin Belli
    Clarence Darrow


8. Which individual who became resigned to the fact that crimes committed during his political career would prematurely end his tenure as the 39th U.S. vice president is now interred at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Baltimore?
    Spiro Agnew
    Al Gore
    John Adams
    Lyndon Johnson


9. Which beloved infidel of a jazz writer left this side of paradise for the greener pastures of Rockville Union Cemetery only to later cross town in order to rejoin his wife Zelda at Saint Mary's Cemetery, Rockville, Maryland?
    Gertrude Stein
    William Faulkner
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Ernest Hemingway


10. In 1806, which happily settled woman now resting in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery had her family blown apart when her brother-in-law issued a state decree of annulment declaring her marriage null and void?
    Wallis Warfield Simpson
    Jeanette Jerome Churchill
    Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
    Grace Kelly


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